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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16

People

Franck Sylvain age 46
Yvon Neptune age 8
Smarck Michel age 18
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 25
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 44
Burhanuddin Harahap age 38
Naji Talib age 38
Ezzedine Salim age 12
Husayn al-Khalidi age 60
David D. Kpormakpor age 19
Abuzed Omar Dorda age 11
Mohieddin Fikini age 30
Walter Kieber age 24
Barlen Vyapoory age 10
Karl Offmann age 14
Veselin Đuranović age 30
Ahmed Balafrej age 47
Maung Maung age 30
Win Maung age 39
René Schick age 45
Ljupčo Jordanovski age 2
Domingos Leite Pereira age 72
Henri Lopès age 17
Kennedy Simmonds age 19
Moustapha Niasse age 15
Thomas Holenstein age 59
Faris al-Khoury age 77
İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil age 47
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 44
Ionatana Ionatana age 16
Mekere Morauta age 9
Cesar Virata age 24
Wijeyananda Dahanayake age 52
Bakri Hassan Saleh age 6
Gianfranco Terenzi age 14
Salomón Lerner Ghitis age 9
Oscar Valdés age 6
Carlos Ferrero age 14
Yawovi Agboyibo age 11
Du Yuming age 50
Su Yu age 48
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 55
William E. Simon age 27
Nathan F. Twining age 57
Richard Kleindienst age 32
J. Howard McGrath age 51
Abe Fortas age 45
Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal age 34
Paul Hasluck age 50
Shah Azizur Rahman age 29
Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo age 1
Chan Sy age 23
In Tam age 32
Sisowath Monipong age 42
Bartolomé Blanche age 76
Caabi El-Yachroutu Mohamed age 5
Abdallah Mohamed Kamil age 19
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 63
Arturo Araujo age 77
Jean-Hilaire Aubame age 42
Alexandros Svolos age 63
Herbert Blaize age 37
Diarra Traoré age 20
Francisco Fadul age 1
Manuel Saturnino da Costa age 12
Edward Luckhoo age 43
Émile Jonassaint age 42
Vicente Mejía Colindres age 77
Adnan Pachachi age 32
Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif age 22
Jamil al-Midfai age 65
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi age 63
Faisal al-Fayez age 2
Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh age 16
Apas Jumagulov age 20
Wilton G. S. Sankawulo age 18
Wanis al-Qaddafi age 30
Hussein Maziq age 37
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 16
Imbarek Shamekh age 3
Alfred Hilbe age 27
Tantely Andrianarivo age 1
Eugène Mangalaza age 5
Ibrahim Muhammad Didi age 54
Ahmed Mohamed ag Hamani age 13
Soumana Sacko age 4
Kunio Lemari age 12
Andrei Sangheli age 11
Gheorghe Brega age 3
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 22
Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 69
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae age 44
Yon Hyong-muk age 23
Allan Louisy age 38
Allan Kemakeza age 7
Solomon Mamaloni age 12
Jules Sedney age 32
Bahij al-Khatib age 60
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 23
Yusuf Zuayyin age 23
Sabri al-Asali age 52
Guilherme Posser da Costa age 2
Frederick Sumaye age 5
Edward Sokoine age 17
John Malecela age 21
Orville Turnquest age 26
Clifford Darling age 33
Kléber Dadjo age 41
Tupua Leupena age 33
Koloa Talake age 21
Luis Giannattasio age 60
Frederick Karlomuana Timakata age 19
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani age 16
Bill Skate age 1
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 24
Yoo Il-ho age 4 months
Krešimir Zubak age 8
Antero Flores Aráoz age 13
Patrick J. Hurley age 72
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 61
Hu Zongnan age 59
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 70
Charles Clarke age 4
Homer Stille Cummings age 85
Henry H. Fowler age 46
Hugh Shelton age 13
William French Smith age 37
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 43
Peter Schoomaker age 9
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 73
William S. Sessions age 25
Louis Freeh age 5
Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani age 3
Salman II of Bahrain age 61
Nita Barrow age 38
Yem Sambaur age 42
Ung Huot age 10
Chhean Vam age 39
Sim Var age 49
Sisowath Watchayavong age 64
Norodom Kantol age 34
Nhiek Tioulong age 46
Nagoum Yamassoum age 1
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 27
Pedro Opaso age 79
Évariste Kimba age 29
Léonard Mulamba age 27
Osborne Riviere age 23
Andrés F. Córdova age 63
Antonio Pons age 57
Mamdouh Salem age 37
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 9
Obed Dlamini age 18
Mabandla Dlamini age 24
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 43
George Brizan age 12
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 43
Daniel Fignolé age 41
Jean-Michel Lapin age 5
Robert Malval age 12
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 34
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 52
Pascal Affi N'Guessan age 2
Clifford Campbell age 63
Florizel Glasspole age 45
Suleiman al-Nabulsi age 47
Jumabek Ibraimov age 11
Nasirdin Isanov age 11
Adolph Bowler age 66
Abdallah El-Yafi age 53
Amin al-Hafez age 29
Hae Phoofolo age 8
Josef Hoop age 59
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 16
Ruben Zackhras age 7
Serafim Urechean age 5
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 69
Jack Marshall age 43
Francisco Urcuyo age 40
Lorenzo Guerrero age 54
Boukary Adji age 16
Francisco Cunha Leal age 67
Bernard Kolélas age 22
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 14
Arnhim Eustace age 10
Mamadou Lamine Loum age 3
Žarko Korać age 8
Milan Čič age 23
Viktor Avbelj age 41
John Lapli age 1 month
Francis Billy Hilly age 7
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 15
Damião Vaz d'Almeida age 4
Lee Huan age 37
Tang Fei age 23
Akbarsho Iskandrov age 4
Suriya Jungrungreangkit age 8 months
Tu'i Pelehake age 33
Baron Vaea age 34
Tahar Ben Ammar age 65