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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

Soekiman Wirjosandjojo age 57
Tahir Yahya age 39
Taha al-Hashimi age 67
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 63
Rachid Solh age 29
Alfred Naqqache age 67
Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush age 22
Gerard Batliner age 26
Django Sissoko age 7
Mandé Sidibé age 15
Yahya Ould Hademine age 1
Ba Mamadou Mbaré age 9
Cassam Uteem age 14
Kenos Aroi age 13
Ruben Kun age 13
Domingos Oliveira age 82
Arthur Văitoianu age 91
Milton Cato age 40
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 24
Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré age 3
Nathaniel Waena age 9
Roger Bonvin age 48
Ernst Brugger age 41
Markus Feldmann age 58
Rodolphe Rubattel age 59
Walther Stampfli age 70
Fawzi Selu age 50
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 14
Joaquim Rafael Branco age 2
Vincent Siew age 16
Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō age 3
Kamuta Latasi age 19
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas age 16
Abd al-Aziz ibn Habtour age 1 month
Kazimierz Świtalski age 69
Manuel María Ponce Brousset age 81
Hassan Abshir Farah age 10
Umar Arteh Ghalib age 25
Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini age 1
Ivo Miro Jović age 5
Yehude Simon age 8
Paik Sun-yup age 34
Xue Yue age 58
Halfdan T. Mahler age 32
Hartley Shawcross age 53
Hugh Carey age 36
Preston Smith age 43
David Pryor age 21
Herman Talmadge age 42
Richard Codey age 8
Otis Bowen age 37
Bob Taft age 13
Hubert Gough age 85
Sun Yun-suan age 41
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 48
Archibald Cox age 43
Skënder Gjinushi age 5
Qasdi Mirbah age 17
Sayyid Ahmed Ghazali age 18
Ahmed ibn Bitour age 9
Mulud Hamroush age 12
Zelman Cowen age 35
Richard Casey, Baron Casey age 65
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad age 15
Joseph Conombo age 38
Pié Masumbuko age 23
Sisowath Monireth age 45
Sadou Hayatou age 13
Peter Mafany Musonge age 12
Alfredo González Flores age 78
Koyagialo Ngbase te Gerengo Louis Alphonse age 8
Ahmed Dini Ahmed age 25
Patrick John age 17
Pierre Charles age 1
Federico Páez age 79
Aly Maher Pasha age 73
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 15
Jona Senilagakali age 25
Tevita Momoedonu age 9
Stilianos Mavromichalis age 56
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau age 45
Franck Lavaud age 52
Franck Sylvain age 46
Yvon Neptune age 8
Smarck Michel age 18
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 25
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 44
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 73
Henri Lopès age 18
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
Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield age 38
Thomas Kean age 20
Price Daniel age 44
Don Sundquist age 19
Charles Edison age 65
George Busbee age 28
Brendan Byrne age 31
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 43
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 31
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 39
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