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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

Ted Strickland age 14
Phil Bredesen age 11
Norman Tebbit age 24
Jim Guy Tucker age 12
Mika Špiljak age 38
Hermann Rauschning age 68
Ibrahim al-Hamdi age 12
Arthur Goldberg age 47
Clark Clifford age 48
Robert A. Lovett age 60
Mohammad Rabbani age 1 month
Ylli Bufi age 7
Mehdi Frashëri age 83
Ali ibn Flais age 11
Youssef Yousfi age 14
Simon Vratsian age 73
A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury age 22
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury age 34
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem age 39
Moudud Ahmed age 15
Errol Barrow age 35
Hyenadz Navitski age 6
Kinzang Dorji age 4
Juan Pereda age 24
Mamerto Urriolagoitía age 59
Stefan Sofiyanski age 3
Penn Nouth age 49
Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye age 5
Carlos Arroyo age 61
Tesfaye Genre Kidan age 18
Timoci Bavadra age 21
Penaia Ganilau age 37
Urho Castrén age 68
Casimir Oyé-Mba age 13
Otar Patsatsia age 26
Hudson Austin age 17
Jacques-Édouard Alexis age 8
Lajos Dinnyés age 54
Björn Þórðarson age 76
Hugh Shearer age 32
Adnan Badran age 19
Mudar Badran age 21
Akejan Kajegeldin age 3
Sergey Tereshchenko age 4
Phoumi Vongvichit age 46
Mamohato of Lesotho age 14
Albertas Šimėnas age 5
Omer Beriziky age 5
Paul Boffa age 65
Mustafa Ould Salek age 19
Mário da Graça Machungo age 14
Adriano Maleiane age 5
Norman Kirk age 32
Hong Song-nam age 26
Isidore Mvouba age 1
Alexandru Athanasiu age 9 months
Marcella Liburd age 2
Ján Čarnogurský age 11
Josip Vidmar age 60
Johan Kraag age 42
Marcel Pilet-Golaz age 65
Alphons Egli age 31
Leon Schlumpf age 30
Rashidi Kawawa age 29
Hédi Baccouche age 25
Sadi Irmak age 51
Filoimea Telito age 10
Andrés Martínez Trueba age 71
Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 57
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 16
Harmodio Arias Madrid age 69
Natalicio González age 58
Rafael Franco age 59
Abdirizak Haji Hussein age 30
Lee Beom-seok age 55
Babiker Awadalla age 38
César Villanueva age 9
Xu Xiangqian age 53
Seán Lester age 67
Donald Regan age 36
Lyman Lemnitzer age 56
Raymond T. Odierno age 1
Nicholas F. Brady age 25
Otozō Yamada age 73
Nebojša Pavković age 9
Thomas Cassin Kinkaid age 67
Saad el-Shazly age 33
Gholam Ali Rasheed age 2
Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu age 50
Takako Shimazu age 16
Dündar Ali Osman age 24
Luo Ronghuan age 52
Chiang Wei-kuo age 39
Franz Wilhelm Prinz von Preussen age 12
Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria age 37
Archduke Felix of Austria age 39
Song Hye-rim age 16
Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 58
Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse age 29
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood age 32
Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein age 64
Marianne Bernadotte age 31
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 55
Herbert H. Lehman age 77
Džemal Bijedić age 38
Branko Mikulić age 27
Abdullah al-Sallal age 38
Zeng Qinghong age 16
Rong Yiren age 39
Nicholas Katzenbach age 33
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 47
Ibrahim Biçakçiu age 50
Redha Malek age 23
Abdelmalek Benhabyles age 34
Lúcio Lara age 26
Mohammad Mohammadullah age 34
Elliott Belgrave age 24
Mikhail Chyhir age 7
Syarhei Linh age 18
Celso Torrelio age 22
Alberto Natusch age 22
David Toro age 57
Lyuben Berov age 30
Prince Louis Rwagasore of Burundi age 23
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 34
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 55
Franjo Gregurić age 16
Hrvoje Šarinić age 20
Carlos Manuel Piedra age 60
Joseph Iléo age 34
Eliud Williams age 7
Antonio Imbert Barrera age 34
Atef Sedki age 25
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 20
Álvaro Magaña age 30
Mahendra Chaudhry age 13
Nii Amaa Ollennu age 49
Konstantinos Kollias age 54
Panagiotis Pipinelis age 56
Eric Gairy age 33
Kabiné Komara age 5
Cellou Dalein Diallo age 3
Jean-Jacques Honorat age 24
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 68
Ali Sastroamidjojo age 52
Sa'dun Hammadi age 25
Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio age 4
Howard Cooke age 39
Zeid bin Shaker age 21
Ieremia Tabai age 5
Ishenbai Kadyrbekov age 6
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 27
Augusts Kirhenšteins age 83
Valdis Birkavs age 13
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi age 16
George Borg Olivier age 44
Ahmed Bahnini age 46
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 36
Maati Bouabid age 27
Ahmed Osman age 25
Khin Nyunt age 16
San Yu age 37
Sao Shwe Thaik age 59
Geoffrey Palmer age 13
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 84
Ngiratkel Etpison age 30
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 50
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 100
Ion Gigurtu age 69
Edmund Lawrence age 23
Nikola Šainović age 6
Dragan Tomić age 19
Östen Undén age 69
Rudolf Gnägi age 38
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 42
Pierre Aubert age 28
Georges-André Chevallaz age 40
Pierre Graber age 46
Ahmad al-Khatib age 22
Jamil Mardam Bey age 62
Sean Chen age 6
Chang Chun-hsiung age 17
Cynthia A. Pratt age 9
Ellis Clarke age 37
Noor Hassanali age 37
Bahi Ladgham age 42
Hamed Karoui age 27
Ali Bozer age 30
Hasan Saka age 70
Toaripi Lauti age 26
Saufatu Sopoanga age 3
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 8
Pedro Carmona age 14
Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher age 2
Tomás Romero Pereira age 69
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 50
Mohamed Osman Jawari age 9
Lee Wan-koo age 5
Lee Hong-koo age 21
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 45