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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
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria age 23
Richard Russell Jr. age 58
Ted Strickland age 14
Phil Bredesen age 12
Norman Tebbit age 24
Jim Guy Tucker age 12
Mika Špiljak age 39
Arthur Goldberg age 47
Clark Clifford age 49
Robert A. Lovett age 60
Mohammad Rabbani age 5 months
Ylli Bufi age 7
Mehdi Frashëri age 84
Ali ibn Flais age 11
Youssef Yousfi age 14
Simon Vratsian age 73
A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury age 23
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury age 35
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem age 39
Moudud Ahmed age 15
Errol Barrow age 36
Hyenadz Navitski age 7
Kinzang Dorji age 5
Juan Pereda age 24
Mamerto Urriolagoitía age 60
Stefan Sofiyanski age 4
Penn Nouth age 49
Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye age 6
Bruno Tshibala age 0 months
Carlos Arroyo age 62
Tesfaye Genre Kidan age 19
Timoci Bavadra age 21
Penaia Ganilau age 37
Urho Castrén age 69
Casimir Oyé-Mba age 13
Otar Patsatsia age 26
Hudson Austin age 17
Jacques-Édouard Alexis age 8
Fritz Jean age 1 month
Lajos Dinnyés age 54
Björn Þórðarson age 77
Hugh Shearer age 32
Adnan Badran age 20
Mudar Badran age 22
Akejan Kajegeldin age 3
Sergey Tereshchenko age 4
Phoumi Vongvichit age 46
Mamohato of Lesotho age 14
Albertas Šimėnas age 6
Omer Beriziky age 5
Paul Boffa age 65
Mustafa Ould Salek age 20
Mohammed Ben Aarafa age 70
Mário da Graça Machungo age 15
Adriano Maleiane age 6
Norman Kirk age 33
Hong Song-nam age 26
Isidore Mvouba age 2
Alexandru Athanasiu age 1
Jean Kambanda age 4 months
Marcella Liburd age 2
Ján Čarnogurský age 12
Josip Vidmar age 60
Johan Kraag age 42
Marcel Pilet-Golaz age 66
Alphons Egli age 31
Leon Schlumpf age 31
Rashidi Kawawa age 29
Hédi Baccouche age 26
Sadi Irmak age 51
Filoimea Telito age 10
Andrés Martínez Trueba age 72
Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 58
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 16
Harmodio Arias Madrid age 69
Natalicio González age 58
Rafael Franco age 59
Abdirizak Haji Hussein age 31
Lee Beom-seok age 55
Babiker Awadalla age 39
César Villanueva age 9
Rosario Fernández age 3 months
Xu Xiangqian age 54
Seán Lester age 67
Donald Regan age 37
Lyman Lemnitzer age 56
Raymond T. Odierno age 1
Nicholas F. Brady age 25
Otozō Yamada age 74
Nebojša Pavković age 9
Thomas Cassin Kinkaid age 67
Saad el-Shazly age 33
Gholam Ali Rasheed age 2
Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu age 51
Takako Shimazu age 17
Dündar Ali Osman age 25
Luo Ronghuan age 53
Chiang Wei-kuo age 39
Franz Wilhelm Prinz von Preussen age 12
Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria age 38
Archduke Felix of Austria age 39
Song Hye-rim age 17
Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 58
Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse age 29
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood age 33
Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein age 64
Marianne Bernadotte age 31
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 56
Herbert H. Lehman age 77
Džemal Bijedić age 38
Branko Mikulić age 27
Zeng Qinghong age 16
Rong Yiren age 39
Nicholas Katzenbach age 34
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 47
Ibrahim Biçakçiu age 50
Redha Malek age 24
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 24
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 34
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 56
Franjo Gregurić age 16
Hrvoje Šarinić age 21
Carlos Manuel Piedra age 61
Joseph Iléo age 34
Eliud Williams age 7
Antonio Imbert Barrera age 35
Atef Sedki age 25
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 20
Álvaro Magaña age 30
Mahendra Chaudhry age 14
Nii Amaa Ollennu age 49
Konstantinos Kollias age 55
Panagiotis Pipinelis age 56
Eric Gairy age 34
Kabiné Komara age 5
Cellou Dalein Diallo age 4
Evans Paul age 3 months
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 40
Zeid bin Shaker age 21
Ieremia Tabai age 6
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 47
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 36
Maati Bouabid age 28
Ahmed Osman age 26
Khin Nyunt age 16
San Yu age 38
Sao Shwe Thaik age 59
Geoffrey Palmer age 13
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 84
Ngiratkel Etpison age 30
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 51
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 101
Ion Gigurtu age 69
Edmund Lawrence age 24
Nikola Šainović age 7
Dragan Tomić age 20
Östen Undén age 69
Rudolf Gnägi age 38
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 42
Pierre Aubert age 29
Georges-André Chevallaz age 41
Pierre Graber age 47
Ahmad al-Khatib age 23
Jamil Mardam Bey age 63
Sean Chen age 6
Chang Chun-hsiung age 17
Cynthia A. Pratt age 10
Ellis Clarke age 38
Noor Hassanali age 37
Bahi Ladgham age 43
Hamed Karoui age 28
Ali Bozer age 30
Hasan Saka age 71
Toaripi Lauti age 27
Saufatu Sopoanga age 4
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 9
Pedro Carmona age 14
Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher age 3
Tomás Romero Pereira age 69