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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

Hubert Gough age 85
Sun Yun-suan age 42
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 48
Archibald Cox age 44
Skënder Gjinushi age 6
Qasdi Mirbah age 18
Sayyid Ahmed Ghazali age 19
Ahmed ibn Bitour age 10
Mulud Hamroush age 13
Zelman Cowen age 36
Richard Casey, Baron Casey age 65
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad age 16
Joseph Conombo age 39
Pié Masumbuko age 24
Sisowath Monireth age 46
Sadou Hayatou age 14
Peter Mafany Musonge age 13
Alfredo González Flores age 79
Koyagialo Ngbase te Gerengo Louis Alphonse age 9
Ahmed Dini Ahmed age 26
Patrick John age 18
Pierre Charles age 2
Federico Páez age 80
Aly Maher Pasha age 74
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 16
Jona Senilagakali age 26
Tevita Momoedonu age 10
Stilianos Mavromichalis age 57
Faustino Imbali age 2 months
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau age 46
Franck Lavaud age 53
Franck Sylvain age 46
Yvon Neptune age 9
Smarck Michel age 19
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 26
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 45
Burhanuddin Harahap age 39
Naji Talib age 39
Ezzedine Salim age 13
Husayn al-Khalidi age 61
David D. Kpormakpor age 20
Abuzed Omar Dorda age 12
Mohieddin Fikini age 31
Walter Kieber age 25
Barlen Vyapoory age 11
Karl Offmann age 15
Veselin Đuranović age 31
Ahmed Balafrej age 48
Maung Maung age 31
Win Maung age 40
René Schick age 46
Ljupčo Jordanovski age 3
Domingos Leite Pereira age 73
Henri Lopès age 18
Kennedy Simmonds age 20
Moustapha Niasse age 16
Thomas Holenstein age 60
Faris al-Khoury age 78
İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil age 48
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 45
Ionatana Ionatana age 17
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 2 months
Mekere Morauta age 10
Cesar Virata age 25
Wijeyananda Dahanayake age 53
Bakri Hassan Saleh age 7
Gianfranco Terenzi age 15
Salomón Lerner Ghitis age 10
Oscar Valdés age 7
Carlos Ferrero age 15
Yawovi Agboyibo age 12
Du Yuming age 51
Su Yu age 48
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 56
William E. Simon age 28
Nathan F. Twining age 58
Richard Kleindienst age 32
J. Howard McGrath age 52
Abe Fortas age 46
Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal age 35
Paul Hasluck age 51
Shah Azizur Rahman age 30
Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo age 2
Chan Sy age 24
In Tam age 33
Sisowath Monipong age 43
Bartolomé Blanche age 77
Caabi El-Yachroutu Mohamed age 6
Abdallah Mohamed Kamil age 20
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 64
Arturo Araujo age 78
Jean-Hilaire Aubame age 43
Herbert Blaize age 38
Diarra Traoré age 21
Francisco Fadul age 2
Manuel Saturnino da Costa age 13
Edward Luckhoo age 44
Émile Jonassaint age 43
Vicente Mejía Colindres age 78
Adnan Pachachi age 33
Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif age 23
Jamil al-Midfai age 66
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi age 64
Faisal al-Fayez age 3
Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh age 17
Apas Jumagulov age 21
Wilton G. S. Sankawulo age 18
Wanis al-Qaddafi age 31
Hussein Maziq age 38
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 17
Imbarek Shamekh age 4
Alfred Hilbe age 28
Tantely Andrianarivo age 2
Eugène Mangalaza age 6
Ibrahim Muhammad Didi age 55
Ahmed Mohamed ag Hamani age 14
Soumana Sacko age 5
Kunio Lemari age 13
Andrei Sangheli age 11
Gheorghe Brega age 4
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 23
Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 70
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae age 45
Yon Hyong-muk age 24
Allan Louisy age 39
Allan Kemakeza age 7
Solomon Mamaloni age 13
Jules Sedney age 33
Bahij al-Khatib age 61
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 24
Yusuf Zuayyin age 24
Guilherme Posser da Costa age 3
Frederick Sumaye age 6
Edward Sokoine age 17
John Malecela age 22
Orville Turnquest age 27
Clifford Darling age 34
Kléber Dadjo age 41
Tupua Leupena age 33
Koloa Talake age 22
Luis Giannattasio age 61
Frederick Karlomuana Timakata age 20
Esmon Saimon age 8 months
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani age 17
Bill Skate age 2
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 25
Yoo Il-ho age 1
Krešimir Zubak age 9
Antero Flores Aráoz age 14
Patrick J. Hurley age 73
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 62
Hu Zongnan age 60
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 71
Charles Clarke age 5
Duncan Sandys age 48
Homer Stille Cummings age 86
Henry H. Fowler age 47
Hugh Shelton age 14
William French Smith age 38
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 44
Peter Schoomaker age 10
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 74
William S. Sessions age 26
Louis Freeh age 6
Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani age 4
Salman II of Bahrain age 62
Nita Barrow age 39
Yem Sambaur age 43
Ung Huot age 11
Chhean Vam age 40
Sim Var age 50
Sisowath Watchayavong age 64
Norodom Kantol age 35
Nhiek Tioulong age 47
Nagoum Yamassoum age 2
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 28
Pedro Opaso age 80
Évariste Kimba age 30
Léonard Mulamba age 28
Osborne Riviere age 24
Andrés F. Córdova age 64
Antonio Pons age 58
Mamdouh Salem age 38
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 10
Obed Dlamini age 19
Mabandla Dlamini age 25
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 44
George Brizan age 13
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 44
Daniel Fignolé age 42
Jean-Michel Lapin age 6
Robert Malval age 13
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 35
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 53
Pascal Affi N'Guessan age 3
Clifford Campbell age 64
Florizel Glasspole age 46
Suleiman al-Nabulsi age 48
Jumabek Ibraimov age 12
Nasirdin Isanov age 12