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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Robert Beugré Mambé age 5
Seydou Diarra age 23
Hani al-Mulki age 5
Bajram Rexhepi age 2
Ahmed Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah age 1
Zhantoro Satybaldiyev age 1
Māris Gailis age 5
Ali Tarhouni age 6
Mustafa Ben Halim age 36
Bronislovas Lubys age 18
Aleksandras Abišala age 1
Cécile Manorohanta age 7
Modibo Keita age 14
Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga age 2
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 23
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly age 14
Valeriu Muravschi age 7
Ion Ciubuc age 13
Azzeddine Laraki age 28
Ahmed Laraki age 25
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 30
Man Mohan Adhikari age 36
Adolfo Díaz age 81
Thomas Remengesau age 25
Carlos Mota Pinto age 20
Dominique Mbonyumutwa age 36
Habib Thiam age 24
Frank Kabui age 11
Ramsewak Shankar age 19
Fred Ramdat Misier age 30
Kurt Furgler age 32
René Felber age 24
Philipp Etter age 65
Adel Safar age 4
Hau Pei-tsun age 37
Salim Ahmed Salim age 15
Bonfoh Abass age 8
Rachid Sfar age 23
Valentyn Symonenko age 16
Alberto Demicheli age 60
Walter Lini age 15
Edward Babiuch age 29
Eric Arturo Delvalle age 20
Higinio Morínigo age 60
Jeremy Thorpe age 28
Sultan al-Atrash age 66
Walter Weiß age 66
John Peters Humphrey age 52
Vicente Rojo Lluch age 62
Walter Krueger age 76
Mahmoud Taleghani age 46
Théoneste Bagosora age 15
Pauline Nyiramasuhuko age 11
Yoshihito, Prince Katsura age 9
Hanako, Princess Hitachi age 16
Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia age 65
Lennart Bernadotte age 48
Walther Nehring age 64
Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin age 65
Soong Ai-ling age 67
Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (born 1891) age 65
Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt age 58
Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg age 63
Gabriela von Habsburg age 7 months
Lady Pamela Hicks age 28
Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz age 21
Johan Ferner age 29
Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria age 24
Richard Russell Jr. age 59
Ted Strickland age 15
Phil Bredesen age 13
Norman Tebbit age 26
Jim Guy Tucker age 13
Mika Špiljak age 40
Hermann Rauschning age 69
Ibrahim al-Hamdi age 13
Arthur Goldberg age 48
Clark Clifford age 50
Robert A. Lovett age 61
Mohammad Rabbani age 1
Ylli Bufi age 8
Mehdi Frashëri age 85
Ali ibn Flais age 12
Youssef Yousfi age 15
Simon Vratsian age 75
A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury age 24
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury age 36
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem age 41
Moudud Ahmed age 17
Errol Barrow age 37
Hyenadz Navitski age 8
Kinzang Dorji age 6
Juan Pereda age 25
Mamerto Urriolagoitía age 61
Stefan Sofiyanski age 5
Paramanga Ernest Yonli age 4 months
Penn Nouth age 51
Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye age 7
Bruno Tshibala age 1
Carlos Arroyo age 63
Tesfaye Genre Kidan age 20
Timoci Bavadra age 22
Penaia Ganilau age 38
Urho Castrén age 70
Casimir Oyé-Mba age 15
Otar Patsatsia age 28
Hudson Austin age 19
Paul Magloire age 49
Jacques-Édouard Alexis age 9
Fritz Jean age 1
Lajos Dinnyés age 56
Björn Þórðarson age 78
Hugh Shearer age 34
Adnan Badran age 21
Mudar Badran age 23
Akejan Kajegeldin age 5
Sergey Tereshchenko age 6
Phoumi Vongvichit age 48
Mamohato of Lesotho age 16
Albertas Šimėnas age 7
Omer Beriziky age 6
Paul Boffa age 66
Mustafa Ould Salek age 21
Mohammed Ben Aarafa age 71
Mário da Graça Machungo age 16
Adriano Maleiane age 7
Norman Kirk age 34
Hong Song-nam age 27
Isidore Mvouba age 3
Alexandru Athanasiu age 2
Jean Kambanda age 1
Marcella Liburd age 3
Ján Čarnogurský age 13
Josip Vidmar age 61
Johan Kraag age 43
Marcel Pilet-Golaz age 67
Alphons Egli age 32
Leon Schlumpf age 32
Rashidi Kawawa age 31
Hédi Baccouche age 27
Sadi Irmak age 53
Filoimea Telito age 12
Andrés Martínez Trueba age 73
Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 59
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 17
Harmodio Arias Madrid age 70
Natalicio González age 59
Rafael Franco age 60
Abdirizak Haji Hussein age 32
Lee Beom-seok age 56
Babiker Awadalla age 40
César Villanueva age 10
Rosario Fernández age 1
Xu Xiangqian age 55
Seán Lester age 68
Donald Regan age 38
Lyman Lemnitzer age 57
Raymond T. Odierno age 2
Nicholas F. Brady age 27
Otozō Yamada age 75
Nebojša Pavković age 11
Thomas Cassin Kinkaid age 69
Saad el-Shazly age 35
Gholam Ali Rasheed age 3
Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu age 52
Takako Shimazu age 18
Dündar Ali Osman age 26
Luo Ronghuan age 54
Chiang Wei-kuo age 40
Franz Wilhelm Prinz von Preussen age 13
Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria age 39
Archduke Felix of Austria age 40
Song Hye-rim age 18
Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 60
Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse age 30
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood age 34
Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein age 65
Marianne Bernadotte age 32
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 57
Herbert H. Lehman age 79
Džemal Bijedić age 40
Branko Mikulić age 28
Abdullah al-Sallal age 40
Zeng Qinghong age 17
Rong Yiren age 41
Nicholas Katzenbach age 35
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 48
Ibrahim Biçakçiu age 51
Redha Malek age 25
Abdelmalek Benhabyles age 36
Lúcio Lara age 28
Mohammad Mohammadullah age 35
Elliott Belgrave age 26
Mikhail Chyhir age 8
Syarhei Linh age 20
Celso Torrelio age 23
Alberto Natusch age 24
David Toro age 58
Lyuben Berov age 31
Prince Louis Rwagasore of Burundi age 25