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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
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
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01

People

Lagumot Harris age 20
Kinza Clodumar age 14
Derog Gioura age 26
Kennan Adeang age 16
Michael Hardie Boys age 27
Seyni Oumarou age 8
Alfonso Oiterong age 34
Alfred Raoul age 20
Jozef Moravčík age 14
Ezekiel Alebua age 12
Peter Kenilorea age 15
Willi Ritschard age 40
Karl Kobelt age 67
Willy Spühler age 57
Nello Celio age 45
Eduard von Steiger age 77
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen age 60
Hans Streuli age 66
Enrico Celio age 69
Khalid al-Azm age 64
Omar Ibrahim Ghalawanji age 5
Gabriel Costa age 4
Simon Chang age 4
Mao Chi-kuo age 10
Yu Shyi-kun age 11
Arthur Dion Hanna age 31
Estanislau da Silva age 6
Naim Talu age 39
Tomasi Puapua age 20
Willy Telavi age 5
Alberto Héber Usher age 41
Maxime Carlot Korman age 18
Joe Natuman age 6
Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované age 76
Raimundo Rolón age 56
Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein age 48
Hasan Muratović age 19
Marino Riccardi age 10 months
Lorella Stefanelli age 2 months
Beatriz Merino age 11
Sebastiano Baggio age 46
Harry Hines Woodring age 71
Hiroshi Nakajima age 30
Griffin Bell age 40
Edwin Meese age 27
Frederick C. Weyand age 42
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 33
G. William Miller age 34
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 51
William B. Saxbe age 42
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 53
Kastriot Islami age 6
Benyoucef Benkhedda age 39
Sabri Boukadoum age 8 months
Josep Pintat-Solans age 34
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury age 30
Muhammad Mansur Ali age 40
Tom Adams age 27
Pascal Koupaki age 8
Konstantin Muraviev age 66
Youssouf Ouédraogo age 6
Pen Sovan age 23
Long Boret age 26
Simon Achidi Achu age 24
André Nzapayeké age 7
Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde age 25
Zlatko Tomčić age 13
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 33
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez age 80
Daniel Ona Ondo age 13
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 24
Léon Mébiame age 24
Bessarion Gugushvili age 14
Dimitrios Kiousopoulos age 67
Ioannis Theotokis age 78
Ioannis Paraskevopoulos age 58
Nicholas Brathwaite age 33
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León age 44
Eugène Camara age 17
Mohamed Béavogui age 5
Victor Saúde Maria age 20
Mamadu Ture Kuruma age 12
Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis age 58
Stenio Vincent age 85
Rosny Smarth age 18
Soekiman Wirjosandjojo age 61
Tahir Yahya age 43
Taha al-Hashimi age 71
Rachid Solh age 32
Alfred Naqqache age 71
Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush age 25
Gerard Batliner age 30
Django Sissoko age 11
Mandé Sidibé age 19
Yahya Ould Hademine age 5
Ba Mamadou Mbaré age 13
Cassam Uteem age 18
Kenos Aroi age 17
Ruben Kun age 17
Sidney Holland age 65
Milton Cato age 43
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 28
Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye age 9 months
Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré age 7
Predrag Marković age 3
Nathaniel Waena age 13
Rick Hou age 9 months
Roger Bonvin age 51
Ernst Brugger age 45
Rodolphe Rubattel age 62
Walther Stampfli age 74
Fawzi Selu age 54
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 18
Joaquim Rafael Branco age 5
Vincent Siew age 20
Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō age 7
Kamuta Latasi age 22
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas age 20
Abd al-Aziz ibn Habtour age 3
Kazimierz Świtalski age 73
Manuel María Ponce Brousset age 85
Hassan Abshir Farah age 13
Umar Arteh Ghalib age 29
Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed age 7 months
Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini age 4
Mirko Šarović age 2
Ivo Miro Jović age 8
Yehude Simon age 11
Walter Martos age 2
Paik Sun-yup age 38
Xue Yue age 62
Halfdan T. Mahler age 36
Thomas A. Shannon Jr. age 1
Hubert Gough age 88
Sun Yun-suan age 45
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 51
Archibald Cox age 47
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 55
Skënder Gjinushi age 9
Qasdi Mirbah age 21
Sayyid Ahmed Ghazali age 22
Ahmed ibn Bitour age 12
Mulud Hamroush age 16
Zelman Cowen age 39
Richard Casey, Baron Casey age 68
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad age 19
Joseph Conombo age 42
Pié Masumbuko age 27
Sisowath Monireth age 49
Sadou Hayatou age 17
Peter Mafany Musonge age 16
Martin Ziguélé age 2
Alfredo González Flores age 81
Koyagialo Ngbase te Gerengo Louis Alphonse age 12
Ahmed Dini Ahmed age 29
Patrick John age 21
Pierre Charles age 4
Federico Páez age 82
Aly Maher Pasha age 77
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 18
Jona Senilagakali age 29
Tevita Momoedonu age 13
Stilianos Mavromichalis age 60
Faustino Imbali age 3
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau age 49
Franck Lavaud age 56
Franck Sylvain age 49
Yvon Neptune age 12
Smarck Michel age 22
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 28
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 48
Burhanuddin Harahap age 42
Naji Talib age 41
Ezzedine Salim age 16
Husayn al-Khalidi age 64
David D. Kpormakpor age 23
Abuzed Omar Dorda age 15
Mohieddin Fikini age 34
Walter Kieber age 28
Barlen Vyapoory age 14
Karl Offmann age 18
Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa age 1
Veselin Đuranović age 33
Ahmed Balafrej age 51
Maung Maung age 34
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 65
René Schick age 49
Ljupčo Jordanovski age 6
Henri Lopès age 21
Kennedy Simmonds age 23
Moustapha Niasse age 19
Thomas Holenstein age 63
Faris al-Khoury age 81
İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil age 51
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 47
Ionatana Ionatana age 20
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 2
Mekere Morauta age 12
Cesar Virata age 28
Wijeyananda Dahanayake age 56