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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
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
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

Ali Soilih age 24
Zlatko Mateša age 11
Cyrille Adoula age 39
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 31
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 49
Ignacio Milam Tang age 20
Otto Tief age 71
Themba Dlamini age 10
Rainer von Fieandt age 70
Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet age 2 months
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 62
Stylianos Gonatas age 84
Spiridon Markezinis age 52
Carlos Correia age 27
Francisco Mendes age 22
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 34
Jóhann Hafstein age 45
Wasfi Tal age 42
Nader al-Dahabi age 14
Teburoro Tito age 7
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 48
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah age 5
Charles Helou age 47
Abdullah al-Thani age 7
Shukri Ghanem age 18
Justas Paleckis age 62
Charles Rabemananjara age 14
Albert Camille Vital age 8
Imata Kabua age 18
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 21
Saw Maung age 32
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 60
Robert Muldoon age 39
Hama Amadou age 11
Kim Jae-ryong age 2
Nikola Kljusev age 33
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 44
Gavril Dejeu age 28
Anastase Murekezi age 8
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 33
Susan Dougan age 6
Otto Stich age 34
Arnold Koller age 27
Max Petitpierre age 62
Liu Chao-shiuan age 18
Lin Chuan age 9
Zhang Qun age 72
Hedi Amara Nouira age 50
Şemsettin Günaltay age 77
Ferit Melen age 54
Sir Iakoba Italeli age 11
Amama Mbabazi age 12
Óscar Diego Gestido age 59
Serge Vohor age 6
Pham Hung age 49
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 76
Paulias Matane age 29
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 20
Borislav Paravac age 18
Jorge del Castillo age 10
Yasuji Okamura age 77
John J. McCloy age 66
Leon Brittan age 21
Joseph Grew age 81
W. Michael Blumenthal age 35
Sally Yates age 9 months
Peter Pace age 15
Norman Lamont age 19
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 14
Herbert Morrison age 73
Harry Crerar age 73
Fernando Romeo Lucas García age 36
Zhang Guotao age 63
Dragoljub Ojdanić age 20
Norihito, Prince Takamado age 6
Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven age 65
Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia age 64
Raoul Salan age 62
Prince George William of Hanover age 46
Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg age 58
Infanta María Cristina of Spain age 49
Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia age 33
Maximilian, Margrave of Baden age 27
James L. Jones age 17
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 45
John N. Mitchell age 47
Òscar Ribas Reig age 24
Paulo Kassoma age 10
França Van-Dúnem age 26
James Carlisle age 23
Vere Bird age 50
Aram Sargsyan age 5 months
Ninian Stephen age 38
Abdus Sattar age 55
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 18
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 33
Georgi Bliznashki age 4
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 35
Tertius Zongo age 4
Sisowath Sirik Matak age 47
Abel Goumba age 34
Félix Moloua age 4
Emmanuel Nadingar age 10
Saleh Kebzabo age 14
Vladimir Bakarić age 49
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 62
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 41
Isidro Ayora age 81
Otto Arosemena age 35
Arturo Armando Molina age 33
Themba Nhlanganiso Masuku age 10
Cleopas Dlamini age 9
Bailey Olter age 29
Julien Nkoghe Békale age 2
Ioannis Sarmas age 4
Rui Duarte de Barros age 1
Jocelerme Privert age 8
Emil Jónsson age 58
Steingrímur Steinþórsson age 68
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 66
Robert Beugré Mambé age 9
Seydou Diarra age 27
Hani al-Mulki age 9
Bajram Rexhepi age 7
Ahmed Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah age 5
Zhantoro Satybaldiyev age 5
Adylbek Kasymaliev age 6 months
Māris Gailis age 9
Ali Tarhouni age 10
Mustafa Ben Halim age 40
Bronislovas Lubys age 22
Aleksandras Abišala age 5
Cécile Manorohanta age 11
Modibo Keita age 18
Choguel Kokalla Maïga age 3
Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga age 7
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 27
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly age 18
Valeriu Muravschi age 11
Ion Ciubuc age 18
Azzeddine Laraki age 32
Ahmed Laraki age 29
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 34
Man Mohan Adhikari age 41
Adolfo Díaz age 85
Thomas Remengesau age 29
Carlos Mota Pinto age 24
Habib Thiam age 28
Frank Kabui age 15
Ramsewak Shankar age 23
Fred Ramdat Misier age 34
Kurt Furgler age 36
René Felber age 28
Philipp Etter age 69
Adel Safar age 8
Hau Pei-tsun age 41
Salim Ahmed Salim age 19
Bonfoh Abass age 12
Rachid Sfar age 27
Valentyn Symonenko age 20
Alberto Demicheli age 64
Walter Lini age 19
Edward Babiuch age 33
Eric Arturo Delvalle age 24
Higinio Morínigo age 64
Adnan Terzić age 1
Sultan al-Atrash age 70
Walter Weiß age 70
John Peters Humphrey age 56
Vicente Rojo Lluch age 66
Walter Krueger age 80
Mahmoud Taleghani age 50
Théoneste Bagosora age 19
Pauline Nyiramasuhuko age 15
Yoshihito, Prince Katsura age 13
Hanako, Princess Hitachi age 20
Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia age 69
Lennart Bernadotte age 52
Walther Nehring age 68
Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin age 69
Soong Ai-ling age 71
Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (born 1891) age 69
Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt age 63
Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg age 67
Gabriela von Habsburg age 4
Lady Pamela Hicks age 32
Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz age 25
Johan Ferner age 33
Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria age 28
Richard Russell Jr. age 63
Ted Strickland age 19
Phil Bredesen age 17
Norman Tebbit age 30
Jim Guy Tucker age 18
Mika Špiljak age 44
Arthur Goldberg age 52
Clark Clifford age 54
Robert A. Lovett age 65
Mohammad Rabbani age 5
Ylli Bufi age 13