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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
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

People

Sergej Kraigher age 40
Danny Philip age 9 months
Snyder Rini age 5
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 18
Ernst Nobs age 67
Ernst Wetter age 76
Hans Schaffner age 45
Hans Hürlimann age 36
Fritz Honegger age 36
Ludwig von Moos age 44
Leonel Mário d'Alva age 18
Sun Fo age 62
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 52
Ivy Dumont age 23
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü age 50
Faimalaga Luka age 14
Benedicto Kiwanuka age 32
Vasyl Durdynets age 16
Ati George Sokomanu age 18
John Bani age 12
Donald Kalpokas age 10
Phelekezela Mphoko age 13
Arístides Royo age 13
Juan Manuel Frutos age 74
Félix Paiva age 77
Felipe Molas López age 52
Ali Khalif Galaydh age 12
Chung Won-shik age 25
Osman Hussein age 3
Mohamed Tahir Ayala age 3
Fausta Morganti age 9
Văn Tiến Dũng age 37
James Van Fleet age 62
Eugene Meyer age 78
Dick Thornburgh age 21
Richard Myers age 12
Robert B. Anderson age 43
David Steel age 16
Ahmed Jibril age 16
Otto von Knobelsdorff age 68
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch age 65
Vladimir Stoychev age 62
Shigeyoshi Inoue age 64
Radislav Krstić age 6
Fidel Dávila Arrondo age 76
Larbi Ben M'hidi age 31
Avraham Adan age 27
Atsuko Ikeda age 23
Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia age 48
Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia age 66
Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia age 56
Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia age 50
Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia age 55
Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia age 46
Prince Nicholas Romanov age 31
Şehzade Osman Fuad age 59
Yi Un age 56
Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg age 75
Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg age 41
Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (1879–1962) age 74
Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria (1918–2007) age 36
Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (1922–1993) age 31
Archduchess Charlotte of Austria age 33
Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 35
James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife age 24
Andreas Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha age 11
Friedrich Wilhelm Prinz von Hohenzollern age 30
Paul Cellucci age 6
Harry F. Byrd age 66
Nancy Hollister age 5
Bill Clements age 37
Winthrop Rockefeller age 42
Douglas Wilder age 23
Chuck Robb age 14
A. A. K. Niazi age 39
İbrahim Edhem Pasha
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 18
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 27
Marcolino Moco age 10 months
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 81
Hasan Hasanov age 13
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 17
Hugo Ballivián age 52
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum age 48
Élie Doté age 5
Haroun Kabadi age 5
Youssouf Saleh Abbas age 1
Gabriel París Gordillo age 44
Justin Marie Bomboko age 25
Vernon Shaw age 24
Zakaria Mohieddin age 35
Mustafa Khalil age 33
Kamal Hassan Ali age 21
Konstantinos Logothetopoulos age 75
Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas age 61
Konstantinos Dovas age 55
Konstantinos Georgakopoulos age 63
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides age 64
Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero age 7
Lansana Kouyaté age 3
Hérard Abraham age 13
Élie Lescot age 70
Policarpo Paz García age 21
Julio Lozano Díaz age 69
Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi age 16
Zaid al-Rifai age 17
Ahmad Obeidat age 15
Ali Abu al-Ragheb age 8
Abdul Majid Kubar age 45
Abdul Qadir al-Badri age 32
Muhammad Osman Said age 29
Adolfas Šleževičius age 6
Roger Kolo age 10
Jurelang Zedkaia age 3
Veerasamy Ringadoo age 33
Dharam Gokhool age 4
Mbarek Bekkay age 47
Mohamed Benhima age 29
Lagumot Harris age 15
Kinza Clodumar age 9
Derog Gioura age 21
Kennan Adeang age 11
Michael Hardie Boys age 22
Walter Nash age 72
Seyni Oumarou age 3
Alfonso Oiterong age 29
Alfred Raoul age 15
Jozef Moravčík age 9
Ezekiel Alebua age 7
Peter Kenilorea age 11
Willi Ritschard age 35
Karl Kobelt age 62
Willy Spühler age 52
Rudolf Minger age 72
Nello Celio age 40
Paul Chaudet age 49
Eduard von Steiger age 72
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen age 55
Hans Streuli age 61
Enrico Celio age 64
Khalid al-Azm age 59
Omar Ibrahim Ghalawanji age 4 months
Mao Chi-kuo age 5
Yu Shyi-kun age 6
Arthur Dion Hanna age 26
Estanislau da Silva age 1
Naim Talu age 34
Tomasi Puapua age 15
Willy Telavi age 3 months
Alberto Héber Usher age 36
Maxime Carlot Korman age 13
Joe Natuman age 1
Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované age 71
Raimundo Rolón age 51
Abdullahi Issa age 31
Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein age 43
Hasan Muratović age 14
Beatriz Merino age 6
Sebastiano Baggio age 41
Tang Enbo age 54
Harry Hines Woodring age 67
Hiroshi Nakajima age 26
Griffin Bell age 35
Edwin Meese age 22
Frederick C. Weyand age 37
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 28
G. William Miller age 29
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 46
William B. Saxbe age 37
Gerhard von Schwerin age 54
Hugo Österman age 61
Keith Park age 61
Maximilian Fretter-Pico age 62
Donald A. Henderson age 25
Robert L. Eichelberger age 68
José Moscardó Ituarte age 75
Annibale Bergonzoli age 69
Ali Sayyad Shirazi age 9
Adnan Khairallah age 12
Setsuko, Princess Chichibu age 44
Prince Dimitri Romanov age 28
David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven age 35
Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid II) age 67
Sabiha Sultan age 60
Ahmad Nami age 81
Necla Sultan age 28
Şehzade Ali Vasib age 50
Harun Osman age 22
Hoàng Văn Thái age 39
Prince Sigismund of Prussia (born 1896) age 57
Archduchess Maria Henrietta of Austria age 71
Archduchess Isabella of Austria age 65
Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1875–1964) age 79
Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma age 44
Prince Konrad of Bavaria age 70
Princess Irina of Romania age 1
Angus Ogilvy age 25
Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern age 2
Francis Pym age 32
Hugh Dalton age 66