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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

Nikola Šainović age 7
Dragan Tomić age 20
Östen Undén age 69
Rudolf Gnägi age 38
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 42
Pierre Aubert age 29
Georges-André Chevallaz age 41
Pierre Graber age 47
Ahmad al-Khatib age 23
Jamil Mardam Bey age 63
Sean Chen age 6
Chang Chun-hsiung age 17
Cynthia A. Pratt age 10
Ellis Clarke age 38
Noor Hassanali age 37
Bahi Ladgham age 43
Hamed Karoui age 28
Ali Bozer age 30
Hasan Saka age 71
Toaripi Lauti age 27
Saufatu Sopoanga age 4
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 9
Pedro Carmona age 14
Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher age 3
Tomás Romero Pereira age 69
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 50
Mohamed Osman Jawari age 10
Lee Wan-koo age 5
Lee Hong-koo age 21
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 45
Zlatko Lagumdžija age 2 months
Aníbal Torres age 13
Rosalio Lara age 33
Fawzi al-Qawuqji age 66
C. Douglas Dillon age 46
Louis A. Johnson age 65
Asaka Yasuhiko age 68
Mustafa Tlass age 23
Sefer Halilović age 4
Gojko Šušak age 10
Mile Mrkšić age 8
Krim Belkacem age 33
Jacques Massu age 47
Shigeko Higashikuni age 30
Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu age 44
Princess Tomohito of Mikasa age 10 months
Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia age 66
Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia age 54
Şükriye Sultan age 50
Bayezid Osman age 31
Nilufer Hanımsultan age 40
Richmond K. Turner age 70
Chiang Fang-liang age 39
Prince Wolfgang of Hesse age 59
Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919–2010) age 36
Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine age 47
Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 49
Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma age 32
Princess Margarita of Baden age 23
Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern age 23
Katherine Karađorđević age 12
Mark White age 15
John W. Bricker age 62
Zoran Lilić age 2
James G. Stavridis age 1
Philip M. Breedlove age 5 months
Ali Nasir Muhammad age 15
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 49
Byron White age 38
Pjetër Arbnori age 21
Rexhep Mitrovica age 68
Belaid Abdesselam age 27
Ismail Hamdani age 25
Lopo do Nascimento age 15
Yaqub Mammadov age 14
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 40
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 24
Aloys Van de Vyvere age 84
Adrien Houngbédji age 13
Lionel Zinsou age 1
Yeshey Zimba age 5
Néstor Guillén age 66
Carlos Quintanilla age 68
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 72
François Ngeze age 3
Simplice Sarandji age 10 months
Djimrangar Dadnadji age 2
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 37
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 20
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 49
Ali Sabri age 35
Ilias Tsirimokos age 48
Panagiotis Poulitsas age 74
Alexandros Othonaios age 77
Jean-Marie Doré age 17
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 5
Prosper Avril age 18
Marc Bazin age 23
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 53
Djuanda Kartawidjaja age 45
Donald Sangster age 44
Kenneth O. Hall age 14
Norman Manley age 62
Teatao Teannaki age 20
Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah age 3
Vilis Krištopans age 1
Ernestas Galvanauskas age 73
Laurynas Stankevičius age 20
Pierre Frieden age 63
Émile Reuter age 81
Gilles Andriamahazo age 36
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga age 10
Paul Bérenger age 10
Abdallah Ibrahim age 37
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 44
Bill Rowling age 28
Lazarus Salii age 19
Faustin Twagiramungu age 10
Sergej Kraigher age 41
Danny Philip age 2
Snyder Rini age 7
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 19
Ernst Nobs age 69
Ernst Wetter age 78
Hans Schaffner age 47
Hans Hürlimann age 37
Fritz Honegger age 38
Ludwig von Moos age 46
Leonel Mário d'Alva age 20
Sun Fo age 64
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 54
Ivy Dumont age 25
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü age 52
Faimalaga Luka age 15
Benedicto Kiwanuka age 33
Vasyl Durdynets age 18
Ati George Sokomanu age 20
John Bani age 14
Donald Kalpokas age 12
Phelekezela Mphoko age 15
Arístides Royo age 15
Juan Manuel Frutos age 76
Félix Paiva age 79
Ali Khalif Galaydh age 14
Chung Won-shik age 27
Osman Hussein age 5
Mohamed Tahir Ayala age 5
Fausta Morganti age 11
Văn Tiến Dũng age 38
James Van Fleet age 63
Eugene Meyer age 80
Dick Thornburgh age 23
Richard Myers age 14
Robert B. Anderson age 45
David Steel age 17
Ahmed Jibril age 18
Otto von Knobelsdorff age 69
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch age 67
Vladimir Stoychev age 63
Shigeyoshi Inoue age 66
Radislav Krstić age 8
Fidel Dávila Arrondo age 77
Larbi Ben M'hidi age 33
Avraham Adan age 29
Atsuko Ikeda age 24
Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia age 49
Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia age 57
Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia age 52
Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia age 57
Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia age 48
Prince Nicholas Romanov age 33
Şehzade Osman Fuad age 61
Yi Un age 58
Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg age 77
Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg age 43
Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (1879–1962) age 76
Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria (1918–2007) age 37
Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (1922–1993) age 33
Archduchess Charlotte of Austria age 35
Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 37
James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife age 26
Andreas Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha age 12
Friedrich Wilhelm Prinz von Hohenzollern age 32
John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness age 9 months
Paul Cellucci age 7
Harry F. Byrd age 68
Nancy Hollister age 6
Bill Clements age 38
Winthrop Rockefeller age 43
Douglas Wilder age 25
Chuck Robb age 16
A. A. K. Niazi age 41
Keith Campbell (biologist) age 1
İbrahim Edhem Pasha
Ladislav Adamec age 29
Abdul Fattah Ismail age 16
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 19
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 28
Marcolino Moco age 2
Hasan Hasanov age 15