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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

People

Ngiratkel Etpison age 31
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 51
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 102
Ion Gigurtu age 70
Edmund Lawrence age 24
Nikola Šainović age 8
Dragan Tomić age 21
Östen Undén age 70
Rudolf Gnägi age 39
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 43
Pierre Aubert age 29
Georges-André Chevallaz age 41
Pierre Graber age 48
Ahmad al-Khatib age 24
Jamil Mardam Bey age 64
Sean Chen age 7
Chang Chun-hsiung age 18
Cynthia A. Pratt age 11
Ellis Clarke age 39
Noor Hassanali age 38
Bahi Ladgham age 43
Hamed Karoui age 29
Ali Bozer age 31
Hasan Saka age 72
Toaripi Lauti age 28
Saufatu Sopoanga age 4
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 9
Pedro Carmona age 15
Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher age 4
Tomás Romero Pereira age 70
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 51
Mohamed Osman Jawari age 11
Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe age 8 months
Lee Wan-koo age 6
Lee Hong-koo age 22
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 46
Zlatko Lagumdžija age 1
Aníbal Torres age 14
Rosalio Lara age 34
Fawzi al-Qawuqji age 66
C. Douglas Dillon age 47
Louis A. Johnson age 66
Asaka Yasuhiko age 69
Mustafa Tlass age 24
Sefer Halilović age 4
Gojko Šušak age 11
Mile Mrkšić age 9
Krim Belkacem age 34
Jacques Massu age 48
Shigeko Higashikuni age 31
Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu age 45
Princess Tomohito of Mikasa age 1
Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia age 66
Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia age 55
Şükriye Sultan age 50
Bayezid Osman age 32
Nilufer Hanımsultan age 41
Richmond K. Turner age 71
Chiang Fang-liang age 40
Prince Wolfgang of Hesse age 60
Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919–2010) age 37
Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine age 48
Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 50
Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma age 32
Princess Margarita of Baden age 24
Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern age 24
Katherine Karađorđević age 13
David Lidington age 5 months
Mark White age 16
John W. Bricker age 63
Zoran Lilić age 3
James G. Stavridis age 1
Philip M. Breedlove age 1
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 50
Byron White age 39
Pjetër Arbnori age 21
Rexhep Mitrovica age 68
Belaid Abdesselam age 28
Ismail Hamdani age 26
Lopo do Nascimento age 16
Yaqub Mammadov age 15
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 41
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 25
Aloys Van de Vyvere age 85
Adrien Houngbédji age 14
Lionel Zinsou age 2
Yeshey Zimba age 6
Néstor Guillén age 66
Carlos Quintanilla age 68
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 72
François Ngeze age 3
Simplice Sarandji age 1
Djimrangar Dadnadji age 2
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 38
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 20
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 49
Ali Sabri age 36
Ilias Tsirimokos age 49
Panagiotis Poulitsas age 75
Alexandros Othonaios age 78
Jean-Marie Doré age 18
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 5
Prosper Avril age 19
Marc Bazin age 24
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 54
Djuanda Kartawidjaja age 45
Donald Sangster age 45
Kenneth O. Hall age 15
Norman Manley age 63
Teatao Teannaki age 21
Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah age 4
Vilis Krištopans age 2
Ernestas Galvanauskas age 74
Laurynas Stankevičius age 21
Pierre Frieden age 64
Émile Reuter age 82
Gilles Andriamahazo age 37
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga age 11
Paul Bérenger age 11
Sanjaagiin Bayar age 9 months
Abdallah Ibrahim age 38
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 45
Bill Rowling age 29
Lazarus Salii age 20
Faustin Twagiramungu age 11
Sergej Kraigher age 42
Danny Philip age 3
Snyder Rini age 8
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 20
Ernst Nobs age 70
Ernst Wetter age 79
Hans Schaffner age 48
Hans Hürlimann age 38
Fritz Honegger age 39
Ludwig von Moos age 46
Leonel Mário d'Alva age 21
Sun Fo age 65
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 55
Ivy Dumont age 26
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü age 53
Faimalaga Luka age 16
Benedicto Kiwanuka age 34
Vasyl Durdynets age 19
Ati George Sokomanu age 20
John Bani age 15
Donald Kalpokas age 13
Phelekezela Mphoko age 16
Arístides Royo age 16
Juan Manuel Frutos age 77
Félix Paiva age 79
Ali Khalif Galaydh age 15
Chung Won-shik age 28
John Kotelawala age 59
Osman Hussein age 5
Mohamed Tahir Ayala age 5
Fausta Morganti age 12
Văn Tiến Dũng age 39
James Van Fleet age 64
Eugene Meyer age 81
Dick Thornburgh age 24
Richard Myers age 14
Robert B. Anderson age 46
David Steel age 18
Ahmed Jibril age 18
Otto von Knobelsdorff age 70
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch age 68
Vladimir Stoychev age 64
Shigeyoshi Inoue age 67
Radislav Krstić age 8
Fidel Dávila Arrondo age 78
Larbi Ben M'hidi age 34
Avraham Adan age 30
Atsuko Ikeda age 25
Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia age 50
Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia age 58
Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia age 53
Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia age 58
Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia age 49
Prince Nicholas Romanov age 34
Şehzade Osman Fuad age 61
Yi Un age 59
Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg age 77
Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg age 44
Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (1879–1962) age 77
Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria (1918–2007) age 38
Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (1922–1993) age 34
Archduchess Charlotte of Austria age 35
Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 38
James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife age 27
Andreas Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha age 13
Friedrich Wilhelm Prinz von Hohenzollern age 32
John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness age 1
Paul Cellucci age 8
Harry F. Byrd age 69
Nancy Hollister age 7
Bill Clements age 39
Winthrop Rockefeller age 44
Douglas Wilder age 25
Chuck Robb age 17
A. A. K. Niazi age 42