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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
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06

People

Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 58
Patrick McLoughlin age 1
Herbert H. Lehman age 80
Džemal Bijedić age 41
Branko Mikulić age 30
Zeng Qinghong age 19
Rong Yiren age 42
Nicholas Katzenbach age 36
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 50
Ibrahim Biçakçiu age 53
Redha Malek age 27
Abdelmalek Benhabyles age 37
Lúcio Lara age 29
Mohammad Mohammadullah age 37
Elliott Belgrave age 27
Mikhail Chyhir age 10
Syarhei Linh age 21
Celso Torrelio age 25
Alberto Natusch age 25
David Toro age 60
Lyuben Berov age 33
Prince Louis Rwagasore of Burundi age 26
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 37
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 58
Franjo Gregurić age 19
Hrvoje Šarinić age 23
Carlos Manuel Piedra age 64
Joseph Iléo age 37
Eliud Williams age 10
Antonio Imbert Barrera age 38
Atef Sedki age 28
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 23
Álvaro Magaña age 33
Mahendra Chaudhry age 16
Nii Amaa Ollennu age 52
Konstantinos Kollias age 58
Panagiotis Pipinelis age 59
Eric Gairy age 36
Kabiné Komara age 8
Cellou Dalein Diallo age 6
Evans Paul age 3
Jean-Jacques Honorat age 27
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 71
Ali Sastroamidjojo age 55
Sa'dun Hammadi age 28
Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio age 7
Howard Cooke age 43
Zeid bin Shaker age 24
Ieremia Tabai age 9
Ishenbai Kadyrbekov age 9
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 30
Augusts Kirhenšteins age 86
Valdis Birkavs age 16
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi age 19
George Borg Olivier age 47
Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar age 1
Ahmed Bahnini age 49
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 39
Maati Bouabid age 31
Ahmed Osman age 28
Khin Nyunt age 19
San Yu age 40
Sao Shwe Thaik age 62
Geoffrey Palmer age 16
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 87
Ngiratkel Etpison age 33
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 53
Ion Gigurtu age 72
Edmund Lawrence age 26
Nikola Šainović age 10
Dragan Tomić age 23
Östen Undén age 72
Rudolf Gnägi age 41
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 45
Pierre Aubert age 31
Georges-André Chevallaz age 43
Pierre Graber age 50
Ahmad al-Khatib age 25
Jamil Mardam Bey age 66
Sean Chen age 9
Chang Chun-hsiung age 20
Cynthia A. Pratt age 13
Ellis Clarke age 41
Noor Hassanali age 40
Bahi Ladgham age 45
Hamed Karoui age 30
Ali Bozer age 33
Hasan Saka age 74
Toaripi Lauti age 30
Saufatu Sopoanga age 6
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 11
Pedro Carmona age 17
Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher age 6
Tomás Romero Pereira age 72
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 53
Mohamed Osman Jawari age 13
Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe age 2
Lee Wan-koo age 8
Lee Hong-koo age 24
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 48
Zlatko Lagumdžija age 2
Pedro Cateriano age 5 months
Aníbal Torres age 15
Rosalio Lara age 36
Fawzi al-Qawuqji age 68
C. Douglas Dillon age 49
Louis A. Johnson age 67
Asaka Yasuhiko age 71
Mustafa Tlass age 26
Sefer Halilović age 6
Gojko Šušak age 13
Mile Mrkšić age 11
Krim Belkacem age 36
Jacques Massu age 50
Shigeko Higashikuni age 33
Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu age 47
Princess Tomohito of Mikasa age 3
Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia age 68
Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia age 57
Şükriye Sultan age 52
Bayezid Osman age 34
Nilufer Hanımsultan age 42
Richmond K. Turner age 73
Chiang Fang-liang age 42
Prince Wolfgang of Hesse age 62
Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919–2010) age 39
Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine age 50
Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 52
Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma age 34
Princess Margarita of Baden age 26
Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern age 26
Katherine Karađorđević age 15
David Lidington age 2
Mark White age 18
John W. Bricker age 65
Bob Ehrlich age 1
Zoran Lilić age 5
James G. Stavridis age 3
Philip M. Breedlove age 3
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 52
Byron White age 41
Pjetër Arbnori age 23
Rexhep Mitrovica age 70
Belaid Abdesselam age 30
Ismail Hamdani age 28
Lopo do Nascimento age 18
Yaqub Mammadov age 17
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 43
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 27
Aloys Van de Vyvere age 87
Adrien Houngbédji age 16
Lionel Zinsou age 4
Yeshey Zimba age 8
Néstor Guillén age 68
Carlos Quintanilla age 70
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 74
François Ngeze age 5
Simplice Sarandji age 3
Djimrangar Dadnadji age 4
Kalzeubet Pahimi Deubet age 1
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 40
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 22
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 51
Ali Sabri age 38
Ilias Tsirimokos age 51
Panagiotis Poulitsas age 77
Alexandros Othonaios age 80
Jean-Marie Doré age 20
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 7
Prosper Avril age 21
Marc Bazin age 26
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 55
Donald Sangster age 47
Kenneth O. Hall age 17
Norman Manley age 65
Teatao Teannaki age 22
Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah age 6
Vilis Krištopans age 4
Andris Šķēle age 11 months
Ernestas Galvanauskas age 76
Laurynas Stankevičius age 23
Émile Reuter age 84
Gilles Andriamahazo age 39
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga age 13
Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf age 1
Paul Bérenger age 13
Sanjaagiin Bayar age 2
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 46
Bill Rowling age 31
Lazarus Salii age 22
Faustin Twagiramungu age 13
Stephenson King age 1 month
Sergej Kraigher age 44
Danny Philip age 5
Snyder Rini age 10
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 22
Ernst Wetter age 81
Hans Schaffner age 50
Hans Hürlimann age 40
Fritz Honegger age 41