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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
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
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01

People

Thomas Cassin Kinkaid age 71
Saad el-Shazly age 37
Gholam Ali Rasheed age 5
Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu age 54
Takako Shimazu age 20
Dündar Ali Osman age 28
Luo Ronghuan age 56
Chiang Wei-kuo age 42
Franz Wilhelm Prinz von Preussen age 15
Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria age 41
Archduke Felix of Austria age 42
Song Hye-rim age 20
Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 62
Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse age 32
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood age 36
Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein age 67
Marianne Bernadotte age 34
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 59
Patrick McLoughlin age 1
Herbert H. Lehman age 81
Džemal Bijedić age 42
Branko Mikulić age 30
Zeng Qinghong age 19
Rong Yiren age 43
Nicholas Katzenbach age 37
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 50
Ibrahim Biçakçiu age 53
Redha Malek age 27
Abdelmalek Benhabyles age 38
Lúcio Lara age 30
Mohammad Mohammadullah age 37
Elliott Belgrave age 28
Mikhail Chyhir age 10
Syarhei Linh age 22
Celso Torrelio age 25
Alberto Natusch age 25
David Toro age 60
Lyuben Berov age 33
Prince Louis Rwagasore of Burundi age 27
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 37
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 59
Franjo Gregurić age 19
Hrvoje Šarinić age 24
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 17
Nii Amaa Ollennu age 53
Konstantinos Kollias age 58
Panagiotis Pipinelis age 60
Eric Gairy age 37
Kabiné Komara age 9
Cellou Dalein Diallo age 7
Evans Paul age 3
Jean-Jacques Honorat age 28
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 71
Ali Sastroamidjojo age 56
Sa'dun Hammadi age 28
Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio age 8
Howard Cooke age 43
Zeid bin Shaker age 24
Ieremia Tabai age 9
Ishenbai Kadyrbekov age 9
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 31
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 50
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 40
Maati Bouabid age 31
Ahmed Osman age 29
Khin Nyunt age 19
San Yu age 41
Sao Shwe Thaik age 62
Geoffrey Palmer age 17
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 88
Ngiratkel Etpison age 34
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 54
Ion Gigurtu age 72
Edmund Lawrence age 27
Nikola Šainović age 10
Dragan Tomić age 23
Östen Undén age 72
Rudolf Gnägi age 41
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 45
Pierre Aubert age 32
Georges-André Chevallaz age 44
Pierre Graber age 50
Ahmad al-Khatib age 26
Jamil Mardam Bey age 66
Sean Chen age 9
Chang Chun-hsiung age 21
Cynthia A. Pratt age 13
Ellis Clarke age 41
Noor Hassanali age 40
Bahi Ladgham age 46
Hamed Karoui age 31
Ali Bozer age 33
Hasan Saka age 74
Toaripi Lauti age 30
Saufatu Sopoanga age 7
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 12
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 3
Lee Wan-koo age 8
Lee Hong-koo age 25
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 48
Zlatko Lagumdžija age 3
Valeria Ciavatta age 3 months
Pedro Cateriano age 10 months
Aníbal Torres age 16
Rosalio Lara age 36
Fawzi al-Qawuqji age 69
C. Douglas Dillon age 49
Louis A. Johnson age 68
Asaka Yasuhiko age 71
Mustafa Tlass age 27
Sefer Halilović age 7
Gojko Šušak age 14
Mile Mrkšić age 11
Krim Belkacem age 36
Jacques Massu age 51
Shigeko Higashikuni age 33
Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu age 47
Princess Tomohito of Mikasa age 4
Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia age 69
Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia age 57
Şükriye Sultan age 53
Bayezid Osman age 34
Nilufer Hanımsultan age 43
Richmond K. Turner age 73
Chiang Fang-liang age 43
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 35
Princess Margarita of Baden age 26
Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern age 26
Katherine Karađorđević age 15
David Lidington age 2
Mark White age 19
John W. Bricker age 65
Bob Ehrlich age 1
Zoran Lilić age 5
James G. Stavridis age 4
Philip M. Breedlove age 3
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 53
Byron White age 41
Pjetër Arbnori age 24
Rexhep Mitrovica age 71
Belaid Abdesselam age 30
Ismail Hamdani age 29
Lopo do Nascimento age 18
Yaqub Mammadov age 18
Surat Huseynov age 2 months
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 43
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 27
Aloys Van de Vyvere age 87
Adrien Houngbédji age 17
Lionel Zinsou age 4
Yeshey Zimba age 8
Néstor Guillén age 69
Carlos Quintanilla age 71
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 75
François Ngeze age 6
Simplice Sarandji age 4
Djimrangar Dadnadji age 5
Kalzeubet Pahimi Deubet age 2
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 41
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 23
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 52
Ali Sabri age 38
Ilias Tsirimokos age 52
Panagiotis Poulitsas age 77
Alexandros Othonaios age 80
Jean-Marie Doré age 20
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 8
Prosper Avril age 21
Marc Bazin age 27
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 56
Donald Sangster age 47
Kenneth O. Hall age 18
Norman Manley age 65
Teatao Teannaki age 23
Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah age 6
Vilis Krištopans age 4
Andris Šķēle age 1
Ernestas Galvanauskas age 76
Laurynas Stankevičius age 23