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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
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
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

People

Paul Boffa age 69
Mustafa Ould Salek age 24
Mohammed Ben Aarafa age 74
Mário da Graça Machungo age 19
Adriano Maleiane age 10
Norman Kirk age 37
Hong Song-nam age 30
Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani age 1
Isidore Mvouba age 6
Alexandru Athanasiu age 5
Jean Kambanda age 4
Marcella Liburd age 6
Ján Čarnogurský age 16
Josip Vidmar age 64
Johan Kraag age 46
Alphons Egli age 35
Leon Schlumpf age 34
Rashidi Kawawa age 33
Hédi Baccouche age 30
Sadi Irmak age 55
Filoimea Telito age 14
Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 62
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 20
Harmodio Arias Madrid age 73
Natalicio González age 62
Rafael Franco age 63
Abdirizak Haji Hussein age 35
Lee Beom-seok age 59
Babiker Awadalla age 42
César Villanueva age 13
Rosario Fernández age 4
Xu Xiangqian age 58
Donald Regan age 41
Raymond T. Odierno age 5
Nicholas F. Brady age 29
Otozō Yamada age 78
Nebojša Pavković age 13
Thomas Cassin Kinkaid age 71
Saad el-Shazly age 37
Gholam Ali Rasheed age 6
Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu age 55
Takako Shimazu age 20
Dündar Ali Osman age 29
Luo Ronghuan age 57
Chiang Wei-kuo age 43
Franz Wilhelm Prinz von Preussen age 16
Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria age 42
Archduke Felix of Austria age 43
Song Hye-rim age 21
Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 62
Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse age 33
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood age 36
Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein age 68
Marianne Bernadotte age 35
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 59
Patrick McLoughlin age 2
Herbert H. Lehman age 81
Džemal Bijedić age 42
Branko Mikulić age 31
Zeng Qinghong age 20
Rong Yiren age 43
Nicholas Katzenbach age 38
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 51
Ibrahim Biçakçiu age 54
Redha Malek age 28
Abdelmalek Benhabyles age 38
Lúcio Lara age 30
Mohammad Mohammadullah age 38
Elliott Belgrave age 28
Mikhail Chyhir age 11
Syarhei Linh age 22
Celso Torrelio age 26
Alberto Natusch age 26
David Toro age 61
Lyuben Berov age 34
Prince Louis Rwagasore of Burundi age 28
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 38
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 60
Franjo Gregurić age 20
Hrvoje Šarinić age 24
Carlos Manuel Piedra age 65
Joseph Iléo age 38
Eliud Williams age 11
Antonio Imbert Barrera age 39
Atef Sedki age 29
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 24
Álvaro Magaña age 34
Mahendra Chaudhry age 17
Nii Amaa Ollennu age 53
Konstantinos Kollias age 59
Panagiotis Pipinelis age 60
Eric Gairy age 37
Kabiné Komara age 9
Cellou Dalein Diallo age 7
Evans Paul age 4
Jean-Jacques Honorat age 28
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 72
Ali Sastroamidjojo age 56
Sa'dun Hammadi age 29
Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio age 8
Howard Cooke age 44
Zeid bin Shaker age 25
Ieremia Tabai age 10
Ishenbai Kadyrbekov age 10
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 31
Augusts Kirhenšteins age 87
Valdis Birkavs age 17
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi age 20
George Borg Olivier age 48
Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar age 2
Ahmed Bahnini age 51
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 40
Maati Bouabid age 32
Ahmed Osman age 30
Khin Nyunt age 20
San Yu age 41
Sao Shwe Thaik age 63
Geoffrey Palmer age 17
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 88
Ngiratkel Etpison age 34
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 54
Edmund Lawrence age 27
Nikola Šainović age 11
Dragan Tomić age 24
Östen Undén age 73
Rudolf Gnägi age 42
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 46
Pierre Aubert age 32
Georges-André Chevallaz age 44
Pierre Graber age 51
Ahmad al-Khatib age 27
Sean Chen age 10
Chang Chun-hsiung age 21
Cynthia A. Pratt age 14
Ellis Clarke age 42
Noor Hassanali age 41
Bahi Ladgham age 47
Hamed Karoui age 32
Ali Bozer age 34
Hasan Saka age 75
Toaripi Lauti age 31
Saufatu Sopoanga age 7
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 12
Pedro Carmona age 18
Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher age 7
Tomás Romero Pereira age 73
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 54
Mohamed Osman Jawari age 14
Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe age 3
Lee Wan-koo age 9
Lee Hong-koo age 25
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 49
Zlatko Lagumdžija age 4
Valeria Ciavatta age 1
Pedro Cateriano age 1
Aníbal Torres age 17
Rosalio Lara age 37
Fawzi al-Qawuqji age 70
C. Douglas Dillon age 50
Louis A. Johnson age 69
Asaka Yasuhiko age 72
Mustafa Tlass age 27
Sefer Halilović age 8
Gojko Šušak age 14
Mile Mrkšić age 12
Krim Belkacem age 37
Jacques Massu age 51
Shigeko Higashikuni age 34
Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu age 48
Princess Tomohito of Mikasa age 4
Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia age 70
Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia age 58
Şükriye Sultan age 53
Bayezid Osman age 35
Nilufer Hanımsultan age 44
Richmond K. Turner age 74
Chiang Fang-liang age 43
Prince Wolfgang of Hesse age 63
Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919–2010) age 40
Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine age 51
Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 53
Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma age 35
Princess Margarita of Baden age 27
Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern age 27
Katherine Karađorđević age 16
David Lidington age 3
Mark White age 19
John W. Bricker age 66
Bob Ehrlich age 2
Zoran Lilić age 6
James G. Stavridis age 4
Philip M. Breedlove age 4
Byron White age 42
Pjetër Arbnori age 25
Rexhep Mitrovica age 72
Belaid Abdesselam age 31
Ismail Hamdani age 29
Lopo do Nascimento age 19
Yaqub Mammadov age 18
Surat Huseynov age 11 months