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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
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25

People

Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 53
William B. Saxbe age 44
Francis Pym age 38
Hugh Dalton age 73
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 55
Kastriot Islami age 8
Benyoucef Benkhedda age 40
Sabri Boukadoum age 2
Josep Pintat-Solans age 35
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury age 32
Muhammad Mansur Ali age 41
Tom Adams age 29
Pascal Koupaki age 9
Konstantin Muraviev age 67
Youssouf Ouédraogo age 7
Pen Sovan age 24
Long Boret age 27
Simon Achidi Achu age 25
André Nzapayeké age 9
Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde age 26
Zlatko Tomčić age 15
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 34
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez age 81
Daniel Ona Ondo age 15
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 25
Léon Mébiame age 26
Bessarion Gugushvili age 15
Dimitrios Kiousopoulos age 68
Ioannis Theotokis age 80
Ioannis Paraskevopoulos age 59
Nicholas Brathwaite age 35
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León age 45
Eugène Camara age 18
Mohamed Béavogui age 7
Victor Saúde Maria age 21
Mamadu Ture Kuruma age 13
Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis age 60
Enex Jean-Charles age 3 months
Rosny Smarth age 20
Soekiman Wirjosandjojo age 62
Tahir Yahya age 44
Taha al-Hashimi age 72
Rachid Solh age 34
Alfred Naqqache age 72
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 58
Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush age 27
Gerard Batliner age 31
Django Sissoko age 12
Mandé Sidibé age 20
Yahya Ould Hademine age 6
Ba Mamadou Mbaré age 14
Cassam Uteem age 19
Kenos Aroi age 18
Ruben Kun age 18
Sidney Holland age 67
Milton Cato age 45
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 29
Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye age 2
Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré age 8
Predrag Marković age 4
Nathaniel Waena age 14
Rick Hou age 2
Roger Bonvin age 53
Ernst Brugger age 46
Rodolphe Rubattel age 64
Walther Stampfli age 75
Fawzi Selu age 55
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 19
Joaquim Rafael Branco age 7
Vincent Siew age 21
Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō age 8
Kamuta Latasi age 24
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas age 21
Abd al-Aziz ibn Habtour age 5
Kazimierz Świtalski age 74
Manuel María Ponce Brousset age 86
Hassan Abshir Farah age 15
Umar Arteh Ghalib age 30
Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed age 2
Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini age 6
Mirko Šarović age 4
Ivo Miro Jović age 10
Yehude Simon age 13
Walter Martos age 3
Paik Sun-yup age 39
Xue Yue age 63
Halfdan T. Mahler age 37
Thomas A. Shannon Jr. age 2
Hartley Shawcross age 58
Hugh Carey age 41
Preston Smith age 48
David Pryor age 26
Herman Talmadge age 47
Richard Codey age 13
Otis Bowen age 42
Bob Taft age 18
Hubert Gough age 90
Sun Yun-suan age 46
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 53
Archibald Cox age 48
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 56
Skënder Gjinushi age 10
Qasdi Mirbah age 22
Sayyid Ahmed Ghazali age 23
Ahmed ibn Bitour age 14
Mulud Hamroush age 17
Zelman Cowen age 41
Richard Casey, Baron Casey age 70
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad age 20
Joseph Conombo age 43
Pié Masumbuko age 29
Sisowath Monireth age 50
Sadou Hayatou age 18
Peter Mafany Musonge age 17
Martin Ziguélé age 3
Alfredo González Flores age 83
Koyagialo Ngbase te Gerengo Louis Alphonse age 13
Ahmed Dini Ahmed age 30
Patrick John age 22
Pierre Charles age 6
Federico Páez age 84
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 20
Jona Senilagakali age 30
Tevita Momoedonu age 14
Stilianos Mavromichalis age 61
Faustino Imbali age 4
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau age 50
Franck Lavaud age 57
Franck Sylvain age 51
Yvon Neptune age 13
Smarck Michel age 23
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 30
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 49
Burhanuddin Harahap age 43
Naji Talib age 43
Ezzedine Salim age 17
Husayn al-Khalidi age 66
David D. Kpormakpor age 25
Abuzed Omar Dorda age 16
Mohieddin Fikini age 35
Walter Kieber age 29
Eugenijus Gentvilas age 7 months
Barlen Vyapoory age 15
Karl Offmann age 19
Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa age 2
Veselin Đuranović age 35
Ahmed Balafrej age 52
Maung Maung age 35
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 67
René Schick age 50
Ljupčo Jordanovski age 7
Henri Lopès age 23
Kennedy Simmonds age 24
Moustapha Niasse age 20
Thomas Holenstein age 64
Faris al-Khoury age 82
İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil age 52
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 49
Ionatana Ionatana age 21
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 4
Mekere Morauta age 14
Cesar Virata age 29
Wijeyananda Dahanayake age 58
Bakri Hassan Saleh age 11
Gianfranco Terenzi age 19
José Antonio Chang age 2
Salomón Lerner Ghitis age 14
Oscar Valdés age 11
Carlos Ferrero age 19
Yawovi Agboyibo age 16
Du Yuming age 55
Su Yu age 53
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 60
William E. Simon age 32
Nathan F. Twining age 63
Richard Kleindienst age 37
J. Howard McGrath age 56
Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield age 44
Thomas Kean age 25
Goodwin Knight age 63
Don Sundquist age 24
Charles Edison age 70
George Busbee age 33
Brendan Byrne age 36
Abe Fortas age 50
Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal age 39
Paul Hasluck age 55
Shah Azizur Rahman age 34
Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo age 6
Chan Sy age 28
In Tam age 38
Bartolomé Blanche age 81
Caabi El-Yachroutu Mohamed age 10
Abdallah Mohamed Kamil age 24
Arturo Araujo age 82
Jean-Hilaire Aubame age 47
Diarra Traoré age 25
Alamara Nhassé age 3
Francisco Fadul age 6
Manuel Saturnino da Costa age 17