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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12

People

Taha al-Hashimi age 65
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 61
Rachid Solh age 26
Alfred Naqqache age 65
Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush age 19
Gerard Batliner age 24
Django Sissoko age 5
Mandé Sidibé age 13
Ba Mamadou Mbaré age 7
Cassam Uteem age 12
Kenos Aroi age 11
Ruben Kun age 11
Domingos Oliveira age 79
Arthur Văitoianu age 89
Milton Cato age 37
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 22
Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré age 1
Nathaniel Waena age 7
Roger Bonvin age 45
Ernst Brugger age 39
Markus Feldmann age 56
Rodolphe Rubattel age 56
Walther Stampfli age 68
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 12
Vincent Siew age 14
Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō age 1
Kamuta Latasi age 16
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas age 14
Kazimierz Świtalski age 67
Manuel María Ponce Brousset age 79
Hassan Abshir Farah age 7
Umar Arteh Ghalib age 23
Ivo Miro Jović age 2
Yehude Simon age 5
Paik Sun-yup age 32
Xue Yue age 56
Halfdan T. Mahler age 30
Nam Il age 37
Nematollah Nassiri age 41
Renya Mutaguchi age 64
Daisy Bates age 38
Friedrich Schulz age 55
Blago Zadro age 9
Rudolf von Bünau age 62
P. C. Chang age 61
Marcel Maurice Bigeard age 37
Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai age 8
Alfredo Astiz age 1
Trần Văn Trà age 35
Mario Benjamín Menéndez age 23
Kazuko Takatsukasa age 23
Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia age 53
Behice Hanım age 70
Nevzad Hanım age 51
Şehzade Ömer Faruk age 55
Gastone Gambara age 62
Antoni Chruściel age 57
Valerian Frolov age 58
Wenxiu age 43
Hiro Saga age 39
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse-Kassel age 92
Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1915–1980) age 38
Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria age 79
Archduchess Hedwig of Austria age 56
Princess Anna of Saxony (1903–1976) age 50
Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera age 66
Carol Lambrino age 33
Magda Lupescu age 57
Paul Philippe of Romania age 4
Hartley Shawcross age 51
Hugh Carey age 34
Preston Smith age 41
David Pryor age 18
Richard Codey age 6
Otis Bowen age 35
Bob Taft age 11
Hursid Pasha
İbrahim Hakkı Pasha
Hubert Gough age 82
Sun Yun-suan age 39
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 45
Archibald Cox age 41
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 68
Skënder Gjinushi age 3
Qasdi Mirbah age 15
Sayyid Ahmed Ghazali age 16
Ahmed ibn Bitour age 6
Mulud Hamroush age 10
Zelman Cowen age 33
Richard Casey, Baron Casey age 62
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad age 13
Joseph Conombo age 36
Pié Masumbuko age 21
Sisowath Monireth age 43
Sadou Hayatou age 11
Peter Mafany Musonge age 10
Alfredo González Flores age 75
Koyagialo Ngbase te Gerengo Louis Alphonse age 6
Ahmed Dini Ahmed age 23
Patrick John age 15
Federico Páez age 77
Aly Maher Pasha age 71
Jorge Meléndez Ramírez age 82
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 12
Jona Senilagakali age 23
Tevita Momoedonu age 7
Stilianos Mavromichalis age 54
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau age 43
Franck Lavaud age 50
Franck Sylvain age 43
Yvon Neptune age 6
Smarck Michel age 16
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 22
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 42
Burhanuddin Harahap age 36
Naji Talib age 35
Ezzedine Salim age 10
Husayn al-Khalidi age 58
David D. Kpormakpor age 17
Abuzed Omar Dorda age 9
Mohieddin Fikini age 28
Walter Kieber age 22
Barlen Vyapoory age 8
Karl Offmann age 12
Veselin Đuranović age 28
Ahmed Balafrej age 45
Maung Maung age 28
Win Maung age 37
René Schick age 43
Ljupčo Jordanovski age 3 months
Domingos Leite Pereira age 70
Henri Lopès age 15
Kennedy Simmonds age 17
Moustapha Niasse age 13
Thomas Holenstein age 57
Faris al-Khoury age 75
İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil age 45
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 41
Ionatana Ionatana age 14
Mekere Morauta age 6
Cesar Virata age 22
Wijeyananda Dahanayake age 50
Bakri Hassan Saleh age 4
Gianfranco Terenzi age 12
Salomón Lerner Ghitis age 7
Oscar Valdés age 4
Carlos Ferrero age 12
Yawovi Agboyibo age 9
Du Yuming age 48
Su Yu age 45
William E. Simon age 25
Nathan F. Twining age 55
Richard Kleindienst age 29
J. Howard McGrath age 49
Liu Huaqing age 37
Vivian Malone Jones age 10
Tikka Khan age 37
Jorge Anaya age 26
Zvonimir Červenko age 26
Života Panić age 19
Lucian Truscott age 58
Toshizō Nishio age 71
Ahmad Ismail Ali age 35
Moshe Carmel age 42
Sandy Woodward age 21
Halvard Lange age 50
Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia age 51
Şadiye Sultan age 66
Ulviye Sultan age 60
Şehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz age 51
Hanzade Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 29
Ronald Scobie age 59
Prince Karl Franz of Prussia age 36
Archduke Albrecht Franz, Duke of Teschen age 55
Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 59
Karl August, 10th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 54
Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria age 58
Princess Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 54
Lady May Abel Smith age 47
Archduke Anton of Austria age 52
Leonida Bagration of Mukhrani age 38
Peter, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein age 31
Princess Claude of Orléans age 9
Erling Lorentzen age 30
Christoph of Schleswig-Holstein age 3
Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington age 7
Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield age 36
Thomas Kean age 18
Goodwin Knight age 56
Price Daniel age 42
Don Sundquist age 17
Charles Edison age 62
George Busbee age 25
Orval Faubus age 43
Brendan Byrne age 29
Jagjit Singh Aurora age 37
Mütercim Mehmed Rüşdi Pasha
Tunuslu Hayreddin Pasha
Avlonyalı Mehmed Ferid Pasha
Abe Fortas age 42