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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
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19

People

Karl Kobelt age 63
Willy Spühler age 53
Rudolf Minger age 73
Nello Celio age 40
Paul Chaudet age 50
Eduard von Steiger age 73
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen age 55
Hans Streuli age 62
Enrico Celio age 65
Khalid al-Azm age 60
Omar Ibrahim Ghalawanji age 1
Gabriel Costa age 1 month
Simon Chang age 7 months
Mao Chi-kuo age 6
Yu Shyi-kun age 6
Arthur Dion Hanna age 26
Estanislau da Silva age 2
Naim Talu age 35
Tomasi Puapua age 16
Willy Telavi age 12 months
Alberto Héber Usher age 36
Maxime Carlot Korman age 13
Joe Natuman age 2
Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované age 72
Raimundo Rolón age 51
Zenón Noriega Agüero age 54
Abdullahi Issa age 32
Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein age 44
Hasan Muratović age 14
Beatriz Merino age 7
Sebastiano Baggio age 41
Harry Hines Woodring age 67
Hiroshi Nakajima age 26
Griffin Bell age 36
Edwin Meese age 23
Frederick C. Weyand age 38
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 29
G. William Miller age 29
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 47
William B. Saxbe age 38
Gerhard von Schwerin age 55
Hugo Österman age 62
Keith Park age 62
Maximilian Fretter-Pico age 63
Donald A. Henderson age 26
Robert L. Eichelberger age 68
José Moscardó Ituarte age 76
Annibale Bergonzoli age 70
Ali Sayyad Shirazi age 10
Adnan Khairallah age 13
Setsuko, Princess Chichibu age 45
Prince Dimitri Romanov age 28
David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven age 35
Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid II) age 68
Sabiha Sultan age 60
Ahmad Nami age 82
Necla Sultan age 28
Şehzade Ali Vasib age 51
Harun Osman age 23
Hoàng Văn Thái age 39
Prince Sigismund of Prussia (born 1896) age 58
Archduchess Maria Henrietta of Austria age 72
Archduchess Isabella of Austria age 66
Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1875–1964) age 79
Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma age 45
Prince Konrad of Bavaria age 71
Princess Irina of Romania age 1
Angus Ogilvy age 26
Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern age 2
Francis Pym age 32
Hugh Dalton age 67
Maurice Strong age 25
Patrick Steptoe age 41
Ahmed Cevat Şakir Pasha
Clifford Dupont age 49
Jan Černý age 80
Jan Šrámek age 84
Abdullah bin Khalifa age 44
Ahmad al-Ghashmi age 13
Kingorō Hashimoto age 64
Lee Yuan-tsu age 31
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 49
Kastriot Islami age 2
Benyoucef Benkhedda age 34
Josep Pintat-Solans age 30
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury age 26
Muhammad Mansur Ali age 36
Tom Adams age 23
Pascal Koupaki age 3
Konstantin Muraviev age 61
Youssouf Ouédraogo age 2
Pen Sovan age 18
Long Boret age 22
Simon Achidi Achu age 20
André Nzapayeké age 3
Carlos Dávila age 67
Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde age 21
Zlatko Tomčić age 9
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 28
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez age 76
Daniel Ona Ondo age 9
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 20
Léon Mébiame age 20
Bessarion Gugushvili age 9
Dimitrios Kiousopoulos age 63
Petros Voulgaris age 71
Ioannis Theotokis age 74
Ioannis Paraskevopoulos age 54
Nicholas Brathwaite age 29
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León age 39
Eugène Camara age 13
Mohamed Béavogui age 1
Victor Saúde Maria age 15
Mamadu Ture Kuruma age 7
Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis age 54
Stenio Vincent age 80
Rosny Smarth age 14
Soekiman Wirjosandjojo age 57
Tahir Yahya age 39
Taha al-Hashimi age 67
Rachid Solh age 28
Alfred Naqqache age 66
Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush age 21
Gerard Batliner age 26
Django Sissoko age 7
Mandé Sidibé age 15
Yahya Ould Hademine age 1
Ba Mamadou Mbaré age 9
Cassam Uteem age 13
Kenos Aroi age 12
Ruben Kun age 12
Domingos Oliveira age 81
Arthur Văitoianu age 90
Milton Cato age 39
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 23
Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré age 3
Nathaniel Waena age 9
Roger Bonvin age 47
Ernst Brugger age 40
Markus Feldmann age 57
Rodolphe Rubattel age 58
Walther Stampfli age 70
Fawzi Selu age 50
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 14
Joaquim Rafael Branco age 1
Vincent Siew age 16
Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō age 3
Kamuta Latasi age 18
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas age 15
Shaya al-Zindani age 1
Kazimierz Świtalski age 68
Manuel María Ponce Brousset age 80
Hassan Abshir Farah age 9
Umar Arteh Ghalib age 25
Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini age 6 months
Ivo Miro Jović age 4
Yehude Simon age 7
Paik Sun-yup age 34
Xue Yue age 58
Halfdan T. Mahler age 31
Nam Il age 39
Nematollah Nassiri age 43
Renya Mutaguchi age 66
Daisy Bates age 40
Friedrich Schulz age 57
Blago Zadro age 10
Rudolf von Bünau age 64
P. C. Chang age 63
Marcel Maurice Bigeard age 38
Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai age 10
Alfredo Astiz age 3
Trần Văn Trà age 37
Mario Benjamín Menéndez age 24
Kazuko Takatsukasa age 25
Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia age 55
Behice Hanım age 72
Nevzad Hanım age 52
Şehzade Ömer Faruk age 56
Gastone Gambara age 64
Antoni Chruściel age 59
Valerian Frolov age 59
Hiro Saga age 40
Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1915–1980) age 39
Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria age 81
Archduchess Hedwig of Austria age 58
Princess Anna of Saxony (1903–1976) age 51
Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera age 68
Carol Lambrino age 35
Magda Lupescu age 59
Paul Philippe of Romania age 6
Hartley Shawcross age 53
Hugh Carey age 35
Preston Smith age 42
David Pryor age 20
Herman Talmadge age 41
Richard Codey age 8
Otis Bowen age 36
Bob Taft age 13
Hursid Pasha
İbrahim Hakkı Pasha