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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
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
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Mustafa Khalil age 35
Kamal Hassan Ali age 23
Konstantinos Logothetopoulos age 78
Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas age 63
Konstantinos Dovas age 57
Konstantinos Georgakopoulos age 65
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides age 66
Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero age 9
Lansana Kouyaté age 6
Hérard Abraham age 15
Élie Lescot age 72
Policarpo Paz García age 23
Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi age 18
Zaid al-Rifai age 19
Ahmad Obeidat age 17
Ali Abu al-Ragheb age 10
Abdul Majid Kubar age 47
Abdul Qadir al-Badri age 34
Muhammad Osman Said age 31
Adolfas Šleževičius age 8
Roger Kolo age 12
Jurelang Zedkaia age 6
Veerasamy Ringadoo age 35
Dharam Gokhool age 6
Mohamed Benhima age 32
Lagumot Harris age 17
Kinza Clodumar age 11
Derog Gioura age 23
Kennan Adeang age 13
Michael Hardie Boys age 24
Walter Nash age 74
Seyni Oumarou age 5
Alfonso Oiterong age 31
Alfred Raoul age 17
Jozef Moravčík age 11
Ezekiel Alebua age 9
Peter Kenilorea age 13
Willi Ritschard age 37
Karl Kobelt age 65
Willy Spühler age 54
Nello Celio age 42
Paul Chaudet age 51
Eduard von Steiger age 75
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen age 57
Hans Streuli age 64
Enrico Celio age 67
Khalid al-Azm age 61
Omar Ibrahim Ghalawanji age 2
Gabriel Costa age 1
Simon Chang age 2
Mao Chi-kuo age 7
Yu Shyi-kun age 8
Arthur Dion Hanna age 28
Estanislau da Silva age 3
Naim Talu age 37
Tomasi Puapua age 17
Willy Telavi age 2
Alberto Héber Usher age 38
Maxime Carlot Korman age 15
Joe Natuman age 3
Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované age 73
Raimundo Rolón age 53
Zenón Noriega Agüero age 56
Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein age 45
Hasan Muratović age 16
Beatriz Merino age 8
Sebastiano Baggio age 43
Harry Hines Woodring age 69
Hiroshi Nakajima age 28
Griffin Bell age 37
Edwin Meese age 24
Frederick C. Weyand age 39
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 30
G. William Miller age 31
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 48
William B. Saxbe age 40
Gerhard von Schwerin age 57
Hugo Österman age 63
Keith Park age 64
Maximilian Fretter-Pico age 64
Donald A. Henderson age 27
Robert L. Eichelberger age 70
Annibale Bergonzoli age 71
Ali Sayyad Shirazi age 12
Adnan Khairallah age 14
Setsuko, Princess Chichibu age 46
Prince Dimitri Romanov age 30
David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven age 37
Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid II) age 69
Sabiha Sultan age 62
Ahmad Nami age 83
Necla Sultan age 30
Şehzade Ali Vasib age 52
Harun Osman age 24
Hoàng Văn Thái age 41
Prince Sigismund of Prussia (born 1896) age 59
Archduchess Maria Henrietta of Austria age 73
Archduchess Isabella of Austria age 67
Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1875–1964) age 81
Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma age 46
Prince Konrad of Bavaria age 72
Princess Irina of Romania age 3
Angus Ogilvy age 27
Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern age 4
Francis Pym age 34
Hugh Dalton age 68
Maurice Strong age 27
Patrick Steptoe age 43
Ahmed Cevat Şakir Pasha
Kingorō Hashimoto age 66
Lee Yuan-tsu age 32
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 51
Kastriot Islami age 3
Benyoucef Benkhedda age 36
Josep Pintat-Solans age 31
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury age 27
Muhammad Mansur Ali age 37
Tom Adams age 24
Pascal Koupaki age 5
Konstantin Muraviev age 63
Youssouf Ouédraogo age 3
Pen Sovan age 20
Long Boret age 23
Simon Achidi Achu age 21
André Nzapayeké age 4
Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde age 22
Zlatko Tomčić age 11
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 30
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez age 77
Daniel Ona Ondo age 11
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 21
Léon Mébiame age 21
Bessarion Gugushvili age 11
Dimitrios Kiousopoulos age 64
Petros Voulgaris age 72
Ioannis Theotokis age 75
Ioannis Paraskevopoulos age 55
Nicholas Brathwaite age 31
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León age 41
Eugène Camara age 14
Mohamed Béavogui age 2
Victor Saúde Maria age 17
Mamadu Ture Kuruma age 9
Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis age 55
Stenio Vincent age 82
Rosny Smarth age 15
Soekiman Wirjosandjojo age 58
Tahir Yahya age 40
Taha al-Hashimi age 68
Rachid Solh age 30
Alfred Naqqache age 68
Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush age 22
Gerard Batliner age 27
Django Sissoko age 8
Mandé Sidibé age 16
Yahya Ould Hademine age 2
Ba Mamadou Mbaré age 10
Cassam Uteem age 15
Kenos Aroi age 14
Ruben Kun age 14
Domingos Oliveira age 83
Milton Cato age 41
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 25
Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré age 4
Predrag Marković age 7 months
Nathaniel Waena age 10
Roger Bonvin age 49
Ernst Brugger age 42
Rodolphe Rubattel age 59
Walther Stampfli age 71
Fawzi Selu age 51
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 15
Joaquim Rafael Branco age 2
Vincent Siew age 17
Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō age 4
Kamuta Latasi age 19
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas age 17
Abd al-Aziz ibn Habtour age 11 months
Shaya al-Zindani age 2
Kazimierz Świtalski age 70
Manuel María Ponce Brousset age 82
Hassan Abshir Farah age 11
Umar Arteh Ghalib age 26
Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini age 2
Ivo Miro Jović age 6
Yehude Simon age 9
Paik Sun-yup age 35
Xue Yue age 59
Halfdan T. Mahler age 33
Nam Il age 41
Nematollah Nassiri age 44
Renya Mutaguchi age 67
Daisy Bates age 41
Friedrich Schulz age 58
Blago Zadro age 12
Rudolf von Bünau age 65
P. C. Chang age 64
Marcel Maurice Bigeard age 40
Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai age 11
Alfredo Astiz age 4