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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
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 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

People

Bello Bouba Maigari age 12
Célestin Gaombalet age 17
Henri Maïdou age 23
Mohamed Ahmed age 42
Ahmed Abdou age 23
Mahmoud Fawzi age 59
Aziz Sedki age 39
Makhosini Dlamini age 45
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 14
Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge age 13
Ben Jones age 35
Luis Arturo González López age 59
Artur Silva age 3
Jean Marie Chérestal age 12
Wilopo age 50
Hikmat Sulayman age 70
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban age 59
Gilbert Aké age 4
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti age 10
Abdelhamid Sharaf age 20
Tursunbek Chyngyshev age 17
Andrei Iordan age 24
Shafik Wazzan age 34
Takieddin el-Solh age 51
Gustav Schädler age 76
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 28
Yoro Diakité age 27
Sghair Ould M'Bareck age 5
Dashiin Byambasüren age 17
David Beattie age 35
Aliou Mahamidou age 12
Hamid Algabid age 18
Mahamadou Danda age 8
Winston Cenac age 34
Monica Dacon age 25
Stanley John age 8
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 35
Dragan Maršićanin age 9
Vojislav Mihailović age 8
Janez Stanovnik age 37
Mahmoud Zuabi age 24
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 32
Tomé Vera Cruz age 6
Yahyo Azimov age 12
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 19
Gerald Cash age 42
Milo Butler age 53
Tulaga Manuella age 23
Barak Sopé age 4
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 63
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 71
Vincent Eri age 23
Osman Jama Ali age 18
Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle age 18
Hyun Soong-jong age 40
Fabio Berardi age 6 months
Héctor Valer age 10 months
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 25
Koffi Sama age 15
Shlomo Shamir age 44
Edward Almond age 67
Barber Conable age 37
Lewis Thompson Preston age 33
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 54
Dana Boente age 5
Gordon R. Sullivan age 22
George Scratchley Brown age 41
John Wesley Snyder age 64
Robert Carr age 43
Naoki Hoshino age 67
Mokdad Sifi age 19
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 63
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 50
Fazlul Haque age 21
Pascal-Firmin Ndimira age 3
Huy Kanthoul age 50
Leng Ngeth age 59
Anicet-Georges Dologuélé age 2
Combo Ayouba age 6
Gonzalo Güell age 64
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 59
Edison James age 16
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 38
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 63
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 40
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 20
Maphevu Dlamini age 37
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 42
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 65
Lamine Sidimé age 15
Caetano N'Tchama age 4
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum age 32
Muzahim Pachachi age 69
Mohsen Abdel Hamid age 22
Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai age 18
Kenneth Blackburne age 52
Abdelmunim al-Rifai age 42
Ahmad Toukan age 56
Ahmad Lawzi age 34
Amangeldy Muraliyev age 12
Hyppolite Ramaroson age 8
Mamadou Dembelé age 25
Puntsagiin Jasrai age 26
Radoje Kontić age 22
Ali Badjo Gamatié age 2
Amadou Cissé age 11
Charles David Ganao age 32
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 43
Charles Antrobus age 26
Peter Colotka age 34
Raul Bragança Neto age 20
Yu Kuo-hwa age 45
Tomu Sione age 18
Carlos Fischer age 56
Daniel Fernández Crespo age 58
Eduardo Víctor Haedo age 58
Philip Boedoro age 1
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 27
Daniel Lisulo age 29
Malimba Masheke age 18
Kebby Musokotwane age 13
Ignatius Kilage age 18
Silas Atopare age 8
Muhammad Hawadle Madar age 20
Abdiwahid Elmi Gonjeh age 9
Yoon Jeung-hyun age 13
Ro Jai-bong age 23
Pak Choong-hoon age 40
Assunta Meloni age 8
Javier Valle Riestra age 27
Alden W. Clausen age 36
Peter de la Billière age 25
Edward H. Levi age 48
Gwilym Lloyd George age 65
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 46
Anthony Barber age 39
Bernard W. Rogers age 38
David C. Jones age 38
Peter Thorneycroft age 50
William J. Crowe age 34
Roj Shaweis age 12
James P. McGranery age 64
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 25
Merlyn Rees age 39
Clarence M. Kelley age 48
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 72
Mohammad Yusuf age 42
Fazal khaliq age 25
John Montague Stow age 48
Lhendup Dorji age 24
André Muhirwa age 39
Joseph Bamina age 34
Khim Tit age 63
Ek Yi Oun age 49
Sak Sutsakhan age 31
Luc Ayang age 12
Édouard Frank age 25
Jean-Paul Ngoupandé age 1
Timothée Malendoma age 24
Said Atthoumani age 9
Abbas Djoussouf age 17
Nourdine Bourhane age 9
Ramón Zaydín age 64
Rosie Douglas age 18
Makonnen Endelkachew age 69
Naji Shawkat age 66
Edward Zacca age 28
Kassim al-Rimawi age 41
Mohammad Daoud al-Abbasi age 46
Nazem Akkari age 57
Guy Razanamasy age 31
Younoussi Touré age 18
Ahmed Ould Bouceif age 25
Mircea Druc age 18
Mamane Oumarou age 14
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki age 8
Ksente Bogoev age 40
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 70
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 6
Vaughan Lewis age 19
Michael Pilgrim age 12
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 37
Johan Adolf Pengel age 43
Izzat al-Nuss age 47
Nasuhi al-Bukhari age 79
Lutfi al-Haffar age 72
Weng Wenhao age 70
Yu Hung-chun age 61
Qadriddin Aslonov age 12
Arturo Lezama age 60
Faustino Harrison age 59
Mainza Chona age 29
John Guise age 45
Kingsford Dibela age 27
Sam Abal age 1
Antonio Carattoni age 14
Gabriele Gatti age 6
Glauco Sansovini age 21
Giovanni Francesco Ugolini age 6
Beriz Belkić age 13