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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
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

Rudolf Gnägi age 44
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 47
Pierre Aubert age 34
Georges-André Chevallaz age 46
Pierre Graber age 52
Ahmad al-Khatib age 28
Sean Chen age 11
Jiang Yi-huah age 9 months
Chang Chun-hsiung age 23
Cynthia A. Pratt age 15
Ellis Clarke age 43
Noor Hassanali age 43
Bahi Ladgham age 48
Hamed Karoui age 33
Ali Bozer age 36
Toaripi Lauti age 32
Saufatu Sopoanga age 9
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 14
Pedro Carmona age 20
Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher age 8
Tomás Romero Pereira age 74
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 56
Mohamed Osman Jawari age 15
Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe age 5
Lee Wan-koo age 11
Lee Hong-koo age 27
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 51
Zlatko Lagumdžija age 5
Valeria Ciavatta age 2
Pedro Cateriano age 3
Aníbal Torres age 18
Javier Velásquez age 1
Gilbert Houngbo age 6 months
Rosalio Lara age 38
Fawzi al-Qawuqji age 71
Louis A. Johnson age 70
Asaka Yasuhiko age 73
Mustafa Tlass age 29
Sefer Halilović age 9
Gojko Šušak age 16
Mile Mrkšić age 14
Krim Belkacem age 38
Jacques Massu age 53
Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu age 49
Princess Tomohito of Mikasa age 6
Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia age 71
Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia age 60
Şükriye Sultan age 55
Bayezid Osman age 37
Nilufer Hanımsultan age 45
Chiang Fang-liang age 45
Prince Wolfgang of Hesse age 64
Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919–2010) age 41
Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine age 52
Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 55
Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma age 37
Princess Margarita of Baden age 29
Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern age 29
Katherine Karađorđević age 17
David Lidington age 5
Mark White age 21
John W. Bricker age 68
Bob Ehrlich age 3
Zoran Lilić age 7
James G. Stavridis age 6
Philip M. Breedlove age 5
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 55
Pjetër Arbnori age 26
Rexhep Mitrovica age 73
Belaid Abdesselam age 33
Ismail Hamdani age 31
Lopo do Nascimento age 21
Yaqub Mammadov age 20
Surat Huseynov age 2
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 46
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 29
Aloys Van de Vyvere age 90
Adrien Houngbédji age 19
Lionel Zinsou age 6
Yeshey Zimba age 10
Néstor Guillén age 71
Carlos Quintanilla age 73
François Ngeze age 8
Simplice Sarandji age 6
Djimrangar Dadnadji age 7
Kalzeubet Pahimi Deubet age 4
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 43
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 25
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 54
Ali Sabri age 41
Miguel Abia Biteo age 7 months
Ilias Tsirimokos age 54
Panagiotis Poulitsas age 79
Alexandros Othonaios age 82
Jean-Marie Doré age 23
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 10
Prosper Avril age 23
Marc Bazin age 29
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 58
Djuanda Kartawidjaja age 50
Donald Sangster age 49
Kenneth O. Hall age 20
Teatao Teannaki age 25
Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah age 8
Vilis Krištopans age 7
Andris Šķēle age 3
Ernestas Galvanauskas age 78
Laurynas Stankevičius age 26
Émile Reuter age 87
Gilles Andriamahazo age 42
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga age 15
Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf age 3
Paul Bérenger age 16
Ion Sturza age 1
Sanjaagiin Bayar age 5
Abdallah Ibrahim age 43
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 49
Bill Rowling age 33
Lazarus Salii age 24
Faustin Twagiramungu age 16
Stephenson King age 2
Amadou Ba age 3 months
Sergej Kraigher age 47
Danny Philip age 8
Snyder Rini age 13
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 25
Ernst Wetter age 84
Hans Schaffner age 52
Hans Hürlimann age 43
Fritz Honegger age 44
Ludwig von Moos age 51
Leonel Mário d'Alva age 26
Sun Fo age 69
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 59
Ivy Dumont age 30
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü age 58
Faimalaga Luka age 21
Benedicto Kiwanuka age 39
Vasyl Durdynets age 23
Ati George Sokomanu age 25
John Bani age 20
Donald Kalpokas age 18
Phelekezela Mphoko age 21
Arístides Royo age 21
Félix Paiva age 84
Abdi Farah Shirdon age 2
Ali Khalif Galaydh age 19
Chung Won-shik age 33
John Kotelawala age 64
Osman Hussein age 10
Mohamed Tahir Ayala age 10
Fausta Morganti age 17
Văn Tiến Dũng age 44
James Van Fleet age 69
Charles Erwin Wilson age 71
Dick Thornburgh age 29
Richard Myers age 19
Robert B. Anderson age 51
David Steel age 23
Ahmed Jibril age 23
Otto von Knobelsdorff age 75
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch age 73
Vladimir Stoychev age 69
Shigeyoshi Inoue age 71
Radislav Krstić age 13
Fidel Dávila Arrondo age 83
Avraham Adan age 34
Atsuko Ikeda age 30
Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia age 55
Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia age 63
Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia age 58
Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia age 62
Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia age 54
Prince Nicholas Romanov age 38
Şehzade Osman Fuad age 66
Yi Un age 63
Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg age 82
Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg age 48
Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (1879–1962) age 81
Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria (1918–2007) age 43
Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (1922–1993) age 39
Archduchess Charlotte of Austria age 40
Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 42
James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife age 31
Andreas Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha age 18
Friedrich Wilhelm Prinz von Hohenzollern age 37
John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness age 6
Paul Cellucci age 13
Jim McGreevey age 4
Harry F. Byrd age 74
Nancy Hollister age 12
Bill Clements age 44
Winthrop Rockefeller age 49
Douglas Wilder age 30
Chuck Robb age 22
Markus Büchel age 2
A. A. K. Niazi age 46
Keith Campbell (biologist) age 7
İbrahim Edhem Pasha
Óscar Osorio age 50