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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

Arturo Araujo age 75
Jean-Hilaire Aubame age 40
Alexandros Svolos age 61
Herbert Blaize age 35
Diarra Traoré age 18
Manuel Saturnino da Costa age 10
Edward Luckhoo age 40
Émile Jonassaint age 39
Vicente Mejía Colindres age 74
Adnan Pachachi age 29
Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif age 20
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi age 61
Faisal al-Fayez age 2 months
Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh age 14
Apas Jumagulov age 18
Wilton G. S. Sankawulo age 15
Wanis al-Qaddafi age 28
Hussein Maziq age 34
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 14
Imbarek Shamekh age 9 months
Alfred Hilbe age 24
Eugène Mangalaza age 2
Ibrahim Muhammad Didi age 51
Ahmed Mohamed ag Hamani age 11
Soumana Sacko age 2
Kunio Lemari age 10
Andrei Sangheli age 8
Gheorghe Brega age 1
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 19
Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 67
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae age 41
Yon Hyong-muk age 21
Allan Louisy age 36
Allan Kemakeza age 4
Solomon Mamaloni age 10
Jules Sedney age 30
Bahij al-Khatib age 58
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 21
Yusuf Zuayyin age 21
Sabri al-Asali age 50
Frederick Sumaye age 2
Edward Sokoine age 14
John Malecela age 18
Orville Turnquest age 23
Clifford Darling age 31
Kléber Dadjo age 38
Tupua Leupena age 30
Koloa Talake age 18
Luis Giannattasio age 58
Frederick Karlomuana Timakata age 17
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani age 13
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 40
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 22
Giuliano Gozi age 58
Krešimir Zubak age 6
Antero Flores Aráoz age 10
Patrick J. Hurley age 70
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 58
Hu Zongnan age 56
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 67
Charles Clarke age 2
Homer Stille Cummings age 82
Henry H. Fowler age 44
Hugh Shelton age 11
William French Smith age 35
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 41
Peter Schoomaker age 7
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 70
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez age 20
Masakazu Kawabe age 66
Robert L. Ghormley age 69
Chang Fa-kwei age 57
Clarence R. Huebner age 64
Yury Drozdov age 27
Petar Stipetić age 15
Ra'ad al-Hamdani age 1
Antonio Aranda age 64
Paul Aussaresses age 34
Irina Paley age 49
Nevvare Hanım age 51
Mehisti Hanım age 61
Muhammad Abdel Moneim age 54
Dov Joseph age 53
Yi Bangja age 51
Yi Hae-won age 33
Yi Ku age 21
Prince Frederick of Prussia (1911–1966) age 41
Michael Prinz von Preussen age 12
Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn and Taxis age 49
Edward J. King age 27
John A. Volpe age 44
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey age 75
Marvin Mandel age 32
Winfield Dunn age 25
Charles Poletti age 49
Anthony Crosland age 34
Roy Barnes age 4
Nikola Uzunović age 79
William S. Sessions age 22
Louis Freeh age 3
Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani age 1
Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman age 78
Salman II of Bahrain age 59
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 14
Nita Barrow age 36
Yem Sambaur age 40
Ung Huot age 8
Chhean Vam age 36
Sim Var age 47
Sisowath Watchayavong age 61
Norodom Kantol age 32
Nhiek Tioulong age 44
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 25
Pedro Opaso age 76
Évariste Kimba age 26
Léonard Mulamba age 25
Osborne Riviere age 21
Andrés F. Córdova age 60
Antonio Pons age 55
Mamdouh Salem age 35
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 7
Obed Dlamini age 15
Mabandla Dlamini age 22
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 40
George Brizan age 10
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 40
Sidya Touré age 8
Daniel Fignolé age 39
Jean-Michel Lapin age 3
Robert Malval age 9
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 32
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 49
Pascal Affi N'Guessan age 1 month
Clifford Campbell age 60
Florizel Glasspole age 43
Suleiman al-Nabulsi age 45
Jumabek Ibraimov age 9
Nasirdin Isanov age 9
Adolph Bowler age 63
Abdallah El-Yafi age 51
Amin al-Hafez age 27
Hae Phoofolo age 6
Josef Hoop age 57
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 14
Ruben Zackhras age 5
Serafim Urechean age 3
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 67
Jack Marshall age 40
Francisco Urcuyo age 37
Lorenzo Guerrero age 52
Boukary Adji age 14
Francisco Cunha Leal age 64
Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho age 81
Bernard Kolélas age 19
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 11
Arnhim Eustace age 8
Mamadou Lamine Loum age 1
Žarko Korać age 5
Milan Čič age 21
Viktor Avbelj age 39
Francis Billy Hilly age 4
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 13
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 39
Damião Vaz d'Almeida age 1
Lee Huan age 35
Tang Fei age 20
Akbarsho Iskandrov age 1
Tu'i Pelehake age 31
Baron Vaea age 31
Tahar Ben Ammar age 63
Alberto Fermín Zubiría age 51
Washington Beltrán age 38
Benito Nardone age 46
Jean-Marie Léyé age 21
Ahmed al-Rahawi age 3
Muhammad Abdi Yusuf age 11
Živko Radišić age 15
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 52
Abdessalam Jalloud age 8
Fu Zuoyi age 57
Henri Navarre age 54
David Waddington age 23
Benjamin Civiletti age 17
Arthur W. Radford age 57
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 59
Neil H. McElroy age 48
John A. Wickham Jr. age 24
Hung Hsiu-chu age 4
Flora MacDonald age 26
Ebrahim Hakimi age 81
Oliver P. Smith age 59
Harold MacMichael age 71
James T. Conway age 5
Vu Van Mau age 38
Tadeusz Kasprzycki age 62
Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen age 90
Maher Abd al-Rashid age 10
Abane Ramdane age 32
Fusako Kitashirakawa age 63
Toshiko Higashikuni age 56