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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

Alfredo Astiz age 4
Trần Văn Trà age 38
Mario Benjamín Menéndez age 26
Kazuko Takatsukasa age 26
Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia age 56
Behice Hanım age 73
Nevzad Hanım age 54
Şehzade Ömer Faruk age 58
Gastone Gambara age 65
Antoni Chruściel age 61
Valerian Frolov age 61
Hiro Saga age 42
Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1915–1980) age 41
Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria age 82
Archduchess Hedwig of Austria age 59
Princess Anna of Saxony (1903–1976) age 53
Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera age 69
Carol Lambrino age 36
Magda Lupescu age 60
Paul Philippe of Romania age 7
Hartley Shawcross age 54
Hugh Carey age 37
Preston Smith age 44
David Pryor age 21
Herman Talmadge age 42
Richard Codey age 9
Otis Bowen age 38
Bob Taft age 14
Hursid Pasha
İbrahim Hakkı Pasha
Hubert Gough age 85
Sun Yun-suan age 42
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 48
Archibald Cox age 44
Skënder Gjinushi age 6
Qasdi Mirbah age 18
Sayyid Ahmed Ghazali age 19
Ahmed ibn Bitour age 10
Mulud Hamroush age 13
Zelman Cowen age 36
Richard Casey, Baron Casey age 65
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad age 16
Joseph Conombo age 39
Pié Masumbuko age 24
Sisowath Monireth age 46
Sadou Hayatou age 14
Peter Mafany Musonge age 13
Alfredo González Flores age 79
Koyagialo Ngbase te Gerengo Louis Alphonse age 9
Ahmed Dini Ahmed age 26
Patrick John age 18
Pierre Charles age 2
Federico Páez age 80
Aly Maher Pasha age 74
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 16
Jona Senilagakali age 26
Tevita Momoedonu age 10
Stilianos Mavromichalis age 57
Faustino Imbali age 2 months
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau age 46
Franck Lavaud age 53
Franck Sylvain age 46
Yvon Neptune age 9
Smarck Michel age 19
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 26
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 45
Burhanuddin Harahap age 39
Naji Talib age 39
Ezzedine Salim age 13
Husayn al-Khalidi age 61
David D. Kpormakpor age 20
Abuzed Omar Dorda age 12
Mohieddin Fikini age 31
Walter Kieber age 25
Barlen Vyapoory age 11
Karl Offmann age 15
Veselin Đuranović age 31
Ahmed Balafrej age 48
Maung Maung age 31
Win Maung age 40
René Schick age 46
Ljupčo Jordanovski age 3
Domingos Leite Pereira age 73
Henri Lopès age 18
Kennedy Simmonds age 20
Moustapha Niasse age 16
Thomas Holenstein age 60
Faris al-Khoury age 78
İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil age 48
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 45
Ionatana Ionatana age 17
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 2 months
Mekere Morauta age 10
Cesar Virata age 25
Wijeyananda Dahanayake age 53
Bakri Hassan Saleh age 7
Gianfranco Terenzi age 15
Salomón Lerner Ghitis age 10
Oscar Valdés age 7
Carlos Ferrero age 15
Yawovi Agboyibo age 12
Du Yuming age 51
Su Yu age 48
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 56
William E. Simon age 28
Nathan F. Twining age 58
Richard Kleindienst age 32
J. Howard McGrath age 52
Liu Huaqing age 40
Vivian Malone Jones age 14
Tikka Khan age 41
Veselin Šljivančanin age 3
Jorge Anaya age 29
Zvonimir Červenko age 29
Života Panić age 22
Lucian Truscott age 61
Toshizō Nishio age 74
Ahmad Ismail Ali age 38
Moshe Carmel age 45
Sandy Woodward age 24
Halvard Lange age 53
Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia age 54
Şadiye Sultan age 69
Ulviye Sultan age 63
Şehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz age 54
Hanzade Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 32
Ronald Scobie age 63
Prince Karl Franz of Prussia age 39
Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 62
Karl August, 10th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 58
Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria age 61
Princess Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 57
Lady May Abel Smith age 50
Archduke Anton of Austria age 55
Leonida Bagration of Mukhrani age 41
Peter, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein age 34
Princess Claude of Orléans age 12
Erling Lorentzen age 33
Christoph of Schleswig-Holstein age 6
Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington age 10
Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield age 39
Thomas Kean age 21
Price Daniel age 45
Don Sundquist age 20
Charles Edison age 65
George Busbee age 28
Brendan Byrne age 32
Jagjit Singh Aurora age 40
Mütercim Mehmed Rüşdi Pasha
Tunuslu Hayreddin Pasha
Avlonyalı Mehmed Ferid Pasha
Curtis Scaparrotti age 4 months
Abe Fortas age 46
Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal age 35
Paul Hasluck age 51
Shah Azizur Rahman age 30
Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo age 2
Chan Sy age 24
In Tam age 33
Sisowath Monipong age 43
Bartolomé Blanche age 77
Caabi El-Yachroutu Mohamed age 6
Abdallah Mohamed Kamil age 20
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 64
Arturo Araujo age 78
Jean-Hilaire Aubame age 43
Herbert Blaize age 38
Diarra Traoré age 21
Francisco Fadul age 2
Manuel Saturnino da Costa age 13
Edward Luckhoo age 44
Émile Jonassaint age 43
Vicente Mejía Colindres age 78
Adnan Pachachi age 33
Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif age 23
Jamil al-Midfai age 66
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi age 64
Faisal al-Fayez age 3
Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh age 17
Apas Jumagulov age 21
Wilton G. S. Sankawulo age 18
Wanis al-Qaddafi age 31
Hussein Maziq age 38
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 17
Imbarek Shamekh age 4
Alfred Hilbe age 28
Tantely Andrianarivo age 2
Eugène Mangalaza age 6
Ibrahim Muhammad Didi age 55
Ahmed Mohamed ag Hamani age 14
Soumana Sacko age 5
Kunio Lemari age 13
Andrei Sangheli age 11
Gheorghe Brega age 4
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 23
Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 70
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae age 45
Yon Hyong-muk age 24
Allan Louisy age 39
Allan Kemakeza age 7