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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
Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31

People

Susanto Tirtoprodjo age 58
Nureddin Mahmud age 60
Arshad al-Umari age 70
Kubanychbek Jumaliyev age 2
Omar al-Hasi age 10
Janlavyn Narantsatsralt age 1
Dragan Kujović age 11
Vidoje Žarković age 31
Blažo Jovanović age 51
Mahn Win Khaing Than age 6
Ange Édouard Poungui age 17
Sylvestre Nsanzimana age 23
Paul Southwell age 45
Lee Moore age 19
Pretaap Radhakishun age 24
Husni al-Barazi age 64
Hassan al-Hakim age 73
Bashir al-Azma age 48
Norberto Costa Alegre age 8
Armindo Vaz d'Almeida age 6
Wang Yun-wu age 70
Roland Theodore Symonette age 60
Paul Adderley age 30
Henry Milton Taylor age 55
Tekin Arıburun age 53
Muhammad Said al-Attar age 32
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 21
Hasan al-Lawzi age 7
Nalumino Mundia age 31
Daniel Chanis Pinzón age 66
Tore Lokoloko age 28
Wiwa Korowi age 10
Jure Pelivan age 30
Dragan Mikerević age 3
Gian Carlo Capicchioni age 2
Antonello Bacciocchi age 1
Ernesto Benedettini age 10
Maria Domenica Michelotti age 6
Jozo Križanović age 14
Armando Villanueva age 43
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 54
Federico Salas age 8
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 36
Alberto Bustamante Belaunde age 8
Pedro Richter Prada age 38
Sandro Mariátegui age 37
Luis Arroyo Sánchez age 2
Kwassi Klutse age 13
Aurelius Marie age 54
Frank G. Wisner age 20
George Decker age 56
Carl E. Vuono age 24
Dennis Reimer age 19
Harold Keith Johnson age 46
John William Vessey Jr. age 36
Gabriel Koyambounou age 12
Said Ali Kemal age 21
Mohamed Abdou Madi age 3
Abdallah Mohamed age 9
Bianrifi Tarmidi age 10 months
Ibrahim Halidi age 4
José Bordas Valdés age 84
Kamal el-Din Hussein age 38
Imru Haile Selassie age 66
Assaat age 54
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi age 73
Abdul-Wahab Mirjan age 50
Herbert Duffus age 50
Hussein ibn Nasser age 56
Almanbet Matubraimov age 6
Iskenderbek Aidaraliyev age 3
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 3
Angidi Chettiar age 30
Ba Swe age 43
Sebastián Uriza age 98
Orlando Montenegro Medrano age 38
Souley Abdoulaye age 3
Dismas Nsengiyaremye age 14
George Charles age 42
Miha Marinko age 58
Errol Alibux age 10
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 27
Daniel Daio age 12
Wang Zhengting age 77
John Warburton Paul age 42
İbrahim Şevki Atasagun age 60
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 24
Elijah Mudenda age 31
Božidar Matić age 21
Cesare Gasperoni age 15
Edda Ceccoli age 11
Maurizio Rattini age 9
Claudio Muccioli age 9 months
Ermenegildo Gasperoni age 52
Halid Genjac age 10 months
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 42
Óscar Vargas Prieto age 41
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 39
Michel Roquejeoffre age 25
David D. Newsom age 41
James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope age 78
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 81
Michael Armacost age 21
Albin Nyamoya age 34
Anatole Kanyenkiko age 7
Antoine Nduwayo age 17
Léopold Biha age 40
Joseph Cimpaye age 27
Jean-Pierre Lebouder age 15
Michel Gbezera-Bria age 13
Simon Narcisse Bozanga age 16
Bernard Ayandho age 28
Halifa Humadi age 12
Emilio Núñez Portuondo age 60
Bheki Dlamini age 7
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 50
Mustafa Mahmud al-Umari age 65
Sid Ahmed Ould Bneijara age 12
Raouf Bundhun age 22
Dendev Terbishdagva age 4
Nyamyn Jagvaral age 39
Tsagaanlamyn Dügersüren age 45
Rifat Rastoder age 8
Radivoje Brajović age 24
Marko Orlandić age 28
Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa age 65
Yeoh Ghim Seng age 40
Štefan Sádovský age 30
Wim Udenhout age 21
Sami al-Jundi age 37
Dennis Young age 23
John Giheno age 10
Martin Raguž age 11 months
Gian Marco Marcucci age 4
Carlos Moreyra y Paz Soldán age 60
Rodolfo Llopis age 63
Arleigh Winston Scott age 58
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe age 40
Frank Soskice age 56
Jim Griffiths age 68
John L. Hines age 90
Livingston T. Merchant age 55
Jo Ann Robinson age 46
Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai age 11
Jean-Luc Mandaba age 15
Enoch Derant Lakoué age 14
Carlos Lemos Simmonds age 25
Salim Ben Ali age 41
Paul Shabangu age 16
Tesfaye Dinka age 19
Francisco Bueso age 99
Medetbek Kerimkulov age 10
Boris Silayev age 12
Ahmad Salim uld Sidi age 20
Hugh Watt age 46
Jacques Opangault age 51
Archibald Currie age 70
Hsu Ching-chung age 51
Lee Hun-jai age 14
Gloriana Ranocchini age 2
Giuseppe Arzilli age 17
Enzo Colombini age 7 months
Luigi Lonfernini age 20
Giorgio Crescentini age 8
Giuseppe Amici age 20
Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller age 18
Luis Pércovich Roca age 27
Raúl Ferrero Rebagliati age 47
Roberto Dañino age 7
Luis Solari age 11
Frederick M. Franks Jr. age 22
Gary E. Luck age 21
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 55
Richard N. Cooper age 24
Walter J. Stoessel Jr. age 39
James Chuter Ede age 76
Horacio Liendo age 34
Said Ibrahim Ben Ali age 47
Eddy Balancy age 5
Ariranga Pillay age 13
Branislav Šoškić age 36
Žarko Bulajić age 36
Đorđije Pajković age 41
Mohammed bin Jassim Al Thani age 78
Augustin Poignet age 30
Henry Neijhorst age 19
Jan Buiskool age 59
Paek Nak-chun age 63
Ubaldo Biordi age 21
Gian Luigi Berti age 28
Ernesto Montagne Sánchez age 42
Jorge Fernández-Maldonado age 36
Alfonso Bustamante age 17
Edgardo Seoane age 55
Guillermo Larco Cox age 26
Alberto Pandolfi age 18
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 69
H. Freeman Matthews age 59
Vincent de Paul Ahanda age 40
Adem Salihaj age 8