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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 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

People

Frederick C. Weyand age 43
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 34
G. William Miller age 34
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 52
William B. Saxbe age 43
Gerhard von Schwerin age 60
Hugo Österman age 67
Keith Park age 67
Maximilian Fretter-Pico age 67
Donald A. Henderson age 31
Robert L. Eichelberger age 73
Annibale Bergonzoli age 75
Ali Sayyad Shirazi age 15
Adnan Khairallah age 18
Setsuko, Princess Chichibu age 50
Prince Dimitri Romanov age 33
David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven age 40
Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid II) age 73
Sabiha Sultan age 65
Ahmad Nami age 87
Necla Sultan age 33
Şehzade Ali Vasib age 56
Harun Osman age 27
Hoàng Văn Thái age 44
Prince Sigismund of Prussia (born 1896) age 63
Archduchess Isabella of Austria age 71
Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1875–1964) age 84
Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma age 50
Prince Konrad of Bavaria age 76
Walburga Habsburg Douglas age 1
Princess Irina of Romania age 6
Princess Sofia of Romania age 2
Angus Ogilvy age 31
Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern age 7
Francis Pym age 37
Hugh Dalton age 72
Maurice Strong age 30
Patrick Steptoe age 46
Ahmed Cevat Şakir Pasha
Lee Yuan-tsu age 36
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 54
Kastriot Islami age 7
Benyoucef Benkhedda age 39
Sabri Boukadoum age 1
Josep Pintat-Solans age 34
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury age 31
Muhammad Mansur Ali age 40
Tom Adams age 28
Pascal Koupaki age 8
Konstantin Muraviev age 66
Youssouf Ouédraogo age 6
Pen Sovan age 23
Long Boret age 26
Simon Achidi Achu age 25
André Nzapayeké age 8
Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde age 25
Zlatko Tomčić age 14
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 33
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez age 80
Daniel Ona Ondo age 14
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 24
Léon Mébiame age 25
Bessarion Gugushvili age 14
Dimitrios Kiousopoulos age 67
Ioannis Theotokis age 79
Ioannis Paraskevopoulos age 59
Nicholas Brathwaite age 34
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León age 44
Eugène Camara age 17
Mohamed Béavogui age 6
Victor Saúde Maria age 20
Mamadu Ture Kuruma age 12
Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis age 59
Rosny Smarth age 19
Soekiman Wirjosandjojo age 61
Tahir Yahya age 43
Taha al-Hashimi age 72
Rachid Solh age 33
Alfred Naqqache age 71
Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush age 26
Gerard Batliner age 31
Django Sissoko age 11
Mandé Sidibé age 19
Yahya Ould Hademine age 5
Ba Mamadou Mbaré age 13
Cassam Uteem age 18
Kenos Aroi age 17
Ruben Kun age 17
Sidney Holland age 66
Milton Cato age 44
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 28
Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye age 1
Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré age 8
Predrag Marković age 4
Nathaniel Waena age 14
Rick Hou age 1
Roger Bonvin age 52
Ernst Brugger age 45
Rodolphe Rubattel age 63
Walther Stampfli age 75
Fawzi Selu age 54
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 18
Joaquim Rafael Branco age 6
Vincent Siew age 20
Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō age 7
Kamuta Latasi age 23
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas age 20
Abd al-Aziz ibn Habtour age 4
Shaya al-Zindani age 5
Kazimierz Świtalski age 73
Manuel María Ponce Brousset age 85
Hassan Abshir Farah age 14
Umar Arteh Ghalib age 29
Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed age 1
Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini age 5
Mirko Šarović age 3
Ivo Miro Jović age 9
Yehude Simon age 12
Walter Martos age 2
Paik Sun-yup age 39
Xue Yue age 63
Halfdan T. Mahler age 36
Thomas A. Shannon Jr. age 1
Nam Il age 44
Nematollah Nassiri age 48
Renya Mutaguchi age 71
Daisy Bates age 45
Friedrich Schulz age 62
Blago Zadro age 15
Rudolf von Bünau age 69
Marcel Maurice Bigeard age 43
Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai age 14
Alfredo Astiz age 8
Trần Văn Trà age 41
Mario Benjamín Menéndez age 29
Kazuko Takatsukasa age 30
Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia age 59
Behice Hanım age 77
Nevzad Hanım age 57
Şehzade Ömer Faruk age 61
Gastone Gambara age 69
Antoni Chruściel age 64
Valerian Frolov age 64
Hiro Saga age 45
Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1915–1980) age 44
Archduchess Hedwig of Austria age 63
Princess Anna of Saxony (1903–1976) age 56
Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera age 73
Carol Lambrino age 39
Magda Lupescu age 64
Paul Philippe of Romania age 11
Hartley Shawcross age 57
Hugh Carey age 40
Preston Smith age 47
David Pryor age 25
Herman Talmadge age 46
Richard Codey age 13
Otis Bowen age 41
Bob Taft age 17
Hursid Pasha
İbrahim Hakkı Pasha
Hubert Gough age 89
Sun Yun-suan age 46
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 52
Archibald Cox age 47
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 55
Skënder Gjinushi age 9
Qasdi Mirbah age 21
Sayyid Ahmed Ghazali age 22
Ahmed ibn Bitour age 13
Mulud Hamroush age 16
Zelman Cowen age 40
Richard Casey, Baron Casey age 69
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad age 20
Joseph Conombo age 42
Pié Masumbuko age 28
Sisowath Monireth age 50
Sadou Hayatou age 17
Peter Mafany Musonge age 17
Martin Ziguélé age 2
Alfredo González Flores age 82
Koyagialo Ngbase te Gerengo Louis Alphonse age 12
Ahmed Dini Ahmed age 29
Patrick John age 21
Pierre Charles age 5
Federico Páez age 83
Aly Maher Pasha age 78
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 19
Jona Senilagakali age 30
Tevita Momoedonu age 13
Stilianos Mavromichalis age 60
Faustino Imbali age 3
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau age 50
Franck Lavaud age 56
Franck Sylvain age 50
Yvon Neptune age 13
Smarck Michel age 22
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 29
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 48
Burhanuddin Harahap age 42