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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
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

People

Andris Šķēle age 11
Laurynas Stankevičius age 33
Émile Reuter age 94
Gilles Andriamahazo age 50
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga age 23
Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf age 11
Paul Bérenger age 24
Ion Sturza age 9
Sanjaagiin Bayar age 13
Abdallah Ibrahim age 50
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 57
Bill Rowling age 41
Lazarus Salii age 32
Sorin Cîmpeanu age 1
Faustin Twagiramungu age 23
Stephenson King age 10
Amadou Ba age 7
Sergej Kraigher age 54
Danny Philip age 15
Snyder Rini age 20
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 33
Hans Schaffner age 60
Hans Hürlimann age 51
Fritz Honegger age 51
Leonel Mário d'Alva age 33
Sun Fo age 77
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 67
Ivy Dumont age 38
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü age 65
Faimalaga Luka age 29
Benedicto Kiwanuka age 47
Vasyl Durdynets age 31
Ati George Sokomanu age 33
John Bani age 27
Donald Kalpokas age 25
Phelekezela Mphoko age 28
Arístides Royo age 28
Abdi Farah Shirdon age 10
Ali Khalif Galaydh age 27
Chung Won-shik age 40
John Kotelawala age 72
Osman Hussein age 18
Mohamed Tahir Ayala age 18
Fausta Morganti age 24
Antonella Mularoni age 7
Stefano Palmieri age 4
Alberto Otárola age 2
Gustavo Adrianzén age 2
Vicente Zeballos age 6
Văn Tiến Dũng age 52
James Van Fleet age 77
Dick Thornburgh age 36
Richard Myers age 27
Robert B. Anderson age 58
Ahmed Jibril age 31
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch age 80
Vladimir Stoychev age 77
Shigeyoshi Inoue age 79
Radislav Krstić age 21
Avraham Adan age 42
Atsuko Ikeda age 38
Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia age 63
Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia age 71
Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia age 61
Prince Nicholas Romanov age 46
Şehzade Osman Fuad age 74
Yi Un age 71
Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg age 56
Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria (1918–2007) age 51
Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (1922–1993) age 46
Archduchess Charlotte of Austria age 48
Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 50
James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife age 39
Andreas Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha age 26
Friedrich Wilhelm Prinz von Hohenzollern age 45
Gustav, 7th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 3 months
John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness age 14
Paul Cellucci age 21
Jim McGreevey age 11
Greg Clark age 1
Nancy Hollister age 19
Bill Clements age 52
Douglas Wilder age 38
Chuck Robb age 29
Markus Büchel age 9
Mario Frick age 4
A. A. K. Niazi age 54
Keith Campbell (biologist) age 14
İbrahim Edhem Pasha
Tom C. Clark age 69
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 33
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 42
Marcolino Moco age 15
Armen Darbinyan age 4
Hasan Hasanov age 28
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 32
Hugo Ballivián age 67
Honoré Traoré age 11
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum age 63
Élie Doté age 20
Haroun Kabadi age 20
Youssouf Saleh Abbas age 16
Gabriel París Gordillo age 59
Samy Badibanga age 6
Justin Marie Bomboko age 40
Vernon Shaw age 39
Zakaria Mohieddin age 50
Mustafa Khalil age 48
Kamal Hassan Ali age 36
Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas age 76
Konstantinos Dovas age 70
Konstantinos Georgakopoulos age 78
Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero age 22
Lansana Kouyaté age 18
Mamady Youla age 7
Adiato Djaló Nandigna age 10
Martinho Ndafa Kabi age 11
Horta Inta-A Na Man age 9
Hérard Abraham age 28
Élie Lescot age 85
Jean-Henry Céant age 12
Policarpo Paz García age 36
Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi age 31
Zaid al-Rifai age 32
Ahmad Obeidat age 30
Ali Abu al-Ragheb age 23
Bajram Kosumi age 9
Abdul Majid Kubar age 60
Abdul Qadir al-Badri age 47
Muhammad Osman Said age 44
Fathi Bashagha age 6
Rimantas Šadžius age 8
Adolfas Šleževičius age 21
Roger Kolo age 25
Jurelang Zedkaia age 18
Veerasamy Ringadoo age 48
Dharam Gokhool age 19
Dumitru Braghiș age 11
Maria Benvinda Levy age 1 month
Lagumot Harris age 30
Kinza Clodumar age 24
Derog Gioura age 36
Kennan Adeang age 26
Michael Hardie Boys age 37
Seyni Oumarou age 18
Alfonso Oiterong age 44
Nataša Mićić age 3
Jozef Moravčík age 24
Ezekiel Alebua age 22
Peter Kenilorea age 25
Willi Ritschard age 50
Willy Spühler age 67
Nello Celio age 55
Paul Chaudet age 64
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen age 70
Hans Streuli age 76
Enrico Celio age 79
Omar Ibrahim Ghalawanji age 15
Gabriel Costa age 14
Simon Chang age 14
Mao Chi-kuo age 20
Yu Shyi-kun age 21
Arthur Dion Hanna age 41
Estanislau da Silva age 16
Naim Talu age 49
Tomasi Puapua age 30
Willy Telavi age 15
Alberto Héber Usher age 51
Maxime Carlot Korman age 28
Joe Natuman age 16
Moana Carcasses Kalosil age 6
Khaled Bahah age 4
Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované age 86
Raimundo Rolón age 66
Abdullahi Issa age 46
Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein age 58
Hasan Muratović age 29
Marino Riccardi age 10
Alessandro Rossi age 1
Lorella Stefanelli age 10
Beatriz Merino age 21
Sebastiano Baggio age 56
Hiroshi Nakajima age 41
Griffin Bell age 50
Frank Underwood age 9
Edwin Meese age 37
Frederick C. Weyand age 52
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 43
G. William Miller age 44
Gerhard von Schwerin age 69
Hugo Österman age 76
Keith Park age 76
Maximilian Fretter-Pico age 77
Donald A. Henderson age 40
Annibale Bergonzoli age 84
Ali Sayyad Shirazi age 24
Adnan Khairallah age 27
Setsuko, Princess Chichibu age 59
Prince Dimitri Romanov age 43
David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven age 50