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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

Maamun al-Kuzbari age 39
Damião Vaz d'Almeida age 2
Lee Huan age 35
Tang Fei age 21
Akbarsho Iskandrov age 1
Tu'i Pelehake age 31
Baron Vaea age 32
Tahar Ben Ammar age 63
Alberto Fermín Zubiría age 51
Washington Beltrán age 39
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 58
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 5
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
Maher Abd al-Rashid age 10
Abane Ramdane age 32
Fusako Kitashirakawa age 63
Toshiko Higashikuni age 57
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda age 44
Morihiro Higashikuni age 36
Anastasia de Torby age 60
Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia age 50
Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff age 3
Prince Andrew Romanoff age 30
Gevheri Sultan age 48
Leslie Morshead age 63
Charles Noguès age 76
Tadeusz Pełczyński age 61
Wang Jiaxiang age 46
Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia age 40
Archduke Hubert Salvator of Austria age 59
Yuk Young-soo age 27
Infante Álvaro, Duke of Galliera age 43
Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 17
Marion Stein age 26
Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen age 11 months
John J. Gilligan age 32
W. Lee O'Daniel age 63
Frank Merriam age 87
Malcolm Wilson age 39
Culbert Olson age 76
Harry Hughes age 26
John Strachey (politician) age 51
George Brown, Baron George-Brown age 38
Hans Brunhart age 8
Lauris Norstad age 46
Bantz J. Craddock age 3
Paul Legentilhomme age 69
Osmín Aguirre y Salinas age 63
Salvador Castaneda Castro age 65
Phan Khắc Sửu age 48
Khosrov Harutyunyan age 4
Bill McKell age 61
Fuad Guliyev age 11
Firuz Mustafayev age 19
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 23
Oum Cheang Sun age 53
Hang Thun Hak age 28
Bello Bouba Maigari age 6
Célestin Gaombalet age 11
Henri Maïdou age 17
Mohamed Ahmed age 35
Ahmed Abdou age 17
Mahmoud Fawzi age 52
Aziz Sedki age 32
Makhosini Dlamini age 39
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 7
Abebe Aregai age 49
Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge age 7
Ben Jones age 28
Luis Arturo González López age 52
Jean Marie Chérestal age 5
Hikmat Sulayman age 64
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban age 53
Hazza' al-Majali age 34
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti age 3
Abdelhamid Sharaf age 13
Taher Masri age 11
Tursunbek Chyngyshev age 10
Andrei Iordan age 18
Shafik Wazzan age 28
Takieddin el-Solh age 45
Gustav Schädler age 69
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 22
Yoro Diakité age 20
Dashiin Byambasüren age 10
Mitar Martinović age 82
David Beattie age 29
Aliou Mahamidou age 5
Hamid Algabid age 12
Mahamadou Danda age 1
Vitorino Guimarães age 76
Winston Cenac age 27
Monica Dacon age 18
Stanley John age 1
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 28
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 31
Dragan Maršićanin age 3
Vojislav Mihailović age 1
Janez Stanovnik age 30
Mahmoud Zuabi age 18
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 26
Tomé Vera Cruz age 4 months
Yahyo Azimov age 5
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 12
Gerald Cash age 36
Milo Butler age 46
Tulaga Manuella age 16
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 56
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 65
Vincent Eri age 16
Osman Jama Ali age 12
Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle age 12
Hyun Soong-jong age 34
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 18
Koffi Sama age 9
Shlomo Shamir age 37
Edward Almond age 60
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 42
Lewis Thompson Preston age 26
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 47
Gordon R. Sullivan age 15
George Scratchley Brown age 34
John Wesley Snyder age 57
Peyton C. March age 88
Wu Po-hsiung age 13
Muhammad Umran age 31
James L. Farmer, Jr. age 33
Diane Nash age 15
Fred Shuttlesworth age 31
Izzat Darwaza age 64
Montagu Stopford age 60
Song Shilun age 45
Juan Vigón age 72
Yeshayahu Gavish age 27
Yasuko Konoe age 9
Paul Ilyinsky age 25
Naile Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid II) age 69
Şehzade Mehmed Abid age 48
Müşfika Kadın age 85
Mihrimah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ziyaeddin) age 30
Mukarram Jah age 19
Azam Jah age 46
Prince Abbas Hilmi age 11
Fazile Hanımsultan age 11
Swaran Singh age 45
Alfred Schlemm age 58
David Shaltiel age 50
Empress Sunjeonghyo age 58
Wilhelm Graf von Hohenau age 68
Ina Marie von Bassewitz-Levetzow age 65
Archduchess Eleonora of Austria age 66
Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 40
Gerald David Lascelles age 28
Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine age 15
David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood age 2
Carmen Martínez-Bordiú age 2
Endelkachew Makonnen age 26
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth age 32
Hilary Armstrong age 7
James Michael Curley age 78
Roy Mason age 29
Gerald Baliles age 12
Leverett Saltonstall age 60
Thomas B. Stanley age 62
Foster Furcolo age 41
Dolph Briscoe age 30
Edgar Whitcomb age 35
Cecil Parkinson age 21
Walter E. Edge age 79
Lester Maddox age 37
James Florio age 15
John Okello age 16
Sakızlı Ahmed Esat Pasha
Joseph Ralston age 9
Eusebio Rodolfo Cordón Cea age 53
John Wrathall age 39
Naoki Hoshino age 61
Mokdad Sifi age 13
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 56
Fazlul Haque age 14