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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

People

Clifford Darling age 33
Kléber Dadjo age 41
Tupua Leupena age 33
Koloa Talake age 21
Luis Giannattasio age 60
Frederick Karlomuana Timakata age 19
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani age 16
Bill Skate age 1
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 24
Yoo Il-ho age 5 months
Krešimir Zubak age 8
Antero Flores Aráoz age 13
Patrick J. Hurley age 72
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 61
Hu Zongnan age 59
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 70
Charles Clarke age 4
Homer Stille Cummings age 85
Henry H. Fowler age 47
Hugh Shelton age 13
William French Smith age 38
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 43
Peter Schoomaker age 9
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 73
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez age 23
Masakazu Kawabe age 68
Robert L. Ghormley age 71
Chang Fa-kwei age 59
Clarence R. Huebner age 66
Yury Drozdov age 29
Petar Stipetić age 17
Ra'ad al-Hamdani age 4
Antonio Aranda age 66
Paul Aussaresses age 36
Irina Paley age 51
Nevvare Hanım age 54
Mehisti Hanım age 63
Muhammad Abdel Moneim age 56
Dov Joseph age 56
Yi Bangja age 53
Yi Hae-won age 36
Yi Ku age 23
Prince Frederick of Prussia (1911–1966) age 43
Michael Prinz von Preussen age 15
Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn and Taxis age 51
Edward J. King age 30
John A. Volpe age 46
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey age 78
Marvin Mandel age 35
Winfield Dunn age 28
Charles Poletti age 52
Anthony Crosland age 37
Roy Barnes age 7
José María Lemus age 44
William S. Sessions age 25
Louis Freeh age 5
Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani age 3
Salman II of Bahrain age 61
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 16
Nita Barrow age 38
Yem Sambaur age 42
Ung Huot age 10
Chhean Vam age 39
Sim Var age 49
Sisowath Watchayavong age 64
Norodom Kantol age 35
Nhiek Tioulong age 47
Nagoum Yamassoum age 1
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 27
Pedro Opaso age 79
Évariste Kimba age 29
Léonard Mulamba age 27
Osborne Riviere age 23
Andrés F. Córdova age 63
Antonio Pons age 57
Mamdouh Salem age 37
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 9
Obed Dlamini age 18
Mabandla Dlamini age 24
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 43
George Brizan age 12
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 43
Sidya Touré age 10
Daniel Fignolé age 41
Jean-Michel Lapin age 5
Robert Malval age 12
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 34
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 52
Pascal Affi N'Guessan age 2
Clifford Campbell age 63
Florizel Glasspole age 45
Suleiman al-Nabulsi age 47
Jumabek Ibraimov age 11
Nasirdin Isanov age 11
Adolph Bowler age 66
Abdallah El-Yafi age 54
Amin al-Hafez age 29
Hae Phoofolo age 8
Josef Hoop age 59
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 17
Ruben Zackhras age 7
Serafim Urechean age 5
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 69
Jack Marshall age 43
Francisco Urcuyo age 40
Lorenzo Guerrero age 54
Boukary Adji age 16
Francisco Cunha Leal age 67
Bernard Kolélas age 22
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 14
Arnhim Eustace age 10
Mamadou Lamine Loum age 3
Žarko Korać age 8
Milan Čič age 23
Viktor Avbelj age 41
John Lapli age 2 months
Francis Billy Hilly age 7
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 15
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 41
Damião Vaz d'Almeida age 4
Lee Huan age 37
Tang Fei age 23
Akbarsho Iskandrov age 4
Suriya Jungrungreangkit age 9 months
Tu'i Pelehake age 33
Baron Vaea age 34
Tahar Ben Ammar age 65
Alberto Fermín Zubiría age 53
Washington Beltrán age 41
Benito Nardone age 48
Josias Moli age 1
Jean-Marie Léyé age 23
Ahmed al-Rahawi age 5
Muhammad Abdi Yusuf age 14
Kamil Idris age 1
Živko Radišić age 18
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 54
Kodjo Agbéyomé age 11 months
Abdessalam Jalloud age 10
Fu Zuoyi age 60
Henri Navarre age 57
David Waddington age 26
Benjamin Civiletti age 20
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 62
Neil H. McElroy age 50
John A. Wickham Jr. age 27
Hung Hsiu-chu age 7
Flora MacDonald age 29
Ebrahim Hakimi age 84
Oliver P. Smith age 61
Harold MacMichael age 73
James T. Conway age 7
Vu Van Mau age 41
Tadeusz Kasprzycki age 64
Maher Abd al-Rashid age 13
Abane Ramdane age 35
Fusako Kitashirakawa age 65
Toshiko Higashikuni age 59
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda age 46
Morihiro Higashikuni age 38
Anastasia de Torby age 63
Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia age 52
Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff age 5
Prince Andrew Romanoff age 32
Gevheri Sultan age 50
Leslie Morshead age 66
Charles Noguès age 79
Tadeusz Pełczyński age 63
Wang Jiaxiang age 49
Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia age 42
Archduke Hubert Salvator of Austria age 61
Yuk Young-soo age 29
Infante Álvaro, Duke of Galliera age 45
Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 20
Marion Stein age 28
Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen age 3
John J. Gilligan age 34
W. Lee O'Daniel age 65
Malcolm Wilson age 41
Culbert Olson age 78
Harry Hughes age 28
John Strachey (politician) age 53
George Brown, Baron George-Brown age 41
Hans Brunhart age 10
Lauris Norstad age 48
Bantz J. Craddock age 6
Paul Legentilhomme age 71
Osmín Aguirre y Salinas age 65
Salvador Castaneda Castro age 68
Phan Khắc Sửu age 50
Khosrov Harutyunyan age 7
Bill McKell age 63
Fuad Guliyev age 14
Firuz Mustafayev age 21
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 25
Oum Cheang Sun age 55
Hang Thun Hak age 31
Bello Bouba Maigari age 8
Célestin Gaombalet age 13
Henri Maïdou age 19