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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
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Hussein Maziq age 38
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 18
Imbarek Shamekh age 4
Alfred Hilbe age 28
Tantely Andrianarivo age 2
Eugène Mangalaza age 6
Ibrahim Muhammad Didi age 56
Ahmed Mohamed ag Hamani age 15
Soumana Sacko age 6
Kunio Lemari age 14
Andrei Sangheli age 12
Gheorghe Brega age 5
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 23
Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 71
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae age 46
Yon Hyong-muk age 25
Allan Louisy age 40
Allan Kemakeza age 8
Solomon Mamaloni age 14
Jules Sedney age 34
Bahij al-Khatib age 62
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 25
Yusuf Zuayyin age 25
Guilherme Posser da Costa age 3
Frederick Sumaye age 6
Edward Sokoine age 18
John Malecela age 23
Orville Turnquest age 27
Clifford Darling age 35
Kléber Dadjo age 42
Tupua Leupena age 34
Koloa Talake age 22
Luis Giannattasio age 62
Frederick Karlomuana Timakata age 21
Esmon Saimon age 1
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani age 17
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 45
Bill Skate age 3
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 26
Yoo Il-ho age 2
Krešimir Zubak age 10
Antero Flores Aráoz age 15
Patrick J. Hurley age 74
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 62
Hu Zongnan age 61
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 72
Charles Clarke age 6
Henry H. Fowler age 48
Hugh Shelton age 15
William French Smith age 39
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 45
Peter Schoomaker age 11
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 74
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez age 25
Masakazu Kawabe age 70
Robert L. Ghormley age 73
Chang Fa-kwei age 61
Clarence R. Huebner age 68
Yury Drozdov age 31
Petar Stipetić age 19
Ra'ad al-Hamdani age 5
Stuart Peach, Baron Peach age 1
Antonio Aranda age 68
Paul Aussaresses age 38
Irina Paley age 53
Nevvare Hanım age 56
Mehisti Hanım age 65
Muhammad Abdel Moneim age 58
Dov Joseph age 57
Yi Bangja age 55
Yi Hae-won age 38
Yi Ku age 25
Prince Frederick of Prussia (1911–1966) age 45
Michael Prinz von Preussen age 17
Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn and Taxis age 53
Edward J. King age 32
John A. Volpe age 48
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey age 80
Marvin Mandel age 37
Winfield Dunn age 29
Charles Poletti age 53
Anthony Crosland age 38
Roy Barnes age 9
William S. Sessions age 26
Louis Freeh age 7
Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani age 5
Salman II of Bahrain age 63
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 18
Nita Barrow age 40
Yem Sambaur age 44
Ung Huot age 12
Chhean Vam age 41
Sim Var age 51
Sisowath Watchayavong age 65
Norodom Kantol age 36
Nhiek Tioulong age 48
Nagoum Yamassoum age 3
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 29
Évariste Kimba age 30
Léonard Mulamba age 29
Osborne Riviere age 25
Andrés F. Córdova age 65
Antonio Pons age 59
Mamdouh Salem age 39
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 11
Obed Dlamini age 20
Mabandla Dlamini age 26
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 45
George Brizan age 14
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 45
Sidya Touré age 12
Daniel Fignolé age 43
Jean-Michel Lapin age 7
Robert Malval age 13
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 36
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 54
Pascal Affi N'Guessan age 4
Clifford Campbell age 64
Florizel Glasspole age 47
Suleiman al-Nabulsi age 49
Jumabek Ibraimov age 13
Nasirdin Isanov age 13
Adolph Bowler age 67
Amin al-Hafez age 31
Hae Phoofolo age 10
Josef Hoop age 61
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 18
Ruben Zackhras age 9
Serafim Urechean age 7
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 71
Jack Marshall age 45
Francisco Urcuyo age 41
Lorenzo Guerrero age 56
Boukary Adji age 18
Francisco Cunha Leal age 68
Bernard Kolélas age 23
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 16
Arnhim Eustace age 12
Mamadou Lamine Loum age 5
Žarko Korać age 10
Milan Čič age 25
Viktor Avbelj age 43
John Lapli age 1
Francis Billy Hilly age 8
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 17
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 43
Damião Vaz d'Almeida age 6
Manuel Quintas de Almeida age 4 months
Lee Huan age 39
Tang Fei age 25
Akbarsho Iskandrov age 5
Suriya Jungrungreangkit age 2
Tu'i Pelehake age 35
Baron Vaea age 36
Tahar Ben Ammar age 67
Alberto Fermín Zubiría age 55
Washington Beltrán age 43
Benito Nardone age 50
Josias Moli age 2
Jean-Marie Léyé age 25
Ahmed al-Rahawi age 7
Muhammad Abdi Yusuf age 15
Kamil Idris age 2
Živko Radišić age 19
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 56
Kodjo Agbéyomé age 2
Abdessalam Jalloud age 12
Fu Zuoyi age 61
Henri Navarre age 58
David Waddington age 27
Benjamin Civiletti age 21
Neil H. McElroy age 52
John A. Wickham Jr. age 28
Hung Hsiu-chu age 9
Flora MacDonald age 30
Ebrahim Hakimi age 85
Oliver P. Smith age 63
Harold MacMichael age 75
James T. Conway age 9
Vu Van Mau age 42
Tadeusz Kasprzycki age 66
Maher Abd al-Rashid age 14
Abane Ramdane age 36
Fusako Kitashirakawa age 67
Toshiko Higashikuni age 61
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda age 48
Morihiro Higashikuni age 40
Anastasia de Torby age 64
Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia age 54
Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff age 7
Prince Andrew Romanoff age 34
Gevheri Sultan age 52
Leslie Morshead age 67
Charles Noguès age 80
Tadeusz Pełczyński age 65
Wang Jiaxiang age 50
Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia age 44
Archduke Hubert Salvator of Austria age 63
Yuk Young-soo age 31
Infante Álvaro, Duke of Galliera age 47