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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 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31

People

Momčilo Cemović age 30
Jacques Drielsma age 72
Gwak Sanghun age 62
Peter Gatkuoth age 21
Giuseppe Maiani age 34
Romeo Morri age 6
Carlos Torres y Torres Lara age 16
Dante Córdova age 15
Guillermo Arbulú Galliani age 37
Julio Óscar Trelles Montes age 54
Luis A. Flores age 59
Walter E. Boomer age 20
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 55
Vuko Vukadinović age 21
Arthur May age 55
Joseph James Tombura age 29
Marino Venturini age 15
Carlo Franciosi age 23
Roque A. Saldías age 66
Óscar de la Puente Raygada age 20
Stuart M. Gerson age 15
Punch Coomaraswamy age 34
Renzo Renzi age 3
Umberto Barulli age 38
Lee Yuan-tsu age 35
Sandra Day O'Connor age 28
Kim Jong-il age 17
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 54
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 33
Fernando de la Rúa age 21
Khaleda Zia age 12
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 20
Herman Van Rompuy age 11
Waldo Bernal Pereira age 28
Óscar Pammo Rodríguez age 25
Saïd Ali Mohamed age 13
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 42
Siim Kallas age 10
Andreas Fakudze age 13
Hailu Yimenu age 24
Mekonnen Endalkachew age 30
Sidya Touré age 14
Constantino Teixeira age 25
Fritz Jean age 3
András Baka age 6
Morarji Desai age 62
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 34
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 54
H. D. Deve Gowda age 25
Taher Masri age 17
Ata Teaotai age 6
Phankham Viphavanh age 8
David Nimley age 14
Gediminas Vagnorius age 1
Jean-Jacques Rasolondraibe age 12
Léon Réallon age 76
Léon Cayla age 77
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 5
Miguel de la Madrid age 24
Ernesto Zedillo age 7
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 10
Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan age 4
Mijuško Šibalić age 44
Fatmi Benslimane age 61
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 6
Julián Irías Sandres age 79
Hama Amadou age 9
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 47
Imran Khan age 6
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 44
José Manuel Barroso age 2
Pasteur Bizimungu age 9
France Popit age 37
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 45
Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj age 34
Muhammad Ali al-Halabi age 22
Vajiralongkorn age 6
Pote Sarasin age 53
Philip "Brave" Davis age 7
Francisco Guterres age 4
Nihat Erim age 47
Samuelu Teo age 2
Saulo Musoke age 39
Yoweri Hunter Wacha-Olwol age 36
Polycarp Nyamuchoncho age 29
Carlos María Penadés age 57
Alfred Maseng age 10
Shaya al-Zindani age 5
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 8
Adolfo Suárez age 26
Giovanni Vito Marcucci age 31
Primo Marani age 36
Giovanni Zaccaria Savoretti age 39
Giuseppe Forcellini age 58
Marino Bollini age 26
Severiano Tura age 6
Gastone Pasolini age 27
Ferruccio Piva age 35
Libero Barulli age 11
Pier Paolo Gasperoni age 8
Pietro Giancecchi age 37
Giordano Bruno Reffi age 38
Dante Rossi age 28
Emilio Della Balda age 22
Enrico Andreoli age 37
Mauro Fiorini age 2
Alberto Cecchetti age 15
Antonio Lazzaro Volpinari age 15
Germano De Biagi age 19
Gino Giovagnoli age 7
Giovanni Giannoni age 11
Giuseppe Maria Morganti age 3
Marino Zanotti age 7
Mauro Chiaruzzi age 6
Ottaviano Rossi age 7
Paride Andreoli age 3
Pier Marino Menicucci age 4 months
Pietro Bugli age 4
Tito Masi age 10
Giancarlo Ghironzi age 27
Domenico Bernardini age 2
Vincenzo Pedini age 38
Alvaro Casali age 63
Vincenzo Mularoni age 59
Massimo Roberto Rossini age 14
Clelio Galassi age 8
Claudio Podeschi age 2
Francesco Balsimelli age 65
Roberto Bucci age 9
Renzo Ghiotti age 7
Luciano Ciavatta age 3
Oswaldo Hercelles García age 50
Miguel Mujica Gallo age 48
Daniel Becerra de la Flor age 53
Jorge Prado Ugarteche age 72
Óscar Molina Pallochia age 38
Alfonso de los Heros age 20
Joseph Kokou Koffigoh age 11
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 37
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 45
Georgy Zhukov age 62
Lord Mountbatten age 58
Li Zongren age 68
Bai Chongxi age 65
Hugh Dowding age 76
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 62
Harold Alexander age 67
Glubb Pasha age 61
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon age 58
Prince Philip age 37
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 35
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 28
Dương Văn Minh age 42
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 47
Lê Đức Thọ age 47
Văn Tiến Dũng age 41
D. F. Malan age 84
C. R. Swart age 64
Jim Fouché age 60
Nicolaas Diederichs age 55
Wangari Maathai age 18
Iain Duncan Smith age 4
George Brown age 44
Michael Foot age 45
Neil Kinnock age 16
John Smith age 20
Margaret Beckett age 16
Harriet Harman age 8
Jeremy Corbyn age 9
Clement Davies age 74
David Steel age 20
Jeremy Thorpe age 29
Wu Po-hsiung age 19
Hung Hsiu-chu age 10
Zacharias Richard Mahabane age 77
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 65
James Moroka age 67
Oliver Tambo age 41
Brian O'Higgins age 76
Margaret Buckley age 79
Tomás Ó Dubhghaill age 42
Tomás Mac Giolla age 35
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 26
Gerry Adams age 10
William Calley age 15
Ernest Medina age 22
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 15
Lee Harvey Oswald age 19
James Earl Ray age 30
Sirhan Sirhan age 14
U. S. Grant Sharp, Jr. age 52
Roy L. Johnson age 52
Deuane Sunnalath age 32
Sisavang Vatthana age 51
Phoumi Nosavan age 39
Michel Aflaq age 49
Munif Razzaz age 39
Essam Sirius age 33
Salim Hatum age 31
Ziad al-Hariri age 29