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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 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

People

Naji Talib age 42
Ezzedine Salim age 16
Husayn al-Khalidi age 65
David D. Kpormakpor age 24
Abuzed Omar Dorda age 15
Mohieddin Fikini age 34
Walter Kieber age 28
Barlen Vyapoory age 14
Karl Offmann age 19
Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa age 1
Veselin Đuranović age 34
Ahmed Balafrej age 51
Maung Maung age 34
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 66
René Schick age 50
Ljupčo Jordanovski age 6
Henri Lopès age 22
Kennedy Simmonds age 23
Moustapha Niasse age 20
Thomas Holenstein age 63
Faris al-Khoury age 82
İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil age 51
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 48
Ionatana Ionatana age 21
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 3
Mekere Morauta age 13
Cesar Virata age 29
Bakri Hassan Saleh age 10
Gianfranco Terenzi age 18
José Antonio Chang age 1
Salomón Lerner Ghitis age 13
Oscar Valdés age 10
Carlos Ferrero age 18
Yawovi Agboyibo age 15
Du Yuming age 55
Su Yu age 52
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 59
William E. Simon age 32
Richard Kleindienst age 36
J. Howard McGrath age 56
Liu Huaqing age 43
Vivian Malone Jones age 17
Tikka Khan age 44
Veselin Šljivančanin age 6
Jorge Anaya age 33
Zvonimir Červenko age 33
Života Panić age 26
Lucian Truscott age 64
Toshizō Nishio age 78
Ahmad Ismail Ali age 42
Moshe Carmel age 48
Sandy Woodward age 27
Halvard Lange age 57
Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia age 58
Şadiye Sultan age 73
Ulviye Sultan age 67
Şehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz age 58
Hanzade Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 36
Ronald Scobie age 66
Prince Karl Franz of Prussia age 43
Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 66
Karl August, 10th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 61
Princess Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 60
Lady May Abel Smith age 53
Archduke Anton of Austria age 58
Leonida Bagration of Mukhrani age 45
Peter, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein age 37
Princess Claude of Orléans age 16
Erling Lorentzen age 36
Christoph of Schleswig-Holstein age 10
Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington age 14
Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield age 43
Thomas Kean age 24
Goodwin Knight age 63
Don Sundquist age 23
Charles Edison age 69
George Busbee age 32
Brendan Byrne age 35
Jagjit Singh Aurora age 43
Mütercim Mehmed Rüşdi Pasha
Tunuslu Hayreddin Pasha
Avlonyalı Mehmed Ferid Pasha
Curtis Scaparrotti age 3
Abe Fortas age 49
Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal age 38
Paul Hasluck age 54
Shah Azizur Rahman age 34
Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo age 5
Chan Sy age 27
In Tam age 37
Bartolomé Blanche age 80
Caabi El-Yachroutu Mohamed age 9
Abdallah Mohamed Kamil age 23
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 67
Arturo Araujo age 82
Jean-Hilaire Aubame age 47
Herbert Blaize age 41
Diarra Traoré age 24
Alamara Nhassé age 2
Francisco Fadul age 6
Manuel Saturnino da Costa age 17
Edward Luckhoo age 47
Émile Jonassaint age 46
Vicente Mejía Colindres age 81
Adnan Pachachi age 36
Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif age 26
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi age 67
Faisal al-Fayez age 6
Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh age 20
Apas Jumagulov age 25
Wilton G. S. Sankawulo age 22
Wanis al-Qaddafi age 35
Hussein Maziq age 41
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 20
Imbarek Shamekh age 7
Alfred Hilbe age 31
Tantely Andrianarivo age 5
Eugène Mangalaza age 9
Ibrahim Muhammad Didi age 58
Ahmed Mohamed ag Hamani age 17
Soumana Sacko age 8
Kunio Lemari age 17
Andrei Sangheli age 15
Gheorghe Brega age 8
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 26
Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 74
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae age 48
Yon Hyong-muk age 28
Allan Louisy age 43
Idrissa Seck age 4 months
Allan Kemakeza age 11
Solomon Mamaloni age 16
Jules Sedney age 37
Bahij al-Khatib age 64
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 27
Yusuf Zuayyin age 28
Sabri al-Asali age 56
Guilherme Posser da Costa age 6
Frederick Sumaye age 9
Edward Sokoine age 21
John Malecela age 25
Orville Turnquest age 30
Clifford Darling age 37
Kléber Dadjo age 45
Tupua Leupena age 37
Koloa Talake age 25
Luis Giannattasio age 65
Frederick Karlomuana Timakata age 23
Esmon Saimon age 4
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani age 20
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 47
Bill Skate age 6
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 28
Yoo Il-ho age 4
Oscar Mina age 1
Krešimir Zubak age 12
Antero Flores Aráoz age 17
Kwesi Ahoomey-Zunu age 1
Patrick J. Hurley age 76
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 65
Hu Zongnan age 63
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 74
George M. Humphrey age 69
Charles Clarke age 9
Henry H. Fowler age 51
Hugh Shelton age 17
William French Smith age 42
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 47
Peter Schoomaker age 13
James C. McConville age 9 months
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez age 27
Masakazu Kawabe age 73
Chang Fa-kwei age 63
Clarence R. Huebner age 71
Yury Drozdov age 34
Petar Stipetić age 22
Ra'ad al-Hamdani age 8
Stuart Peach, Baron Peach age 3
Antonio Aranda age 71
Paul Aussaresses age 41
Irina Paley age 56
Nevvare Hanım age 58
Mehisti Hanım age 67
Muhammad Abdel Moneim age 60
Dov Joseph age 60
Yi Bangja age 58
Yi Hae-won age 40
Yi Ku age 27
Prince Frederick of Prussia (1911–1966) age 48
Michael Prinz von Preussen age 19
Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn and Taxis age 56
Sylvana Tomaselli age 2
Edward J. King age 34
John A. Volpe age 51
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey age 82
Marvin Mandel age 39
Winfield Dunn age 32
Charles Poletti age 56
Anthony Crosland age 41
Roy Barnes age 11