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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
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19

People

Hyun Soong-jong age 36
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 20
Koffi Sama age 11
Shlomo Shamir age 39
Edward Almond age 62
Lewis Thompson Preston age 28
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 49
Dana Boente age 1
Gordon R. Sullivan age 17
George Scratchley Brown age 36
John Wesley Snyder age 59
Peyton C. March age 90
Wu Po-hsiung age 15
Muhammad Umran age 33
James L. Farmer, Jr. age 35
Diane Nash age 16
Fred Shuttlesworth age 33
Izzat Darwaza age 66
Montagu Stopford age 62
Song Shilun age 47
Yeshayahu Gavish age 29
Yasuko Konoe age 10
Paul Ilyinsky age 27
Naile Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid II) age 71
Şehzade Mehmed Abid age 50
Müşfika Kadın age 87
Mihrimah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ziyaeddin) age 32
Mukarram Jah age 21
Azam Jah age 48
Prince Abbas Hilmi age 13
Fazile Hanımsultan age 13
Swaran Singh age 47
Alfred Schlemm age 60
David Shaltiel age 52
Empress Sunjeonghyo age 60
Wilhelm Graf von Hohenau age 70
Ina Marie von Bassewitz-Levetzow age 67
Archduchess Eleonora of Austria age 68
Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 42
Gerald David Lascelles age 30
Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine age 17
David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood age 4
Carmen Martínez-Bordiú age 4
Endelkachew Makonnen age 28
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth age 34
Hilary Armstrong age 9
James Michael Curley age 80
Roy Mason age 30
Gerald Baliles age 14
Leverett Saltonstall age 62
Foster Furcolo age 43
Dolph Briscoe age 31
Edgar Whitcomb age 37
Cecil Parkinson age 23
Walter E. Edge age 81
Lester Maddox age 39
James Florio age 17
John Okello age 18
Sakızlı Ahmed Esat Pasha
Joseph Ralston age 11
Naoki Hoshino age 63
Mokdad Sifi age 14
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 58
Fazlul Haque age 16
Huy Kanthoul age 46
Leng Ngeth age 55
Combo Ayouba age 2
Gonzalo Güell age 60
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 54
Edison James age 11
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 34
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 59
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 36
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 16
Maphevu Dlamini age 33
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 37
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 60
Lamine Sidimé age 11
Caetano N'Tchama age 2 months
Constantino Teixeira age 21
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum age 28
Muzahim Pachachi age 64
Sayyid Salih Jabr age 59
Mohsen Abdel Hamid age 18
Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai age 13
Kenneth Blackburne age 47
Abdelmunim al-Rifai age 38
Ahmad Toukan age 51
Ahmad Lawzi age 30
Amangeldy Muraliyev age 7
Hyppolite Ramaroson age 3
Mamadou Dembelé age 21
Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan age 3 months
Puntsagiin Jasrai age 21
Radoje Kontić age 17
Amadou Cissé age 6
José Domingues dos Santos age 67
Charles David Ganao age 27
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 38
Charles Antrobus age 21
Peter Colotka age 30
Raul Bragança Neto age 15
Yu Kuo-hwa age 41
Tomu Sione age 13
Carlos Fischer age 52
Martín Echegoyen age 64
Daniel Fernández Crespo age 53
Eduardo Víctor Haedo age 53
Alfred Maseng age 6
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 22
Daniel Lisulo age 24
Malimba Masheke age 13
Kebby Musokotwane age 8
Ignatius Kilage age 13
Silas Atopare age 4
Muhammad Hawadle Madar age 16
Abdiwahid Elmi Gonjeh age 5
Yoon Jeung-hyun age 8
Ro Jai-bong age 19
Pak Choong-hoon age 36
Assunta Meloni age 3
Javier Valle Riestra age 23
Alden W. Clausen age 32
Peter de la Billière age 20
Edward H. Levi age 43
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 42
Brendan Bracken age 54
Bernard W. Rogers age 33
David C. Jones age 33
William D. Mitchell age 80
William J. Crowe age 30
Roj Shaweis age 7
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 20
Merlyn Rees age 34
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 62
James Moroka age 64
Ernest Medina age 18
Yang Dezhi age 44
Gholam Hossein Sadighi age 49
William Hawi age 46
Nguyễn Hữu An age 28
Chūichi Hara age 66
Salah Aboud Mahmoud age 13
Rex Hunt age 28
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri age 46
Shimon Avidan age 44
Shahnawaz Tanai age 5
Masako Sen age 3
Princess Catherine Yurievskaya age 76
Audrey Emery age 51
Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich of Russia age 41
Naciye Sultan age 58
Prince Nayef bin Abdullah age 40
Marcel Carpentier age 60
Robert Laycock age 48
Yi Kang age 78
Princess Cecilie of Prussia age 37
Princess Henriette of Schönaich-Carolath age 36
Princess Kira of Prussia age 11
Vincenz Liechtenstein age 4
George, Duke of Mecklenburg age 55
Lady Iris Mountbatten age 35
Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma age 7
Tord Magnuson age 14
John Ambler age 30
Carlos Zurita, Duke of Soria age 11
Frank D. White age 21
James V. Allred age 56
William P. Hobby age 77
Coke R. Stevenson age 67
J. Lindsay Almond age 56
Dick Celeste age 17
Mills Godwin age 40
Dan Moody age 61
Herbert O'Conor age 58
Sid McMath age 42
Carl Sanders age 29
Donald DiFrancesco age 10
Joe Kernan age 9
Joe Frank Harris age 19
Božidar Purić age 64
Laz Ahmed Pasha
İbrahim Sarim Pasha
Clarence M. Kelley age 43
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 67
Mohammad Yusuf age 38
Fazal khaliq age 21
John Montague Stow age 43
Lhendup Dorji age 19
André Muhirwa age 35
Joseph Bamina age 30
Khim Tit age 58
Ek Yi Oun age 45
Sak Sutsakhan age 27
Luc Ayang age 8
Édouard Frank age 21
Timothée Malendoma age 20
Said Atthoumani age 5
Abbas Djoussouf age 13
Nourdine Bourhane age 5