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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
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Wilopo age 46
Hikmat Sulayman age 67
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban age 56
Gilbert Aké age 5 months
Hazza' al-Majali age 37
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti age 6
Abdelhamid Sharaf age 16
Taher Masri age 14
Tursunbek Chyngyshev age 13
Andrei Iordan age 21
Shafik Wazzan age 31
Takieddin el-Solh age 48
Gustav Schädler age 72
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 25
Yoro Diakité age 23
Sghair Ould M'Bareck age 2
Dashiin Byambasüren age 13
David Beattie age 32
Aliou Mahamidou age 8
Hamid Algabid age 15
Mahamadou Danda age 4
Vitorino Guimarães age 79
Winston Cenac age 30
Monica Dacon age 21
Stanley John age 4
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 31
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 34
Dragan Maršićanin age 6
Vojislav Mihailović age 4
Janez Stanovnik age 33
Mahmoud Zuabi age 21
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 29
Tomé Vera Cruz age 3
Yahyo Azimov age 8
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 15
Gerald Cash age 38
Milo Butler age 49
Tulaga Manuella age 19
Barak Sopé age 1
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 59
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 68
Vincent Eri age 19
Osman Jama Ali age 15
Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle age 15
Hyun Soong-jong age 37
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 21
Koffi Sama age 12
Shlomo Shamir age 40
Edward Almond age 63
Lewis Thompson Preston age 29
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 50
Dana Boente age 2
Gordon R. Sullivan age 18
George Scratchley Brown age 37
John Wesley Snyder age 60
Wu Po-hsiung age 16
Muhammad Umran age 34
James L. Farmer, Jr. age 36
Diane Nash age 17
Fred Shuttlesworth age 33
Izzat Darwaza age 67
Montagu Stopford age 63
Song Shilun age 48
Yeshayahu Gavish age 30
Yasuko Konoe age 11
Paul Ilyinsky age 28
Naile Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid II) age 72
Şehzade Mehmed Abid age 51
Müşfika Kadın age 88
Mihrimah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ziyaeddin) age 33
Mukarram Jah age 22
Azam Jah age 49
Prince Abbas Hilmi age 14
Fazile Hanımsultan age 14
Swaran Singh age 48
Alfred Schlemm age 61
David Shaltiel age 53
Empress Sunjeonghyo age 61
Wilhelm Graf von Hohenau age 71
Ina Marie von Bassewitz-Levetzow age 68
Princess Antonia, Duchess of Wellington age 10 months
Archduchess Eleonora of Austria age 69
Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 43
Gerald David Lascelles age 31
Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine age 18
David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood age 5
Carmen Martínez-Bordiú age 5
Endelkachew Makonnen age 29
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth age 35
Hilary Armstrong age 10
James Michael Curley age 81
Roy Mason age 31
Gerald Baliles age 15
Leverett Saltonstall age 63
Foster Furcolo age 44
Dolph Briscoe age 32
Edgar Whitcomb age 38
Cecil Parkinson age 24
Walter E. Edge age 82
Lester Maddox age 40
James Florio age 18
John Okello age 19
Sakızlı Ahmed Esat Pasha
Joseph Ralston age 12
Naoki Hoshino age 63
Mokdad Sifi age 15
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 59
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 46
Fazlul Haque age 17
Huy Kanthoul age 47
Combo Ayouba age 3
Gonzalo Güell age 61
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 55
Edison James age 12
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 35
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 60
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 37
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 17
Maphevu Dlamini age 33
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 38
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 61
Lamine Sidimé age 12
Caetano N'Tchama age 1
Constantino Teixeira age 22
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum age 29
Muzahim Pachachi age 65
Sayyid Salih Jabr age 60
Mohsen Abdel Hamid age 19
Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai age 14
Kenneth Blackburne age 48
Abdelmunim al-Rifai age 39
Ahmad Toukan age 52
Ahmad Lawzi age 31
Amangeldy Muraliyev age 8
Hyppolite Ramaroson age 4
Mamadou Dembelé age 22
Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan age 1
Puntsagiin Jasrai age 22
Radoje Kontić age 18
Amadou Cissé age 7
José Domingues dos Santos age 68
Charles David Ganao age 28
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 39
Charles Antrobus age 22
Peter Colotka age 31
Raul Bragança Neto age 16
Yu Kuo-hwa age 42
Tomu Sione age 14
Carlos Fischer age 53
Martín Echegoyen age 64
Daniel Fernández Crespo age 54
Eduardo Víctor Haedo age 54
Alfred Maseng age 7
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 23
Daniel Lisulo age 25
Malimba Masheke age 14
Kebby Musokotwane age 9
Ignatius Kilage age 14
Silas Atopare age 5
Muhammad Hawadle Madar age 17
Abdiwahid Elmi Gonjeh age 6
Yoon Jeung-hyun age 9
Ro Jai-bong age 20
Pak Choong-hoon age 37
Assunta Meloni age 4
Javier Valle Riestra age 24
Alden W. Clausen age 33
Peter de la Billière age 21
Edward H. Levi age 44
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 42
Brendan Bracken age 55
Bernard W. Rogers age 34
David C. Jones age 34
William J. Crowe age 31
Roj Shaweis age 8
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 21
Merlyn Rees age 35
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 63
James Moroka age 65
Ernest Medina age 19
Yang Dezhi age 45
Gholam Hossein Sadighi age 50
William Hawi age 47
Nguyễn Hữu An age 29
Chūichi Hara age 67
Salah Aboud Mahmoud age 14
Rex Hunt age 29
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri age 47
Shimon Avidan age 45
Shahnawaz Tanai age 6
Masako Sen age 4
Princess Catherine Yurievskaya age 77
Audrey Emery age 52
Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich of Russia age 42
Naciye Sultan age 59
Prince Nayef bin Abdullah age 41
Marcel Carpentier age 61
Robert Laycock age 48
Princess Cecilie of Prussia age 38
Princess Henriette of Schönaich-Carolath age 37