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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
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962

People

Kodjo Agbéyomé age 3
Abdessalam Jalloud age 13
Fu Zuoyi age 62
Henri Navarre age 59
David Waddington age 28
Benjamin Civiletti age 22
Arthur W. Radford age 62
John A. Wickham Jr. age 29
Hung Hsiu-chu age 9
Flora MacDonald age 31
Ebrahim Hakimi age 86
Oliver P. Smith age 64
Harold MacMichael age 76
James T. Conway age 10
Vu Van Mau age 43
Tadeusz Kasprzycki age 67
Maher Abd al-Rashid age 15
Fusako Kitashirakawa age 68
Toshiko Higashikuni age 61
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda age 49
Morihiro Higashikuni age 40
Anastasia de Torby age 65
Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia age 55
Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff age 7
Prince Andrew Romanoff age 35
Gevheri Sultan age 53
Leslie Morshead age 68
Charles Noguès age 81
Tadeusz Pełczyński age 66
Wang Jiaxiang age 51
Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia age 45
Archduke Hubert Salvator of Austria age 63
Yuk Young-soo age 32
Infante Álvaro, Duke of Galliera age 47
Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 22
Marion Stein age 31
Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen age 5
John J. Gilligan age 36
W. Lee O'Daniel age 67
Alan Milburn age 0 months
Malcolm Wilson age 44
Culbert Olson age 81
Harry Hughes age 31
Frank Lausche age 62
John Strachey (politician) age 56
George Brown, Baron George-Brown age 43
Hans Brunhart age 12
Bantz J. Craddock age 8
Paul Legentilhomme age 73
Khosrov Harutyunyan age 9
Bill McKell age 66
Fuad Guliyev age 16
Firuz Mustafayev age 24
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 28
Oum Cheang Sun age 57
Hang Thun Hak age 33
Bello Bouba Maigari age 11
Célestin Gaombalet age 16
Henri Maïdou age 22
Mohamed Ahmed age 40
Ahmed Abdou age 22
Mahmoud Fawzi age 57
Aziz Sedki age 37
Makhosini Dlamini age 44
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 12
Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge age 11
Ben Jones age 33
Luis Arturo González López age 57
Artur Silva age 2
Jean Marie Chérestal age 10
Wilopo age 48
Hikmat Sulayman age 69
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban age 58
Gilbert Aké age 2
Hazza' al-Majali age 39
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti age 8
Abdelhamid Sharaf age 18
Taher Masri age 16
Tursunbek Chyngyshev age 15
Andrei Iordan age 23
Shafik Wazzan age 33
Takieddin el-Solh age 50
Gustav Schädler age 74
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 27
Yoro Diakité age 25
Sghair Ould M'Bareck age 4
Dashiin Byambasüren age 15
David Beattie age 34
Aliou Mahamidou age 10
Hamid Algabid age 17
Mahamadou Danda age 6
Winston Cenac age 32
Monica Dacon age 23
Stanley John age 6
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 33
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 36
Dragan Maršićanin age 8
Vojislav Mihailović age 6
Janez Stanovnik age 35
Mahmoud Zuabi age 23
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 31
Tomé Vera Cruz age 5
Yahyo Azimov age 10
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 17
Gerald Cash age 40
Milo Butler age 51
Tulaga Manuella age 21
Barak Sopé age 3
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 61
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 70
Vincent Eri age 21
Osman Jama Ali age 17
Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle age 17
Hyun Soong-jong age 39
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 23
Koffi Sama age 14
Shlomo Shamir age 42
Edward Almond age 65
Lewis Thompson Preston age 31
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 52
Dana Boente age 4
Gordon R. Sullivan age 20
George Scratchley Brown age 39
John Wesley Snyder age 62
Wu Po-hsiung age 18
Muhammad Umran age 36
James L. Farmer, Jr. age 38
Diane Nash age 19
Fred Shuttlesworth age 35
Izzat Darwaza age 69
Montagu Stopford age 65
Song Shilun age 50
Yeshayahu Gavish age 32
Yasuko Konoe age 13
Paul Ilyinsky age 30
Şehzade Mehmed Abid age 53
Müşfika Kadın age 90
Mihrimah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ziyaeddin) age 35
Mukarram Jah age 24
Azam Jah age 51
Prince Abbas Hilmi age 16
Fazile Hanımsultan age 16
Swaran Singh age 50
Alfred Schlemm age 63
David Shaltiel age 55
Empress Sunjeonghyo age 63
Ina Marie von Bassewitz-Levetzow age 70
Princess Antonia, Duchess of Wellington age 2
Archduchess Eleonora of Austria age 71
Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 45
Gerald David Lascelles age 33
Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine age 20
David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood age 7
Carmen Martínez-Bordiú age 6
Endelkachew Makonnen age 31
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth age 37
Hilary Armstrong age 12
James Michael Curley age 83
Allan Shivers age 50
Roy Mason age 33
Gerald Baliles age 17
Leverett Saltonstall age 65
Thomas B. Stanley age 67
Dolph Briscoe age 34
Edgar Whitcomb age 40
Cecil Parkinson age 26
Lester Maddox age 42
James Florio age 20
John Okello age 21
Sakızlı Ahmed Esat Pasha
Joseph Ralston age 14
Naoki Hoshino age 65
Mokdad Sifi age 17
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 61
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 48
Fazlul Haque age 19
Pascal-Firmin Ndimira age 1
Huy Kanthoul age 49
Leng Ngeth age 58
Anicet-Georges Dologuélé age 10 months
Combo Ayouba age 5
Gonzalo Güell age 63
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 57
Edison James age 14
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 37
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 62
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 39
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 19
Maphevu Dlamini age 35
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 40
Lamine Sidimé age 14
Caetano N'Tchama age 3
Constantino Teixeira age 24
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum age 31
Muzahim Pachachi age 67
Mohsen Abdel Hamid age 21
Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai age 16
Kenneth Blackburne age 50
Abdelmunim al-Rifai age 41
Ahmad Toukan age 54