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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

People

Jumabek Ibraimov age 15
Nasirdin Isanov age 15
Adolph Bowler age 69
Abdallah El-Yafi age 57
Amin al-Hafez age 33
Hae Phoofolo age 12
Josef Hoop age 63
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 20
Ruben Zackhras age 11
Serafim Urechean age 8
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 72
Jack Marshall age 46
Francisco Urcuyo age 43
Lorenzo Guerrero age 58
Boukary Adji age 20
Francisco Cunha Leal age 70
Bernard Kolélas age 25
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 17
Arnhim Eustace age 14
Mamadou Lamine Loum age 6
Žarko Korać age 11
Milan Čič age 27
Viktor Avbelj age 44
John Lapli age 3
Francis Billy Hilly age 10
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 19
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 45
Damião Vaz d'Almeida age 7
Manuel Quintas de Almeida age 2
Lee Huan age 41
Tang Fei age 26
Akbarsho Iskandrov age 7
Suriya Jungrungreangkit age 4
Tu'i Pelehake age 37
Baron Vaea age 37
Tahar Ben Ammar age 69
Alberto Fermín Zubiría age 57
Washington Beltrán age 44
Benito Nardone age 52
Josias Moli age 4
Jean-Marie Léyé age 27
Ahmed al-Rahawi age 9
Muhammad Abdi Yusuf age 17
Kamil Idris age 4
Živko Radišić age 21
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 58
Kodjo Agbéyomé age 4
Abdessalam Jalloud age 14
Fu Zuoyi age 63
Henri Navarre age 60
David Waddington age 29
Benjamin Civiletti age 23
Arthur W. Radford age 62
Jeffrey A. Rosen age 9 months
John A. Wickham Jr. age 30
Hung Hsiu-chu age 10
Flora MacDonald age 32
Ebrahim Hakimi age 87
Oliver P. Smith age 65
Harold MacMichael age 77
James T. Conway age 11
Vu Van Mau age 44
Tadeusz Kasprzycki age 68
Maher Abd al-Rashid age 16
Fusako Kitashirakawa age 69
Toshiko Higashikuni age 62
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda age 49
Morihiro Higashikuni age 41
Anastasia de Torby age 66
Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia age 56
Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff age 8
Prince Andrew Romanoff age 36
Gevheri Sultan age 54
Leslie Morshead age 69
Charles Noguès age 82
Tadeusz Pełczyński age 66
Wang Jiaxiang age 52
Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia age 46
Archduke Hubert Salvator of Austria age 64
Yuk Young-soo age 33
Infante Álvaro, Duke of Galliera age 48
Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 23
Marion Stein age 32
Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen age 6
John J. Gilligan age 37
W. Lee O'Daniel age 68
Alan Milburn age 12 months
Malcolm Wilson age 44
Culbert Olson age 82
Harry Hughes age 32
Frank Lausche age 63
John Strachey (politician) age 57
George Brown, Baron George-Brown age 44
Hans Brunhart age 13
Bantz J. Craddock age 9
Paul Legentilhomme age 74
Khosrov Harutyunyan age 10
Bill McKell age 67
Fuad Guliyev age 17
Firuz Mustafayev age 25
Grantley Herbert Adams age 60
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 29
Oum Cheang Sun age 58
Hang Thun Hak age 34
Bello Bouba Maigari age 12
Célestin Gaombalet age 17
Henri Maïdou age 22
Mohamed Ahmed age 41
Ahmed Abdou age 23
Mahmoud Fawzi age 58
Aziz Sedki age 38
Makhosini Dlamini age 45
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 13
Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge age 12
Ben Jones age 34
Luis Arturo González López age 58
Artur Silva age 3
Jean Marie Chérestal age 11
Wilopo age 49
Hikmat Sulayman age 70
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban age 59
Gilbert Aké age 3
Hazza' al-Majali age 40
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti age 9
Abdelhamid Sharaf age 19
Taher Masri age 17
Tursunbek Chyngyshev age 16
Andrei Iordan age 24
Shafik Wazzan age 34
Takieddin el-Solh age 51
Gustav Schädler age 75
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 28
Yoro Diakité age 26
Sghair Ould M'Bareck age 5
Dashiin Byambasüren age 16
David Beattie age 34
Aliou Mahamidou age 11
Hamid Algabid age 18
Mahamadou Danda age 7
Winston Cenac age 33
Monica Dacon age 24
Stanley John age 7
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 34
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 37
Dragan Maršićanin age 9
Vojislav Mihailović age 7
Janez Stanovnik age 36
Mahmoud Zuabi age 24
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 32
Tomé Vera Cruz age 6
Yahyo Azimov age 11
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 18
Gerald Cash age 41
Milo Butler age 52
Tulaga Manuella age 22
Barak Sopé age 4
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 62
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 71
Vincent Eri age 22
Osman Jama Ali age 18
Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle age 18
Hyun Soong-jong age 40
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 24
Koffi Sama age 15
Shlomo Shamir age 43
Edward Almond age 66
Lewis Thompson Preston age 32
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 53
Dana Boente age 4
Gordon R. Sullivan age 21
George Scratchley Brown age 40
John Wesley Snyder age 63
Wu Po-hsiung age 19
Muhammad Umran age 37
James L. Farmer, Jr. age 39
Diane Nash age 20
Fred Shuttlesworth age 36
Izzat Darwaza age 70
Montagu Stopford age 66
Song Shilun age 51
Yeshayahu Gavish age 33
Yasuko Konoe age 14
Paul Ilyinsky age 31
Şehzade Mehmed Abid age 54
Müşfika Kadın age 91
Mihrimah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ziyaeddin) age 36
Mukarram Jah age 25
Azam Jah age 51
Prince Abbas Hilmi age 17
Fazile Hanımsultan age 17
Swaran Singh age 51
Alfred Schlemm age 64
David Shaltiel age 56
Empress Sunjeonghyo age 64
Ina Marie von Bassewitz-Levetzow age 71
Princess Antonia, Duchess of Wellington age 3
Archduchess Eleonora of Austria age 72
Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 46
Gerald David Lascelles age 34
Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine age 21