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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

Martín Echegoyen age 65
Daniel Fernández Crespo age 55
Eduardo Víctor Haedo age 55
Alfred Maseng age 7
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 23
Daniel Lisulo age 25
Malimba Masheke age 15
Kebby Musokotwane age 10
Ignatius Kilage age 15
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 5
Javier Valle Riestra age 24
Alden W. Clausen age 33
Peter de la Billière age 22
Edward H. Levi age 45
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 43
Brendan Bracken age 55
Bernard W. Rogers age 35
David C. Jones age 35
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 30
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri age 48
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 49
Princess Cecilie of Prussia age 38
Princess Henriette of Schönaich-Carolath age 37
Princess Kira of Prussia age 13
Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg age 1 month
Vincenz Liechtenstein age 5
George, Duke of Mecklenburg age 56
Lady Iris Mountbatten age 36
Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma age 8
Tord Magnuson age 15
John Ambler age 32
Carlos Zurita, Duke of Soria age 12
Frank D. White age 23
James V. Allred age 57
William P. Hobby age 78
Coke R. Stevenson age 68
J. Lindsay Almond age 58
Dick Celeste age 18
Mills Godwin age 41
Dan Moody age 63
Herbert O'Conor age 59
Sid McMath age 44
Carl Sanders age 31
Donald DiFrancesco age 11
Joe Kernan age 10
Joe Frank Harris age 20
Božidar Purić age 65
Laz Ahmed Pasha
İbrahim Sarim Pasha
Clarence M. Kelley age 44
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 69
Mohammad Yusuf age 39
Fazal khaliq age 22
John Montague Stow age 44
Lhendup Dorji age 20
André Muhirwa age 36
Joseph Bamina age 31
Ek Yi Oun age 46
Sak Sutsakhan age 28
Luc Ayang age 9
Édouard Frank age 22
Timothée Malendoma age 21
Said Atthoumani age 6
Abbas Djoussouf age 14
Nourdine Bourhane age 6
Ramón Zaydín age 61
Rosie Douglas age 14
Ahmad Najib al-Hilali age 64
Naji Shawkat age 63
Edward Zacca age 24
Kassim al-Rimawi age 38
Mohammad Daoud al-Abbasi age 43
Ata Teaotai age 3
Nazem Akkari age 54
Guy Razanamasy age 27
Younoussi Touré age 15
Ahmed Ould Bouceif age 22
Mircea Druc age 14
Mamane Oumarou age 11
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki age 4
Ksente Bogoev age 36
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 67
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 2
Vaughan Lewis age 16
Michael Pilgrim age 9
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 34
Johan Adolf Pengel age 40
Izzat al-Nuss age 44
Nasuhi al-Bukhari age 75
Lutfi al-Haffar age 68
Weng Wenhao age 67
Qadriddin Aslonov age 9
Arturo Lezama age 57
Faustino Harrison age 56
Mainza Chona age 26
John Guise age 41
Kingsford Dibela age 24
Antonio Carattoni age 10
Gabriele Gatti age 3
Glauco Sansovini age 18
Giovanni Francesco Ugolini age 3
Beriz Belkić age 9
Efraín Goldenberg age 26
Luis Alva Castro age 14
Pedro Beltrán age 59
Víctor Joy Way age 11
Wei Lihuang age 59
George David Woods age 55
Edward C. Meyer age 27
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 65
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 74
Daniel Bennett Smith age 4 months
Earle Wheeler age 48
David E. Jeremiah age 22
Hardan al-Tikriti age 31
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 28
Kenneth Rush age 46
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 23
Phoumi Nosavan age 36
Xu Shiyou age 51
James Bevel age 19
Ye Fei age 42
Zhang Zhen age 41
Tang Shengzhi age 66
Milutin Kukanjac age 21
Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge age 60
Basilio Lami Dozo age 27
John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse age 28
Ngo Quang Truong age 26
Sadae Inoue age 69
Leighton W. Smith, Jr. age 16
Carlos Asensio Cabanillas age 59
Nguyen Van Toan age 23
Avigdor Ben-Gal age 20
Amir Drori age 18
Julian Thompson age 21
Jeremy Moore age 28
Teymuraz Bagration age 43
Irina Yusupova age 41
Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia age 32
Mihrişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Izzeddin) age 40
Deng Hua age 46
Friedrich Wiese age 63
Joseph J. Clark age 62
Frederick C. Sherman age 68
Yi Geon age 46
Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg age 57
Archduchess Mechthildis of Austria age 65
Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm age 52
Princess Franziska of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst age 59
Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg age 34
Archduke Carl Christian of Austria age 1
Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk age 62
Fernando Schwartz age 18
Channing H. Cox age 76
Alvan T. Fuller age 78
Francis Cherry age 47
C. William O'Neill age 40
Thomas J. Herbert age 61
Endicott Peabody age 36
Jim Rhodes age 46
John N. Dalton age 25
John William Brown age 42
Colgate Darden age 59
Ned McWherter age 25
Ernest Vandiver age 38
Joe Purcell age 32
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton age 72
Theodore Olson age 15
Benderli Ali Pasha
Gordon Browning age 66
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 76