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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

David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood age 8
Carmen Martínez-Bordiú age 7
Endelkachew Makonnen age 32
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth age 38
Hilary Armstrong age 13
Allan Shivers age 51
Roy Mason age 34
Gerald Baliles age 18
Leverett Saltonstall age 66
Thomas B. Stanley age 68
Dolph Briscoe age 35
Edgar Whitcomb age 41
Cecil Parkinson age 27
Lester Maddox age 43
James Florio age 21
John Okello age 22
Sakızlı Ahmed Esat Pasha
Joseph Ralston age 15
Naoki Hoshino age 66
Mokdad Sifi age 18
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 62
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 49
Fazlul Haque age 20
Pascal-Firmin Ndimira age 2
Huy Kanthoul age 50
Leng Ngeth age 59
Anicet-Georges Dologuélé age 1
Combo Ayouba age 6
Gonzalo Güell age 63
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 58
Edison James age 15
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 37
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 62
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 40
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 20
Maphevu Dlamini age 36
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 41
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 64
Lamine Sidimé age 15
Caetano N'Tchama age 4
Constantino Teixeira age 25
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum age 32
Muzahim Pachachi age 68
Mohsen Abdel Hamid age 22
Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai age 17
Kenneth Blackburne age 51
Abdelmunim al-Rifai age 41
Ahmad Toukan age 55
Ahmad Lawzi age 34
Amangeldy Muraliyev age 11
Hyppolite Ramaroson age 7
Mamadou Dembelé age 25
Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan age 4
Puntsagiin Jasrai age 25
Radoje Kontić age 21
Ali Badjo Gamatié age 2
Amadou Cissé age 10
Charles David Ganao age 31
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 42
Charles Antrobus age 25
Peter Colotka age 34
Raul Bragança Neto age 19
Yu Kuo-hwa age 45
Tomu Sione age 17
Martín Echegoyen age 67
Daniel Fernández Crespo age 57
Eduardo Víctor Haedo age 57
Alfred Maseng age 10
Philip Boedoro age 8 months
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 26
Daniel Lisulo age 28
Malimba Masheke age 17
Kebby Musokotwane age 12
Ignatius Kilage age 17
Silas Atopare age 8
Muhammad Hawadle Madar age 20
Abdiwahid Elmi Gonjeh age 9
Yoon Jeung-hyun age 12
Ro Jai-bong age 22
Pak Choong-hoon age 40
Assunta Meloni age 7
Javier Valle Riestra age 27
Alden W. Clausen age 35
Peter de la Billière age 24
Edward H. Levi age 47
Gwilym Lloyd George age 64
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 45
Bernard W. Rogers age 37
David C. Jones age 37
William J. Crowe age 34
Roj Shaweis age 11
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 24
Merlyn Rees age 38
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 65
James Moroka age 67
Ernest Medina age 22
Yang Dezhi age 48
Gholam Hossein Sadighi age 53
William Hawi age 50
Nguyễn Hữu An age 32
Chūichi Hara age 69
Salah Aboud Mahmoud age 17
Rex Hunt age 32
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri age 50
Shimon Avidan age 48
Shahnawaz Tanai age 9
Masako Sen age 7
Princess Catherine Yurievskaya age 80
Audrey Emery age 55
Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich of Russia age 45
Prince Nayef bin Abdullah age 44
Marcel Carpentier age 63
Robert Laycock age 51
Princess Cecilie of Prussia age 41
Princess Henriette of Schönaich-Carolath age 40
Princess Kira of Prussia age 15
Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg age 2
Vincenz Liechtenstein age 8
George, Duke of Mecklenburg age 59
Lady Iris Mountbatten age 39
Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma age 11
Tord Magnuson age 17
John Ambler age 34
Carlos Zurita, Duke of Soria age 15
Frank D. White age 25
James V. Allred age 59
William P. Hobby age 80
Coke R. Stevenson age 70
Dick Celeste age 21
Mills Godwin age 44
Dan Moody age 65
Herbert O'Conor age 62
Sid McMath age 46
Carl Sanders age 33
Donald DiFrancesco age 14
Joe Kernan age 12
Joe Frank Harris age 22
Božidar Purić age 67
Laz Ahmed Pasha
İbrahim Sarim Pasha
Clarence M. Kelley age 47
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 71
Mohammad Yusuf age 42
Fazal khaliq age 25
John Montague Stow age 47
Lhendup Dorji age 23
André Muhirwa age 39
Joseph Bamina age 34
Khim Tit age 62
Ek Yi Oun age 49
Sak Sutsakhan age 30
Luc Ayang age 12
Édouard Frank age 24
Jean-Paul Ngoupandé age 1
Timothée Malendoma age 24
Said Atthoumani age 9
Abbas Djoussouf age 16
Nourdine Bourhane age 9
Ramón Zaydín age 64
Rosie Douglas age 17
Makonnen Endelkachew age 68
Naji Shawkat age 66
Edward Zacca age 27
Kassim al-Rimawi age 41
Mohammad Daoud al-Abbasi age 46
Ata Teaotai age 6
Nazem Akkari age 57
Guy Razanamasy age 30
Younoussi Touré age 18
Ahmed Ould Bouceif age 25
Mircea Druc age 17
Mamane Oumarou age 14
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki age 7
Ksente Bogoev age 39
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 70
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 5
Vaughan Lewis age 18
Michael Pilgrim age 12
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 36
Johan Adolf Pengel age 43
Izzat al-Nuss age 47
Nasuhi al-Bukhari age 78
Lutfi al-Haffar age 71
Weng Wenhao age 69
Yu Hung-chun age 61
Qadriddin Aslonov age 11
Samuelu Teo age 2
Arturo Lezama age 60
Faustino Harrison age 58
Mainza Chona age 29
John Guise age 44
Kingsford Dibela age 26
Sam Abal age 7 months
Antonio Carattoni age 13
Gabriele Gatti age 5
Glauco Sansovini age 20
Giovanni Francesco Ugolini age 5
Beriz Belkić age 12
Efraín Goldenberg age 29
Luis Alva Castro age 16