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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
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
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

David Waddington age 32
Benjamin Civiletti age 26
Arthur W. Radford age 65
Jeffrey A. Rosen age 3
Neil H. McElroy age 56
John A. Wickham Jr. age 33
Hung Hsiu-chu age 13
Flora MacDonald age 35
Oliver P. Smith age 67
Harold MacMichael age 79
James T. Conway age 13
Vu Van Mau age 47
Tadeusz Kasprzycki age 70
Maher Abd al-Rashid age 19
Fusako Kitashirakawa age 71
Toshiko Higashikuni age 65
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda age 52
Morihiro Higashikuni age 44
Anastasia de Torby age 68
Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia age 58
Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff age 11
Prince Andrew Romanoff age 38
Gevheri Sultan age 56
Karim Valiyev age 6 months
Charles Noguès age 85
Tadeusz Pełczyński age 69
Wang Jiaxiang age 55
Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia age 48
Archduke Hubert Salvator of Austria age 67
Yuk Young-soo age 35
Infante Álvaro, Duke of Galliera age 51
Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 26
Marion Stein age 34
David Carnegie, 4th Duke of Fife age 5 months
Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen age 9
Prince Radu of Romania age 1
John J. Gilligan age 40
W. Lee O'Daniel age 71
Alan Milburn age 3
Malcolm Wilson age 47
Culbert Olson age 84
Harry Hughes age 34
Frank Lausche age 65
John Strachey (politician) age 59
George Brown, Baron George-Brown age 46
Hans Brunhart age 16
Bantz J. Craddock age 11
Paul Legentilhomme age 77
Osmín Aguirre y Salinas age 71
Salvador Castaneda Castro age 74
Phan Khắc Sửu age 56
Khosrov Harutyunyan age 13
Bill McKell age 69
Fuad Guliyev age 20
Firuz Mustafayev age 27
Grantley Herbert Adams age 63
Chérif Sy age 1
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 31
Oum Cheang Sun age 61
Hang Thun Hak age 37
Bello Bouba Maigari age 14
Célestin Gaombalet age 19
Henri Maïdou age 25
Mohamed Ahmed age 44
Ahmed Abdou age 25
Mahmoud Fawzi age 60
Aziz Sedki age 41
Cándido Muatetema Rivas age 1
Makhosini Dlamini age 47
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 16
Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge age 15
Ben Jones age 37
Luis Arturo González López age 60
Artur Silva age 5
Jean Marie Chérestal age 14
Wilopo age 51
Hikmat Sulayman age 72
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban age 61
Gilbert Aké age 5
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti age 11
Abdelhamid Sharaf age 22
Taher Masri age 19
Tursunbek Chyngyshev age 18
Andrei Iordan age 26
Shafik Wazzan age 36
Takieddin el-Solh age 53
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 30
Yoro Diakité age 28
Sghair Ould M'Bareck age 7
Dashiin Byambasüren age 19
David Beattie age 37
Aliou Mahamidou age 14
Hamid Algabid age 20
Mahamadou Danda age 10
Winston Cenac age 35
Monica Dacon age 27
Stanley John age 10
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 37
Dragan Maršićanin age 11
Vojislav Mihailović age 9
Janez Stanovnik age 39
Mahmoud Zuabi age 26
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 34
Tomé Vera Cruz age 8
Yahyo Azimov age 13
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 20
Gerald Cash age 44
Milo Butler age 55
Tulaga Manuella age 24
Barak Sopé age 6
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 64
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 73
Vincent Eri age 24
Osman Jama Ali age 20
Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle age 20
Hyun Soong-jong age 42
Roberto Venturini age 7 months
Fabio Berardi age 2
Héctor Valer age 2
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 26
Koffi Sama age 17
Shlomo Shamir age 46
Edward Almond age 68
Lewis Thompson Preston age 35
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 55
Dana Boente age 7
Gordon R. Sullivan age 23
George Scratchley Brown age 43
John Wesley Snyder age 66
Wu Po-hsiung age 22
Muhammad Umran age 39
James L. Farmer, Jr. age 41
Diane Nash age 23
Fred Shuttlesworth age 39
Izzat Darwaza age 73
Montagu Stopford age 68
Song Shilun age 53
Yeshayahu Gavish age 35
Yasuko Konoe age 17
Paul Ilyinsky age 33
Şehzade Mehmed Abid age 56
Mihrimah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ziyaeddin) age 38
Mukarram Jah age 27
Azam Jah age 54
Prince Abbas Hilmi age 19
Fazile Hanımsultan age 20
Swaran Singh age 54
Alfred Schlemm age 66
David Shaltiel age 58
Empress Sunjeonghyo age 66
Ina Marie von Bassewitz-Levetzow age 73
Princess Antonia, Duchess of Wellington age 6
Archduchess Eleonora of Austria age 74
Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 49
Gerald David Lascelles age 36
Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine age 24
David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood age 10
Carmen Martínez-Bordiú age 10
Endelkachew Makonnen age 34
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth age 40
Hilary Armstrong age 15
Allan Shivers age 53
Roy Mason age 37
Gerald Baliles age 21
Leverett Saltonstall age 68
Thomas B. Stanley age 71
Foster Furcolo age 50
Dolph Briscoe age 38
Edgar Whitcomb age 43
Cecil Parkinson age 29
Lester Maddox age 45
James Florio age 23
John Okello age 24
Sakızlı Ahmed Esat Pasha
Joseph Ralston age 17
Tod D. Wolters age 10 months
Eusebio Rodolfo Cordón Cea age 61
John Wrathall age 47
Jacques Rabemananjara age 48
Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi age 26
Naoki Hoshino age 69
Mokdad Sifi age 21
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 64
Fazlul Haque age 23
Pascal-Firmin Ndimira age 5
Huy Kanthoul age 52
Leng Ngeth age 61
Anicet-Georges Dologuélé age 4
Combo Ayouba age 8
Gonzalo Güell age 66
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 60
Edison James age 17
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 40
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 65
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 42
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 22
Maphevu Dlamini age 39
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 44
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 67
Lamine Sidimé age 17