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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

Pretaap Radhakishun age 21
Husni al-Barazi age 61
Hassan al-Hakim age 70
Bashir al-Azma age 45
Norberto Costa Alegre age 5
Armindo Vaz d'Almeida age 3
Wang Yun-wu age 68
Roland Theodore Symonette age 57
Paul Adderley age 27
Henry Milton Taylor age 52
Tekin Arıburun age 50
Muhammad Said al-Attar age 29
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 18
Hasan al-Lawzi age 4
Nalumino Mundia age 28
Daniel Chanis Pinzón age 63
Tore Lokoloko age 25
Wiwa Korowi age 8
Jure Pelivan age 27
Dragan Mikerević age 1
Gian Carlo Capicchioni age 4 months
Ernesto Benedettini age 8
Maria Domenica Michelotti age 3
Jozo Križanović age 11
Armando Villanueva age 40
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 51
Federico Salas age 5
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 33
Alberto Bustamante Belaunde age 5
Pedro Richter Prada age 35
Sandro Mariátegui age 34
Kwassi Klutse age 10
Aurelius Marie age 51
Frank G. Wisner age 18
George Decker age 54
Carl E. Vuono age 21
Dennis Reimer age 17
Harold Keith Johnson age 44
John William Vessey Jr. age 34
Tomás Mac Giolla age 32
Munif Razzaz age 36
Jassem Alwan age 28
Melba Pattillo Beals age 14
Hakija Turajlić age 20
Lewis MacKenzie age 16
Takaji Wachi age 63
Kōtoku Satō age 63
Rupert Smith age 13
Philip Effiong age 30
Michael E. Ryan age 14
James Dutton age 2
Bahram Afzali age 18
Brian Burridge age 7
Ayad Futtayih al-Rawi age 14
Harbaksh Singh age 42
Colonel Amirouche age 29
Ernesto Horacio Crespo age 26
Ayako Sano age 43
Toshimichi Takatsukasa age 32
Mukbile Sultan age 44
Nemika Sultan age 68
Senije Zogu age 52
Francisco Galán age 54
Abdullah Al-Tell age 38
Han Xianchu age 43
Keizō Komura age 60
Julia Mullock age 33
Chiang Hsiao-yen age 14
Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt age 13
Duke Carl Alexander of Württemberg age 60
Prince Karl Alfred of Liechtenstein age 45
Archduchess Ilona of Austria age 29
Alexander Ramsay (Royal Navy officer) age 75
Richard Brandram age 44
Prince Heinrich of Hesse-Kassel age 28
Prince Karl of Leiningen age 28
Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun age 25
Emmanuelle de Dampierre age 42
Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince of Civitella-Cesi age 44
Edelmira, Countess of Covadonga age 50
Sonja Bernadotte age 12
Alois-Konstantin, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg age 14
Chiang Pin-kung age 23
Homer Martin Adkins age 65
Benjamin T. Laney age 59
Francis Sargent age 40
Robert F. Bradford age 53
John S. Battle age 66
Paul A. Dever age 53
William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill age 9
Michael DiSalle age 48
Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman age 14
William M. Tuck age 59
Richard J. Hughes age 46
Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton age 72
William Donald Schaefer age 34
Parris Glendening age 14
Albertis Harrison age 49
Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon age 10 months
Robert D. Orr age 38
Buford Ellington age 49
Ernest Brown age 74
William Ruckelshaus age 23
Lawrence Walsh age 44
Chuck Horner age 19
John Galvin age 27
Gabriel Koyambounou age 9
Said Ali Kemal age 18
Mohamed Abdou Madi age 6 months
Abdallah Mohamed age 6
Ibrahim Halidi age 1
José Bordas Valdés age 81
Kamal el-Din Hussein age 35
Hailu Yimenu age 21
Imru Haile Selassie age 63
Assaat age 51
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi age 70
Abdul-Wahab Mirjan age 47
Herbert Duffus age 47
Hussein ibn Nasser age 53
Almanbet Matubraimov age 3
Iskenderbek Aidaraliyev age 8 months
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 6 months
Angidi Chettiar age 28
Sebastián Uriza age 95
Orlando Montenegro Medrano age 36
Souley Abdoulaye age 6 months
Dismas Nsengiyaremye age 11
George Charles age 40
Miha Marinko age 55
Julius Caesar de Miranda age 50
Errol Alibux age 7
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 24
Daniel Daio age 9
Wang Zhengting age 74
John Warburton Paul age 40
İbrahim Şevki Atasagun age 57
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 21
Elijah Mudenda age 29
Božidar Matić age 18
Cesare Gasperoni age 12
Edda Ceccoli age 9
Maurizio Rattini age 6
Ermenegildo Gasperoni age 49
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 39
Óscar Vargas Prieto age 38
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 36
Michel Roquejeoffre age 22
David D. Newsom age 38
James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope age 75
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 79
Michael Armacost age 19
Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha age 11
John Ernest Dahlquist age 60
Fred Gray age 25
Rolando Morán age 26
Edward P. King age 72
Oscar Griswold age 69
Mile Dedaković age 5
Viktor Fyodorovich Karpukhin age 8
Geoffrey Scoones age 63
Javad Fakoori age 17
Juan Lombardo age 29
Arun Shridhar Vaidya age 30
Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia age 41
Şehzade Mehmed Şerafeddin age 52
Şehzade Mahmud Namık age 42
Lütfiye Sultan age 46
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Abdülkadir) age 30
Hümeyra Hanımsultan age 39
Prince Asem bin Nayef age 8
Liu Yalou age 46
Habis al-Majali age 42
Yi Seok age 14
Zaitao age 69
Wilhelm Karl Prinz von Preussen age 34
Princess Herzeleide of Prussia age 37
Prince Heinrich of Liechtenstein (1920–1993) age 35
Géza von Habsburg age 15
Archduchess Yolande of Austria age 33
Prince Ataúlfo of Orléans age 42
Alexander Ramsay of Mar age 36
Henry Abel Smith age 56
Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg age 30
Patricia Lascelles, Countess of Harewood age 29
John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne age 31
Penelope Knatchbull, Countess Mountbatten of Burma age 3
Fermín Palacios
Bob C. Riley age 31
Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree age 18
Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton age 73
Frank O'Bannon age 26
William Preston Lane Jr. age 64
Gus Macdonald age 15
Matthew E. Welsh age 43
Roger D. Branigin age 53
Geoffrey Rippon age 32
Charles Fried age 21
Andrew Goodpaster age 41
George Joulwan age 16