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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

Ro Jai-bong age 25
Pak Choong-hoon age 42
Rosa Zafferani age 11 months
Assunta Meloni age 10
Javier Valle Riestra age 29
Ernesto Álvarez Miranda age 1 month
Alden W. Clausen age 38
Peter de la Billière age 27
Edward H. Levi age 50
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 61
Gwilym Lloyd George age 66
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 48
Bernard W. Rogers age 40
David C. Jones age 40
William J. Crowe age 36
Roj Shaweis age 13
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 26
Merlyn Rees age 40
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 68
James Moroka age 70
Ernest Medina age 24
Yang Dezhi age 50
Gholam Hossein Sadighi age 55
William Hawi age 52
Nguyễn Hữu An age 34
Chūichi Hara age 72
Salah Aboud Mahmoud age 19
Rex Hunt age 35
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri age 53
Shimon Avidan age 50
Shahnawaz Tanai age 11
Masako Sen age 9
Audrey Emery age 57
Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich of Russia age 47
Prince Nayef bin Abdullah age 46
Marcel Carpentier age 66
Robert Laycock age 54
Princess Cecilie of Prussia age 43
Princess Henriette of Schönaich-Carolath age 42
Princess Kira of Prussia age 18
Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg age 5
Vincenz Liechtenstein age 10
George, Duke of Mecklenburg age 61
Lady Iris Mountbatten age 41
Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma age 13
Tord Magnuson age 20
John Ambler age 37
Carlos Zurita, Duke of Soria age 17
Frank D. White age 28
Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde age 1
William P. Hobby age 83
Coke R. Stevenson age 73
Dick Celeste age 23
Mills Godwin age 46
Dan Moody age 68
Sid McMath age 49
Carl Sanders age 36
Donald DiFrancesco age 16
Joe Kernan age 15
Joe Frank Harris age 25
Božidar Purić age 70
Laz Ahmed Pasha
İbrahim Sarim Pasha
Clarence M. Kelley age 49
Mohammad Yusuf age 44
Fazal khaliq age 27
John Montague Stow age 49
Lhendup Dorji age 25
André Muhirwa age 41
Joseph Bamina age 36
Khim Tit age 65
Ek Yi Oun age 51
Sak Sutsakhan age 33
Luc Ayang age 14
Édouard Frank age 27
Jean-Paul Ngoupandé age 3
Timothée Malendoma age 26
Said Atthoumani age 11
Abbas Djoussouf age 19
Nourdine Bourhane age 11
Ramón Zaydín age 66
Rosie Douglas age 19
Makonnen Endelkachew age 71
Naji Shawkat age 68
Edward Zacca age 29
Kassim al-Rimawi age 43
Mohammad Daoud al-Abbasi age 48
Ata Teaotai age 8
Nazem Akkari age 59
Guy Razanamasy age 32
Younoussi Touré age 20
Ahmed Ould Bouceif age 27
Mircea Druc age 19
Mamane Oumarou age 16
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki age 9
Ksente Bogoev age 41
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 72
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 7
Vaughan Lewis age 21
Michael Pilgrim age 14
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 39
Johan Adolf Pengel age 45
Izzat al-Nuss age 49
Lutfi al-Haffar age 73
Weng Wenhao age 72
Qadriddin Aslonov age 14
Samuelu Teo age 4
Arturo Lezama age 62
Faustino Harrison age 61
Mainza Chona age 31
John Guise age 46
Kingsford Dibela age 29
Sam Abal age 3
Antonio Carattoni age 15
Gabriele Gatti age 8
Glauco Sansovini age 23
Giovanni Francesco Ugolini age 8
Beriz Belkić age 14
Efraín Goldenberg age 31
Luis Alva Castro age 19
Víctor Joy Way age 16
George David Woods age 60
Edward C. Meyer age 32
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 70
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 79
Daniel Bennett Smith age 5
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 55
Earle Wheeler age 53
David E. Jeremiah age 27
Hardan al-Tikriti age 36
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 33
Kenneth Rush age 51
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 28
Phoumi Nosavan age 41
Xu Shiyou age 56
James Bevel age 24
Ye Fei age 47
Zhang Zhen age 46
Tang Shengzhi age 71
Milutin Kukanjac age 26
Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge age 65
Basilio Lami Dozo age 32
John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse age 33
Ngo Quang Truong age 31
Sadae Inoue age 74
Leighton W. Smith, Jr. age 21
Carlos Asensio Cabanillas age 64
Nguyen Van Toan age 28
Avigdor Ben-Gal age 25
Amir Drori age 23
Julian Thompson age 26
Jeremy Moore age 33
Teymuraz Bagration age 48
Irina Yusupova age 46
Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia age 37
Mihrişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Izzeddin) age 45
Deng Hua age 51
Friedrich Wiese age 68
Joseph J. Clark age 67
Yi Geon age 51
Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg age 62
Archduchess Mechthildis of Austria age 70
Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm age 57
Princess Franziska of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst age 64
Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg age 39
Archduke Carl Christian of Austria age 6
Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk age 67
Fernando Schwartz age 23
Channing H. Cox age 81
Francis Cherry age 52
C. William O'Neill age 45
Thomas J. Herbert age 66
Endicott Peabody age 41
Jim Rhodes age 51
John N. Dalton age 30
John William Brown age 47
Colgate Darden age 64
Ned McWherter age 30
Joe Purcell age 37
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton age 77
Theodore Olson age 20
Benderli Ali Pasha
Gordon Browning age 71
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 81
Adrien Sibomana age 7
Édouard Nzambimana age 15
Pho Proeung age 57
Sam Yun age 56
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 49
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido age 14
Emilio Bello Codesido age 93
Ali Mroudjaé age 21
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 52
Jorge García Montes age 64
Raúl López del Castillo age 68
Oliver Seraphin age 17
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 37
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 38
Andreas Fakudze age 16
Sishayi Nxumalo age 25