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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
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
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
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Albany Movement 1961-11 - 1962

People

Ignatius Kilage age 20
Silas Atopare age 11
Muhammad Hawadle Madar age 23
Abdiwahid Elmi Gonjeh age 12
Yoon Jeung-hyun age 15
Ro Jai-bong age 26
Pak Choong-hoon age 43
Gian Carlo Venturini age 2 months
Rosa Zafferani age 1
Assunta Meloni age 11
Javier Valle Riestra age 30
Ernesto Álvarez Miranda age 11 months
Alden W. Clausen age 39
Peter de la Billière age 28
Edward H. Levi age 50
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 62
Gwilym Lloyd George age 67
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 49
Bernard W. Rogers age 40
David C. Jones age 40
William J. Crowe age 37
Roj Shaweis age 14
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 27
Merlyn Rees age 41
James Moroka age 71
Ernest Medina age 25
Yang Dezhi age 51
Gholam Hossein Sadighi age 56
William Hawi age 53
Nguyễn Hữu An age 35
Chūichi Hara age 73
Salah Aboud Mahmoud age 20
Rex Hunt age 35
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri age 53
Shimon Avidan age 51
Shahnawaz Tanai age 12
Masako Sen age 10
Audrey Emery age 58
Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich of Russia age 48
Prince Nayef bin Abdullah age 47
Marcel Carpentier age 67
Robert Laycock age 55
Princess Cecilie of Prussia age 44
Princess Henriette of Schönaich-Carolath age 43
Princess Kira of Prussia age 18
Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg age 5
Vincenz Liechtenstein age 11
George, Duke of Mecklenburg age 62
Lady Iris Mountbatten age 42
Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma age 14
Tord Magnuson age 21
John Ambler age 37
Carlos Zurita, Duke of Soria age 18
Frank D. White age 28
Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde age 2
William P. Hobby age 84
Coke R. Stevenson age 74
J. Lindsay Almond age 63
Dick Celeste age 24
Mills Godwin age 47
Dan Moody age 68
Sid McMath age 49
Carl Sanders age 37
Donald DiFrancesco age 17
Joe Kernan age 16
Joe Frank Harris age 26
Božidar Purić age 71
Laz Ahmed Pasha
İbrahim Sarim Pasha
Clarence M. Kelley age 50
Mohammad Yusuf age 45
Fazal khaliq age 28
John Montague Stow age 50
Lhendup Dorji age 26
Joseph Bamina age 37
Khim Tit age 65
Ek Yi Oun age 52
Sak Sutsakhan age 34
Luc Ayang age 15
Édouard Frank age 28
Jean-Paul Ngoupandé age 4
Timothée Malendoma age 27
Said Atthoumani age 12
Abbas Djoussouf age 20
Nourdine Bourhane age 12
Ramón Zaydín age 67
Rosie Douglas age 20
Makonnen Endelkachew age 72
Naji Shawkat age 69
Edward Zacca age 30
Kassim al-Rimawi age 44
Mohammad Daoud al-Abbasi age 49
Ata Teaotai age 9
Nazem Akkari age 60
Guy Razanamasy age 33
Younoussi Touré age 21
Ahmed Ould Bouceif age 28
Mircea Druc age 20
Mamane Oumarou age 17
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki age 10
Ksente Bogoev age 42
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 73
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 8
Vaughan Lewis age 21
Michael Pilgrim age 15
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 40
Johan Adolf Pengel age 46
Izzat al-Nuss age 50
Lutfi al-Haffar age 74
Weng Wenhao age 72
Qadriddin Aslonov age 14
Samuelu Teo age 5
Arturo Lezama age 63
Mainza Chona age 32
John Guise age 47
Kingsford Dibela age 30
Sam Abal age 3
Antonio Carattoni age 16
Gabriele Gatti age 9
Glauco Sansovini age 23
Giovanni Francesco Ugolini age 9
Beriz Belkić age 15
Efraín Goldenberg age 32
Luis Alva Castro age 20
Pedro Beltrán age 65
Víctor Joy Way age 17
George David Woods age 60
Edward C. Meyer age 33
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 71
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 80
Daniel Bennett Smith age 6
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 56
Earle Wheeler age 54
David E. Jeremiah age 28
Hardan al-Tikriti age 37
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 33
Kenneth Rush age 52
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 29
Phoumi Nosavan age 42
Xu Shiyou age 57
James Bevel age 25
Ye Fei age 48
Zhang Zhen age 47
Tang Shengzhi age 72
Milutin Kukanjac age 27
Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge age 65
Basilio Lami Dozo age 33
John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse age 34
Ngo Quang Truong age 32
Leighton W. Smith, Jr. age 22
Carlos Asensio Cabanillas age 65
Nguyen Van Toan age 29
Avigdor Ben-Gal age 25
Amir Drori age 24
Julian Thompson age 27
Jeremy Moore age 33
Teymuraz Bagration age 49
Irina Yusupova age 47
Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia age 38
Mihrişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Izzeddin) age 45
Deng Hua age 52
Friedrich Wiese age 69
Joseph J. Clark age 68
Yi Geon age 52
Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg age 63
Archduchess Mechthildis of Austria age 71
Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm age 58
Princess Franziska of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst age 64
Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg age 40
Archduke Carl Christian of Austria age 7
Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk age 68
Fernando Schwartz age 24
Channing H. Cox age 82
Francis Cherry age 53
C. William O'Neill age 46
Thomas J. Herbert age 67
Endicott Peabody age 42
Jim Rhodes age 52
John N. Dalton age 30
John William Brown age 48
Colgate Darden age 65
Ned McWherter age 31
Joe Purcell age 38
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton age 78
Theodore Olson age 21
Benderli Ali Pasha
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 82
Adrien Sibomana age 8
Édouard Nzambimana age 16
Pho Proeung age 58
Sam Yun age 57
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 50
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido age 15
Emilio Bello Codesido age 93
Ali Mroudjaé age 22
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 53
Jorge García Montes age 65
Raúl López del Castillo age 69
Oliver Seraphin age 18
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 38