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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

George Joulwan age 16
Pierre de Chevigné age 47
Albin Nyamoya age 31
Anatole Kanyenkiko age 4
Antoine Nduwayo age 14
Léopold Biha age 37
Joseph Cimpaye age 24
Jean-Pierre Lebouder age 12
Michel Gbezera-Bria age 10
Simon Narcisse Bozanga age 13
Bernard Ayandho age 25
Halifa Humadi age 9
Emilio Núñez Portuondo age 57
Bheki Dlamini age 4
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 48
Mustafa Mahmud al-Umari age 62
Sid Ahmed Ould Bneijara age 9
Raouf Bundhun age 19
Dendev Terbishdagva age 1
Nyamyn Jagvaral age 37
Tsagaanlamyn Dügersüren age 42
Rifat Rastoder age 6
Radivoje Brajović age 21
Marko Orlandić age 25
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 88
Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa age 63
Yeoh Ghim Seng age 38
Štefan Sádovský age 27
Wim Udenhout age 18
Nur al-Din Kahala age 46
Sami al-Jundi age 34
Dennis Young age 20
John Giheno age 7
Gian Marco Marcucci age 1
Giancarlo Ghironzi age 24
Carlos Moreyra y Paz Soldán age 57
Rodolfo Llopis age 61
Joseph Kokou Koffigoh age 8
Arleigh Winston Scott age 56
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe age 38
John L. Hines age 88
Livingston T. Merchant age 52
Brian O'Higgins age 74
Salim Hatum age 28
Ziad al-Hariri age 26
Miles Copeland, Jr. age 40
William Kelly Harrison, Jr. age 60
Hu Lian age 48
Liu Zhi age 64
Arthur Dewey Struble age 62
Friedrich Köchling age 63
Bernard Lafayette age 15
Milan Gvero age 18
Rodrigo Asturias age 16
Maxwell R. Thurman age 25
Le Quang Dao age 34
Ved Prakash Malik age 16
Saad Mamoun age 34
Mohammad Boroujerdi age 2
William R. Peers age 42
Mehdi Bakeri age 2
Seiichi Kuno age 69
Mizban Khadr al-Hadi age 18
Lê Minh Đảo age 23
Waichirō Sonobe age 73
Nguyễn Văn Minh age 27
Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat age 1
Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri age 6
Raja Aziz Bhatti age 27
David Chavchavadze age 32
Princess Xenia Andreevna of Russia age 37
Prince Nikita Romanov age 33
Prince Alexander Romanov age 26
Adile Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Selaheddin) age 69
Mahpeyker Hanımsultan age 39
Türkan Hanımsultan age 37
Prince Richard of Hesse age 55
Princess Isabelle of Salm-Salm age 53
Alice Habsburg age 66
Irene Mountbatten, Marchioness of Carisbrooke age 66
Princess Christina of Hesse age 23
Princess Marie Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein age 29
Prince Ludwig Rudolf of Hanover age 7 months
Silvia Paternò di Spedalotto age 2
James Lascelles age 2
Francisco de Aguilar age 146
Vicente Gómez
Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra age 19
Lin Junq-tzer age 12
Alfred E. Driscoll age 53
Henry F. Schricker age 72
Hill McAlister age 81
Myers Y. Cooper age 82
William T. Cahill age 44
Ralph F. Gates age 63
Douglas Jay age 49
Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton age 49
John Davies age 40
Aleksandar Mitrović age 22
Armand Annet age 68
Jo Ann Robinson age 44
Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai age 8
Jean-Luc Mandaba age 12
Enoch Derant Lakoué age 11
Carlos Lemos Simmonds age 22
Salim Ben Ali age 38
Paul Shabangu age 13
Tesfaye Dinka age 16
Francisco Bueso age 96
Medetbek Kerimkulov age 7
Boris Silayev age 10
Ahmad Salim uld Sidi age 17
Hugh Watt age 44
Jacques Opangault age 48
Archibald Currie age 68
Severinus Desiré Emanuels age 46
Muhammad Ali al-Halabi age 19
Hsu Ching-chung age 49
Lee Hun-jai age 12
Giuseppe Arzilli age 15
Luigi Lonfernini age 17
Giorgio Crescentini age 6
Giuseppe Amici age 17
Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller age 15
Luis Pércovich Roca age 25
Raúl Ferrero Rebagliati age 44
Luis Gallo Porras age 61
Roberto Dañino age 5
Luis Solari age 8
Frederick M. Franks Jr. age 19
Gary E. Luck age 18
Richard N. Cooper age 22
Walter J. Stoessel Jr. age 36
Miloš Trifunović age 84
John J. O'Kelly age 84
Liu Yuzhang age 52
James Hood age 13
Li Zhen age 48
Paul J. Mueller age 63
Richard T. Knowles age 40
Milan Čeleketić age 9
Huynh Van Cao age 28
John Paul Vann age 32
Wafiq al-Samarrai age 9
Ibrahim El-Orabi age 25
Ptolemaios Sarigiannis age 74
Sali Çekaj age 6 months
William S. Wallace age 9
Kuldip Singh Chandpuri age 15
Danny Matt age 28
Le Van Hung age 23
Le Nguyen Vy age 22
Youcef Zighoud age 35
Sharbat Ali Changezi age 24
Şehzade Mahmud Şevket age 53
Şehzade Ahmed Tevhid age 51
Fevziye Sultan age 27
Muffakham Jah age 17
Moazzam Jah age 48
Leonard W. Murray age 60
Harry W. Hill age 66
Yi Cheong age 20
Chen Jieru age 49
Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (1895–1959) age 60
Princess Agatha of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 68
Princess Magdalena Reuss of Köstritz age 35
Lady Brigid Guinness age 35
Princess Stephanie of Windisch-Graetz age 47
Dominic von Habsburg age 19
Emich Kyrill, Prince of Leiningen age 29
Gunnila Bernadotte age 33
Anne Abel Smith age 23
Richard Abel Smith age 22
Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth age 35
Countess Monika zu Solms-Laubach age 26
Jeremy Lascelles age 1
Duke Friedrich August of Oldenburg age 20
Princess Marie Alix of Schaumburg-Lippe age 33
Baron Niclas Silfverschiöld age 22
Felipe Neri Medina age 159
Ramón Rodríguez
David Young, Baron Young of Graffham age 24
J. Millard Tawes age 62
Harold W. Handley age 46
Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter age 75
Clifford Ross Powell age 62
Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale age 42
John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham age 45
Larry Thompson age 10
Barbara Underwood age 11
Laurence Silberman age 20
Philip Heymann age 23
Horacio Liendo age 31
Said Ibrahim Ben Ali age 45
Eddy Balancy age 3
Ariranga Pillay age 11
Branislav Šoškić age 33
Žarko Bulajić age 33
Đorđije Pajković age 39
Mohammed bin Jassim Al Thani age 75