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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
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Sharpeville massacre 1960-03-21

People

Tekin Arıburun age 54
Muhammad Said al-Attar age 33
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 22
Hasan al-Lawzi age 8
Nalumino Mundia age 32
Daniel Chanis Pinzón age 67
Tore Lokoloko age 29
Wiwa Korowi age 11
Jure Pelivan age 31
Dragan Mikerević age 5
Gian Carlo Capicchioni age 4
Antonello Bacciocchi age 2
Ernesto Benedettini age 12
Maria Domenica Michelotti age 7
Jozo Križanović age 15
Armando Villanueva age 44
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 55
Federico Salas age 9
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 37
Alberto Bustamante Belaunde age 9
Pedro Richter Prada age 39
Sandro Mariátegui age 38
Luis Arroyo Sánchez age 3
Kwassi Klutse age 14
Aurelius Marie age 55
Frank G. Wisner age 21
George Decker age 58
Carl E. Vuono age 25
Dennis Reimer age 20
Harold Keith Johnson age 48
John William Vessey Jr. age 37
Tomás Mac Giolla age 36
Munif Razzaz age 40
Jassem Alwan age 31
Melba Pattillo Beals age 18
Hakija Turajlić age 24
Lewis MacKenzie age 19
Takaji Wachi age 67
Rupert Smith age 17
Philip Effiong age 34
Michael E. Ryan age 18
James Dutton age 6
Hossein Kharrazi age 3
Bahram Afzali age 22
Brian Burridge age 11
Ayad Futtayih al-Rawi age 18
Harbaksh Singh age 46
Ernesto Horacio Crespo age 30
Ayako Sano age 46
Toshimichi Takatsukasa age 36
Mukbile Sultan age 48
Nemika Sultan age 72
Senije Zogu age 56
Francisco Galán age 58
Abdullah Al-Tell age 41
Han Xianchu age 47
Keizō Komura age 63
Julia Mullock age 37
Chiang Hsiao-yen age 18
Oskar Prinz von Preussen age 10 months
Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt age 16
Duke Carl Alexander of Württemberg age 64
Prince Karl Alfred of Liechtenstein age 49
Archduchess Ilona of Austria age 32
Alexander Ramsay (Royal Navy officer) age 78
Richard Brandram age 48
Prince Heinrich of Hesse-Kassel age 32
Prince Karl of Leiningen age 32
Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun age 29
Emmanuelle de Dampierre age 46
Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince of Civitella-Cesi age 48
Edelmira, Countess of Covadonga age 54
Sonja Bernadotte age 15
Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia age 3 months
Alois-Konstantin, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg age 18
Daniel Chatto age 2
Chiang Pin-kung age 27
Homer Martin Adkins age 69
Benjamin T. Laney age 63
Francis Sargent age 44
Robert F. Bradford age 57
John S. Battle age 69
William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill age 13
Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman age 17
William M. Tuck age 63
Richard J. Hughes age 50
Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton age 76
William Donald Schaefer age 38
Parris Glendening age 17
Albertis Harrison age 53
Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon age 4
Robert D. Orr age 42
Ernest Brown age 78
William Ruckelshaus age 27
Chuck Horner age 23
Alfred Gruenther age 61
John Galvin age 30
Frank G. Clement age 39
Prentice Cooper age 64
Gabriel Koyambounou age 13
Said Ali Kemal age 22
Mohamed Abdou Madi age 4
Abdallah Mohamed age 10
Bianrifi Tarmidi age 2
Ibrahim Halidi age 5
José Bordas Valdés age 85
Kamal el-Din Hussein age 39
Hailu Yimenu age 25
Imru Haile Selassie age 67
Assaat age 55
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi age 74
Abdul-Wahab Mirjan age 51
Herbert Duffus age 51
Hussein ibn Nasser age 57
Almanbet Matubraimov age 7
Iskenderbek Aidaraliyev age 4
Mohamed Lemine Ould Guig age 8 months
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 4
Angidi Chettiar age 31
Ba Swe age 44
Sebastián Uriza age 99
Orlando Montenegro Medrano age 39
Souley Abdoulaye age 4
Dismas Nsengiyaremye age 15
Miha Marinko age 59
Errol Alibux age 11
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 28
Daniel Daio age 13
Wang Zhengting age 78
John Warburton Paul age 44
İbrahim Şevki Atasagun age 61
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 25
Elijah Mudenda age 32
Božidar Matić age 22
Cesare Gasperoni age 16
Edda Ceccoli age 12
Maurizio Rattini age 10
Claudio Muccioli age 1
Ermenegildo Gasperoni age 53
Halid Genjac age 2
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 43
Óscar Vargas Prieto age 42
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 40
Michel Roquejeoffre age 26
David D. Newsom age 42
James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope age 79
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 82
Michael Armacost age 22
Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha age 15
John Ernest Dahlquist age 64
Fred Gray age 29
Rolando Morán age 30
Mile Dedaković age 8
Viktor Fyodorovich Karpukhin age 12
Geoffrey Scoones age 67
Javad Fakoori age 21
Juan Lombardo age 33
Arun Shridhar Vaidya age 34
Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia age 44
Şehzade Mehmed Şerafeddin age 55
Şehzade Mahmud Namık age 46
Lütfiye Sultan age 50
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Abdülkadir) age 34
Hümeyra Hanımsultan age 42
Prince Asem bin Nayef age 11
Liu Yalou age 49
Habis al-Majali age 46
Yi Seok age 18
Zaitao age 72
Wilhelm Karl Prinz von Preussen age 38
Princess Herzeleide of Prussia age 41
Prince Heinrich of Liechtenstein (1920–1993) age 39
Géza von Habsburg age 19
Archduchess Yolande of Austria age 36
Prince Ataúlfo of Orléans age 46
Alexander Ramsay of Mar age 40
Henry Abel Smith age 60
Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg age 34
Patricia Lascelles, Countess of Harewood age 33
John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne age 35
Penelope Knatchbull, Countess Mountbatten of Burma age 6
Fermín Palacios
Bob C. Riley age 35
Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree age 22
Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton age 77
Frank O'Bannon age 30
William Preston Lane Jr. age 67
John Farmer Jr. age 2
Gus Macdonald age 19
Matthew E. Welsh age 47
Roger D. Branigin age 57
Geoffrey Rippon age 35
Charles Fried age 24
Andrew Goodpaster age 45
George Joulwan age 20
Pierre de Chevigné age 50
Jim Nance McCord age 81
Ralph Austin Bard age 75
Albin Nyamoya age 35
Anatole Kanyenkiko age 8