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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01

People

Peter II of Yugoslavia age 29
Baldur von Schirach age 46
Dean Acheson age 60
Kakuei Tanaka age 35
Bertie Ahern age 1
James Baker age 23
Chiang Ching-kuo age 43
Antonin Scalia age 17
Babrak Karmal age 24
Hafizullah Amin age 24
Alfred Moisiu age 23
Kurt Schuschnigg age 55
Zillur Rahman age 24
Joseph Wirth age 73
Hans Luther age 74
Édouard Herriot age 81
Nobusuke Kishi age 56
Toshiki Kaifu age 22
Kiichi Miyazawa age 33
Tsutomu Hata age 17
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 4
Édouard Balladur age 24
Zhu De age 66
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 44
Eduardo Duhalde age 11
Malcolm Fraser age 23
Wolfgang Schüssel age 8
Artur Rasizade age 18
Heinrich Brüning age 67
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 65
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 16
José Sarney age 23
Walther Funk age 62
George Shultz age 32
Harold Holt age 45
Ziaur Rahman age 17
Michel Rocard age 22
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 55
Abulfaz Elchibey age 15
Hayato Ikeda age 53
Noboru Takeshita age 29
Keizō Obuchi age 16
Hu Yaobang age 37
Clarence Thomas age 5
Iajuddin Ahmed age 22
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 3
Ichirō Hatoyama age 70
Takeo Fukuda age 48
Morihiro Hosokawa age 15
Hendrik Verwoerd age 51
João Figueiredo age 35
Warren Christopher age 27
Rexhep Meidani age 8
Reynaldo Bignone age 25
Ayaz Mutallibov age 15
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 23
Raymond Barre age 29
Ernesto Geisel age 46
John Lewis age 13
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 56
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 17
Zenkō Suzuki age 42
Paul Reynaud age 74
Lê Duẩn age 46
Li Xiannian age 44
George Wallace age 33
Alexander Haig age 28
Fatos Nano age 10 months
Franz Jonas age 53
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 38
Masayoshi Ōhira age 43
Sōsuke Uno age 30
Pierre Mendès France age 46
Peng Dehuai age 54
Gennady Yanayev age 15
Chadli Bendjedid age 24
Franz Vranitzky age 15
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 12
Wilfried Martens age 17
Dean Barrow age 2
Takeo Miki age 46
William Westmoreland age 39
Venceslau Brás age 85
Hans Fritzsche age 53
Yang Shangkun age 46
Stephen Breyer age 14
Thurgood Marshall age 45
James F. Byrnes age 71
Hubert Maga age 37
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 31
Nikolai Tikhonov age 48
Jânio Quadros age 36
Daniel Inouye age 28
Ronald McNair age 2
Lawrence Eagleburger age 23
Anthony Kennedy age 17
Dean Rusk age 44
Cyrus Vance age 36
Arturo Umberto Illia age 53
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 6
Arturo Frondizi age 44
William McMahon age 45
Earle Page age 73
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 70
Fuad II of Egypt age 1
Souphanouvong age 44
John Ashcroft age 11
S. M. Bruce age 70
John Gorton age 41
Tanzan Ishibashi age 68
Michel Debré age 41
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 38
Washington Luís age 83
Ahmad Uyahya age 1
Leo Tindemans age 31
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 100
Nobuyuki Abe age 77
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 65
Tetsu Katayama age 66
Hitoshi Ashida age 65
Pierre Messmer age 37
Artur Bernardes age 78
Robert H. Jackson age 61
Janet Reno age 15
Edmund Muskie age 39
Fan S. Noli age 71
Mohamed Boudiaf age 34
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 28
Arthur Fadden age 59
Quentin Bryce age 10
Adolf Schärf age 63
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 3
Hugo Banzer age 27
Maurice Couve de Murville age 46
Pierre Bérégovoy age 27
Mark W. Clark age 57
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 47
William Rehnquist age 28
Andranik Margaryan age 2
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 53
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 23
Jigme Thinley age 10 months
Café Filho age 54
John Connally age 36
Merrick Garland age 8 months
Mehmet Shehu age 40
Nandó dos Santos age 3
Baldwin Spencer age 4
Peter Cosgrove age 6
Freundel Stuart age 2
Nicéphore Soglo age 18
Ye Jianying age 56
Artur da Costa e Silva age 53
Ellison Onizuka age 7
Eric Holder age 2
Abd al-Malek Selal age 5
Liamine Zéroual age 12
Isa II of Bahrain age 20
Garret FitzGerald age 27
John Bruton age 6
John Paul Stevens age 33
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 28
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 11
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 50
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 23
Viačasław Kiebič age 17
Mark Eyskens age 20
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 36
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 23
Guy Mollet age 47
Ferruccio Parri age 63
Liam Cosgrave age 33
Dong Biwu age 67
Raymond A. Spruance age 67
Tôn Đức Thắng age 64
James R. Schlesinger age 24
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 34
Héctor José Cámpora age 44
Juan Carlos Onganía age 39
Frank Forde age 63
Leopold Figl age 50
Viktor Klima age 6
Gaston Eyskens age 48
David Souter age 13
Carlos Castillo Armas age 38
Christian Herter age 58
William P. Rogers age 40
Owen Arthur age 3
George Cadle Price age 34
Creighton Abrams age 38
Charles Haughey age 27
John McEwen age 53
Novruz Mammadov age 6
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 26
Zhang Xueliang age 52
José Linhares age 67
Warren E. Burger age 45
Rodney Williams age 5
Achille Van Acker age 55
Jaime Paz Zamora age 14