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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
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11

People

Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 69
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 38
Michael Dukakis age 18
Dobrica Ćosić age 30
Daniel Inouye age 27
Ronald McNair age 1
Lawrence Eagleburger age 21
Anthony Kennedy age 15
Dean Rusk age 43
Cyrus Vance age 34
Arturo Umberto Illia age 51
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 4
Arturo Frondizi age 43
William McMahon age 44
Earle Page age 71
Joe Clark age 12
François Tombalbaye age 33
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 9
Tshombé Moïse age 32
Harri Holkeri age 15
Efraín Ríos Montt age 25
Kristján Eldjárn age 35
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 39
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 46
Yigal Allon age 33
Henri Konan Bédié age 17
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 25
Gaston Thorn age 23
Htin Kyaw age 5
Yakubu Gowon age 17
Shehu Shagari age 27
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 6
Mirko Cvetković age 1
Rudolf Schuster age 18
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 9
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 26
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 32
Michael Somare age 15
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 68
Fuad II of Egypt age 1 month
Chuck Hagel age 5
Milka Planinc age 27
Günter Schabowski age 23
Wesley Clark age 7
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 81
Kurt Student age 61
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 64
Souphanouvong age 42
John Ashcroft age 9
S. M. Bruce age 68
John Gorton age 40
César Gaviria age 4
José Figueres Ferrer age 45
Osvaldo Dorticós age 32
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 30
Péter Medgyessy age 9
Poul Schlüter age 22
Fouad Siniora age 8
Diori Hamani age 35
James Michel age 7
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 25
Mesut Yılmaz age 4
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 24
Julio María Sanguinetti age 16
Iolu Abil age 10
Marek Belka age 1 month
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 56
Mireya Moscoso age 5
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 17
Tanzan Ishibashi age 67
Michel Debré age 40
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 37
Washington Luís age 82
Margaret Chan age 4
Claude Auchinleck age 67
Maximilian von Weichs age 70
Wilhelm List age 71
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 10
Frederica of Hanover age 34
Louise Mountbatten age 62
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 16
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 15
Leo Tindemans age 29
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 44
Barthélemy Boganda age 41
Vladimír Špidla age 10 months
Antoine Gizenga age 26
Eugenia Charles age 32
Nicholas Liverpool age 17
Mario Scelba age 50
Anker Jørgensen age 29
William Richard Tolbert age 38
Didier Ratsiraka age 15
Pedro Lascuráin age 95
Sushil Koirala age 12
Kåre Willoch age 23
Pascal Lissouba age 20
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 8
Adrian Năstase age 1
Michal Kováč age 21
Pascal Couchepin age 9
Wellington Koo age 64
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 41
Carlos P. Garcia age 55
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 53
Gaafar Nimeiry age 21
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 99
Nobuyuki Abe age 76
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 64
Tetsu Katayama age 64
Hitoshi Ashida age 64
Pierre Messmer age 35
Artur Bernardes age 76
Avery Brundage age 64
Sirhan Sirhan age 7
Biljana Plavšić age 21
Karl Rahner age 48
Paul Tibbets age 37
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 72
Felix Yusupov age 64
Maria of Yugoslavia age 52
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 30
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 36
Janet Reno age 13
Edmund Muskie age 37
Fan S. Noli age 70
Mohamed Boudiaf age 32
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 27
James Scullin age 75
Arthur Fadden age 57
Quentin Bryce age 9
Adolf Schärf age 61
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 1
Hugo Banzer age 25
Nuon Chea age 25
Ange-Félix Patassé age 15
Glafcos Clerides age 32
Joaquín Balaguer age 45
Josefa Iloilo age 31
Luís Cabral age 20
Sam Hinds age 8
Janet Jagan age 31
Abdul Latif Rashid age 7
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 10
Giuseppe Pella age 49
Fernando Tambroni age 50
Joop den Uyl age 32
Behgjet Pacolli age 6 months
Bakili Muluzi age 8
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 9
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 40
António Ramalho Eanes age 17
António de Spínola age 41
Milan Milutinović age 9
France-Albert René age 16
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 20
Yusof bin Ishak age 41
Ruth Dreifuss age 12
Fradique de Menezes age 9
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 14
Samak Sundaravej age 16
George Maxwell Richards age 20
Yurii Yekhanurov age 3
Juan María Bordaberry age 23
Baldwin Lonsdale age 3
Juan Negrín age 60
Hugo Sperrle age 67
Maurice Couve de Murville age 45
Pierre Bérégovoy age 26
Francesco Saverio Nitti age 83
Mark W. Clark age 55
B. J. Vorster age 36
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 46
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 5
Walter Hallstein age 50
Margaret Beckett age 9
Paul Hausser age 71
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia age 76
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 55
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 45
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 54
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark age 45
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 20
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 19
William Rehnquist age 27
Andranik Margaryan age 8 months
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 51
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 22
Pierre Buyoya age 2
Jorge Alessandri age 55
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 25
Essam Sharaf age 1 month
Väinö Tanner age 71
David A. Granger age 6
Mihály Károlyi age 77
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 46
Patrick Hillery age 28
Tammam Salam age 6
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 67
Kazimira Prunskienė age 9