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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
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

People

Adrian Năstase age 3
Michal Kováč age 23
Pascal Couchepin age 11
Wellington Koo age 65
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 43
Carlos P. Garcia age 56
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 54
Gaafar Nimeiry age 22
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
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
Nuon Chea age 27
Ange-Félix Patassé age 16
Glafcos Clerides age 34
Joaquín Balaguer age 46
Josefa Iloilo age 32
Luís Cabral age 22
Sam Hinds age 9
Janet Jagan age 32
Abdul Latif Rashid age 8
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 11
Giuseppe Pella age 51
Fernando Tambroni age 51
Joop den Uyl age 34
Behgjet Pacolli age 1
Bakili Muluzi age 10
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 11
António Ramalho Eanes age 18
António de Spínola age 43
Milan Milutinović age 10
France-Albert René age 17
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 21
Yusof bin Ishak age 43
Ruth Dreifuss age 13
Fradique de Menezes age 11
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 16
Samak Sundaravej age 18
George Maxwell Richards age 21
Yurii Yekhanurov age 4
Juan María Bordaberry age 25
Baldwin Lonsdale age 4
Laurentino Cortizo age 6 months
Juan Negrín age 61
Maurice Couve de Murville age 46
Pierre Bérégovoy age 27
Mark W. Clark age 57
B. J. Vorster age 37
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 47
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 7
Walter Hallstein age 51
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
Pierre Buyoya age 3
Jorge Alessandri age 57
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 27
Essam Sharaf age 1
Ahmed Nazif age 1
Väinö Tanner age 72
David A. Granger age 8
Mihály Károlyi age 78
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 47
Patrick Hillery age 30
Tammam Salam age 8
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 68
Kazimira Prunskienė age 10
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 7 months
Dom Mintoff age 37
Guido de Marco age 22
Moktar Ould Daddah age 28
Adolfo de la Huerta age 72
Myint Swe age 2
Ralph Gonsalves age 6
Ola Ullsten age 22
Moritz Leuenberger age 6
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 1
Oqil Oqilov age 9
Sarit Thanarat age 45
Somchai Wongsawat age 5
Café Filho age 54
Félix Gouin age 68
Ante Marković age 28
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
Petar Mladenov age 16
Michel Micombero age 12
Belisario Betancur age 30
Sitiveni Rabuka age 4
Kalevi Sorsa age 22
Óscar Berger age 6
Kumba Ialá age 4 months
Kaysone Phomvihane age 32
Ivars Godmanis age 1
Amine Gemayel age 11
Joseph Boakai age 8
Christopher Loeak age 8 months
Mihai Ghimpu age 1
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 2
Salam Fayyad age 1
Marien Ngouabi age 14
Petru Groza age 68
Devan Nair age 30
Johan Ferrier age 43
Surayud Chulanont age 9
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 9
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 12
Guy Scott age 9
Valentín Paniagua age 16
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 46
Ye Jianying age 56
Artur da Costa e Silva age 53
J. Sigfrid Edström age 82
Robert Zoellick age 0 months
Jack Straw age 7
Ellison Onizuka age 7
Eric Holder age 2
Abd al-Malek Selal age 5
Liamine Zéroual age 12
Isa II of Bahrain age 20
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 34
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 6
Khieu Samphan age 22
Abel Pacheco age 19
Giorgos Vasiliou age 22
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 1
Charles Savarin age 9
León Febres-Cordero age 22
Hilla Limann age 18
Vasiliki Thanou age 2
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 54
Carmen Pereira age 16
Roberto Micheletti age 9
József Antall age 21
Bjarni Benediktsson age 45
Ayad Allawi age 9
Marouf al-Bakhit age 6
Jens Otto Krag age 38
Isa Mustafa age 2
Khamtai Siphandone age 29
Omar Karami age 18
Mahmoud Jibril age 1
David Kabua age 2
Nangolo Mbumba age 11
Ludwig Scotty age 5
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 4 months
Jan P. Syse age 22
Trygve Bratteli age 43
Odvar Nordli age 25
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 60
Chivu Stoica age 45
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 2 months
Tufuga Efi age 15
Wee Kim Wee age 37
Rahmon Nabiyev age 22
Phạm Văn Đồng age 47
Carlos Arias Navarro age 44
Garret FitzGerald age 27
John Bruton age 6
Henry Paulson age 7
Michael Howard age 12
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 62
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
Elisabeth Domitien age 28
Michel Djotodia age 4
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 31
Ahmed Shafik age 11
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 37
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 8
Christos Sartzetakis age 24
Boniface Alexandre age 17