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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

People

Ronald Venetiaan age 18
Rafael Caldera age 38
Hanna Suchocka age 8
Fernando Belaúnde age 41
Elpidio Quirino age 63
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 73
Takeo Miki age 47
William Westmoreland age 40
Venceslau Brás age 86
Georges Bidault age 54
Vasily Sokolovsky age 57
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 5
Marcel Lefebvre age 48
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 7
Craig Venter age 7
Francis Collins age 4
Yang Shangkun age 47
Stephen Breyer age 16
Thurgood Marshall age 46
James F. Byrnes age 72
Hubert Maga age 38
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 33
Sylvie Kinigi age 1
Arthur Meighen age 80
Jioji Konrote age 6
Paavo Lipponen age 13
Léon M'ba age 52
Georgios Papandreou age 66
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 7
Zalman Shazar age 64
Piet de Jong age 39
Guntis Ulmanis age 14
Philibert Tsiranana age 41
Abdul Razak Hussein age 32
Lawrence Gonzi age 1
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 53
Mircea Snegur age 14
Shaukat Aziz age 5
Sergei Stepashin age 2
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 30
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 31
Maxime Weygand age 87
Nikolai Tikhonov age 49
Jânio Quadros age 37
Michel Aflaq age 44
Ferdinand Schörner age 62
Marsha P. Johnson age 8
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 72
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 41
Michael Dukakis age 20
Dobrica Ćosić age 32
Daniel Inouye age 29
Ronald McNair age 3
Lawrence Eagleburger age 24
Anthony Kennedy age 18
Dean Rusk age 45
Cyrus Vance age 37
Arturo Umberto Illia age 54
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 7
Arturo Frondizi age 45
William McMahon age 46
Earle Page age 74
Joe Clark age 15
François Tombalbaye age 36
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 12
Tshombé Moïse age 34
Harri Holkeri age 17
Efraín Ríos Montt age 28
Kristján Eldjárn age 37
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 41
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 48
Yigal Allon age 35
Henri Konan Bédié age 20
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 28
Gaston Thorn age 25
Htin Kyaw age 8
Yakubu Gowon age 19
Shehu Shagari age 29
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 9
Mirko Cvetković age 4
Rudolf Schuster age 20
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 11
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 29
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 34
Michael Somare age 18
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 71
Fuad II of Egypt age 2
Chuck Hagel age 7
Milka Planinc age 29
Günter Schabowski age 25
Wesley Clark age 9
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 84
Kurt Student age 64
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 66
John Kasich age 2
Peter Mandelson age 10 months
Souphanouvong age 45
John Ashcroft age 12
S. M. Bruce age 71
John Gorton age 42
César Gaviria age 7
Osvaldo Dorticós age 35
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 33
Péter Medgyessy age 11
Poul Schlüter age 25
Fouad Siniora age 11
Diori Hamani age 38
James Michel age 10
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 28
Mesut Yılmaz age 6
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 26
Julio María Sanguinetti age 18
Iolu Abil age 12
Marek Belka age 2
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 59
Mireya Moscoso age 8
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 19
Tanzan Ishibashi age 69
Michel Debré age 42
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 39
Washington Luís age 84
Margaret Chan age 7
Claude Auchinleck age 70
Maximilian von Weichs age 72
Wilhelm List age 74
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 12
Frederica of Hanover age 37
Louise Mountbatten age 65
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 18
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 17
Ahmad Uyahya age 2
Leo Tindemans age 32
Melchior Ndadaye age 1
Barthélemy Boganda age 44
Vladimír Špidla age 3
Antoine Gizenga age 28
Eugenia Charles age 35
Nicholas Liverpool age 19
Anker Jørgensen age 32
William Richard Tolbert age 41
Didier Ratsiraka age 17
Abdelilah Benkirane age 4 months
Sushil Koirala age 15
Kåre Willoch age 25
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 60
Pascal Lissouba age 22
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 10
Adrian Năstase age 4
Michal Kováč age 24
Pascal Couchepin age 12
Wellington Koo age 66
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 44
Carlos P. Garcia age 57
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 55
Gaafar Nimeiry age 23
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 101
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 66
Tetsu Katayama age 67
Hitoshi Ashida age 66
Pierre Messmer age 38
Artur Bernardes age 79
Sirhan Sirhan age 10
Biljana Plavšić age 24
Karl Rahner age 50
Paul Tibbets age 39
Felix Yusupov age 67
Maria of Yugoslavia age 54
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 33
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 39
Janet Reno age 16
Edmund Muskie age 40
Fan S. Noli age 72
Mohamed Boudiaf age 35
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 29
Arthur Fadden age 60
Quentin Bryce age 11
Adolf Schärf age 64
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 4
Hugo Banzer age 28
Nuon Chea age 28
Ange-Félix Patassé age 17
Glafcos Clerides age 35
Joaquín Balaguer age 48
Josefa Iloilo age 33
Esko Aho age 3 months
Luís Cabral age 23
Sam Hinds age 10
Janet Jagan age 33
Abdul Latif Rashid age 10
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 12
Giuseppe Pella age 52
Fernando Tambroni age 52
Joop den Uyl age 35
Behgjet Pacolli age 2
Bakili Muluzi age 11
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 12
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 42
António Ramalho Eanes age 19
António de Spínola age 44
Milan Milutinović age 11