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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
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19

People

Giovanni Goria age 11
Gediminas Kirkilas age 3
Muhyiddin Yassin age 7
Moussa Traoré age 18
Eddie Fenech Adami age 21
Adolfo López Mateos age 44
Ibrahim Babangida age 13
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 25
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 25
Vladimír Mečiar age 12
Ronald Venetiaan age 18
Rafael Caldera age 39
Hanna Suchocka age 8
Fernando Belaúnde age 42
Elpidio Quirino age 64
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 73
Takeo Miki age 48
William Westmoreland age 40
Venceslau Brás age 87
Georges Bidault age 55
Vasily Sokolovsky age 57
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 5
Marcel Lefebvre age 49
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 8
Craig Venter age 8
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 2
Arthur Meighen age 80
Jioji Konrote age 7
Paavo Lipponen age 13
Léon M'ba age 53
Georgios Papandreou age 67
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 7
Zalman Shazar age 65
Piet de Jong age 39
Guntis Ulmanis age 15
Philibert Tsiranana age 42
Abdul Razak Hussein age 33
Lawrence Gonzi age 1
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 54
Mircea Snegur age 15
Shaukat Aziz age 6
Sergei Stepashin age 3
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 30
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 32
Maxime Weygand age 88
Nikolai Tikhonov age 49
Jânio Quadros age 38
Ash Carter age 5 months
Michel Aflaq age 45
Ferdinand Schörner age 62
Marsha P. Johnson age 9
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 72
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 41
Michael Dukakis age 21
Dobrica Ćosić age 33
Daniel Inouye age 30
Ronald McNair age 4
Lawrence Eagleburger age 24
Anthony Kennedy age 18
Dean Rusk age 46
Cyrus Vance age 37
Arturo Umberto Illia age 54
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 7
Arturo Frondizi age 46
William McMahon age 47
Earle Page age 74
Joe Clark age 15
François Tombalbaye age 36
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 12
Tshombé Moïse age 35
Harri Holkeri age 18
Efraín Ríos Montt age 28
Kristján Eldjárn age 38
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 42
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 49
Yigal Allon age 36
Henri Konan Bédié age 20
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 28
Gaston Thorn age 26
Htin Kyaw age 8
Yakubu Gowon age 20
Shehu Shagari age 30
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 9
Mirko Cvetković age 4
Rudolf Schuster age 21
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 12
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 29
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 35
Michael Somare age 18
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 71
Fuad II of Egypt age 3
Chuck Hagel age 8
Milka Planinc age 30
Günter Schabowski age 26
Wesley Clark age 10
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 85
Kurt Student age 64
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 67
John Kasich age 2
Peter Mandelson age 1
Souphanouvong age 45
John Ashcroft age 12
S. M. Bruce age 71
John Gorton age 43
César Gaviria age 7
Osvaldo Dorticós age 35
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 33
Péter Medgyessy age 12
Poul Schlüter age 25
Fouad Siniora age 11
Diori Hamani age 38
James Michel age 10
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 1 month
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 28
Mesut Yılmaz age 7
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 27
Julio María Sanguinetti age 19
Iolu Abil age 13
Marek Belka age 3
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 59
Mireya Moscoso age 8
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 20
Tanzan Ishibashi age 70
Michel Debré age 43
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 40
Washington Luís age 85
Margaret Chan age 7
Claude Auchinleck age 70
Wilhelm List age 74
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 13
Frederica of Hanover age 37
Louise Mountbatten age 65
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 19
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 18
Ahmad Uyahya age 2
Leo Tindemans age 32
Melchior Ndadaye age 2
Barthélemy Boganda age 44
Vladimír Špidla age 3
Antoine Gizenga age 29
Eugenia Charles age 35
Nicholas Liverpool age 20
Anker Jørgensen age 32
William Richard Tolbert age 41
Didier Ratsiraka age 18
Abdelilah Benkirane age 11 months
Sushil Koirala age 15
Kåre Willoch age 26
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 60
Pascal Lissouba age 23
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 11
Adrian Năstase age 4
Michal Kováč age 24
Pascal Couchepin age 12
Wellington Koo age 67
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 44
Carlos P. Garcia age 58
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 56
Gaafar Nimeiry age 24
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 102
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 67
Tetsu Katayama age 67
Hitoshi Ashida age 67
Pierre Messmer age 39
Artur Bernardes age 79
Sirhan Sirhan age 10
Biljana Plavšić age 24
Karl Rahner age 51
Paul Tibbets age 40
Felix Yusupov age 68
Maria of Yugoslavia age 55
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 33
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 39
Janet Reno age 16
Edmund Muskie age 40
Fan S. Noli age 73
Mohamed Boudiaf age 35
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 30
Arthur Fadden age 60
Quentin Bryce age 12
Adolf Schärf age 64
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 4
Hugo Banzer age 28
Nuon Chea age 28
Ange-Félix Patassé age 18
Glafcos Clerides age 35
Joaquín Balaguer age 48
Josefa Iloilo age 34
Esko Aho age 9 months
Luís Cabral age 23
Sam Hinds age 11
Janet Jagan age 34
Abdul Latif Rashid age 10