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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
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 29
Luis Carrero Blanco age 51
Harold Alexander age 64
Masayoshi Ōhira age 45
Sōsuke Uno age 33
Pierre Mendès France age 49
Oliver Tambo age 38
Gennady Yanayev age 18
Chadli Bendjedid age 26
Franz Vranitzky age 18
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 15
Wilfried Martens age 19
Dean Barrow age 4
Aristides Pereira age 32
Pedro Pires age 21
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 45
Sherif Ismail age 7 months
Geir Haarde age 4
Ephraim Katzir age 39
Giovanni Goria age 12
Gediminas Kirkilas age 4
Muhyiddin Yassin age 8
Moussa Traoré age 19
Eddie Fenech Adami age 22
Adolfo López Mateos age 45
Ibrahim Babangida age 14
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 26
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 26
Vladimír Mečiar age 13
Ronald Venetiaan age 19
Rafael Caldera age 40
Hanna Suchocka age 9
Fernando Belaúnde age 43
Elpidio Quirino age 65
Abdalla Hamdok age 1 month
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 74
Takeo Miki age 48
William Westmoreland age 41
Venceslau Brás age 87
Georges Bidault age 56
Vasily Sokolovsky age 58
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 6
Marcel Lefebvre age 50
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 9
Craig Venter age 9
Francis Collins age 5
Yang Shangkun age 48
Stephen Breyer age 17
Thurgood Marshall age 47
James F. Byrnes age 73
Hubert Maga age 39
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 34
Sylvie Kinigi age 3
Arthur Meighen age 81
Jioji Konrote age 8
Paavo Lipponen age 14
Léon M'ba age 54
Georgios Papandreou age 68
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 8
Zalman Shazar age 66
Piet de Jong age 40
Guntis Ulmanis age 16
Philibert Tsiranana age 43
Abdul Razak Hussein age 33
Lawrence Gonzi age 2
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 55
Mircea Snegur age 16
Shaukat Aziz age 6
Sergei Stepashin age 3
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 31
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 33
Maxime Weygand age 89
Nikolai Tikhonov age 50
Jânio Quadros age 39
Ash Carter age 1
Michel Aflaq age 46
Ferdinand Schörner age 63
Marsha P. Johnson age 10
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 73
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 42
Mohammad Mokhber age 7 months
Michael Dukakis age 22
Dobrica Ćosić age 34
Daniel Inouye age 31
Ronald McNair age 5
Lawrence Eagleburger age 25
Anthony Kennedy age 19
Dean Rusk age 47
Cyrus Vance age 38
Arturo Umberto Illia age 55
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 8
Arturo Frondizi age 47
William McMahon age 47
Earle Page age 75
Joe Clark age 16
François Tombalbaye age 37
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 13
Tshombé Moïse age 36
Harri Holkeri age 19
Efraín Ríos Montt age 29
Kristján Eldjárn age 39
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 43
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 50
Yigal Allon age 37
Henri Konan Bédié age 21
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 29
Gaston Thorn age 27
Saadeddine Othmani age 0 months
Htin Kyaw age 9
Yakubu Gowon age 21
Shehu Shagari age 30
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 10
Mirko Cvetković age 5
Rudolf Schuster age 22
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 13
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 30
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 36
Michael Somare age 19
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 72
Fuad II of Egypt age 4
Chuck Hagel age 9
Milka Planinc age 31
Günter Schabowski age 27
Wesley Clark age 11
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 85
Kurt Student age 65
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 68
John Kasich age 3
Peter Mandelson age 2
Souphanouvong age 46
John Ashcroft age 13
S. M. Bruce age 72
John Gorton age 44
César Gaviria age 8
Osvaldo Dorticós age 36
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 34
Péter Medgyessy age 13
Poul Schlüter age 26
Fouad Siniora age 12
Diori Hamani age 39
James Michel age 11
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 1
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 29
Mesut Yılmaz age 8
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 28
Julio María Sanguinetti age 20
Iolu Abil age 13
Marek Belka age 4
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 60
Mireya Moscoso age 9
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 21
Tanzan Ishibashi age 71
Michel Debré age 44
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 40
Washington Luís age 86
Margaret Chan age 8
Claude Auchinleck age 71
Wilhelm List age 75
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 14
Frederica of Hanover age 38
Louise Mountbatten age 66
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 20
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 19
Ahmad Uyahya age 3
Leo Tindemans age 33
Melchior Ndadaye age 3
Barthélemy Boganda age 45
Vladimír Špidla age 4
Antoine Gizenga age 30
Eugenia Charles age 36
Nicholas Liverpool age 21
Mario Scelba age 54
Anker Jørgensen age 33
William Richard Tolbert age 42
Didier Ratsiraka age 19
Abdelilah Benkirane age 1
Sushil Koirala age 16
Kåre Willoch age 27
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 61
Pascal Lissouba age 24
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 12
Adrian Năstase age 5
Michal Kováč age 25
Pascal Couchepin age 13
Wellington Koo age 68
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 45
Carlos P. Garcia age 59
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 57
Gaafar Nimeiry age 25
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 103
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 68
Tetsu Katayama age 68
Hitoshi Ashida age 68
Pierre Messmer age 39
Sirhan Sirhan age 11
Biljana Plavšić age 25
Karl Rahner age 51
Paul Tibbets age 40
Felix Yusupov age 68
Maria of Yugoslavia age 56