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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Patricio Aylwin age 38
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 40
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 2
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 38
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 9
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 9
Davíð Oddsson age 9
Giovanni Spadolini age 31
Arnaldo Forlani age 31
Raila A Odinga age 12
Anote Tong age 4
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 16
Anerood Jugnauth age 26
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 45
Zinaida Greceanîi age 1
Armando Guebuza age 14
Farooq Leghari age 16
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 5
Emil Constantinescu age 17
Evaristo Carvalho age 15
Rómulo Betancourt age 49
José Paciano Laurel age 66
Sergio Osmeña age 78
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 30
Luis Carrero Blanco age 53
Harold Alexander age 65
Masayoshi Ōhira age 46
Sōsuke Uno age 34
Pierre Mendès France age 50
Oliver Tambo age 39
Gennady Yanayev age 19
Chadli Bendjedid age 27
Franz Vranitzky age 19
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 16
Wilfried Martens age 20
Dean Barrow age 5
Aristides Pereira age 33
Pedro Pires age 22
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 46
Sherif Ismail age 1
Geir Haarde age 5
Ephraim Katzir age 40
Giovanni Goria age 13
Rolandas Paksas age 8 months
Gediminas Kirkilas age 5
Muhyiddin Yassin age 9
Moussa Traoré age 20
Eddie Fenech Adami age 23
Adolfo López Mateos age 46
U Nu age 49
Ibrahim Babangida age 15
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 27
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 27
Vladimír Mečiar age 14
Ronald Venetiaan age 20
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 11 months
Rafael Caldera age 41
Hanna Suchocka age 10
Fernando Belaúnde age 44
Abdalla Hamdok age 1
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 75
Takeo Miki age 49
William Westmoreland age 42
Venceslau Brás age 89
Georges Bidault age 57
Vasily Sokolovsky age 59
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 7
Marcel Lefebvre age 51
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 10
Craig Venter age 10
Francis Collins age 6
Yang Shangkun age 49
Stephen Breyer age 18
Thurgood Marshall age 48
James F. Byrnes age 74
Hubert Maga age 40
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 35
Sylvie Kinigi age 4
Arthur Meighen age 82
Jioji Konrote age 9
Paavo Lipponen age 15
Léon M'ba age 55
Georgios Papandreou age 69
Alejandro Giammattei age 11 months
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 9
Zalman Shazar age 67
Piet de Jong age 41
Guntis Ulmanis age 17
Philibert Tsiranana age 44
Abdul Razak Hussein age 34
Lawrence Gonzi age 3
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 1 month
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 56
Mircea Snegur age 17
Shaukat Aziz age 7
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 12 months
Sergei Stepashin age 4
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 32
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 34
Nicanor Duarte age 4 months
Maxime Weygand age 90
Nikolai Tikhonov age 51
Jânio Quadros age 40
Ash Carter age 2
Michel Aflaq age 47
Ferdinand Schörner age 64
Marsha P. Johnson age 11
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 74
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 43
Mohammad Mokhber age 1
Michael Dukakis age 23
Dobrica Ćosić age 35
Daniel Inouye age 32
Ronald McNair age 6
Lawrence Eagleburger age 26
Anthony Kennedy age 20
Dean Rusk age 48
Cyrus Vance age 39
Arturo Umberto Illia age 56
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 9
Arturo Frondizi age 48
William McMahon age 49
Earle Page age 76
Joe Clark age 17
François Tombalbaye age 38
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 14
Tshombé Moïse age 37
Harri Holkeri age 20
Efraín Ríos Montt age 30
Kristján Eldjárn age 40
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 44
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 51
Yigal Allon age 38
Henri Konan Bédié age 22
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 30
Gaston Thorn age 28
Saadeddine Othmani age 1
Htin Kyaw age 10
Yakubu Gowon age 22
Shehu Shagari age 32
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 11
Mirko Cvetković age 6
Rudolf Schuster age 23
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 14
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 31
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 37
Michael Somare age 20
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 73
Fuad II of Egypt age 5
Chuck Hagel age 10
Milka Planinc age 32
Günter Schabowski age 28
Wesley Clark age 12
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 86
Kurt Student age 66
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 69
John Kasich age 4
Peter Mandelson age 3
Souphanouvong age 47
John Ashcroft age 14
S. M. Bruce age 73
John Gorton age 45
César Gaviria age 9
Osvaldo Dorticós age 37
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 35
Péter Medgyessy age 14
Poul Schlüter age 27
Fouad Siniora age 13
Diori Hamani age 40
James Michel age 12
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 2
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 30
Mesut Yılmaz age 9
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 29
Julio María Sanguinetti age 21
Iolu Abil age 15
Marek Belka age 5
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 61
Mireya Moscoso age 10
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 22
Tanzan Ishibashi age 72
Michel Debré age 45
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 42
Washington Luís age 87
Margaret Chan age 9
Claude Auchinleck age 72
Wilhelm List age 76
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 15
Frederica of Hanover age 39
Louise Mountbatten age 67
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 21
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 20
Ahmad Uyahya age 4
Leo Tindemans age 34
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 49
Melchior Ndadaye age 4
Barthélemy Boganda age 46
Vladimír Špidla age 5
Antoine Gizenga age 31
Eugenia Charles age 37