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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

Hubert Maga age 41
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 35
Sylvie Kinigi age 4
Arthur Meighen age 83
Jioji Konrote age 9
Paavo Lipponen age 16
Georgios Papandreou age 69
Alejandro Giammattei age 1
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 10
Zalman Shazar age 67
Piet de Jong age 42
Guntis Ulmanis age 17
Philibert Tsiranana age 44
Abdul Razak Hussein age 35
Lawrence Gonzi age 4
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 7 months
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 56
Mircea Snegur age 17
Shaukat Aziz age 8
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 1
Sergei Stepashin age 5
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 33
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 34
Nicanor Duarte age 10 months
Maxime Weygand age 90
Nikolai Tikhonov age 52
Jânio Quadros age 40
Ash Carter age 2
Mohammad Mokhber age 2
Michael Dukakis age 23
Daniel Inouye age 32
Ronald McNair age 6
Lawrence Eagleburger age 27
Anthony Kennedy age 21
Dean Rusk age 48
Cyrus Vance age 40
Arturo Umberto Illia age 57
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 10
Arturo Frondizi age 48
William McMahon age 49
Earle Page age 77
Joe Clark age 18
François Tombalbaye age 39
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 15
Tshombé Moïse age 37
Harri Holkeri age 20
Efraín Ríos Montt age 31
Kristján Eldjárn age 40
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 44
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 51
Yigal Allon age 38
Henri Konan Bédié age 23
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 31
Gaston Thorn age 28
Saadeddine Othmani age 1
Htin Kyaw age 11
Yakubu Gowon age 22
Shehu Shagari age 32
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 12
Mirko Cvetković age 6
Rudolf Schuster age 23
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 14
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 32
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 37
Michael Somare age 21
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 74
Fuad II of Egypt age 5
Chuck Hagel age 10
Milka Planinc age 32
John Kasich age 5
Peter Mandelson age 3
Souphanouvong age 48
John Ashcroft age 15
S. M. Bruce age 74
John Gorton age 45
César Gaviria age 10
Osvaldo Dorticós age 38
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 36
Péter Medgyessy age 14
Poul Schlüter age 28
Fouad Siniora age 14
Diori Hamani age 41
James Michel age 12
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 2
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 31
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 62
Mireya Moscoso age 11
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 22
Tanzan Ishibashi age 72
Michel Debré age 45
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 42
Margaret Chan age 9
Ahmad Uyahya age 5
Leo Tindemans age 35
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 49
Melchior Ndadaye age 4
Barthélemy Boganda age 47
Vladimír Špidla age 6
Antoine Gizenga age 31
Eugenia Charles age 38
Nicholas Liverpool age 22
Mario Scelba age 55
Anker Jørgensen age 35
William Richard Tolbert age 44
Didier Ratsiraka age 20
Abdelilah Benkirane age 3
Sushil Koirala age 18
Kåre Willoch age 28
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 63
Pascal Lissouba age 25
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 13
Adrian Năstase age 7
Michal Kováč age 27
Pascal Couchepin age 15
Wellington Koo age 69
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 47
Gaafar Nimeiry age 26
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 104
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 69
Tetsu Katayama age 70
Hitoshi Ashida age 69
Pierre Messmer age 41
Janet Reno age 19
Edmund Muskie age 43
Fan S. Noli age 75
Mohamed Boudiaf age 38
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 32
Arthur Fadden age 63
Quentin Bryce age 14
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 7
Hugo Banzer age 31
Nuon Chea age 31
Ange-Félix Patassé age 20
Glafcos Clerides age 38
Joaquín Balaguer age 50
Josefa Iloilo age 36
Esko Aho age 3
Luís Cabral age 26
Sam Hinds age 13
Janet Jagan age 36
Abdul Latif Rashid age 13
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 15
Giuseppe Pella age 55
Fernando Tambroni age 55
Joop den Uyl age 38
Behgjet Pacolli age 5
Bakili Muluzi age 14
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 15
António Ramalho Eanes age 22
António de Spínola age 47
Milan Milutinović age 14
France-Albert René age 21
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 25
Yusof bin Ishak age 47
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 3
Ruth Dreifuss age 17
Fradique de Menezes age 15
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 20
Samak Sundaravej age 22
George Maxwell Richards age 25
Yurii Yekhanurov age 8
Juan María Bordaberry age 29
Baldwin Lonsdale age 9
Laurentino Cortizo age 4
Maurice Couve de Murville age 50
Pierre Bérégovoy age 31
Mark W. Clark age 61
B. J. Vorster age 41
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 51
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 11
Walter Hallstein age 55
William Rehnquist age 32
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 3
Andranik Margaryan age 6
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 57
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 27
Jigme Thinley age 4
Pierre Buyoya age 7
Jorge Alessandri age 61
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 2
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 31
Essam Sharaf age 5
Ahmed Nazif age 5
Väinö Tanner age 76
David A. Granger age 12
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 51
Patrick Hillery age 34
Tammam Salam age 12
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 72
Kazimira Prunskienė age 14
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 4
Guido de Marco age 26
Moktar Ould Daddah age 32
Myint Swe age 6
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 47