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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
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962

People

Myriam Spiteri Debono age 5
Boris Trajkovski age 2
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 43
Marcelo Caetano age 52
Mikhail Kasianov age 7 months
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 6
Trần Đức Lương age 21
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 49
Choi Kyu-hah age 39
Zenkō Suzuki age 47
Paul Reynaud age 79
Leon Panetta age 20
Philip Hammond age 2
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 1
Mario Cuomo age 26
Lê Duẩn age 51
George Wallace age 38
Alexander Haig age 33
Fatos Nano age 5
Franz Jonas age 58
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 43
Carlos Mesa age 4
Petar Stoyanov age 6
Patricio Aylwin age 39
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 41
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 3
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 39
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 10
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 10
Davíð Oddsson age 10
Giovanni Spadolini age 33
Arnaldo Forlani age 32
Raila A Odinga age 13
Anote Tong age 6
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 17
Anerood Jugnauth age 28
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 47
Zinaida Greceanîi age 2
Armando Guebuza age 15
Farooq Leghari age 18
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 6
Emil Constantinescu age 18
Evaristo Carvalho age 16
Rómulo Betancourt age 50
José Paciano Laurel age 67
Sergio Osmeña age 79
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 32
Luis Carrero Blanco age 54
Harold Alexander age 66
Masayoshi Ōhira age 48
Sōsuke Uno age 35
Pierre Mendès France age 51
Oliver Tambo age 40
Gennady Yanayev age 20
Chadli Bendjedid age 29
Franz Vranitzky age 20
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 18
Wilfried Martens age 22
Dean Barrow age 7
Louis St. Laurent age 76
Aristides Pereira age 34
Pedro Pires age 24
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 47
Sherif Ismail age 3
Geir Haarde age 7
Ephraim Katzir age 42
Giovanni Goria age 15
Rolandas Paksas age 2
Gediminas Kirkilas age 6
Muhyiddin Yassin age 11
Moussa Traoré age 21
Eddie Fenech Adami age 24
Adolfo López Mateos age 48
U Nu age 51
Ibrahim Babangida age 16
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 28
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 28
Vladimír Mečiar age 16
Ronald Venetiaan age 22
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 2
Rafael Caldera age 42
Hanna Suchocka age 12
Fernando Belaúnde age 45
Abdalla Hamdok age 2
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 77
Takeo Miki age 51
William Westmoreland age 44
Venceslau Brás age 90
Georges Bidault age 58
Vasily Sokolovsky age 61
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 9
Marcel Lefebvre age 52
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 11
Craig Venter age 11
Francis Collins age 8
Yang Shangkun age 51
Stephen Breyer age 19
Thurgood Marshall age 50
James F. Byrnes age 76
Hubert Maga age 42
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 36
Sylvie Kinigi age 5
Arthur Meighen age 84
Jioji Konrote age 10
Paavo Lipponen age 17
Georgios Papandreou age 70
Alejandro Giammattei age 2
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 11
Zalman Shazar age 68
Piet de Jong age 43
Guntis Ulmanis age 18
Philibert Tsiranana age 45
Abdul Razak Hussein age 36
Lawrence Gonzi age 5
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 1
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 57
Mircea Snegur age 18
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 2 months
Shaukat Aziz age 9
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 2
Sergei Stepashin age 6
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 34
Najla Bouden age 1 month
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 35
Nicanor Duarte age 1
Maxime Weygand age 91
Nikolai Tikhonov age 53
Jânio Quadros age 41
Ash Carter age 3
Michel Aflaq age 48
Ferdinand Schörner age 66
Marsha P. Johnson age 12
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 76
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 45
Mohammad Mokhber age 3
Michael Dukakis age 24
Dobrica Ćosić age 36
Daniel Inouye age 33
Ronald McNair age 7
Lawrence Eagleburger age 28
Anthony Kennedy age 22
Dean Rusk age 49
Cyrus Vance age 41
Arturo Umberto Illia age 58
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 11
William McMahon age 50
Earle Page age 78
Joe Clark age 19
François Tombalbaye age 40
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 16
Tshombé Moïse age 38
Harri Holkeri age 21
Efraín Ríos Montt age 32
Kristján Eldjárn age 41
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 45
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 52
Yigal Allon age 39
Henri Konan Bédié age 24
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 32
Gaston Thorn age 29
Duško Marković age 0 months
Saadeddine Othmani age 2
Htin Kyaw age 12
Yakubu Gowon age 23
Shehu Shagari age 33
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 13
Mirko Cvetković age 7
Rudolf Schuster age 24
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 15
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 33
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 38
Michael Somare age 22
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 75
Fuad II of Egypt age 6
Chuck Hagel age 11
Milka Planinc age 33
Günter Schabowski age 29
Wesley Clark age 13
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 88
Kurt Student age 68
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 70
John Kasich age 6
Peter Mandelson age 4
Souphanouvong age 49
John Ashcroft age 16
S. M. Bruce age 75
John Gorton age 46
César Gaviria age 11
José Figueres Ferrer age 51
Osvaldo Dorticós age 39
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 37
Péter Medgyessy age 15
Poul Schlüter age 29
Fouad Siniora age 15
Diori Hamani age 42
James Michel age 13
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 3
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 32
Mesut Yılmaz age 10
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 30