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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
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

People

Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 42
Elias Hrawi age 26
Pakalitha Mosisili age 8
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 15
Emilio Portes Gil age 62
Jhala Nath Khanal age 3
Enrique Bolaños age 25
Mahamane Ousmane age 3
Murtala Muhammed age 14
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 29
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 20
Fulbert Youlou age 36
Radu Vasile age 10
Petre Roman age 7
Mame Madior Boye age 12
Thanom Kittikachorn age 42
Leszek Miller age 7
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 31
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 20
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 54
Guy Mollet age 47
Ferruccio Parri age 63
Liam Cosgrave age 33
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 34
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 43
Vuk Drašković age 6
William Barr age 3
Wang Qishan age 5
Raymond A. Spruance age 67
Tôn Đức Thắng age 64
James R. Schlesinger age 24
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 34
Héctor José Cámpora age 44
Juan Carlos Onganía age 39
Frank Forde age 63
Leopold Figl age 50
Viktor Klima age 6
Gaston Eyskens age 48
Michel Kafando age 10
Domitien Ndayizeye age 3 months
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 9
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 54
Ernesto Samper age 2
Juan Bosch age 44
Gustavo Noboa age 15
Keith Mitchell age 6
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 7
Arthur Chung age 35
Ariel Henry age 3
Zoltán Tildy age 63
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 6
Michael Manley age 28
Pierre Werner age 39
Albert Zafy age 26
Anthony Mamo age 44
Amata Kabua age 24
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 11
Navin Ramgoolam age 6
Petru Lucinschi age 13
Abbas El Fassi age 12
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 28
David Lange age 11
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 2
Johnson Toribiong age 7
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 19
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 50
Su Tseng-chang age 6
Keith Rowley age 3
Muteesa II of Buganda age 28
Le Duc Anh age 32
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 42
Ibrahim Abboud age 52
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 64
Manfred Wörner age 18
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 39
Vladimir Ivashko age 20
David Souter age 13
Carlos Castillo Armas age 38
Owen Arthur age 3
George Cadle Price age 34
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 37
André Kolingba age 16
Jiří Paroubek age 11 months
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 70
Edgar Savisaar age 3
Epeli Nailatikau age 12
Karl-August Fagerholm age 51
Leslie Manigat age 22
Miklós Németh age 5
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 61
Robert Guéï age 12
Bah Ndaw age 2
Dioncounda Traoré age 11
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 11
Lars Korvald age 37
John Lyng age 47
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 49
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 9
Américo Tomás age 58
Denzil Douglas age 6 months
James Mancham age 13
Siaka Stevens age 47
Benjamin Sheares age 46
Chuan Leekpai age 15
Perry Christie age 9
Mari Alkatiri age 3
Yıldırım Akbulut age 17
Pavlo Lazarenko age 6 months
Jan Olszewski age 22
José María Balcázar age 10
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 18
Ho Chong age 57
Creighton Abrams age 38
Charles Haughey age 27
Joseph Luns age 41
Nereu Ramos age 64
William J. Perry age 25
John McEwen age 53
Novruz Mammadov age 6
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 26
Alfonso López Michelsen age 40
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 47
Ahmed Abdallah age 34
Ivica Račan age 9
Manny Mori age 4
Ahti Karjalainen age 30
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 67
Martti Miettunen age 46
Maurice Bishop age 9
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 5
Ricardo Maduro age 7
Mátyás Szűrös age 19
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 25
Adone Zoli age 65
H. C. Hansen age 46
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 23
Thongsing Thammavong age 9
Ruth Perry age 14
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 64
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 76
Driss Jettou age 8
Rosario Murillo age 2
Kim Yong-il age 9
Per Borten age 40
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 15
Jules Wijdenbosch age 12
Rickard Sandler age 69
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp age 69
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 91
Shukri al-Quwatli age 61
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 20
Anthony Carmona age 4 months
A. N. R. Robinson age 26
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 33
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 1
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 4
Jaime Lusinchi age 29
Phan Văn Khải age 19
Józef Oleksy age 7
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 64
Lee Hae Chan age 1
Nebojša Radmanović age 3
Giuseppe Bertello age 10
Giovanni Lajolo age 18
Giovanni Messe age 69
Zhang Xueliang age 52
José Linhares age 67
Geoffrey Howe age 26
Carlos Luz age 59
Maxwell D. Taylor age 51
William D. Leahy age 78
William Cohen age 12
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 82
Warren E. Burger age 45
Rodney Williams age 5
Achille Van Acker age 55
Jaime Paz Zamora age 14
Philémon Yang age 6
Julio César Turbay age 37
Laureano Gómez age 64
Spiros Cyprianou age 20
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 18
Ibrahim Mahlab age 4
Kamisese Mara age 33
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 21
Henrique Rosa age 7
Donald Ramotar age 2
Oswaldo López Arellano age 32
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 49
Nuri as-Said age 65
Poul Hartling age 38
Barend Biesheuvel age 33
Felix Kulov age 4
Bechara El Khoury age 63
Tom Thabane age 14
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 15
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 47
Kailash Purryag age 5
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 52
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 3