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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

Juan Negrín age 61
Maurice Couve de Murville age 46
Pierre Bérégovoy age 27
Mark W. Clark age 57
B. J. Vorster age 37
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 47
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 7
Walter Hallstein age 51
Margaret Beckett age 10
Paul Hausser age 73
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia age 78
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 57
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 47
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 56
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark age 46
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 21
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 20
William Rehnquist age 29
Andranik Margaryan age 2
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 53
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 23
Jigme Thinley age 1
Pierre Buyoya age 3
Jorge Alessandri age 57
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 27
Essam Sharaf age 1
Ahmed Nazif age 1
Väinö Tanner age 72
David A. Granger age 8
Mihály Károlyi age 78
András Baka age 9 months
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 47
Patrick Hillery age 30
Tammam Salam age 8
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 68
Kazimira Prunskienė age 10
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 8 months
Dom Mintoff age 37
Guido de Marco age 22
Moktar Ould Daddah age 28
Adolfo de la Huerta age 72
Myint Swe age 2
Ralph Gonsalves age 7
Ola Ullsten age 22
Moritz Leuenberger age 7
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 1
Oqil Oqilov age 9
Sarit Thanarat age 45
Somchai Wongsawat age 6
Café Filho age 54
Félix Gouin age 69
Ante Marković age 28
James Earl Ray age 25
Bachir Gemayel age 5
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 8
John Connally age 36
Merrick Garland age 10 months
Mehmet Shehu age 40
Nandó dos Santos age 3
Baldwin Spencer age 4
Peter Cosgrove age 6
Freundel Stuart age 2
Nicéphore Soglo age 18
Petar Mladenov age 17
Michel Micombero age 13
Belisario Betancur age 30
Sitiveni Rabuka age 5
Kalevi Sorsa age 22
Óscar Berger age 7
Kumba Ialá age 6 months
Kaysone Phomvihane age 32
Ivars Godmanis age 1
Amine Gemayel age 11
Joseph Boakai age 8
Christopher Loeak age 10 months
Mihai Ghimpu age 1
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 3
Salam Fayyad age 1
Marien Ngouabi age 14
Petru Groza age 68
Devan Nair age 30
Johan Ferrier age 43
Surayud Chulanont age 10
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 10
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 12
Guy Scott age 9
Valentín Paniagua age 17
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 47
Ye Jianying age 56
Artur da Costa e Silva age 54
J. Sigfrid Edström age 82
Robert Zoellick age 2 months
Jack Straw age 7
Gotthard Heinrici age 66
Jang Song-thaek age 7
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 45
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 16
Prince Michael of Kent age 11
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 15
Wim Duisenberg age 18
Ellison Onizuka age 7
Eric Holder age 2
Abd al-Malek Selal age 5
Liamine Zéroual age 12
Isa II of Bahrain age 20
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 34
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 7
Khieu Samphan age 22
Abel Pacheco age 19
Giorgos Vasiliou age 22
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 1
Charles Savarin age 9
León Febres-Cordero age 22
Hilla Limann age 18
Vasiliki Thanou age 2
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 54
Carmen Pereira age 17
Roberto Micheletti age 10
József Antall age 21
Bjarni Benediktsson age 45
Ayad Allawi age 9
Marouf al-Bakhit age 6
Jens Otto Krag age 39
Isa Mustafa age 2
Khamtai Siphandone age 29
Omar Karami age 19
Mahmoud Jibril age 1
Artūras Paulauskas age 1 month
David Kabua age 2
Nangolo Mbumba age 12
Ludwig Scotty age 5
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 6 months
Jan P. Syse age 22
Trygve Bratteli age 43
Odvar Nordli age 25
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 61
Chivu Stoica age 45
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 4 months
Tufuga Efi age 15
Wee Kim Wee age 37
Rahmon Nabiyev age 22
Phạm Văn Đồng age 47
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 3
Carlos Arias Navarro age 44
Dương Văn Minh age 37
Garret FitzGerald age 27
John Bruton age 6
Henry Paulson age 7
Michael Howard age 12
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 62
William Halsey Jr. age 70
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 61
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 11
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 9
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 10
W. Averell Harriman age 61
John Paul Stevens age 33
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 28
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 11
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 50
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 23
Viačasław Kiebič age 17
Mark Eyskens age 20
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 36
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 23
Elisabeth Domitien age 28
Michel Djotodia age 4
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 32
Ahmed Shafik age 11
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 38
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 8
Christos Sartzetakis age 24
Boniface Alexandre age 17
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 42
Elias Hrawi age 27
Pakalitha Mosisili age 8
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 15
Emilio Portes Gil age 63
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 21
Fulbert Youlou age 36
Radu Vasile age 10
Petre Roman age 7
Pasteur Bizimungu age 3
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