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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
Battle of Dien Bien Phu 1954-03-13 - 1954-05-07

People

George Maxwell Richards age 22
Yurii Yekhanurov age 5
Juan María Bordaberry age 25
Baldwin Lonsdale age 5
Laurentino Cortizo age 1
Juan Negrín age 62
Maurice Couve de Murville age 47
Pierre Bérégovoy age 28
Mark W. Clark age 58
B. J. Vorster age 38
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 48
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 8
Walter Hallstein age 52
Margaret Beckett age 11
Paul Hausser age 73
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia age 79
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 58
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 47
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 57
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark age 47
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 22
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 21
William Rehnquist age 29
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 2 months
Andranik Margaryan age 2
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 54
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 24
Jigme Thinley age 1
Pierre Buyoya age 4
Jorge Alessandri age 58
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 27
Essam Sharaf age 2
Ahmed Nazif age 1
Väinö Tanner age 73
David A. Granger age 8
Mihály Károlyi age 79
András Baka age 1
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 48
Patrick Hillery age 31
Tammam Salam age 8
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 69
Kazimira Prunskienė age 11
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 1
Dom Mintoff age 37
Guido de Marco age 22
Moktar Ould Daddah age 29
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 2
Oqil Oqilov age 10
Sarit Thanarat age 45
Somchai Wongsawat age 6
Café Filho age 55
Félix Gouin age 69
Ante Marković age 29
James Earl Ray age 26
Bachir Gemayel age 6
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 8
John Connally age 37
Merrick Garland age 1
Mehmet Shehu age 41
Nandó dos Santos age 4
Baldwin Spencer age 5
Peter Cosgrove age 6
Freundel Stuart age 3
Syarhiey Sidorski age 1 month
Nicéphore Soglo age 19
Petar Mladenov age 17
Michel Micombero age 13
Belisario Betancur age 31
Sitiveni Rabuka age 5
Kalevi Sorsa age 23
Óscar Berger age 7
Kumba Ialá age 1
Kaysone Phomvihane age 33
Ivars Godmanis age 2
Amine Gemayel age 12
Joseph Boakai age 9
Christopher Loeak age 1
Mihai Ghimpu age 2
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 3
Salam Fayyad age 2
Marien Ngouabi age 15
Petru Groza age 69
Devan Nair age 30
Johan Ferrier age 44
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 57
Artur da Costa e Silva age 54
J. Sigfrid Edström age 83
Robert Zoellick age 9 months
Jack Straw age 7
Gotthard Heinrici age 67
Jang Song-thaek age 8
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 46
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 17
Prince Michael of Kent age 11
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 15
Wim Duisenberg age 18
Ellison Onizuka age 7
Eric Holder age 3
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 20
Giorgos Vasiliou age 22
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 1
Charles Savarin age 10
León Febres-Cordero age 23
Hilla Limann age 19
Vasiliki Thanou age 3
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 54
Carmen Pereira age 17
Roberto Micheletti age 10
József Antall age 22
Bjarni Benediktsson age 46
Ayad Allawi age 9
Marouf al-Bakhit age 7
Jens Otto Krag age 39
Isa Mustafa age 2
Khamtai Siphandone age 30
Omar Karami age 19
Mahmoud Jibril age 1
Artūras Paulauskas age 8 months
David Kabua age 2
Nangolo Mbumba age 12
Ludwig Scotty age 5
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 1
Jan P. Syse age 23
Trygve Bratteli age 44
Odvar Nordli age 26
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 61
Chivu Stoica age 45
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 11 months
Tufuga Efi age 16
Wee Kim Wee age 38
Rahmon Nabiyev age 23
Phạm Văn Đồng age 48
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 3
Carlos Arias Navarro age 45
Dương Văn Minh age 38
Garret FitzGerald age 28
John Bruton age 6
Henry Paulson age 8
Michael Howard age 12
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 63
William Halsey Jr. age 71
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 62
John Paul Stevens age 34
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 29
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 12
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 50
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 24
Viačasław Kiebič age 17
Mark Eyskens age 21
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 37
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 23
Elisabeth Domitien age 29
Michel Djotodia age 5
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 32
Ahmed Shafik age 12
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 38
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 8
Christos Sartzetakis age 25
Boniface Alexandre age 17
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 43
Elias Hrawi age 27
Pakalitha Mosisili age 9
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 16
Emilio Portes Gil age 63
Jhala Nath Khanal age 3
Enrique Bolaños age 26
Mahamane Ousmane age 4
Murtala Muhammed age 15
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 30
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 21
Fulbert Youlou age 36
Radu Vasile age 11
Petre Roman age 7
Pasteur Bizimungu age 4
Mame Madior Boye age 13
Thanom Kittikachorn age 42
Leszek Miller age 7
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 32
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 21