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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

People

António de Spínola age 44
Milan Milutinović age 11
France-Albert René age 18
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 22
Yusof bin Ishak age 44
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 11 months
Ruth Dreifuss age 14
Fradique de Menezes age 12
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 17
Samak Sundaravej age 19
George Maxwell Richards age 22
Yurii Yekhanurov age 6
Juan María Bordaberry age 26
Baldwin Lonsdale age 6
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 48
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 6 months
Andranik Margaryan age 3
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 54
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 24
Jigme Thinley age 1
Pierre Buyoya age 4
Jorge Alessandri age 58
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 0 months
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 28
Essam Sharaf age 2
Ahmed Nazif age 2
Väinö Tanner age 73
David A. Granger age 9
Mihály Károlyi age 79
András Baka age 1
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 48
Patrick Hillery age 31
Tammam Salam age 9
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 69
Kazimira Prunskienė age 11
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 1
Dom Mintoff age 38
Guido de Marco age 23
Moktar Ould Daddah age 29
Adolfo de la Huerta age 73
Myint Swe age 3
Ralph Gonsalves age 8
Ola Ullsten age 23
Moritz Leuenberger age 7
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 2
Oqil Oqilov age 10
Sarit Thanarat age 46
Somchai Wongsawat age 7
Félix Gouin age 69
Ante Marković age 29
James Earl Ray age 26
Bachir Gemayel age 6
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 9
David Paterson age 3 months
John Connally age 37
Merrick Garland age 1
Nandó dos Santos age 4
Baldwin Spencer age 5
Peter Cosgrove age 7
Freundel Stuart age 3
Syarhiey Sidorski age 5 months
Nicéphore Soglo age 19
Petar Mladenov age 18
Michel Micombero age 14
Belisario Betancur age 31
Sitiveni Rabuka age 5
Kalevi Sorsa age 23
Óscar Berger age 8
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 4
Salam Fayyad age 2
Marien Ngouabi age 15
Petru Groza age 69
Devan Nair age 31
Johan Ferrier age 44
Surayud Chulanont age 11
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 11
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 13
Guy Scott age 10
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 1
Jack Straw age 8
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 12
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 16
Wim Duisenberg age 19
Ellison Onizuka age 8
Eric Holder age 3
Abd al-Malek Selal age 6
Liamine Zéroual age 13
Isa II of Bahrain age 21
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 35
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 8
Khieu Samphan age 23
Abel Pacheco age 20
Giorgos Vasiliou age 23
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 2
Charles Savarin age 10
León Febres-Cordero age 23
Hilla Limann age 19
Vasiliki Thanou age 3
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 55
Carmen Pereira age 17
Roberto Micheletti age 11
József Antall age 22
Bjarni Benediktsson age 46
Ayad Allawi age 10
Marouf al-Bakhit age 7
Jens Otto Krag age 39
Isa Mustafa age 3
Khamtai Siphandone age 30
Omar Karami age 19
Mahmoud Jibril age 2
Artūras Paulauskas age 1
David Kabua age 3
Nangolo Mbumba age 13
Ludwig Scotty age 6
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 1
Jan P. Syse age 23
Trygve Bratteli age 44
Odvar Nordli age 26
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 62
Chivu Stoica age 46
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 1
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 7
Henry Paulson age 8
Michael Howard age 13
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 63
William Halsey Jr. age 71
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 61
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 12
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 10
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 11
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 51
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 24
Viačasław Kiebič age 18
Mark Eyskens age 21
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 37
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 24
Elisabeth Domitien age 29
Michel Djotodia age 5
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 32
Ahmed Shafik age 12
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 39
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 9
Christos Sartzetakis age 25
Boniface Alexandre age 18
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 43
Elias Hrawi age 28
Pakalitha Mosisili age 9
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 16
Emilio Portes Gil age 63
Jhala Nath Khanal age 4
Enrique Bolaños age 26
Mahamane Ousmane age 4
Murtala Muhammed age 15
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 30