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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
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19

People

Joop den Uyl age 35
Behgjet Pacolli age 3
Bakili Muluzi age 12
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 12
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 43
António Ramalho Eanes age 20
António de Spínola age 44
Milan Milutinović age 12
France-Albert René age 19
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 23
Yusof bin Ishak age 44
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 1
Ruth Dreifuss age 15
Fradique de Menezes age 13
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 17
Samak Sundaravej age 19
George Maxwell Richards age 23
Yurii Yekhanurov age 6
Juan María Bordaberry age 26
Baldwin Lonsdale age 6
Laurentino Cortizo age 2
Juan Negrín age 63
Maurice Couve de Murville age 48
Pierre Bérégovoy age 29
Mark W. Clark age 58
B. J. Vorster age 39
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 49
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 8
Walter Hallstein age 53
Margaret Beckett age 12
Paul Hausser age 74
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia age 80
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 48
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 23
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 22
William Rehnquist age 30
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 1
Andranik Margaryan age 3
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 55
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 25
Jigme Thinley age 2
Pierre Buyoya age 5
Jorge Alessandri age 58
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 7 months
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 28
Essam Sharaf age 3
Ahmed Nazif age 2
Väinö Tanner age 74
David A. Granger age 9
Mihály Károlyi age 80
András Baka age 2
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 49
Patrick Hillery age 31
Tammam Salam age 9
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 70
Kazimira Prunskienė age 12
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 2
Guido de Marco age 23
Moktar Ould Daddah age 30
Adolfo de la Huerta age 73
Myint Swe age 3
Ralph Gonsalves age 8
Ola Ullsten age 23
Moritz Leuenberger age 8
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 3
Oqil Oqilov age 11
Sarit Thanarat age 46
Somchai Wongsawat age 7
D. F. Malan age 80
Félix Gouin age 70
Ante Marković age 30
James Earl Ray age 27
Bachir Gemayel age 7
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 9
David Paterson age 10 months
John Connally age 38
Merrick Garland age 2
Nandó dos Santos age 5
Baldwin Spencer age 6
Peter Cosgrove age 7
Freundel Stuart age 3
Syarhiey Sidorski age 1
Nicéphore Soglo age 20
Petar Mladenov age 18
Michel Micombero age 14
Belisario Betancur age 32
Sitiveni Rabuka age 6
Kalevi Sorsa age 24
Óscar Berger age 8
Kumba Ialá age 2
Kaysone Phomvihane age 34
Ivars Godmanis age 3
Amine Gemayel age 13
Joseph Boakai age 10
Christopher Loeak age 2
Mihai Ghimpu age 3
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 4 months
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 4
Salam Fayyad age 2
Marien Ngouabi age 16
Petru Groza age 70
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 18
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 48
Ye Jianying age 57
Artur da Costa e Silva age 55
J. Sigfrid Edström age 84
Robert Zoellick age 1
Jack Straw age 8
Gotthard Heinrici age 68
Jang Song-thaek age 9
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 47
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 18
Prince Michael of Kent age 12
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 16
Wim Duisenberg age 19
Souvanna Phouma age 53
Ellison Onizuka age 8
Eric Holder age 4
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 21
Giorgos Vasiliou age 23
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 2
Charles Savarin age 11
León Febres-Cordero age 24
Hilla Limann age 20
Vasiliki Thanou age 4
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 55
Carmen Pereira age 18
Roberto Micheletti age 11
József Antall age 22
Bjarni Benediktsson age 46
Ayad Allawi age 10
Marouf al-Bakhit age 8
Jens Otto Krag age 40
Isa Mustafa age 3
Khamtai Siphandone age 31
Omar Karami age 20
Mahmoud Jibril age 2
Artūras Paulauskas age 1
David Kabua age 3
Nangolo Mbumba age 13
Ludwig Scotty age 6
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 2
Jan P. Syse age 24
Trygve Bratteli age 45
Odvar Nordli age 27
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 62
Chivu Stoica age 46
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 1
Tufuga Efi age 17
Wee Kim Wee age 39
Rahmon Nabiyev age 24
Phạm Văn Đồng age 49
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 4
Carlos Arias Navarro age 46
Dương Văn Minh age 39
Garret FitzGerald age 29
John Bruton age 7
Henry Paulson age 8
Larry Summers age 3 months
Michael Howard age 13
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 63
William Halsey Jr. age 72
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 62
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 12
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 10
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 11
Mark Warner age 3 months
Thomas E. Dewey age 53
John Paul Stevens age 34
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 29
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 13
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 51
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 25
Viačasław Kiebič age 18
Mark Eyskens age 21
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 38
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 24
Elisabeth Domitien age 30
Michel Djotodia age 6
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 33
Ahmed Shafik age 13
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 39
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 9
Christos Sartzetakis age 25
Boniface Alexandre age 18