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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
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Kåre Willoch age 27
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 62
Pascal Lissouba age 24
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 12
Adrian Năstase age 6
Michal Kováč age 26
Pascal Couchepin age 14
Wellington Koo age 68
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 46
Carlos P. Garcia age 59
Gaafar Nimeiry age 25
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 103
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 68
Tetsu Katayama age 69
Hitoshi Ashida age 68
Pierre Messmer age 40
Sirhan Sirhan age 12
Biljana Plavšić age 26
Karl Rahner age 52
Paul Tibbets age 41
Felix Yusupov age 69
Maria of Yugoslavia age 56
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 35
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 41
Janet Reno age 18
Edmund Muskie age 42
Fan S. Noli age 74
Mohamed Boudiaf age 37
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 31
Arthur Fadden age 62
Quentin Bryce age 13
Adolf Schärf age 66
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 6
Hugo Banzer age 30
Nuon Chea age 30
Ange-Félix Patassé age 19
Glafcos Clerides age 37
Joaquín Balaguer age 50
Josefa Iloilo age 35
Esko Aho age 2
Luís Cabral age 25
Sam Hinds age 12
Janet Jagan age 35
Abdul Latif Rashid age 12
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 14
Giuseppe Pella age 54
Fernando Tambroni age 54
Joop den Uyl age 37
Behgjet Pacolli age 5
Bakili Muluzi age 13
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 14
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 44
António Ramalho Eanes age 21
António de Spínola age 46
Milan Milutinović age 13
France-Albert René age 20
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 24
Yusof bin Ishak age 46
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 3
Ruth Dreifuss age 16
Fradique de Menezes age 14
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 19
Samak Sundaravej age 21
George Maxwell Richards age 24
Yurii Yekhanurov age 8
Juan María Bordaberry age 28
Baldwin Lonsdale age 8
Laurentino Cortizo age 3
Juan Negrín age 64
Maurice Couve de Murville age 49
Pierre Bérégovoy age 30
Mark W. Clark age 60
B. J. Vorster age 40
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 50
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 10
Walter Hallstein age 54
Margaret Beckett age 13
Paul Hausser age 75
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia age 81
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 60
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 50
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 59
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark age 49
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 24
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 23
William Rehnquist age 31
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 2
Andranik Margaryan age 5
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 56
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 26
Jigme Thinley age 3
Pierre Buyoya age 6
Jorge Alessandri age 60
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 2
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 30
Essam Sharaf age 4
Ahmed Nazif age 4
Väinö Tanner age 75
David A. Granger age 11
András Baka age 3
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 50
Patrick Hillery age 33
Tammam Salam age 11
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 71
Kazimira Prunskienė age 13
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 3
Guido de Marco age 25
Moktar Ould Daddah age 31
Myint Swe age 5
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 46
Pedro Santana Lopes age 2 months
Ralph Gonsalves age 10
Ola Ullsten age 25
Moritz Leuenberger age 9
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 4
Oqil Oqilov age 12
Sarit Thanarat age 48
Somchai Wongsawat age 9
D. F. Malan age 82
Café Filho age 57
Félix Gouin age 71
Ante Marković age 31
James Earl Ray age 28
Bachir Gemayel age 8
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 11
David Paterson age 2
John Connally age 39
Merrick Garland age 3
Nandó dos Santos age 6
Baldwin Spencer age 7
Peter Cosgrove age 9
Freundel Stuart age 5
Syarhiey Sidorski age 2
Nicéphore Soglo age 21
Eduardo Rodríguez age 6 months
Petar Mladenov age 20
Michel Micombero age 16
Belisario Betancur age 33
Sitiveni Rabuka age 7
Kalevi Sorsa age 25
Óscar Berger age 10
Kumba Ialá age 3
Kaysone Phomvihane age 35
Ivars Godmanis age 4
Amine Gemayel age 14
Joseph Boakai age 11
Christopher Loeak age 3
Mihai Ghimpu age 4
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 1
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 6
Salam Fayyad age 4
Marien Ngouabi age 17
Petru Groza age 71
Devan Nair age 33
Surayud Chulanont age 13
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 13
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 15
Guy Scott age 12
Valentín Paniagua age 19
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 50
Ye Jianying age 59
Artur da Costa e Silva age 56
J. Sigfrid Edström age 85
Robert Zoellick age 3
Jack Straw age 10
Gotthard Heinrici age 69
Milan Babić age 6 months
Jang Song-thaek age 10
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 48
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 19
Prince Michael of Kent age 14
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 18
Deval Patrick age 1 month
Wim Duisenberg age 21
Ellison Onizuka age 10
Eric Holder age 5
Abd al-Malek Selal age 8
Liamine Zéroual age 15
Isa II of Bahrain age 23
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 37
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 10
Khieu Samphan age 25
Abel Pacheco age 22
Giorgos Vasiliou age 25
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 4
Charles Savarin age 12
León Febres-Cordero age 25
Hilla Limann age 21
Vasiliki Thanou age 5
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 57
Carmen Pereira age 19
Roberto Micheletti age 13
József Antall age 24
Bjarni Benediktsson age 48
Ayad Allawi age 12
Marouf al-Bakhit age 9
Jens Otto Krag age 42
Isa Mustafa age 5
Khamtai Siphandone age 32
Omar Karami age 22