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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Louise Mountbatten age 68
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 21
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 20
Ahmad Uyahya age 5
Leo Tindemans age 35
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 49
Melchior Ndadaye age 4
Barthélemy Boganda age 47
Vladimír Špidla age 6
Antoine Gizenga age 31
Eugenia Charles age 38
Nicholas Liverpool age 22
Mario Scelba age 56
Anker Jørgensen age 35
William Richard Tolbert age 44
Didier Ratsiraka age 20
Abdelilah Benkirane age 3
Sushil Koirala age 18
Kåre Willoch age 28
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 63
Pascal Lissouba age 25
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 13
Adrian Năstase age 7
Michal Kováč age 27
Pascal Couchepin age 15
Wellington Koo age 69
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 47
Gaafar Nimeiry age 26
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 104
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 69
Tetsu Katayama age 70
Hitoshi Ashida age 69
Pierre Messmer age 41
Sirhan Sirhan age 13
Biljana Plavšić age 27
Karl Rahner age 53
Paul Tibbets age 42
Felix Yusupov age 70
Maria of Yugoslavia age 57
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 36
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 42
Janet Reno age 19
Edmund Muskie age 43
Fan S. Noli age 75
Mohamed Boudiaf age 38
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 32
Arthur Fadden age 63
Quentin Bryce age 14
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 7
Hugo Banzer age 31
Nuon Chea age 31
Ange-Félix Patassé age 20
Glafcos Clerides age 38
Joaquín Balaguer age 51
Josefa Iloilo age 36
Esko Aho age 3
Luís Cabral age 26
Sam Hinds age 13
Janet Jagan age 36
Abdul Latif Rashid age 13
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 15
Giuseppe Pella age 55
Fernando Tambroni age 55
Joop den Uyl age 38
Behgjet Pacolli age 5
Bakili Muluzi age 14
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 15
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 45
António Ramalho Eanes age 22
António de Spínola age 47
Milan Milutinović age 14
France-Albert René age 21
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 25
Yusof bin Ishak age 47
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 3
Ruth Dreifuss age 17
Fradique de Menezes age 15
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 20
Samak Sundaravej age 22
George Maxwell Richards age 25
Yurii Yekhanurov age 9
Juan María Bordaberry age 29
Baldwin Lonsdale age 9
Laurentino Cortizo age 4
Maurice Couve de Murville age 50
Pierre Bérégovoy age 31
Mark W. Clark age 61
B. J. Vorster age 41
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 51
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 11
Walter Hallstein age 55
Margaret Beckett age 14
Paul Hausser age 76
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia age 82
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 61
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 51
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 60
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark age 50
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 25
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 24
William Rehnquist age 32
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 3
Andranik Margaryan age 6
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 57
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 27
Jigme Thinley age 4
Pierre Buyoya age 7
Jorge Alessandri age 61
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 3
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 31
Essam Sharaf age 5
Ahmed Nazif age 5
Väinö Tanner age 76
David A. Granger age 12
András Baka age 4
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 51
Patrick Hillery age 34
Tammam Salam age 12
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 72
Kazimira Prunskienė age 14
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 4
Guido de Marco age 26
Moktar Ould Daddah age 32
Myint Swe age 6
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 47
Pedro Santana Lopes age 1
Ralph Gonsalves age 11
Ola Ullsten age 26
Moritz Leuenberger age 10
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 5
Oqil Oqilov age 13
Sarit Thanarat age 49
Somchai Wongsawat age 9
D. F. Malan age 83
Café Filho age 58
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 70
Félix Gouin age 72
Ante Marković age 32
James Earl Ray age 29
Bachir Gemayel age 9
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 12
David Paterson age 3
John Connally age 40
Merrick Garland age 4
Nandó dos Santos age 7
Baldwin Spencer age 8
Peter Cosgrove age 10
Freundel Stuart age 6
Syarhiey Sidorski age 3
Nicéphore Soglo age 22
Eduardo Rodríguez age 1
Petar Mladenov age 21
Michel Micombero age 17
Belisario Betancur age 34
Sitiveni Rabuka age 8
Kalevi Sorsa age 26
Óscar Berger age 11
Kumba Ialá age 4
Kaysone Phomvihane age 36
Ivars Godmanis age 5
Amine Gemayel age 15
Joseph Boakai age 12
Christopher Loeak age 4
Mihai Ghimpu age 5
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 2
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 7
Salam Fayyad age 5
Marien Ngouabi age 18
Petru Groza age 72
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 3 months
Devan Nair age 34
Surayud Chulanont age 13
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 14
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 16
Guy Scott age 13
Valentín Paniagua age 20
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 50
Ye Jianying age 60
Artur da Costa e Silva age 57
J. Sigfrid Edström age 86
Robert Zoellick age 4
Jack Straw age 11
Gotthard Heinrici age 70
Milan Babić age 1
Jang Song-thaek age 11
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 49
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 20
Prince Michael of Kent age 15
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 19
Deval Patrick age 1
Wim Duisenberg age 22
Ellison Onizuka age 11
Eric Holder age 6
Abd al-Malek Selal age 9
Liamine Zéroual age 16
Isa II of Bahrain age 24
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 38
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 10
Khieu Samphan age 26
Abel Pacheco age 23