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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
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962

People

Michel Debré age 45
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 42
Margaret Chan age 10
Claude Auchinleck age 73
Wilhelm List age 77
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 16
Frederica of Hanover age 40
Louise Mountbatten age 68
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 22
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 20
Ahmad Uyahya age 5
Leo Tindemans age 35
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 50
Melchior Ndadaye age 5
Barthélemy Boganda age 47
Vladimír Špidla age 6
Antoine Gizenga age 32
Eugenia Charles age 38
Nicholas Liverpool age 23
Mario Scelba age 56
Anker Jørgensen age 35
William Richard Tolbert age 44
Didier Ratsiraka age 21
Abdelilah Benkirane age 3
Sushil Koirala age 18
Kåre Willoch age 29
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 63
Pascal Lissouba age 26
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 14
Adrian Năstase age 7
Michal Kováč age 27
Pascal Couchepin age 15
Wellington Koo age 69
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 47
Gaafar Nimeiry age 27
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 105
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 70
Tetsu Katayama age 70
Hitoshi Ashida age 70
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 58
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 36
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 42
Janet Reno age 19
Edmund Muskie age 43
Fan S. Noli age 76
Mohamed Boudiaf age 38
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 33
Arthur Fadden age 63
Quentin Bryce age 15
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 37
Esko Aho age 3
Luís Cabral age 26
Sam Hinds age 14
Janet Jagan age 37
Abdul Latif Rashid age 13
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 16
Giuseppe Pella age 55
Fernando Tambroni age 56
Joop den Uyl age 38
Behgjet Pacolli age 6
Bakili Muluzi age 14
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 15
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 46
António Ramalho Eanes age 22
António de Spínola age 47
Milan Milutinović age 15
France-Albert René age 22
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 25
Yusof bin Ishak age 47
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 4
Ruth Dreifuss age 17
Fradique de Menezes age 15
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 20
Samak Sundaravej age 22
George Maxwell Richards age 26
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 32
Mark W. Clark age 61
B. J. Vorster age 42
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 52
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 11
Walter Hallstein age 56
Margaret Beckett age 14
Paul Hausser age 77
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 51
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 25
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 24
William Rehnquist age 33
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 5
Pierre Buyoya age 8
Jorge Alessandri age 61
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 3
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 31
Essam Sharaf age 6
Ahmed Nazif age 5
Väinö Tanner age 76
José Mário Vaz age 0 months
David A. Granger age 12
András Baka age 5
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 52
Patrick Hillery age 34
Tammam Salam age 12
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 72
Kazimira Prunskienė age 14
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 5
Guido de Marco age 26
Moktar Ould Daddah age 33
Myint Swe age 6
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 48
Pedro Santana Lopes age 1
Ralph Gonsalves age 11
Ola Ullsten age 26
Moritz Leuenberger age 11
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 5
Oqil Oqilov age 13
Sarit Thanarat age 49
Somchai Wongsawat age 10
D. F. Malan age 83
Café Filho age 58
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 70
Félix Gouin age 73
Ante Marković age 33
James Earl Ray age 29
Bachir Gemayel age 10
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 12
David Paterson age 3
John Connally age 40
Merrick Garland age 5
Nandó dos Santos age 7
Baldwin Spencer age 9
Peter Cosgrove age 10
Freundel Stuart age 6
Syarhiey Sidorski age 3
Nicéphore Soglo age 23
Eduardo Rodríguez age 1
Petar Mladenov age 21
Michel Micombero age 17
Belisario Betancur age 34
Sitiveni Rabuka age 9
Kalevi Sorsa age 27
Óscar Berger age 11
Kumba Ialá age 4
Kaysone Phomvihane age 37
Ivars Godmanis age 6
Amine Gemayel age 15
Joseph Boakai age 13
Christopher Loeak age 5
Mihai Ghimpu age 6
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 3
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 7
Salam Fayyad age 5
Marien Ngouabi age 19
Petru Groza age 73
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 8 months
Devan Nair age 34
Surayud Chulanont age 14
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 14
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 16
Guy Scott age 13
Valentín Paniagua age 21
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 51
Ye Jianying age 60
Artur da Costa e Silva age 58
J. Sigfrid Edström age 87
Robert Zoellick age 4
Jack Straw age 11
Gotthard Heinrici age 71
Milan Babić age 1
Jang Song-thaek age 11
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 49
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 21
Prince Michael of Kent age 15
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 19
Deval Patrick age 1
Wim Duisenberg age 22
Ellison Onizuka age 11