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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

Iolu Abil age 16
Marek Belka age 6
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 63
Mireya Moscoso age 12
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 23
Tanzan Ishibashi age 73
Michel Debré age 46
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 43
Margaret Chan age 10
Claude Auchinleck age 74
Wilhelm List age 78
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 16
Frederica of Hanover age 41
Louise Mountbatten age 69
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 22
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 21
Ahmad Uyahya age 6
Leo Tindemans age 36
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 50
Melchior Ndadaye age 5
Barthélemy Boganda age 48
Vladimír Špidla age 7
Antoine Gizenga age 32
Eugenia Charles age 39
Nicholas Liverpool age 23
Mario Scelba age 56
Anker Jørgensen age 36
William Richard Tolbert age 45
Didier Ratsiraka age 21
Abdelilah Benkirane age 4
Sushil Koirala age 18
Kåre Willoch age 29
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 64
Pascal Lissouba age 26
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 14
Adrian Năstase age 8
Michal Kováč age 28
Pascal Couchepin age 16
Wellington Koo age 70
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 48
Gaafar Nimeiry age 27
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 105
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 70
Tetsu Katayama age 71
Hitoshi Ashida age 70
Pierre Messmer age 42
Sirhan Sirhan age 14
Biljana Plavšić age 28
Karl Rahner age 54
Paul Tibbets age 43
Felix Yusupov age 71
Maria of Yugoslavia age 58
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 37
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 42
Janet Reno age 20
Edmund Muskie age 44
Fan S. Noli age 76
Mohamed Boudiaf age 39
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 33
Arthur Fadden age 64
Quentin Bryce age 15
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 8
Hugo Banzer age 32
Nuon Chea age 32
Ange-Félix Patassé age 21
Glafcos Clerides age 39
Joaquín Balaguer age 51
Josefa Iloilo age 37
Esko Aho age 4
Luís Cabral age 27
Sam Hinds age 14
Janet Jagan age 37
Abdul Latif Rashid age 13
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 16
Giuseppe Pella age 56
Fernando Tambroni age 56
Joop den Uyl age 39
Behgjet Pacolli age 6
Bakili Muluzi age 15
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 16
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 46
António Ramalho Eanes age 23
António de Spínola age 48
Milan Milutinović age 15
France-Albert René age 22
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 26
Yusof bin Ishak age 48
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 4
Ruth Dreifuss age 18
Fradique de Menezes age 16
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 21
Samak Sundaravej age 23
George Maxwell Richards age 26
Yurii Yekhanurov age 9
Juan María Bordaberry age 30
Baldwin Lonsdale age 9
Laurentino Cortizo age 5
Maurice Couve de Murville age 51
Pierre Bérégovoy age 32
Mark W. Clark age 62
B. J. Vorster age 42
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 52
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 12
Margaret Beckett age 15
Paul Hausser age 77
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia age 83
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 62
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 51
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 61
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark age 51
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 26
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 25
William Rehnquist age 33
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 4
Andranik Margaryan age 7
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 58
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 28
Jigme Thinley age 5
Pierre Buyoya age 8
Jorge Alessandri age 62
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 3
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 32
Essam Sharaf age 6
Ahmed Nazif age 6
Väinö Tanner age 77
José Mário Vaz age 7 months
David A. Granger age 13
András Baka age 5
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 52
Patrick Hillery age 35
Serik Akhmetov age 1 month
Tammam Salam age 13
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 73
Kazimira Prunskienė age 15
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 5
Dom Mintoff age 42
Guido de Marco age 27
Moktar Ould Daddah age 33
Myint Swe age 7
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 48
Pedro Santana Lopes age 2
Ralph Gonsalves age 11
Ola Ullsten age 27
Moritz Leuenberger age 11
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 6
Oqil Oqilov age 14
Sarit Thanarat age 50
Somchai Wongsawat age 10
D. F. Malan age 84
Café Filho age 59
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 71
Félix Gouin age 73
Ante Marković age 33
James Earl Ray age 30
Bachir Gemayel age 10
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 13
David Paterson age 4
John Connally age 41
Merrick Garland age 5
Nandó dos Santos age 8
Baldwin Spencer age 9
Peter Cosgrove age 11
Freundel Stuart age 7
Syarhiey Sidorski age 4
Nicéphore Soglo age 23
Eduardo Rodríguez age 2
Petar Mladenov age 21
Michel Micombero age 17
Belisario Betancur age 35
Sitiveni Rabuka age 9
Kalevi Sorsa age 27
Óscar Berger age 11
Kumba Ialá age 5
Kaysone Phomvihane age 37
Ivars Godmanis age 6
Amine Gemayel age 16
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 6
Marien Ngouabi age 19
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 1
Devan Nair age 35
Johan Ferrier age 48
Surayud Chulanont age 14
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 14
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 17
Guy Scott age 14
Valentín Paniagua age 21
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 51
Ye Jianying age 61
Artur da Costa e Silva age 58
J. Sigfrid Edström age 87
Robert Zoellick age 5
Jack Straw age 12
Gotthard Heinrici age 71
Milan Babić age 2
Jang Song-thaek age 12