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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
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
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01

People

Moktar Ould Daddah age 34
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 68
Myint Swe age 7
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 49
Pedro Santana Lopes age 2
Ralph Gonsalves age 12
Ola Ullsten age 27
Moritz Leuenberger age 12
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 6
Oqil Oqilov age 15
Somchai Wongsawat age 11
Café Filho age 60
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 71
Félix Gouin age 74
Ante Marković age 34
John Connally age 41
Merrick Garland age 6
Nandó dos Santos age 8
Baldwin Spencer age 10
Peter Cosgrove age 11
Freundel Stuart age 7
Syarhiey Sidorski age 4
Nicéphore Soglo age 24
Eduardo Rodríguez age 2
Petar Mladenov age 22
Michel Micombero age 18
Belisario Betancur age 36
Sitiveni Rabuka age 10
Kalevi Sorsa age 28
Óscar Berger age 12
Kumba Ialá age 5
Kaysone Phomvihane age 38
Ivars Godmanis age 7
Amine Gemayel age 17
Joseph Boakai age 14
Christopher Loeak age 6
Mihai Ghimpu age 7
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 4
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 8
Salam Fayyad age 6
Marien Ngouabi age 20
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 1
Devan Nair age 35
Johan Ferrier age 48
Surayud Chulanont age 15
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 15
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 17
Guy Scott age 14
Valentín Paniagua age 22
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 52
Ye Jianying age 61
Artur da Costa e Silva age 59
J. Sigfrid Edström age 88
Robert Zoellick age 5
Jack Straw age 12
Souvanna Phouma age 57
Ellison Onizuka age 12
Eric Holder age 8
Abd al-Malek Selal age 10
Liamine Zéroual age 17
Isa II of Bahrain age 25
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 39
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 12
Khieu Samphan age 27
Abel Pacheco age 25
Giorgos Vasiliou age 27
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 6
Charles Savarin age 15
León Febres-Cordero age 27
Hilla Limann age 24
Vasiliki Thanou age 8
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 59
Carmen Pereira age 22
Roberto Micheletti age 15
József Antall age 26
Bjarni Benediktsson age 50
Ayad Allawi age 14
Marouf al-Bakhit age 11
Jens Otto Krag age 44
Isa Mustafa age 7
Khamtai Siphandone age 35
Omar Karami age 24
Mahmoud Jibril age 6
Artūras Paulauskas age 5
David Kabua age 7
Nangolo Mbumba age 17
Ludwig Scotty age 10
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 5
Jan P. Syse age 28
Trygve Bratteli age 49
Odvar Nordli age 31
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 66
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 5
Tufuga Efi age 20
Wee Kim Wee age 43
Rahmon Nabiyev age 28
Carlos Arias Navarro age 50
Trường Chinh age 52
Garret FitzGerald age 33
John Bruton age 11
Henry Paulson age 12
Larry Summers age 4
Michael Howard age 17
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 67
John Paul Stevens age 38
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 33
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 17
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 55
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 29
Viačasław Kiebič age 22
Mark Eyskens age 25
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 42
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 28
Elisabeth Domitien age 34
Michel Djotodia age 10
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 37
Ahmed Shafik age 17
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 43
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 13
Christos Sartzetakis age 29
Boniface Alexandre age 22
Nasry Asfura age 8 months
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 48
Elias Hrawi age 32
Pakalitha Mosisili age 13
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 21
Emilio Portes Gil age 68
Jhala Nath Khanal age 8
Enrique Bolaños age 30
Mahamane Ousmane age 9
Murtala Muhammed age 20
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 34
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 26
Radu Vasile age 16
Petre Roman age 12
Mame Madior Boye age 18
Manasseh Sogavare age 4
Thanom Kittikachorn age 47
Lương Cường age 1
Leszek Miller age 12
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 37
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 25
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 59
Guy Mollet age 53
Ferruccio Parri age 69
Liam Cosgrave age 38
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 39
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 48
Vuk Drašković age 12
William Barr age 8
William J. Burns age 2
Wang Qishan age 10
Raymond A. Spruance age 72
Tôn Đức Thắng age 70
James R. Schlesinger age 29
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 40
Héctor José Cámpora age 49
Juan Carlos Onganía age 44
Hovik Abrahamyan age 1
Frank Forde age 68
David Hurley age 5
Leopold Figl age 56
Viktor Klima age 11
Michel Kafando age 16
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 3
Domitien Ndayizeye age 5
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 14
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 60
Ernesto Samper age 8
Juan Bosch age 49
Gustavo Noboa age 21
Keith Mitchell age 12
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 12
Arthur Chung age 41
Ariel Henry age 9
Zoltán Tildy age 69
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 11
Michael Manley age 34
Pierre Werner age 45
Albert Zafy age 31
Anthony Mamo age 50
Amata Kabua age 30
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 17
Navin Ramgoolam age 11
Petru Lucinschi age 19
Momir Bulatović age 2
Abbas El Fassi age 18
Baburam Bhattarai age 4
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 34
David Lange age 16
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 8
Johnson Toribiong age 12
Rami Hamdallah age 6 months
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 24
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 56
Philip J. Pierre age 4
Su Tseng-chang age 11
Hubert Minnis age 4
Keith Rowley age 9
Muteesa II of Buganda age 34