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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

Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 14
Mirko Cvetković age 8
Rudolf Schuster age 25
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 16
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 33
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 39
Michael Somare age 23
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 75
Fuad II of Egypt age 7
Chuck Hagel age 12
Milka Planinc age 34
Günter Schabowski age 30
Wesley Clark age 14
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 89
Kurt Student age 68
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 71
John Kasich age 6
Peter Mandelson age 5
Souphanouvong age 49
John Ashcroft age 16
S. M. Bruce age 76
John Gorton age 47
César Gaviria age 12
José Figueres Ferrer age 52
Osvaldo Dorticós age 40
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 37
Péter Medgyessy age 16
Poul Schlüter age 30
Fouad Siniora age 15
Diori Hamani age 42
James Michel age 14
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 4
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 33
Mesut Yılmaz age 11
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 31
Julio María Sanguinetti age 23
Iolu Abil age 17
Phạm Minh Chính age 4 months
Marek Belka age 7
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 63
Mireya Moscoso age 12
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 24
Tanzan Ishibashi age 74
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 44
Margaret Chan age 11
Claude Auchinleck age 74
Wilhelm List age 78
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 17
Frederica of Hanover age 42
Louise Mountbatten age 69
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 23
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 22
Ahmad Uyahya age 6
Leo Tindemans age 37
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 51
Melchior Ndadaye age 6
Vladimír Špidla age 8
Antoine Gizenga age 33
Eugenia Charles age 39
Nicholas Liverpool age 24
Mario Scelba age 57
Anker Jørgensen age 36
William Richard Tolbert age 45
Didier Ratsiraka age 22
Abdelilah Benkirane age 5
Sushil Koirala age 19
Kåre Willoch age 30
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 64
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 3 months
Pascal Lissouba age 27
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 15
Adrian Năstase age 8
Michal Kováč age 28
Pascal Couchepin age 17
Wellington Koo age 71
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 48
Gaafar Nimeiry age 28
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 106
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 71
Tetsu Katayama age 71
Hitoshi Ashida age 71
Pierre Messmer age 43
Sirhan Sirhan age 15
Biljana Plavšić age 28
Karl Rahner age 55
Paul Tibbets age 44
Felix Yusupov age 72
Maria of Yugoslavia age 59
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 38
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 43
Janet Reno age 20
Fan S. Noli age 77
Mohamed Boudiaf age 39
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 34
Arthur Fadden age 65
Quentin Bryce age 16
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 8
Hugo Banzer age 32
Nuon Chea age 32
Ange-Félix Patassé age 22
Glafcos Clerides age 40
Joaquín Balaguer age 52
Josefa Iloilo age 38
Esko Aho age 4
Luís Cabral age 28
Sam Hinds age 15
Janet Jagan age 38
Abdul Latif Rashid age 14
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 17
Giuseppe Pella age 57
Fernando Tambroni age 57
Joop den Uyl age 39
Behgjet Pacolli age 7
Bakili Muluzi age 16
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 16
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 47
António Ramalho Eanes age 24
António de Spínola age 49
Milan Milutinović age 16
France-Albert René age 23
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 27
Yusof bin Ishak age 48
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 5
Ruth Dreifuss age 19
Fradique de Menezes age 17
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 21
Samak Sundaravej age 23
George Maxwell Richards age 27
Yurii Yekhanurov age 10
Juan María Bordaberry age 30
Baldwin Lonsdale age 10
Laurentino Cortizo age 6
Maurice Couve de Murville age 52
Pierre Bérégovoy age 33
Mark W. Clark age 63
B. J. Vorster age 43
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 53
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 13
Margaret Beckett age 16
Paul Hausser age 78
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia age 84
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 63
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 52
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 62
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark age 52
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 27
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 26
Kathy Hochul age 8 months
William Rehnquist age 34
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 5
Andranik Margaryan age 7
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 59
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 29
Jigme Thinley age 6
Pierre Buyoya age 9
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 4
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 32
Essam Sharaf age 7
Ahmed Nazif age 6
Väinö Tanner age 78
José Mário Vaz age 1
David A. Granger age 13
András Baka age 6
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 53
Patrick Hillery age 36
Serik Akhmetov age 10 months
Tammam Salam age 13
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 74
Kazimira Prunskienė age 16
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 6
Dom Mintoff age 42
Guido de Marco age 27
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 7
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
James Earl Ray age 31
Bachir Gemayel age 11
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 13
David Paterson age 4
John Connally age 42
Merrick Garland age 6
Nandó dos Santos age 9
Baldwin Spencer age 10
Peter Cosgrove age 11
Freundel Stuart age 8
Syarhiey Sidorski age 5
Nicéphore Soglo age 24
Eduardo Rodríguez age 3