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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
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
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964

People

Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 12
William McMahon age 52
Earle Page age 79
Joe Clark age 20
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 17
Tshombé Moïse age 40
Harri Holkeri age 23
Efraín Ríos Montt age 33
László Kövér age 2 months
Kristján Eldjárn age 43
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 47
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 54
Yigal Allon age 41
Henri Konan Bédié age 25
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 33
Gaston Thorn age 31
Duško Marković age 1
Saadeddine Othmani age 4
Htin Kyaw age 13
Yakubu Gowon age 25
Shehu Shagari age 35
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 14
Mirko Cvetković age 9
Rudolf Schuster age 26
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 17
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 34
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 40
Michael Somare age 23
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 76
Fuad II of Egypt age 8
Chuck Hagel age 13
Milka Planinc age 35
Günter Schabowski age 31
Wesley Clark age 15
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 90
Kurt Student age 69
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 72
John Kasich age 7
Peter Mandelson age 6
Souphanouvong age 50
John Ashcroft age 17
S. M. Bruce age 76
John Gorton age 48
César Gaviria age 12
José Figueres Ferrer age 53
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 38
Péter Medgyessy age 17
Poul Schlüter age 30
Fouad Siniora age 16
Diori Hamani age 43
James Michel age 15
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 5
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 33
Mesut Yılmaz age 12
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 32
Julio María Sanguinetti age 24
Iolu Abil age 18
Phạm Minh Chính age 1
Marek Belka age 8
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 64
Mireya Moscoso age 13
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 25
Tanzan Ishibashi age 75
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 45
Margaret Chan age 12
Claude Auchinleck age 75
Wilhelm List age 79
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 18
Frederica of Hanover age 42
Louise Mountbatten age 70
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 24
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 23
Ahmad Uyahya age 7
Leo Tindemans age 37
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 52
Melchior Ndadaye age 7
Vladimír Špidla age 8
Antoine Gizenga age 34
Eugenia Charles age 40
Nicholas Liverpool age 25
Mario Scelba age 58
Anker Jørgensen age 37
William Richard Tolbert age 46
Didier Ratsiraka age 23
Abdelilah Benkirane age 5
Sushil Koirala age 20
Kåre Willoch age 31
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 65
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 1
Pascal Lissouba age 28
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 16
Adrian Năstase age 9
Michal Kováč age 29
Pascal Couchepin age 17
Wellington Koo age 72
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 49
Gaafar Nimeiry age 29
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 2 months
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 107
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 72
Tetsu Katayama age 72
Pierre Messmer age 44
Sirhan Sirhan age 16
Biljana Plavšić age 29
Karl Rahner age 56
Paul Tibbets age 45
Felix Yusupov age 73
Maria of Yugoslavia age 60
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 39
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 44
Janet Reno age 21
Fan S. Noli age 78
Mohamed Boudiaf age 40
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 35
Arthur Fadden age 65
Quentin Bryce age 17
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 9
Hugo Banzer age 33
Nuon Chea age 33
Ange-Félix Patassé age 23
Glafcos Clerides age 40
Joaquín Balaguer age 53
Josefa Iloilo age 39
Esko Aho age 5
Luís Cabral age 28
Sam Hinds age 16
Janet Jagan age 39
Abdul Latif Rashid age 15
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 18
Giuseppe Pella age 57
Fernando Tambroni age 58
Joop den Uyl age 40
Behgjet Pacolli age 8
Bakili Muluzi age 17
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 2 months
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 17
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 48
António Ramalho Eanes age 25
António de Spínola age 49
Milan Milutinović age 17
France-Albert René age 24
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 28
Yusof bin Ishak age 49
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 6
Ruth Dreifuss age 20
Fradique de Menezes age 18
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 22
Samak Sundaravej age 24
George Maxwell Richards age 28
Yurii Yekhanurov age 11
Juan María Bordaberry age 31
Baldwin Lonsdale age 11
Laurentino Cortizo age 7
Maurice Couve de Murville age 53
Pierre Bérégovoy age 34
Mark W. Clark age 63
B. J. Vorster age 44
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 54
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 13
Margaret Beckett age 17
Paul Hausser age 79
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia age 85
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 63
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 53
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 62
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark age 53
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 28
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 27
Kathy Hochul age 1
William Rehnquist age 35
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 6
Andranik Margaryan age 8
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 60
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 30
Jigme Thinley age 7
Pierre Buyoya age 10
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 5
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 33
Essam Sharaf age 8
Ahmed Nazif age 7
Väinö Tanner age 79
José Mário Vaz age 2
David A. Granger age 14
András Baka age 7
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 54
Patrick Hillery age 36
Serik Akhmetov age 1
Tammam Salam age 14
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 75
Kazimira Prunskienė age 17
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 7
Dom Mintoff age 43
Guido de Marco age 28
Moktar Ould Daddah age 35
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 69
Myint Swe age 8
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 50
Pedro Santana Lopes age 3
Ralph Gonsalves age 13
Ola Ullsten age 28