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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11

People

Abbas El Fassi age 11
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 27
David Lange age 10
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 1
Johnson Toribiong age 6
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 38
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 18
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 49
Su Tseng-chang age 5
Keith Rowley age 2
Muteesa II of Buganda age 27
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 38
Le Duc Anh age 31
Ibrahim Abboud age 51
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 63
Manfred Wörner age 17
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 38
Vladimir Ivashko age 19
Neil Kinnock age 10
Sisavang Vatthana age 44
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria age 83
Mark Felt age 39
Prince George of Greece and Denmark age 83
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 69
Elisabeth of Romania age 57
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 38
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 22
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 17
Margareta of Romania age 3
Princess Michael of Kent age 7
Ann Richards age 18
David Souter age 12
Carlos Castillo Armas age 37
William P. Rogers age 39
Owen Arthur age 2
George Cadle Price age 33
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 36
André Kolingba age 16
Jiří Paroubek age 0 months
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 69
Edgar Savisaar age 2
Epeli Nailatikau age 11
Karl-August Fagerholm age 50
Leslie Manigat age 22
Miklós Németh age 4
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 60
Robert Guéï age 11
Bah Ndaw age 2
Dioncounda Traoré age 10
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 10
Lars Korvald age 36
John Lyng age 47
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 48
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 8
Américo Tomás age 57
James Mancham age 13
Siaka Stevens age 47
Benjamin Sheares age 45
Chuan Leekpai age 14
Perry Christie age 9
Mari Alkatiri age 2
Yıldırım Akbulut age 16
Jan Olszewski age 22
José María Balcázar age 9
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 17
Ho Chong age 56
Hugh Dowding age 70
Creighton Abrams age 37
Charles Haughey age 26
Joseph Luns age 41
Nereu Ramos age 64
William J. Perry age 24
Matvei Zakharov age 54
Juan Almeida Bosque age 25
Shapour Bakhtiar age 38
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 67
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta age 48
Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943–2021) age 8
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 47
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies age 41
Anne of Romania age 28
Lamar Alexander age 12
Ian Wilmut age 8
John McEwen age 52
Novruz Mammadov age 5
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 25
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 74
Alfonso López Michelsen age 39
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 46
Ahmed Abdallah age 33
Ivica Račan age 8
Manny Mori age 3
Ahti Karjalainen age 29
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 66
Martti Miettunen age 45
Maurice Bishop age 8
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 4
Ricardo Maduro age 6
Mátyás Szűrös age 18
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 24
Adone Zoli age 64
H. C. Hansen age 45
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 22
Thongsing Thammavong age 8
Camille Chamoun age 52
Ruth Perry age 13
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 63
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 75
Driss Jettou age 7
Rosario Murillo age 1
Kim Yong-il age 8
Per Borten age 39
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 14
Jules Wijdenbosch age 11
Rickard Sandler age 68
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp age 69
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 90
Shukri al-Quwatli age 60
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 19
A. N. R. Robinson age 25
Nihat Erim age 40
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 32
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 8 months
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 3
Jaime Lusinchi age 28
Phan Văn Khải age 18
Józef Oleksy age 6
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 63
Lee Hae Chan age 1 month
Nebojša Radmanović age 2
Giuseppe Bertello age 9
Giovanni Lajolo age 17
Giovanni Messe age 68
Zhang Xueliang age 51
José Linhares age 66
Geoffrey Howe age 25
Carlos Luz age 58
Maxwell D. Taylor age 51
William D. Leahy age 77
William Cohen age 11
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 81
Caspar Weinberger age 35
Lothar Rendulic age 64
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu age 18
Pavel Grachev age 4
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 10
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa age 29
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman age 40
Princess Patricia of Connaught age 66
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick age 64
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969) age 46
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 73
George Pataki age 7
Leonard Kleinrock age 18
Warren E. Burger age 44
Haxhi Lleshi age 38
Rodney Williams age 4
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 61
Julius Raab age 60
Achille Van Acker age 54
Jaime Paz Zamora age 13
Philémon Yang age 5
Julio César Turbay age 36
Laureano Gómez age 63
Spiros Cyprianou age 19
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 17
Ibrahim Mahlab age 3
Kamisese Mara age 32
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 20
Henrique Rosa age 6
Donald Ramotar age 1
Oswaldo López Arellano age 31
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 48
Nuri as-Said age 64
Poul Hartling age 38
Barend Biesheuvel age 32
Felix Kulov age 3
Tom Thabane age 13
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 14
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 46
Kailash Purryag age 4
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 51
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 2
Choe Yong-rim age 21
Grégoire Kayibanda age 28
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 1
Lojze Peterle age 4
Samuel Schmid age 5
Joseph Deiss age 6
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 20
T. V. Soong age 60
Hamadi Jebali age 3
Tito Okello age 37
Vitold Fokin age 19
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 26
Do Muoi age 35
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 33
Chung Il-kwon age 34
Jung Hong-won age 7
Ismail al-Azhari age 51