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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
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

People

Jaime Paz Zamora age 14
Philémon Yang age 6
Julio César Turbay age 37
Laureano Gómez age 64
Spiros Cyprianou age 20
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 18
Ibrahim Mahlab age 4
Kamisese Mara age 33
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 21
Henrique Rosa age 7
Donald Ramotar age 2
Oswaldo López Arellano age 32
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 49
Nuri as-Said age 65
Poul Hartling age 38
Barend Biesheuvel age 33
Felix Kulov age 4
Bechara El Khoury age 63
Tom Thabane age 14
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 15
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 47
Kailash Purryag age 5
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 52
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 3
Brigi Rafini age 3 months
Choe Yong-rim age 22
Grégoire Kayibanda age 29
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 2
Lojze Peterle age 5
Samuel Schmid age 6
Joseph Deiss age 7
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 21
T. V. Soong age 61
Hamadi Jebali age 4
Tito Okello age 38
Vitold Fokin age 20
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 27
Do Muoi age 36
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 34
Chung Il-kwon age 35
Jung Hong-won age 8
Ismail al-Azhari age 52
Raif Dizdarević age 26
Sulejman Tihić age 1
Vo Chi Cong age 41
J. G. Strijdom age 60
W. T. Cosgrave age 73
Jean Rey age 51
Wang Zhen (general) age 45
Frank Jack Fletcher age 68
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 66
Tajuddin Ahmad age 28
Luis García Meza Tejada age 23
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 39
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 4
Norodom Suramarit age 57
Jamil Mahuad age 4
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 1
Hazem Al Beblawi age 16
José Napoleón Duarte age 27
Tiit Vähi age 6
Mart Siimann age 6
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 11
Negasso Gidada age 9
Peter M. Christian age 5
Rafael Paasio age 50
Johannes Virolainen age 39
Georgios Rallis age 34
Forbes Burnham age 30
István Dobi age 54
Ferenc Münnich age 66
Charles Konan Banny age 10
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 10
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 68
Ali Zeidan age 2
Joseph Bech age 66
Ċensu Tabone age 40
Nahas Angula age 9
Hammer DeRoburt age 30
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 25
Jim Bolger age 18
Daouda Malam Wanké age 7
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 4
Ernest Shonekan age 17
Muhammad Junejo age 20
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 12
Vasco Gonçalves age 32
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 32
Kenny Anthony age 2
Ong Teng Cheong age 17
Thanin Kraiwichian age 26
Luis Herrera Campins age 28
Nur Hassan Hussein age 15
Goh Kun age 15
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 29
Marais Viljoen age 37
Sicco Mansholt age 44
François-Xavier Ortoli age 28
Mike Beebe age 6
Asa Hutchinson age 2
Bill Weld age 8
Jon Corzine age 6
George Allen age 1
Louise Lake-Tack age 9
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 36
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 33
José María Guido age 42
Pierre Harmel age 42
Said Musa age 9
Kimon Georgiev age 71
Norodom Ranariddh age 9
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 51
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 12
Kamal Ganzouri age 20
Alfredo Cristiani age 5
Andres Tarand age 13
V. J. Sukselainen age 46
Edward Akufo-Addo age 47
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 40
Michael Stasinopoulos age 50
Alfonso Portillo age 1
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 17
András Hegedüs age 30
Géza Lakatos age 63
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 5
Ólafur Thors age 61
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 40
Ahmed Chalabi age 8
Patrick Allen age 2
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 33
Viggo Kampmann age 43
Louis Beel age 51
Jelle Zijlstra age 34
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 12
Gyude Bryant age 4
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 8
Arnoldo Alemán age 7
Wasim Sajjad age 12
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 14
Theodor Stolojan age 9
Manea Mănescu age 37
Nureddin al-Atassi age 24
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 41
Hussein Arnous age 7 months
Miguel Trovoada age 16
Yen Chia-kan age 47
Khuang Aphaiwong age 51
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 20
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 66
Nguyen Huu Tho age 43
Mieczysław Rakowski age 26
Luis González Macchi age 5
Lee Nack-yon age 7 months
Ali Saibou age 13
John A. Costello age 62
Jack Lynch age 35
Willy Claes age 14
Rauf Orbay age 72
Martin Dempsey age 1
Nigel Lawson age 21
Harold Brown age 25
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 1
George Voinovich age 17
Mike DeWine age 6
Ken Starr age 7
John Profumo age 38
Thomas Gage age 235
Juan José Arévalo age 48
Ali Kafi age 24
Eduardo Camaño age 7
Michael Jeffery age 15
Hubert Pierlot age 69
Jean Duvieusart age 53
Camille Huysmans age 82
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 34
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 35
Guillermo León Valencia age 44
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 45
Armando Calderón Sol age 5
Akwasi Afrifa age 17
Fred Akuffo age 16
Phaedon Gizikis age 36
Edward Seaga age 23
Hans Hedtoft age 50
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 11
Fouad Chehab age 51
René Moawad age 28
Hussein Onn age 31
Ibrahim Nasir age 26
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 20
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 59
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 29
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 64
Mike Moore age 4
Pak Pong-ju age 14
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 48
Haruo Remeliik age 20
Ivan Stambolić age 16
Hashim al-Atassi age 77
Wu Den-yih age 5