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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
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01

People

Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 21
Fulbert Youlou age 37
Radu Vasile age 11
Petre Roman age 8
Pasteur Bizimungu age 4
Mame Madior Boye age 13
Thanom Kittikachorn age 43
Leszek Miller age 8
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 32
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 21
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 55
Guy Mollet age 48
Ferruccio Parri age 64
Liam Cosgrave age 34
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 35
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 44
Vuk Drašković age 7
William Barr age 4
Harriet Harman age 4
Mehdi Bazargan age 47
Wang Qishan age 6
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 13
Yves Congar age 50
Empress Nagako age 51
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope age 71
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 52
Princess Benedikte of Denmark age 10
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 24
Raymond A. Spruance age 68
Tôn Đức Thắng age 66
James R. Schlesinger age 25
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 36
Héctor José Cámpora age 45
Juan Carlos Onganía age 40
Frank Forde age 64
David Hurley age 1
Leopold Figl age 51
Viktor Klima age 7
Gaston Eyskens age 49
Michel Kafando age 12
Domitien Ndayizeye age 1
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 10
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 55
Ernesto Samper age 4
Juan Bosch age 45
Gustavo Noboa age 17
Keith Mitchell age 7
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 8
Arthur Chung age 36
Ariel Henry age 4
Zoltán Tildy age 64
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 7
Michael Manley age 29
Pierre Werner age 40
Albert Zafy age 27
Anthony Mamo age 45
Amata Kabua age 25
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 12
Navin Ramgoolam age 7
Petru Lucinschi age 14
Abbas El Fassi age 13
Baburam Bhattarai age 2 months
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 29
David Lange age 12
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 3
Johnson Toribiong age 8
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 40
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 20
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 51
Su Tseng-chang age 7
Hubert Minnis age 4 months
Keith Rowley age 4
Muteesa II of Buganda age 29
Le Duc Anh age 33
Ibrahim Abboud age 53
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 65
Manfred Wörner age 19
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 40
Vladimir Ivashko age 21
Neil Kinnock age 12
Sisavang Vatthana age 46
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria age 85
Mark Felt age 41
Prince George of Greece and Denmark age 85
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 71
Elisabeth of Romania age 59
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 40
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 24
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia age 8 months
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 19
Margareta of Romania age 5
Princess Michael of Kent age 9
Ann Richards age 21
David Souter age 14
Owen Arthur age 4
George Cadle Price age 35
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 38
André Kolingba age 18
Jiří Paroubek age 2
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 71
Edgar Savisaar age 4
Epeli Nailatikau age 13
Karl-August Fagerholm age 52
Leslie Manigat age 24
Miklós Németh age 6
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 62
Robert Guéï age 13
Bah Ndaw age 4
Dioncounda Traoré age 12
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 12
Patsy Reddy age 3 months
Lars Korvald age 38
John Lyng age 49
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 50
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 10
Américo Tomás age 59
Denzil Douglas age 1
James Mancham age 15
Siaka Stevens age 49
Benjamin Sheares age 47
Li Zongren age 64
Chuan Leekpai age 16
Perry Christie age 11
Mari Alkatiri age 4
Yıldırım Akbulut age 19
Pavlo Lazarenko age 1
Jan Olszewski age 24
José María Balcázar age 11
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 19
Ho Chong age 58
Hugh Dowding age 72
Creighton Abrams age 39
Charles Haughey age 28
Joseph Luns age 43
Nereu Ramos age 66
William J. Perry age 26
Matvei Zakharov age 56
Juan Almeida Bosque age 27
Han Zheng age 4 months
Shapour Bakhtiar age 40
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 69
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta age 50
Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943–2021) age 10
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 49
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies age 43
Anne of Romania age 30
Lamar Alexander age 14
Ian Wilmut age 10
John McEwen age 54
Novruz Mammadov age 7
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 28
Alfonso López Michelsen age 41
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 48
Ahmed Abdallah age 35
Ivica Račan age 10
Manny Mori age 5
Ahti Karjalainen age 31
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 68
Martti Miettunen age 47
Maurice Bishop age 10
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 6
Ricardo Maduro age 8
Mátyás Szűrös age 20
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 26
Adone Zoli age 66
H. C. Hansen age 47
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 24
Thongsing Thammavong age 10
Ruth Perry age 15
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 65
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 77
Driss Jettou age 9
Rosario Murillo age 3
Kim Yong-il age 10
Per Borten age 41
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 17
Jules Wijdenbosch age 13
Rickard Sandler age 70
Shukri al-Quwatli age 62
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 21
Anthony Carmona age 1
A. N. R. Robinson age 27
Nihat Erim age 42
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 34
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 2
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 5
Jaime Lusinchi age 30
Phan Văn Khải age 20
Rashad al-Alimi age 7 months
Józef Oleksy age 8
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 65
Lee Hae Chan age 2
Nebojša Radmanović age 4
Giuseppe Bertello age 11
Giovanni Lajolo age 19
Giovanni Messe age 70
Zhang Xueliang age 53
José Linhares age 68
Geoffrey Howe age 27
Carlos Luz age 60