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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
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19

People

Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 9
Christos Sartzetakis age 25
Boniface Alexandre age 18
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 44
Elias Hrawi age 28
Pakalitha Mosisili age 9
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 17
Emilio Portes Gil age 64
Jhala Nath Khanal age 4
Enrique Bolaños age 26
Mahamane Ousmane age 5
Murtala Muhammed age 16
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 31
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 22
Fulbert Youlou age 37
Radu Vasile age 12
Petre Roman age 8
Pasteur Bizimungu age 5
Mame Madior Boye age 14
Manasseh Sogavare age 1 month
Thanom Kittikachorn age 43
Leszek Miller age 8
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 33
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 21
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 56
Guy Mollet age 49
Ferruccio Parri age 65
Liam Cosgrave age 34
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 35
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 44
Vuk Drašković age 8
William Barr age 4
Harriet Harman age 4
Mehdi Bazargan age 47
Wang Qishan age 6
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 14
Yves Congar age 50
Empress Nagako age 52
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope age 72
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 53
Princess Benedikte of Denmark age 10
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 25
Raymond A. Spruance age 68
Tôn Đức Thắng age 66
James R. Schlesinger age 26
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 36
Héctor José Cámpora age 45
Juan Carlos Onganía age 41
Frank Forde age 64
David Hurley age 1
Leopold Figl age 52
Viktor Klima age 7
Gaston Eyskens age 49
Michel Kafando age 12
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 0 months
Domitien Ndayizeye age 1
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 11
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 56
Ernesto Samper age 4
Juan Bosch age 45
Gustavo Noboa age 17
Keith Mitchell age 8
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 8
Arthur Chung age 37
Ariel Henry age 5
Zoltán Tildy age 65
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 7
Michael Manley age 30
Pierre Werner age 41
Albert Zafy age 27
Anthony Mamo age 46
Amata Kabua age 26
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 13
Navin Ramgoolam age 7
Petru Lucinschi age 15
Abbas El Fassi age 14
Baburam Bhattarai age 8 months
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 30
David Lange age 12
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 4
Johnson Toribiong age 8
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 40
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 20
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 52
Philip J. Pierre age 5 months
Su Tseng-chang age 7
Hubert Minnis age 10 months
Keith Rowley age 5
Muteesa II of Buganda age 30
Le Duc Anh age 34
Ibrahim Abboud age 54
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 65
Manfred Wörner age 20
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 40
Vladimir Ivashko age 22
Neil Kinnock age 12
Sisavang Vatthana age 47
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 72
Elisabeth of Romania age 60
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 40
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 24
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia age 1
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 20
Margareta of Romania age 5
Princess Michael of Kent age 10
Ann Richards age 21
David Souter age 15
Owen Arthur age 5
George Cadle Price age 36
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 39
André Kolingba age 18
Jiří Paroubek age 2
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 72
Edgar Savisaar age 4
Epeli Nailatikau age 13
Karl-August Fagerholm age 53
Leslie Manigat age 24
Miklós Németh age 7
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 63
Robert Guéï age 13
Bah Ndaw age 4
Dioncounda Traoré age 13
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 13
Patsy Reddy age 9 months
Lars Korvald age 38
John Lyng age 49
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 51
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 11
Américo Tomás age 60
Denzil Douglas age 2
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 5
Yıldırım Akbulut age 19
Pavlo Lazarenko age 2
Jan Olszewski age 24
José María Balcázar age 12
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 20
Ho Chong age 58
Hugh Dowding age 72
Creighton Abrams age 40
Charles Haughey age 29
Joseph Luns age 43
Nereu Ramos age 66
William J. Perry age 27
Matvei Zakharov age 56
Juan Almeida Bosque age 28
Han Zheng age 10 months
Shapour Bakhtiar age 41
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 70
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta age 51
Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943–2021) age 11
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 49
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies age 44
Anne of Romania age 31
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 11
Manny Mori age 6
Ahti Karjalainen age 32
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 68
Martti Miettunen age 47
Maurice Bishop age 10
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 7
Ricardo Maduro age 8
Mátyás Szűrös age 21
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 26
Adone Zoli age 67
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 78
Driss Jettou age 9
Rosario Murillo age 3
Kim Yong-il age 10
Oscar Torp age 61
Per Borten age 41
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 17
Jules Wijdenbosch age 13
Rickard Sandler age 71
Shukri al-Quwatli age 63
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 21
Anthony Carmona age 2
A. N. R. Robinson age 28
Nihat Erim age 43
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 34