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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
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19

People

Ibrahim Mahlab age 6
Kamisese Mara age 35
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 23
Henrique Rosa age 9
Donald Ramotar age 4
Oswaldo López Arellano age 33
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 50
Poul Hartling age 40
Barend Biesheuvel age 35
Felix Kulov age 6
Nawaf Salam age 1
Bechara El Khoury age 64
Tom Thabane age 16
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 17
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 49
Kailash Purryag age 7
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 54
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 5
Brigi Rafini age 2
Choe Yong-rim age 24
Grégoire Kayibanda age 31
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 3
Lojze Peterle age 6
Samuel Schmid age 8
Joseph Deiss age 9
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 23
T. V. Soong age 63
Phumtham Wechayachai age 1
Hamadi Jebali age 6
Tito Okello age 40
Vitold Fokin age 22
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 29
Tallis Obed Moses age 7 months
Do Muoi age 38
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 36
Chung Il-kwon age 37
Jung Hong-won age 10
Ismail al-Azhari age 54
Raif Dizdarević age 28
Sulejman Tihić age 3
Vo Chi Cong age 42
W. T. Cosgrave age 75
Jean Rey age 52
Lloyd Bentsen age 34
Wang Zhen (general) age 47
Frank Jack Fletcher age 70
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 68
Tajuddin Ahmad age 29
Luis García Meza Tejada age 25
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 41
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 6
Jamil Mahuad age 5
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 3
Hazem Al Beblawi age 18
José Napoleón Duarte age 29
Tiit Vähi age 8
Mart Siimann age 8
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 13
Negasso Gidada age 11
Peter M. Christian age 7
Rafael Paasio age 52
Johannes Virolainen age 41
Georgios Rallis age 36
Forbes Burnham age 32
István Dobi age 56
Ferenc Münnich age 68
Charles Konan Banny age 12
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 11
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 70
Ali Zeidan age 4
Ċensu Tabone age 42
Nahas Angula age 11
Hammer DeRoburt age 32
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 27
Jim Bolger age 20
Daouda Malam Wanké age 9
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 6
Ernest Shonekan age 19
Muhammad Junejo age 22
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 13
Vasco Gonçalves age 34
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 34
Kenny Anthony age 4
Ong Teng Cheong age 19
Thanin Kraiwichian age 28
Luis Herrera Campins age 30
Nur Hassan Hussein age 17
Goh Kun age 17
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 31
Marais Viljoen age 39
Sicco Mansholt age 46
François-Xavier Ortoli age 30
Alistair Darling age 1
Louise Lake-Tack age 10
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 38
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 35
José María Guido age 44
Pierre Harmel age 44
Said Musa age 11
Kimon Georgiev age 72
Norodom Ranariddh age 11
José María Figueres Olsen age 5 months
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 53
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 14
Kamal Ganzouri age 22
Alfredo Cristiani age 7
Andres Tarand age 15
V. J. Sukselainen age 48
Edward Akufo-Addo age 49
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 41
Michael Stasinopoulos age 51
Alfonso Portillo age 3
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 19
Géza Lakatos age 65
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 7
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 42
Ahmed Chalabi age 10
Patrick Allen age 4
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 35
Viggo Kampmann age 44
Louis Beel age 53
Jelle Zijlstra age 36
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 14
Gyude Bryant age 6
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 9
Arnoldo Alemán age 9
Wasim Sajjad age 14
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 16
Theodor Stolojan age 11
Manea Mănescu age 38
Nureddin al-Atassi age 26
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 43
Hussein Arnous age 2
Miguel Trovoada age 18
Yen Chia-kan age 49
Khuang Aphaiwong age 53
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 22
Edward Natapei age 11 months
Nguyen Huu Tho age 44
Mieczysław Rakowski age 28
Luis González Macchi age 7
Lee Nack-yon age 2
Ali Saibou age 15
Jack Lynch age 37
Willy Claes age 16
Rauf Orbay age 73
Martin Dempsey age 3
Nigel Lawson age 23
Harold Brown age 27
Thomas Gage age 237
Juan José Arévalo age 50
Ali Kafi age 26
Eduardo Camaño age 9
Michael Jeffery age 17
Hubert Pierlot age 71
Jean Duvieusart age 55
Camille Huysmans age 84
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 36
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 37
Guillermo León Valencia age 46
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 47
Armando Calderón Sol age 6
Akwasi Afrifa age 19
Fred Akuffo age 18
Phaedon Gizikis age 38
Edward Seaga age 25
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 13
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 1
Fouad Chehab age 53
René Moawad age 30
Hussein Onn age 33
Ibrahim Nasir age 28
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 22
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 61
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 31
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 66
Mike Moore age 6
Pak Pong-ju age 16
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 49
Haruo Remeliik age 22
Ivan Stambolić age 18
Wu Den-yih age 7
Edward Lowassa age 1
Seni Pramoj age 50
Kukrit Pramoj age 44
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 8
Anand Panyarachun age 22
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 19
Hubert Ingraham age 7
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 14
Mohamed Ennaceur age 21
Apolo Nsibambi age 14
Godfrey Binaisa age 35
Vitalii Masol age 26
Raúl Leoni age 50
Ramón José Velásquez age 38
Vo Van Kiet age 32
Mohammed Basindawa age 20
Arnulfo Arias age 53
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 61