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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
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Khrushchev's Secret Speech 1956-02-25

People

William Halsey Jr. age 73
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 63
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 13
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 11
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 12
Mark Warner age 1
Thomas E. Dewey age 53
John Paul Stevens age 35
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 30
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 14
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 26
Viačasław Kiebič age 19
Mark Eyskens age 22
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 39
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 25
Elisabeth Domitien age 31
Michel Djotodia age 7
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 34
Ahmed Shafik age 14
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 40
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 10
Christos Sartzetakis age 26
Boniface Alexandre age 19
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 45
Elias Hrawi age 29
Pakalitha Mosisili age 10
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 18
Emilio Portes Gil age 65
Jhala Nath Khanal age 5
Enrique Bolaños age 27
Mahamane Ousmane age 6
Murtala Muhammed age 17
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 32
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 23
Fulbert Youlou age 38
Radu Vasile age 13
Petre Roman age 9
Pasteur Bizimungu age 6
Mame Madior Boye age 15
Manasseh Sogavare age 1
Thanom Kittikachorn age 44
Leszek Miller age 9
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 34
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 22
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 57
Ferruccio Parri age 66
Liam Cosgrave age 35
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 36
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 45
Vuk Drašković age 9
William Barr age 5
Harriet Harman age 5
Mehdi Bazargan age 48
Wang Qishan age 7
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 15
Yves Congar age 51
Empress Nagako age 53
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope age 73
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 54
Princess Benedikte of Denmark age 11
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 25
Raymond A. Spruance age 69
Tôn Đức Thắng age 67
James R. Schlesinger age 27
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 37
Héctor José Cámpora age 46
Juan Carlos Onganía age 41
Frank Forde age 65
David Hurley age 2
Leopold Figl age 53
Viktor Klima age 8
Gaston Eyskens age 50
Michel Kafando age 13
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 11 months
Domitien Ndayizeye age 2
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 12
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 57
Ernesto Samper age 5
Juan Bosch age 46
Gustavo Noboa age 18
Keith Mitchell age 9
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 9
Arthur Chung age 38
Ariel Henry age 6
Zoltán Tildy age 66
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 8
Michael Manley age 31
Pierre Werner age 42
Albert Zafy age 28
Anthony Mamo age 47
Amata Kabua age 27
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 14
Navin Ramgoolam age 8
Petru Lucinschi age 16
Abbas El Fassi age 15
Baburam Bhattarai age 1
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 31
David Lange age 13
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 5
Johnson Toribiong age 9
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 41
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 21
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 53
Philip J. Pierre age 1
Su Tseng-chang age 8
Hubert Minnis age 1
Keith Rowley age 6
Muteesa II of Buganda age 31
Le Duc Anh age 35
Ibrahim Abboud age 55
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 66
Manfred Wörner age 21
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 41
Alberto Gonzales age 6 months
Vladimir Ivashko age 23
Neil Kinnock age 13
Sisavang Vatthana age 48
Mark Felt age 42
Prince George of Greece and Denmark age 86
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 73
Elisabeth of Romania age 61
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 41
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 25
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia age 2
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 21
Margareta of Romania age 6
Princess Michael of Kent age 11
Ann Richards age 22
David Souter age 16
Owen Arthur age 6
George Cadle Price age 37
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 40
André Kolingba age 19
Jiří Paroubek age 3
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 73
Edgar Savisaar age 5
Taye Atske Selassie age 1 month
Epeli Nailatikau age 14
Karl-August Fagerholm age 54
Leslie Manigat age 25
Miklós Németh age 8
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 64
Robert Guéï age 14
Bah Ndaw age 5
Dioncounda Traoré age 14
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 14
Patsy Reddy age 1
Lars Korvald age 39
John Lyng age 50
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 52
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 12
Américo Tomás age 61
Denzil Douglas age 3
James Mancham age 16
Siaka Stevens age 50
Benjamin Sheares age 48
Li Zongren age 65
Chuan Leekpai age 17
Perry Christie age 12
Mari Alkatiri age 6
Yıldırım Akbulut age 20
Pavlo Lazarenko age 3
Jan Olszewski age 25
José María Balcázar age 13
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 21
Ho Chong age 59
Hugh Dowding age 73
Creighton Abrams age 41
Charles Haughey age 30
Joseph Luns age 44
Nereu Ramos age 67
William J. Perry age 28
Michael Foot age 42
Matvei Zakharov age 57
Juan Almeida Bosque age 29
Han Zheng age 1
Shapour Bakhtiar age 42
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 71
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta age 52
Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943–2021) age 12
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 50
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies age 45
Anne of Romania age 32
Lamar Alexander age 15
Ian Wilmut age 11
John McEwen age 55
Novruz Mammadov age 8
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 29
Alfonso López Michelsen age 42
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 49
Ahmed Abdallah age 36
Ivica Račan age 12
Manny Mori age 7
Ahti Karjalainen age 33
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 69
Martti Miettunen age 48
Maurice Bishop age 11
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 8
Ricardo Maduro age 9
Mátyás Szűrös age 22