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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962

People

Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 50
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 21
Prince Michael of Kent age 16
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 20
Deval Patrick age 2
Wim Duisenberg age 23
Ellison Onizuka age 12
Eric Holder age 7
Abd al-Malek Selal age 10
Liamine Zéroual age 17
Isa II of Bahrain age 25
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 39
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 11
Khieu Samphan age 27
Abel Pacheco age 24
Giorgos Vasiliou age 27
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 6
Charles Savarin age 14
León Febres-Cordero age 27
Hilla Limann age 23
Vasiliki Thanou age 7
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 59
Carmen Pereira age 21
Roberto Micheletti age 14
József Antall age 26
Bjarni Benediktsson age 50
Ayad Allawi age 14
Marouf al-Bakhit age 11
Jens Otto Krag age 43
Isa Mustafa age 7
Khamtai Siphandone age 34
Omar Karami age 23
Mahmoud Jibril age 6
Artūras Paulauskas age 4
David Kabua age 7
Nangolo Mbumba age 16
Ludwig Scotty age 10
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 5
Jan P. Syse age 27
Trygve Bratteli age 48
Odvar Nordli age 30
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 65
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 5
Tufuga Efi age 20
Wee Kim Wee age 42
Rahmon Nabiyev age 27
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 7
Carlos Arias Navarro age 49
Trường Chinh age 51
Dương Văn Minh age 42
Garret FitzGerald age 32
John Bruton age 11
Henry Paulson age 12
Larry Summers age 3
Michael Howard age 17
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 67
William Halsey Jr. age 75
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 65
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 16
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 13
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 15
Mark Warner age 3
Thomas E. Dewey age 56
John Paul Stevens age 38
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 33
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 16
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 55
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 28
Viačasław Kiebič age 22
Mark Eyskens age 25
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 41
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 28
Elisabeth Domitien age 33
Michel Djotodia age 9
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 36
Ahmed Shafik age 16
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 42
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 13
Christos Sartzetakis age 29
Boniface Alexandre age 22
Nasry Asfura age 1 month
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 47
Elias Hrawi age 31
Pakalitha Mosisili age 13
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 20
Emilio Portes Gil age 67
Jhala Nath Khanal age 8
Enrique Bolaños age 30
Mahamane Ousmane age 8
Murtala Muhammed age 19
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 34
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 25
Fulbert Youlou age 41
Radu Vasile age 15
Petre Roman age 12
Pasteur Bizimungu age 8
Mame Madior Boye age 17
Manasseh Sogavare age 3
Lương Cường age 11 months
Leszek Miller age 12
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 36
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 25
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 59
Guy Mollet age 52
Ferruccio Parri age 68
Liam Cosgrave age 38
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 39
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 48
Vuk Drašković age 11
William Barr age 8
William J. Burns age 2
Harriet Harman age 8
Mehdi Bazargan age 50
Wang Qishan age 10
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 17
Yves Congar age 54
Empress Nagako age 55
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope age 75
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 56
Princess Benedikte of Denmark age 14
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 28
Raymond A. Spruance age 72
Tôn Đức Thắng age 69
James R. Schlesinger age 29
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 39
Héctor José Cámpora age 49
Juan Carlos Onganía age 44
Hovik Abrahamyan age 6 months
Frank Forde age 68
David Hurley age 4
Leopold Figl age 55
Viktor Klima age 11
Michel Kafando age 15
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 3
Domitien Ndayizeye age 5
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 14
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 59
Ernesto Samper age 8
Juan Bosch age 49
Gustavo Noboa age 20
Keith Mitchell age 11
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 12
Arthur Chung age 40
Ariel Henry age 8
Zoltán Tildy age 68
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 11
Michael Manley age 33
Pierre Werner age 44
Albert Zafy age 31
Anthony Mamo age 49
Amata Kabua age 29
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 16
Navin Ramgoolam age 11
Petru Lucinschi age 18
Momir Bulatović age 1
Abbas El Fassi age 17
Baburam Bhattarai age 4
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 33
David Lange age 16
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 7
Johnson Toribiong age 12
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 44
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 24
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 55
Philip J. Pierre age 3
Su Tseng-chang age 11
Hubert Minnis age 4
Keith Rowley age 8
Muteesa II of Buganda age 33
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 44
Le Duc Anh age 37
Ibrahim Abboud age 57
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 69
Manfred Wörner age 23
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 44
Alberto Gonzales age 2
Vladimir Ivashko age 25
Neil Kinnock age 16
Sisavang Vatthana age 50
Mark Felt age 44
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 75
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 44
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 28
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia age 4
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 23
Margareta of Romania age 9
Princess Michael of Kent age 13
Ann Richards age 24
David Souter age 18
Christian Herter age 63
Owen Arthur age 8
George Cadle Price age 39
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 42
André Kolingba age 21
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 1 month
Jiří Paroubek age 5
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 4 months
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 1
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 75
Edgar Savisaar age 8