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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
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
Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

People

Baburam Bhattarai age 5
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 35
David Lange age 17
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 9
Johnson Toribiong age 13
Rami Hamdallah age 1
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 25
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 57
Philip J. Pierre age 5
Su Tseng-chang age 12
Hubert Minnis age 5
Keith Rowley age 10
Muteesa II of Buganda age 35
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 45
Le Duc Anh age 39
José Raúl Mulino age 7 months
Chen Yi age 58
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 70
Manfred Wörner age 25
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 45
Alberto Gonzales age 4
Vladimir Ivashko age 27
David Souter age 20
Vazgen Sargsyan age 10 months
Owen Arthur age 10
George Cadle Price age 41
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 44
André Kolingba age 23
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 1
Jiří Paroubek age 7
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 1
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 3
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 77
Edgar Savisaar age 9
Taye Atske Selassie age 4
Epeli Nailatikau age 18
Karl-August Fagerholm age 58
Leslie Manigat age 29
Miklós Németh age 12
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 68
Robert Guéï age 18
Bah Ndaw age 9
Dioncounda Traoré age 17
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 18
Cindy Kiro age 1
Patsy Reddy age 5
Lars Korvald age 43
John Lyng age 54
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 56
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 16
Mohammad Shtayyeh age 2
Denzil Douglas age 7
James Mancham age 20
Siaka Stevens age 54
Benjamin Sheares age 52
Li Tsung-jen age 71
Chuan Leekpai age 21
Perry Christie age 16
Mari Alkatiri age 10
Yıldırım Akbulut age 24
Pavlo Lazarenko age 7
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh age 1 month
Jan Olszewski age 29
José María Balcázar age 17
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 25
Ho Chong age 63
Creighton Abrams age 45
Charles Haughey age 34
Joseph Luns age 48
William J. Perry age 32
John McEwen age 59
Novruz Mammadov age 12
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 33
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 82
Alfonso López Michelsen age 46
Ahmed Abdallah age 40
Ivica Račan age 15
Manny Mori age 11
Ahti Karjalainen age 36
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 73
Martti Miettunen age 52
Maurice Bishop age 15
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 12
Ricardo Maduro age 13
Mátyás Szűrös age 26
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 31
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 1
Adone Zoli age 72
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 29
Thongsing Thammavong age 15
Camille Chamoun age 59
Ruth Perry age 20
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 70
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 82
Driss Jettou age 14
Rosario Murillo age 8
Kim Yong-il age 15
Per Borten age 46
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 22
Crin Antonescu age 4 months
Jules Wijdenbosch age 18
Rickard Sandler age 76
Shukri al-Quwatli age 68
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 26
Anthony Carmona age 6
A. N. R. Robinson age 33
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 39
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 8
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 10
Jaime Lusinchi age 35
Phan Văn Khải age 26
Rashad al-Alimi age 6
Józef Oleksy age 13
Waldemar Pawlak age 4 months
Lee Hae Chan age 7
Šefik Džaferović age 2
Nebojša Radmanović age 10
Dragan Čović age 3
Giuseppe Bertello age 17
Giovanni Lajolo age 25
Giovanni Messe age 76
Zhang Xueliang age 58
Geoffrey Howe age 33
Carlos Luz age 65
Maxwell D. Taylor age 58
William Cohen age 19
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 89
Loretta Lynch age 8 months
Warren E. Burger age 52
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 5
Rodney Williams age 12
Achille Van Acker age 61
Jaime Paz Zamora age 20
Joseph Ngute age 5
Philémon Yang age 12
Julio César Turbay age 43
Laureano Gómez age 70
Spiros Cyprianou age 27
Sylvanie Burton age 4
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 24
Lucio Gutiérrez age 2
Ibrahim Mahlab age 10
Kamisese Mara age 39
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 28
Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo age 1
Henrique Rosa age 14
Donald Ramotar age 9
Oswaldo López Arellano age 38
Poul Hartling age 45
Barend Biesheuvel age 39
Felix Kulov age 11
Nawaf Salam age 6
Bechara El Khoury age 69
Tom Thabane age 20
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 21
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 53
Kailash Purryag age 12
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 59
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 9
Brigi Rafini age 6
Choe Yong-rim age 29
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani age 4 months
Victor Khristenko age 2
Grégoire Kayibanda age 35
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 8
Lojze Peterle age 11
Samuel Schmid age 13
Joseph Deiss age 14
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 27
T. V. Soong age 68
Phumtham Wechayachai age 6
Hamadi Jebali age 11
Tito Okello age 45
Vitold Fokin age 27
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 34
Tallis Obed Moses age 5
Do Muoi age 43
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 40
Chung Il-kwon age 42
Jung Hong-won age 15
Ismail al-Azhari age 59
Raif Dizdarević age 33
Sulejman Tihić age 8
Vo Chi Cong age 47
W. T. Cosgrave age 79
Jean Rey age 57
Ajay Banga age 2 months
Lloyd Bentsen age 38
Wang Zhen (general) age 51
Frank Jack Fletcher age 74
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 72
Tajuddin Ahmad age 34
Luis García Meza Tejada age 30
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 11
Jamil Mahuad age 10
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 7
Hazem Al Beblawi age 23
José Napoleón Duarte age 34
Tiit Vähi age 13
Mart Siimann age 13