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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
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

People

Elizabeth II age 27
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 59
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 63
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 59
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 52
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 63
President - Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 65
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 61
President - Yugoslavia
Haile Selassie age 61
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 33
Shah - Iran
Fulgencio Batista age 52
President - Cuba
Getúlio Vargas age 71
President - Brazil
Walter Ulbricht age 60
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 69
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 23
King - Belgium
Vincent Auriol age 69
President - France
Mohamed Naguib age 52
President - Egypt
Jacobo Árbenz age 40
President - Guatemala
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 62
President - Mexico
Trường Chinh age 46
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Adib Shishakli age 44
President - Syria
Dag Hammarskjöld age 48
Secretary-General - United Nations
Winston Churchill age 78
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Jawaharlal Nehru age 63
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 77
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 67
Prime Minister - Israel
Zhou Enlai age 55
Premier - People's Republic of China
Georgy Malenkov age 51
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Éamon de Valera age 71
Taoiseach - Ireland
Bolesław Bierut age 61
Prime Minister - Poland
Shigeru Yoshida age 75
Prime Minister - Japan
Avery Brundage age 66
President - International Olympic Committee
Giuseppe Pella age 51
Prime Minister - Italy
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 66
Secretary General - NATO
Souvanna Phouma age 52
Prime Minister - Laos
Chen Cheng age 56
Premier - Republic of China
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 42
Director-General - World Health Organization
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 55
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 41
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
D. F. Malan age 79
Prime Minister - South Africa
Earl Warren age 62
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Nixon age 40
Vice President - United States
Li Zongren age 63
Vice President - Republic of China
Deng Xiaoping age 49
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 54
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 67
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 52
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 57
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 53
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Arthur W. Radford age 57
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
John Foster Dulles age 65
Secretary of State - United States
Matthew Ridgway age 58
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rab Butler age 50
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Charles Erwin Wilson age 63
Secretary of Defense - United States
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 49
Attorney General - United States
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
George M. Humphrey age 63
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 44
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 50
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 58
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 70
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Robert H. Jackson age 61
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William P. Rogers age 40
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Tom C. Clark age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton age 70
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 69
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 55
President - African National Congress
Tomás Ó Dubhghaill age 36
President - Sinn Féin
John F. Kennedy age 36
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 45
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 42
Senate - United States
Gerald Ford age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Anthony Eden age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roy Jenkins age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lloyd Bentsen age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Denis Healey age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Gaitskell age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Macleod age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Reginald Maudling age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christopher Soames age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Carr age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Barber age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Frank Soskice age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas E. Dewey age 51
Governor of New York - United States
Christian Herter age 58
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Herman Talmadge age 40
Governor of Georgia - United States
Goodwin Knight age 56
Governor of California - United States
Frank Lausche age 57
Governor of Ohio - United States
Allan Shivers age 46
Governor of Texas - United States
Francis Cherry age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John S. Battle age 63
Governor of Virginia - United States
Alfred E. Driscoll age 50
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Theodore McKeldin age 52
Governor of Maryland - United States
George N. Craig age 44
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 30
New York State Senate - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 25
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 60
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 52
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 77
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 77
King - Saudi Arabia
Juan Perón age 58
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 30
King - Cambodia
Syngman Rhee age 78
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 68
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 17
King - Jordan
Celâl Bayar age 70
President - Turkey
Haakon VII of Norway age 81
King - Norway
Juliana of the Netherlands age 44
Queen - Netherlands
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 82
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 54
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 70
King - Sweden
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 30
Prince - Monaco
Luigi Einaudi age 79
President - Italy
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 24
King - Bhutan
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 68
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 57
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 54
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 59
President - Iceland
Elpidio Quirino age 62
President - Philippines
Anastasio Somoza García age 57
President - Nicaragua
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 46
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 57
President - Liberia
Theodor Körner age 80
President - Austria
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 43
Sultan - Oman
Seán T. O'Kelly age 71
President - Ireland
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 39
President - Venezuela
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 75
President - Chile
Camille Chamoun age 53
President - Lebanon
Haxhi Lleshi age 39
President - Albania
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 53
Queen - Tonga
Manuel Odría age 55
President - Peru
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 53
President - Colombia
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 59
President - Portugal
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 59
President - Mongolia
Aleksander Zawadzki age 53
President - Poland
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 58
Emir - Kuwait
Federico Chávez age 72
President - Paraguay
Philipp Etter age 61
President - Switzerland
Paul Magloire age 46
President - Haiti
Mohammed Ben Aarafa age 67
Sultan - Morocco
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 66
President - Honduras
Jonas Žemaitis age 44
President - Lithuania
Ba U age 66
President - Myanmar
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 51
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 61
Emir - Qatar
Ibrahim Muhammad Didi age 52
President - Maldives
Enver Hoxha age 45
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 64
Prime Minister - Portugal
Urho Kekkonen age 53
Prime Minister - Finland
Imre Nagy age 57
Prime Minister - Hungary
Adnan Menderes age 54
Prime Minister - Turkey
Willem Drees age 67
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 56
Prime Minister - Thailand
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 44
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 51
Prime Minister - Romania
Robert Menzies age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Tage Erlander age 52
Prime Minister - Sweden
Louis St. Laurent age 71
Prime Minister - Canada
U Nu age 46
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 35
Prime Minister - Tonga
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 37
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 43
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Alexandros Papagos age 69
Prime Minister - Greece
Oscar Torp age 60
Prime Minister - Norway
Julius Raab age 61
Chancellor - Austria
Ólafur Thors age 61
Prime Minister - Iceland
Hans Hedtoft age 50
Prime Minister - Denmark
Alexander Bustamante age 69
Premier - Jamaica
Jean Van Houtte age 46
Prime Minister - Belgium
Dudley Senanayake age 42
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Vladimir Bakarić age 41
Prime Minister - Croatia
Pierre Dupong age 68
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Penn Nouth age 47
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Ali Sastroamidjojo age 50
Prime Minister - Indonesia
George Borg Olivier age 42
Prime Minister - Malta
Jigme Palden Dorji age 33
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 41
Prime Minister - Nepal
Zenón Noriega Agüero age 53
Prime Minister - Peru
Sidney Holland age 60
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 50
Prime Minister - Iraq