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Events

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
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01

People

Elizabeth II age 28
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 60
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 63
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 60
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 53
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 64
President - Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 66
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 62
President - Yugoslavia
Haile Selassie age 62
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 34
Shah - Iran
Fulgencio Batista age 53
President - Cuba
Getúlio Vargas age 72
President - Brazil
Walter Ulbricht age 61
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 70
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 23
King - Belgium
Mohamed Naguib age 53
President - Egypt
René Coty age 72
President - France
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 63
President - Mexico
Trường Chinh age 47
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Hashim al-Atassi age 78
President - Syria
Dag Hammarskjöld age 48
Secretary-General - United Nations
Winston Churchill age 79
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Jawaharlal Nehru age 64
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 78
Chancellor - Germany
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 36
Prime Minister - Egypt
Zhou Enlai age 56
Premier - People's Republic of China
Georgy Malenkov age 52
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Moshe Sharett age 59
Prime Minister - Israel
Shigeru Yoshida age 75
Prime Minister - Japan
Pierre Mendès France age 47
Prime Minister - France
Mario Scelba age 52
Prime Minister - Italy
Avery Brundage age 66
President - International Olympic Committee
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 67
Secretary General - NATO
Souvanna Phouma age 52
Prime Minister - Laos
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 43
Prime Minister - Poland
John A. Costello age 63
Taoiseach - Ireland
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 57
Prime Minister - Poland
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 43
Director-General - World Health Organization
Yu Hung-chun age 56
Premier - Republic of China
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 56
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 42
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
D. F. Malan age 80
Prime Minister - South Africa
Earl Warren age 63
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Nixon age 41
Vice President - United States
Chen Cheng age 57
Vice President - Republic of China
Deng Xiaoping age 49
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Li Xiannian age 45
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 55
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 68
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 58
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 54
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Arthur W. Radford age 58
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
John Foster Dulles age 66
Secretary of State - United States
Matthew Ridgway age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rab Butler age 51
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Charles Erwin Wilson age 64
Secretary of Defense - United States
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 50
Attorney General - United States
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
George M. Humphrey age 64
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 45
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 59
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 71
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Robert H. Jackson age 62
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William P. Rogers age 41
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Tom C. Clark age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clement Davies age 70
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 56
President - African National Congress
Paddy McLogan age 55
President - Sinn Féin
Potter Stewart age 39
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 55
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
John F. Kennedy age 37
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 45
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 43
Senate - United States
Gerald Ford age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Anthony Eden age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roy Jenkins age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lloyd Bentsen age 33
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 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Macleod age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Reginald Maudling age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 36
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 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Barber age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Frank Soskice age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 51
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 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 59
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Barber Conable age 31
New York State Senate - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 26
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 61
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 53
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 78
Pope - Vatican City
Juan Perón age 58
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 31
King - Cambodia
Syngman Rhee age 79
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 69
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 18
King - Jordan
Celâl Bayar age 71
President - Turkey
Haakon VII of Norway age 81
King - Norway
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 52
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 45
Queen - Netherlands
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 83
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 55
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 71
King - Sweden
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 31
Prince - Monaco
Luigi Einaudi age 80
President - Italy
Ramon Magsaysay age 46
President - Philippines
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 25
King - Bhutan
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 69
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 58
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 55
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 60
President - Iceland
José Figueres Ferrer age 47
President - Costa Rica
Anastasio Somoza García age 58
President - Nicaragua
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 46
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 58
President - Liberia
Theodor Körner age 81
President - Austria
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 43
Sultan - Oman
Seán T. O'Kelly age 71
President - Ireland
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 40
President - Venezuela
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 76
President - Chile
Camille Chamoun age 54
President - Lebanon
Haxhi Lleshi age 40
President - Albania
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 54
Queen - Tonga
Manuel Odría age 56
President - Peru
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 54
President - Colombia
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 60
President - Portugal
Aleksander Zawadzki age 54
President - Poland
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 59
Emir - Kuwait
Paul Magloire age 47
President - Haiti
Mohammed Ben Aarafa age 68
Sultan - Morocco
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 67
President - Honduras
Tomás Romero Pereira age 67
President - Paraguay
Jonas Žemaitis age 45
President - Lithuania
Ba U age 67
President - Myanmar
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 52
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 62
Emir - Qatar
Rodolphe Rubattel age 57
President - Switzerland
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 59
President - Mongolia
Giuseppe Forcellini age 53
Captain Regent - San Marino
Enver Hoxha age 45
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 65
Prime Minister - Portugal
Imre Nagy age 58
Prime Minister - Hungary
Adnan Menderes age 55
Prime Minister - Turkey
Willem Drees age 68
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 57
Prime Minister - Thailand
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 45
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 52
Prime Minister - Romania
Robert Menzies age 59
Prime Minister - Australia
Tage Erlander age 53
Prime Minister - Sweden
Louis St. Laurent age 72
Prime Minister - Canada
U Nu age 47
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 36
Prime Minister - Tonga
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 37
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 44
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Alexandros Papagos age 70
Prime Minister - Greece
Oscar Torp age 61
Prime Minister - Norway
Julius Raab age 62
Chancellor - Austria
Achille Van Acker age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Joseph Bech age 67
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ólafur Thors age 62
Prime Minister - Iceland
Hans Hedtoft age 51
Prime Minister - Denmark
Ralf Törngren age 55
Prime Minister - Finland
Alexander Bustamante age 70
Premier - Jamaica
Mustafa Ben Halim age 33
Prime Minister - Libya
Penn Nouth age 48
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Ali Sastroamidjojo age 51
Prime Minister - Indonesia
George Borg Olivier age 43
Prime Minister - Malta
Jigme Palden Dorji age 34
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 42
Prime Minister - Nepal
John Kotelawala age 57
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Zenón Noriega Agüero age 54
Prime Minister - Peru
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 62
Prime Minister - Jordan
Sidney Holland age 60
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Grantley Herbert Adams age 56
Prime Minister - Barbados
Alexander Frick age 44
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Makonnen Endelkachew age 64
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Arshad al-Umari age 66
Prime Minister - Iraq
Archibald Currie age 66
Prime Minister - Suriname