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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
Austrian State Treaty 1955-05-15

People

Elizabeth II age 29
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 61
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 64
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 61
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 54
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 65
President - Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 67
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 63
President - Yugoslavia
Haile Selassie age 62
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 35
Shah - Iran
Fulgencio Batista age 54
President - Cuba
Walter Ulbricht age 61
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 71
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 24
King - Belgium
René Coty age 73
President - France
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 64
President - Mexico
Café Filho age 56
President - Brazil
Trường Chinh age 48
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Carlos Castillo Armas age 40
President - Guatemala
Hashim al-Atassi age 79
President - Syria
Dag Hammarskjöld age 49
Secretary-General - United Nations
Jawaharlal Nehru age 65
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 79
Chancellor - Germany
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 37
Prime Minister - Egypt
Zhou Enlai age 57
Premier - People's Republic of China
Anthony Eden age 57
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Moshe Sharett age 60
Prime Minister - Israel
Nikolai Bulganin age 59
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Ichirō Hatoyama age 72
Prime Minister - Japan
Mario Scelba age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
Avery Brundage age 67
President - International Olympic Committee
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 67
Secretary General - NATO
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 44
Prime Minister - Poland
J. G. Strijdom age 61
Prime Minister - South Africa
John A. Costello age 63
Taoiseach - Ireland
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 58
Prime Minister - Poland
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 43
Director-General - World Health Organization
Yu Hung-chun age 57
Premier - Republic of China
Jorge García Montes age 58
Prime Minister - Cuba
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 57
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 43
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Earl Warren age 64
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Nixon age 42
Vice President - United States
Zhu De age 68
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Chen Cheng age 58
Vice President - Republic of China
Deng Xiaoping age 50
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Lin Biao age 47
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 56
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 69
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 53
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 59
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 55
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Arthur W. Radford age 59
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
John Foster Dulles age 67
Secretary of State - United States
Matthew Ridgway age 60
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rab Butler age 52
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Charles Erwin Wilson age 64
Secretary of Defense - United States
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 51
Attorney General - United States
George M. Humphrey age 65
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 46
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 60
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 51
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 60
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 72
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William P. Rogers age 41
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
John Marshall Harlan II age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clement Davies age 71
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 57
President - African National Congress
Paddy McLogan age 56
President - Sinn Féin
Potter Stewart age 40
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
John F. Kennedy age 37
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 46
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 43
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 77
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 80
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Harold Macmillan age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roy Jenkins age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Melvin Laird age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Denis Healey age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Gaitskell age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Macleod age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Reginald Maudling age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christopher Soames age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Carr age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Barber age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Jim Griffiths age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 60
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Barber Conable age 32
New York State Senate - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 27
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 62
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 53
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 79
Pope - Vatican City
Juan Perón age 59
President - Argentina
Syngman Rhee age 80
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 70
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 19
King - Jordan
Celâl Bayar age 72
President - Turkey
Haakon VII of Norway age 82
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 42
President - Paraguay
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 53
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 46
Queen - Netherlands
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 84
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 56
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 72
King - Sweden
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 31
Prince - Monaco
Giovanni Gronchi age 67
President - Italy
Ramon Magsaysay age 47
President - Philippines
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 26
King - Bhutan
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 70
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 59
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 55
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 61
President - Iceland
José Figueres Ferrer age 48
President - Costa Rica
Anastasio Somoza García age 59
President - Nicaragua
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 47
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 59
President - Liberia
Theodor Körner age 82
President - Austria
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 44
Sultan - Oman
Seán T. O'Kelly age 72
President - Ireland
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 41
President - Venezuela
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 77
President - Chile
Camille Chamoun age 55
President - Lebanon
Haxhi Lleshi age 41
President - Albania
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 55
Queen - Tonga
Norodom Suramarit age 59
King - Cambodia
Manuel Odría age 57
President - Peru
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 55
President - Colombia
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 61
President - Portugal
Aleksander Zawadzki age 55
President - Poland
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 60
Emir - Kuwait
Max Petitpierre age 56
President - Switzerland
Paul Magloire age 47
President - Haiti
Mohammed Ben Aarafa age 69
Sultan - Morocco
Julio Lozano Díaz age 70
President - Honduras
Ba U age 68
President - Myanmar
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 53
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 63
Emir - Qatar
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 43
President - Panama
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 59
President - Mongolia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 66
Prime Minister - Portugal
Urho Kekkonen age 54
Prime Minister - Finland
Adnan Menderes age 56
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 53
Prime Minister - Romania
Robert Menzies age 60
Prime Minister - Australia
Einar Gerhardsen age 58
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 53
Prime Minister - Sweden
Louis St. Laurent age 73
Prime Minister - Canada
U Nu age 48
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 36
Prime Minister - Tonga
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 38
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Dom Mintoff age 38
Prime Minister - Malta
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 45
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Mehmet Shehu age 42
Prime Minister - Albania
Johan Ferrier age 45
Prime Minister - Suriname
Alexandros Papagos age 71
Prime Minister - Greece
H. C. Hansen age 48
Prime Minister - Denmark
Julius Raab age 63
Chancellor - Austria
Achille Van Acker age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Nuri as-Said age 67
Prime Minister - Iraq
Joseph Bech age 68
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
András Hegedüs age 32
Prime Minister - Hungary
Ólafur Thors age 63
Prime Minister - Iceland
Mustafa Ben Halim age 34
Prime Minister - Libya
Ali Sastroamidjojo age 52
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Jigme Palden Dorji age 35
Prime Minister - Bhutan
John Kotelawala age 58
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 63
Prime Minister - Jordan
Sidney Holland age 61
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Grantley Herbert Adams age 57
Prime Minister - Barbados
Alexander Frick age 45
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Makonnen Endelkachew age 65
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Filip Bajković age 45
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Roque A. Saldías age 63
Prime Minister - Peru
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 63
Governor-General - Australia
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 61
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 74
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump age 8
Vladimir Putin age 2
Ronald Reagan age 44