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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
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Elizabeth II age 30
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 62
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 66
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 62
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 55
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 66
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 69
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 64
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 38
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 64
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 37
Shah - Iran
Fulgencio Batista age 55
President - Cuba
Walter Ulbricht age 63
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 72
President - Germany
Juscelino Kubitschek age 54
President - Brazil
Baudouin of Belgium age 26
King - Belgium
René Coty age 74
President - France
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 65
President - Mexico
Carlos Castillo Armas age 41
President - Guatemala
Shukri al-Quwatli age 65
President - Syria
Dag Hammarskjöld age 51
Secretary-General - United Nations
Jawaharlal Nehru age 66
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 80
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 70
Prime Minister - Israel
Zhou Enlai age 58
Premier - People's Republic of China
Anthony Eden age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Antonio Segni age 65
Prime Minister - Italy
Nikolai Bulganin age 61
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Ichirō Hatoyama age 73
Prime Minister - Japan
Avery Brundage age 69
President - International Olympic Committee
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 69
Secretary General - NATO
Souvanna Phouma age 55
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 50
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Guy Mollet age 50
Prime Minister - France
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 45
Prime Minister - Poland
J. G. Strijdom age 63
Prime Minister - South Africa
John A. Costello age 65
Taoiseach - Ireland
Sabri al-Asali age 53
Prime Minister - Syria
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 45
Director-General - World Health Organization
Yu Hung-chun age 58
Premier - Republic of China
Jorge García Montes age 60
Prime Minister - Cuba
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 58
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 44
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Earl Warren age 65
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Nixon age 43
Vice President - United States
Zhu De age 69
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Chen Cheng age 59
Vice President - Republic of China
Deng Xiaoping age 52
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Lin Biao age 48
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Li Xiannian age 47
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 58
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 70
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 55
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 60
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 56
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Arthur W. Radford age 60
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Harold Macmillan age 62
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
John Foster Dulles age 68
Secretary of State - United States
Maxwell D. Taylor age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Charles Erwin Wilson age 66
Secretary of Defense - United States
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 52
Attorney General - United States
George M. Humphrey age 66
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Gwilym Lloyd George age 61
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 61
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
William P. Rogers age 43
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Hugh Gaitskell age 50
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William J. Brennan Jr. age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 50
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 72
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 58
President - African National Congress
Paddy McLogan age 57
President - Sinn Féin
Potter Stewart age 41
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
John F. Kennedy age 39
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 48
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 45
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 81
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Harold Wilson age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roy Jenkins age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Melvin Laird age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Denis Healey age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Rab Butler age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Macleod age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Reginald Maudling age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christopher Soames age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Carr age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Barber age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Frank Soskice age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
W. Averell Harriman age 64
Governor of New York - United States
Christian Herter age 61
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Goodwin Knight age 59
Governor of California - United States
Orval Faubus age 46
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Frank Lausche age 60
Governor of Ohio - United States
Allan Shivers age 49
Governor of Texas - United States
Thomas B. Stanley age 66
Governor of Virginia - United States
Theodore McKeldin age 55
Governor of Maryland - United States
Robert B. Meyner age 48
Governor of New Jersey - United States
George N. Craig age 47
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 33
New York State Senate - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 28
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 63
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 55
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 80
Pope - Vatican City
Syngman Rhee age 81
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 71
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 20
King - Jordan
Celâl Bayar age 73
President - Turkey
Urho Kekkonen age 56
President - Finland
Haakon VII of Norway age 84
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 43
President - Paraguay
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 54
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 47
Queen - Netherlands
Frederik IX of Denmark age 57
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 73
King - Sweden
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 33
Prince - Monaco
Mohammed V of Morocco age 47
Sultan - Morocco
Giovanni Gronchi age 69
President - Italy
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 56
President - Pakistan
Ramon Magsaysay age 49
President - Philippines
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 27
King - Bhutan
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 71
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 60
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 57
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 62
President - Iceland
José Figueres Ferrer age 50
President - Costa Rica
William Tubman age 60
President - Liberia
Theodor Körner age 83
President - Austria
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 46
Sultan - Oman
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 53
President - Argentina
Seán T. O'Kelly age 74
President - Ireland
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 42
President - Venezuela
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 79
President - Chile
Camille Chamoun age 56
President - Lebanon
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 67
President - Peru
Haxhi Lleshi age 43
President - Albania
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 56
Queen - Tonga
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 42
President - Bolivia
Norodom Suramarit age 60
King - Cambodia
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 56
President - Colombia
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 62
President - Portugal
Aleksander Zawadzki age 56
President - Poland
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 61
Emir - Kuwait
Luis Somoza Debayle age 33
President - Nicaragua
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 44
President - Ecuador
Paul Magloire age 49
President - Haiti
Julio Lozano Díaz age 71
President - Honduras
Ba U age 69
President - Myanmar
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 54
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 64
Emir - Qatar
Markus Feldmann age 59
President - Switzerland
Alberto Fermín Zubiría age 55
President - Uruguay
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 61
President - Mongolia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 67
Prime Minister - Portugal
Habib Bourguiba age 53
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 53
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Adnan Menderes age 57
Prime Minister - Turkey
Willem Drees age 70
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 49
Prime Minister - Greece
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 59
Prime Minister - Thailand
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 47
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Robert Menzies age 61
Prime Minister - Australia
Einar Gerhardsen age 59
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 55
Prime Minister - Sweden
Louis St. Laurent age 74
Prime Minister - Canada
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 38
Prime Minister - Tonga
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 57
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 40
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Dom Mintoff age 40
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 43
Prime Minister - Albania
Johan Ferrier age 46
Prime Minister - Suriname
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 64
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Chivu Stoica age 48
Prime Minister - Romania
Karl-August Fagerholm age 54
Prime Minister - Finland
H. C. Hansen age 49
Prime Minister - Denmark
Julius Raab age 64
Chancellor - Austria
Achille Van Acker age 58
Prime Minister - Belgium
Nuri as-Said age 68
Prime Minister - Iraq
Joseph Bech age 69
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
András Hegedüs age 33
Prime Minister - Hungary
Hermann Jónasson age 59
Prime Minister - Iceland
Mustafa Ben Halim age 35
Prime Minister - Libya
Ali Sastroamidjojo age 53
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Jigme Palden Dorji age 36
Prime Minister - Bhutan