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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962

People

Elizabeth II age 32
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 64
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 67
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 64
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 57
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 67
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 70
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 66
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 40
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 65
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 38
Shah - Iran
Fulgencio Batista age 57
President - Cuba
Walter Ulbricht age 64
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 74
President - Germany
Juscelino Kubitschek age 55
President - Brazil
Baudouin of Belgium age 27
King - Belgium
René Coty age 76
President - France
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 67
President - Mexico
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 62
President - Guatemala
Dag Hammarskjöld age 52
Secretary-General - United Nations
Jawaharlal Nehru age 68
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 82
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 71
Prime Minister - Israel
Zhou Enlai age 60
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Macmillan age 64
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 75
Taoiseach - Ireland
Paul-Henri Spaak age 59
Secretary General - NATO
Nobusuke Kishi age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Avery Brundage age 70
President - International Olympic Committee
Walter Hallstein age 56
President - European Commission
Souvanna Phouma age 56
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 52
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 47
Prime Minister - Poland
Adone Zoli age 70
Prime Minister - Italy
J. G. Strijdom age 64
Prime Minister - South Africa
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 46
Director-General - World Health Organization
Gonzalo Güell age 63
Prime Minister - Cuba
Yu Hung-chun age 60
Premier - Republic of China
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 60
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 46
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Earl Warren age 67
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Nixon age 45
Vice President - United States
Zhu De age 71
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Chen Cheng age 61
Vice President - Republic of China
Deng Xiaoping age 53
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Lin Biao age 50
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Li Xiannian age 48
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 59
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 72
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 56
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 62
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 58
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nathan F. Twining age 60
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
John Foster Dulles age 70
Secretary of State - United States
William P. Rogers age 44
Attorney General - United States
Maxwell D. Taylor age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rab Butler age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert B. Anderson age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Neil H. McElroy age 53
Secretary of Defense - United States
Christopher Soames age 37
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 52
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 63
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Hugh Gaitskell age 52
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William J. Brennan Jr. age 52
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Jo Grimond age 44
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 60
President - African National Congress
Paddy McLogan age 59
President - Sinn Féin
Potter Stewart age 43
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
John F. Kennedy age 40
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 49
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 46
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 83
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Harold Wilson age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roy Jenkins age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Melvin Laird age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Denis Healey age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Macleod age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Reginald Maudling age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Carr age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Barber age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Frank Soskice age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 75
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Barber Conable age 35
New York State Senate - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 30
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 65
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 56
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 82
Pope - Vatican City
Syngman Rhee age 83
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 73
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 22
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 54
President - Tunisia
Celâl Bayar age 75
President - Turkey
Urho Kekkonen age 57
President - Finland
Olav V of Norway age 54
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 45
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 36
President - Guinea
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 56
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 49
Queen - Netherlands
Frederik IX of Denmark age 59
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 75
King - Sweden
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 34
Prince - Monaco
François Duvalier age 51
President - Haiti
Mohammed V of Morocco age 48
King - Morocco
Giovanni Gronchi age 70
President - Italy
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 58
President - Pakistan
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 29
King - Bhutan
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 73
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 62
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 58
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 64
President - Iceland
José Figueres Ferrer age 51
President - Costa Rica
William Tubman age 62
President - Liberia
Carlos P. Garcia age 61
President - Philippines
Adolf Schärf age 68
President - Austria
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 47
Sultan - Oman
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 54
President - Argentina
Seán T. O'Kelly age 75
President - Ireland
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 80
President - Chile
Camille Chamoun age 58
President - Lebanon
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 69
President - Peru
Haxhi Lleshi age 44
President - Albania
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 58
Queen - Tonga
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 44
President - Bolivia
Norodom Suramarit age 62
King - Cambodia
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 64
President - Portugal
Aleksander Zawadzki age 58
President - Poland
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 63
Emir - Kuwait
Luis Somoza Debayle age 35
President - Nicaragua
Ramón Villeda Morales age 48
President - Honduras
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 46
President - Ecuador
Gabriel París Gordillo age 48
President - Colombia
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 56
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 66
Emir - Qatar
Win Maung age 42
President - Myanmar
Thomas Holenstein age 62
President - Switzerland
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 62
President - Mongolia
Carlos Fischer age 55
President - Uruguay
Giovanni Zaccaria Savoretti age 38
Captain Regent - San Marino
Kwame Nkrumah age 48
Prime Minister - Ghana
António de Oliveira Salazar age 69
Prime Minister - Portugal
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 55
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Adnan Menderes age 59
Prime Minister - Turkey
Willem Drees age 71
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 51
Prime Minister - Greece
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 48
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
John Diefenbaker age 62
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 63
Prime Minister - Australia
Einar Gerhardsen age 61
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 56
Prime Minister - Sweden
Léon M'ba age 56
Prime Minister - Gabon
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 39
Prime Minister - Tonga
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 59
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 41
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Mehmet Shehu age 45
Prime Minister - Albania
Johan Ferrier age 47
Prime Minister - Suriname
Chivu Stoica age 49
Prime Minister - Romania
Thanom Kittikachorn age 46
Prime Minister - Thailand
H. C. Hansen age 51
Prime Minister - Denmark
Julius Raab age 66
Chancellor - Austria
Achille Van Acker age 60
Prime Minister - Belgium
Nuri as-Said age 70
Prime Minister - Iraq
Ferenc Münnich age 71
Prime Minister - Hungary
Reino Kuuskoski age 51
Prime Minister - Finland
Hermann Jónasson age 61
Prime Minister - Iceland
Mamadou Dia age 47
Prime Minister - Senegal
Jigme Palden Dorji age 38
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Djuanda Kartawidjaja age 47
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Pierre Frieden age 65
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Konstantinos Georgakopoulos age 67
Prime Minister - Greece
Abdul Majid Kubar age 49
Prime Minister - Libya
Walter Nash age 76
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Abdullahi Issa age 35
Prime Minister - Somalia
Sim Var age 52
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Norodom Kantol age 37
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Abdallah El-Yafi age 56
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Abebe Aregai age 54
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Alexander Frick age 48
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 53
Prime Minister - Peru
Jacques Opangault age 50
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Filip Bajković age 47
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 66
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 76
Governor-General - Madagascar
Martin Luther King Jr. age 29
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference