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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
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
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

Elizabeth II age 35
Queen - United Kingdom
John F. Kennedy age 44
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 67
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Charles de Gaulle age 70
President - France
Nikita Khrushchev age 67
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 60
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 71
President - Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 73
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 69
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 43
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 68
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 41
Shah - Iran
Walter Ulbricht age 68
First Secretary - East Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 30
King - Belgium
Heinrich Lübke age 66
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 62
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Lê Duẩn age 54
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Adolfo López Mateos age 51
President - Mexico
Jânio Quadros age 44
President - Brazil
Osvaldo Dorticós age 42
President - Cuba
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 56
President - Iraq
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 65
President - Guatemala
Nazim al-Kudsi age 55
President - Syria
Dag Hammarskjöld age 55
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 34
Prime Minister - Cuba
Jawaharlal Nehru age 71
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 85
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 74
Prime Minister - Israel
Zhou Enlai age 63
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Macmillan age 67
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Amintore Fanfani age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
Hayato Ikeda age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Hendrik Verwoerd age 59
Prime Minister - South Africa
Michel Debré age 49
Prime Minister - France
Avery Brundage age 73
President - International Olympic Committee
Walter Hallstein age 59
President - European Commission
Phạm Văn Đồng age 55
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 50
Prime Minister - Poland
Chen Cheng age 64
Premier - Republic of China
Dirk Stikker age 64
Secretary General - NATO
Seán Lemass age 61
Taoiseach - Ireland
Boun Oum age 49
Prime Minister - Laos
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 35
Prime Minister - Syria
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 50
Director-General - World Health Organization
Kamal el-Din Hussein age 40
Prime Minister - Egypt
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 63
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 49
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Earl Warren age 70
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Lyndon B. Johnson age 52
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 68
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 75
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Deng Xiaoping age 56
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Lin Biao age 53
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
Zhu De age 74
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian age 52
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 62
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 59
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 65
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 61
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Lyman Lemnitzer age 61
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Robert F. Kennedy age 35
Attorney General - United States
Robert McNamara age 45
Secretary of Defense - United States
Dean Rusk age 52
Secretary of State - United States
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 42
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Profumo age 46
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Rab Butler age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
C. Douglas Dillon age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Iain Macleod age 47
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
George Decker age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 66
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Hugh Gaitskell age 55
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William J. Brennan Jr. age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 46
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 44
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
John Marshall Harlan II age 62
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 61
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Reginald Maudling age 44
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton age 57
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 47
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 63
President - African National Congress
Paddy McLogan age 62
President - Sinn Féin
Archibald Cox age 49
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Hubert Humphrey age 50
Senate - United States
Edmund Muskie age 47
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 86
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Thatcher age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Harold Wilson age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Daniel Inouye age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Roy Jenkins age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Melvin Laird age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Denis Healey age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 76
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christopher Soames age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Carr age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Barber age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 66
House of Representatives - United States
Frank Soskice age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 78
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 77
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Thorpe age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nelson Rockefeller age 53
Governor of New York - United States
Pat Brown age 56
Governor of California - United States
Price Daniel age 50
Governor of Texas - United States
Orval Faubus age 51
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John A. Volpe age 52
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
J. Lindsay Almond age 63
Governor of Virginia - United States
Ernest Vandiver age 43
Governor of Georgia - United States
Michael DiSalle age 53
Governor of Ohio - United States
Buford Ellington age 54
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Matthew E. Welsh age 48
Governor of Indiana - United States
Robert B. Meyner age 53
Governor of New Jersey - United States
J. Millard Tawes age 67
Governor of Maryland - United States
Barber Conable age 38
New York State Senate - United States
Kwame Nkrumah age 51
President - Ghana
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 33
King - Thailand
John XXIII age 79
Pope - Vatican City
Francisco Franco age 68
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 60
President - Indonesia
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 54
President - Senegal
Rajendra Prasad age 76
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 25
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 57
President - Tunisia
Urho Kekkonen age 60
President - Finland
Éamon de Valera age 78
President - Ireland
Hassan II age 31
King - Morocco
Olav V of Norway age 58
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 48
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 39
President - Guinea
Ayub Khan age 54
President - Pakistan
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 59
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 52
Queen - Netherlands
Yun Po-sun age 63
President - South Korea
Frederik IX of Denmark age 62
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 78
King - Sweden
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 55
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 38
Prince - Monaco
François Duvalier age 54
President - Haiti
Makarios III age 47
President - Cyprus
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 36
President - Cameroon
Giovanni Gronchi age 73
President - Italy
Modibo Keïta age 46
President - Mali
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 32
King - Bhutan
David Dacko age 31
President - Central African Republic
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 51
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 76
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 65
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 52
President - Somalia
Sobhuza II age 61
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 67
President - Iceland
Rómulo Betancourt age 53
President - Venezuela
Léon M'ba age 59
President - Gabon
Philibert Tsiranana age 48
President - Madagascar
Arturo Frondizi age 52
President - Argentina
François Tombalbaye age 43
President - Chad
Diori Hamani age 45
President - Niger
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 53
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 65
President - Liberia
Carlos P. Garcia age 64
President - Philippines
Adolf Schärf age 71
President - Austria
Joaquín Balaguer age 54
President - Dominican Republic
Jorge Alessandri age 65
President - Chile
Moktar Ould Daddah age 36
President - Mauritania
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 50
Sultan - Oman
Fulbert Youlou age 43
President - Republic of the Congo
Ibrahim Abboud age 60
President - Sudan
Américo Tomás age 66
President - Portugal
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 55
President - Colombia
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 72
President - Peru
Haxhi Lleshi age 47
President - Albania
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 61
Queen - Tonga
Fouad Chehab age 59
President - Lebanon
Aleksander Zawadzki age 61
President - Poland
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 46
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 66
Emir - Kuwait
Luis Somoza Debayle age 38
President - Nicaragua
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 41
Emir - Qatar
Ramón Villeda Morales age 51
President - Honduras
Dominique Mbonyumutwa age 40
President - Rwanda
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen age 62
President - Switzerland
Win Maung age 45
President - Myanmar
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 66
President - Mongolia
Eduardo Víctor Haedo age 59
President - Uruguay
Giancarlo Ghironzi age 29
Captain Regent - San Marino
C. R. Swart age 66
State President - South Africa
Lee Kuan Yew age 37
Prime Minister - Singapore
António de Oliveira Salazar age 72
Prime Minister - Portugal
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 45
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Cemal Gürsel age 65
Prime Minister - Turkey
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 58
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 54
Prime Minister - Greece