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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
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
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
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Albany Movement 1961-11 - 1962

People

Elizabeth II age 36
Queen - United Kingdom
John F. Kennedy age 44
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 68
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Charles de Gaulle age 71
President - France
Nikita Khrushchev age 68
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 61
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 72
President - Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 74
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 70
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 44
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 69
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 42
Shah - Iran
Walter Ulbricht age 68
First Secretary - East Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 31
King - Belgium
Heinrich Lübke age 67
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 63
Chairman - People's Republic of China
João Goulart age 43
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 55
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Adolfo López Mateos age 51
President - Mexico
Osvaldo Dorticós age 43
President - Cuba
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 57
President - Iraq
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 66
President - Guatemala
Nazim al-Kudsi age 56
President - Syria
U Thant age 53
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 35
Prime Minister - Cuba
Jawaharlal Nehru age 72
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 86
Chancellor - Germany
Georges Pompidou age 50
Prime Minister - France
David Ben-Gurion age 75
Prime Minister - Israel
Zhou Enlai age 64
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Macmillan age 68
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Amintore Fanfani age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Hayato Ikeda age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
Hendrik Verwoerd age 60
Prime Minister - South Africa
Avery Brundage age 74
President - International Olympic Committee
Walter Hallstein age 60
President - European Commission
Phạm Văn Đồng age 56
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 51
Prime Minister - Poland
Chen Cheng age 65
Premier - Republic of China
Dirk Stikker age 65
Secretary General - NATO
Seán Lemass age 62
Taoiseach - Ireland
Boun Oum age 50
Prime Minister - Laos
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 50
Director-General - World Health Organization
Bashir al-Azma age 51
Prime Minister - Syria
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 64
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 50
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Earl Warren age 71
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Lyndon B. Johnson age 53
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 69
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 76
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Deng Xiaoping age 57
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Lin Biao age 54
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
Zhu De age 75
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 63
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 60
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 66
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 62
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Lyman Lemnitzer age 62
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Robert F. Kennedy age 36
Attorney General - United States
Robert McNamara age 45
Secretary of Defense - United States
Dean Rusk age 53
Secretary of State - United States
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 42
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Rab Butler age 59
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
C. Douglas Dillon age 52
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Reginald Maudling age 45
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
George Decker age 60
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 67
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Hugh Gaitskell age 56
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William J. Brennan Jr. age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 47
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Nicholas Katzenbach age 40
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Byron White age 44
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 63
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Iain Macleod age 48
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Tom C. Clark age 62
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Jo Grimond age 48
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 64
President - African National Congress
Tomás Mac Giolla age 38
President - Sinn Féin
Archibald Cox age 50
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Thurgood Marshall age 53
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Hubert Humphrey age 50
Senate - United States
Edmund Muskie age 48
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 87
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Thatcher age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Harold Wilson age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Daniel Inouye age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Roy Jenkins age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Melvin Laird age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Denis Healey age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 77
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christopher Soames age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Carr age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Barber age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 66
House of Representatives - United States
Frank Soskice age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 79
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Thorpe age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nelson Rockefeller age 53
Governor of New York - United States
Barber Conable age 39
New York State Senate - United States
Kwame Nkrumah age 52
President - Ghana
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 34
King - Thailand
John XXIII age 80
Pope - Vatican City
Francisco Franco age 69
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 60
President - Indonesia
Park Chung-hee age 44
President - South Korea
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 55
President - Senegal
Rajendra Prasad age 77
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 26
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 58
President - Tunisia
Urho Kekkonen age 61
President - Finland
Éamon de Valera age 79
President - Ireland
Hassan II age 32
King - Morocco
Cemal Gürsel age 66
President - Turkey
Olav V of Norway age 58
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 49
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 40
President - Guinea
Ayub Khan age 55
President - Pakistan
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 60
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 53
Queen - Netherlands
Frederik IX of Denmark age 63
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 79
King - Sweden
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 56
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 38
Prince - Monaco
François Duvalier age 55
President - Haiti
Makarios III age 48
President - Cyprus
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 37
President - Cameroon
Giovanni Gronchi age 74
President - Italy
Modibo Keïta age 46
President - Mali
Diosdado Macapagal age 51
President - Philippines
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 33
King - Bhutan
David Dacko age 32
President - Central African Republic
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 52
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 77
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 66
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 53
President - Somalia
Sobhuza II age 62
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 68
President - Iceland
Rómulo Betancourt age 54
President - Venezuela
Léon M'ba age 60
President - Gabon
Philibert Tsiranana age 49
President - Madagascar
François Tombalbaye age 43
President - Chad
Diori Hamani age 45
President - Niger
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 54
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 66
President - Liberia
Adolf Schärf age 72
President - Austria
Jorge Alessandri age 66
President - Chile
Moktar Ould Daddah age 37
President - Mauritania
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 51
Sultan - Oman
Isa II of Bahrain age 28
Emir - Bahrain
Fulbert Youlou age 44
President - Republic of the Congo
Ibrahim Abboud age 61
President - Sudan
Américo Tomás age 67
President - Portugal
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 55
President - Colombia
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 73
President - Peru
Haxhi Lleshi age 48
President - Albania
Grégoire Kayibanda age 38
President - Rwanda
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 62
Queen - Tonga
José María Guido age 51
President - Argentina
Fouad Chehab age 60
President - Lebanon
Aleksander Zawadzki age 62
President - Poland
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 67
Emir - Kuwait
Luis Somoza Debayle age 39
President - Nicaragua
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 42
Emir - Qatar
Ramón Villeda Morales age 52
President - Honduras
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 42
President - Ecuador
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 55
President - Costa Rica
Paul Chaudet age 57
President - Switzerland
Benyoucef Benkhedda age 42
President - Algeria
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 66
President - Mongolia
Faustino Harrison age 62
President - Uruguay
C. R. Swart age 67
State President - South Africa
Lee Kuan Yew age 38
Prime Minister - Singapore
António de Oliveira Salazar age 73
Prime Minister - Portugal
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 46
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
İsmet İnönü age 77
Prime Minister - Turkey
Milton Obote age 36
Prime Minister - Uganda
János Kádár age 49
Prime Minister - Hungary
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 59
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 55
Prime Minister - Greece
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 52
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
John Diefenbaker age 66
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 67
Prime Minister - Australia
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 47
Prime Minister - Iraq
Einar Gerhardsen age 65
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 60
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 35
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 43
Prime Minister - Tonga
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 45
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Sarit Thanarat age 53
Prime Minister - Thailand