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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
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Second Vatican Council 1962-10-11 - 1965-12-08
Socialist Education Movement 1963 - 1966
Chicago Freedom Movement 1965 - 1967

People

Elizabeth II age 39
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 71
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Charles de Gaulle age 75
President - France
Lyndon B. Johnson age 57
President - United States
Hirohito age 64
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 75
President - Vietnam
Leonid Brezhnev age 59
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 78
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 73
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 47
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 73
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 46
Shah - Iran
Walter Ulbricht age 72
First Secretary - East Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 35
King - Belgium
Heinrich Lübke age 71
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 67
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 68
President - Brazil
Abdul Salam Arif age 44
President - Iraq
Lê Duẩn age 58
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 54
President - Mexico
Osvaldo Dorticós age 46
President - Cuba
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 57
President - Guatemala
Amin al-Hafez age 39
President - Syria
Pol Pot age 40
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
U Thant age 56
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 39
Prime Minister - Cuba
Georges Pompidou age 54
Prime Minister - France
Zhou Enlai age 67
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Wilson age 49
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Aldo Moro age 49
Prime Minister - Italy
Ludwig Erhard age 68
Chancellor - Germany
Eisaku Satō age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
Alexei Kosygin age 61
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Levi Eshkol age 70
Prime Minister - Israel
Hendrik Verwoerd age 64
Prime Minister - South Africa
Avery Brundage age 78
President - International Olympic Committee
Walter Hallstein age 64
President - European Commission
Souvanna Phouma age 64
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 59
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 54
Prime Minister - Poland
Yen Chia-kan age 60
Premier - Republic of China
Manlio Brosio age 68
Secretary General - NATO
Seán Lemass age 66
Taoiseach - Ireland
Zakaria Mohieddin age 47
Prime Minister - Egypt
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 54
Director-General - World Health Organization
George David Woods age 64
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 53
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 61
Prime Minister - India
Earl Warren age 74
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hubert Humphrey age 54
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 72
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 79
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Earle Wheeler age 57
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
James Callaghan age 53
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Robert McNamara age 49
Secretary of Defense - United States
Dean Rusk age 56
Secretary of State - United States
Nicholas Katzenbach age 43
Attorney General - United States
Duncan Sandys age 57
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry H. Fowler age 57
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Harold Keith Johnson age 53
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Frank Soskice age 63
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 70
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Deng Xiaoping age 61
Secretariat - Communist Party of China
Edward Heath age 49
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Ramsey Clark age 38
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
William J. Brennan Jr. age 59
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 48
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 66
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 66
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Abe Fortas age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Jo Grimond age 52
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 67
President - African National Congress
Tomás Mac Giolla age 41
President - Sinn Féin
Thurgood Marshall age 57
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Robert F. Kennedy age 40
Senate - United States
Walter Mondale age 37
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 41
Senate - United States
Margaret Thatcher age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 57
Governor of New York - United States
John Connally age 48
Governor of Texas - United States
Kwame Nkrumah age 56
President - Ghana
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 38
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 73
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 64
President - Indonesia
Paul VI age 68
Pope - Vatican City
Park Chung-hee age 48
President - South Korea
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 59
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 35
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 72
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 43
President - Tanzania
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 77
President - India
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 59
King - Saudi Arabia
Hussein I of Jordan age 30
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 62
President - Tunisia
Urho Kekkonen age 65
President - Finland
Éamon de Valera age 83
President - Ireland
Hassan II age 36
King - Morocco
Cemal Gürsel age 70
President - Turkey
Kenneth Kaunda age 41
President - Zambia
Olav V of Norway age 62
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 53
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 43
President - Guinea
Ayub Khan age 58
President - Pakistan
Juliana of the Netherlands age 56
Queen - Netherlands
Frederik IX of Denmark age 66
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 83
King - Sweden
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 60
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 42
Prince - Monaco
Houari Boumédiène age 33
President - Algeria
François Duvalier age 58
President - Haiti
Makarios III age 52
President - Cyprus
Giuseppe Saragat age 67
President - Italy
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 41
President - Cameroon
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 61
President - Nigeria
Modibo Keïta age 50
President - Mali
Diosdado Macapagal age 55
President - Philippines
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 36
King - Bhutan
David Dacko age 35
President - Central African Republic
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 44
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 57
President - Somalia
Franz Jonas age 66
President - Austria
Sobhuza II age 66
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 71
President - Iceland
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 54
President - Chile
Fernando Belaúnde age 53
President - Peru
Léon M'ba age 63
President - Gabon
Zalman Shazar age 76
President - Israel
Philibert Tsiranana age 53
President - Madagascar
Arturo Umberto Illia age 65
President - Argentina
François Tombalbaye age 47
President - Chad
Diori Hamani age 49
President - Niger
William Tubman age 70
President - Liberia
Yusof bin Ishak age 55
President - Singapore
Moktar Ould Daddah age 40
President - Mauritania
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 55
Sultan - Oman
Isa II of Bahrain age 32
Emir - Bahrain
Muteesa II of Buganda age 41
President - Uganda
Américo Tomás age 71
President - Portugal
Haxhi Lleshi age 52
President - Albania
Oswaldo López Arellano age 44
President - Honduras
Grégoire Kayibanda age 41
President - Rwanda
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 65
Queen - Tonga
Ismail al-Azhari age 65
President - Sudan
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 44
President - Republic of the Congo
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 47
President - Bolivia
Guillermo León Valencia age 56
President - Colombia
Raúl Leoni age 60
President - Venezuela
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 45
Emir - Qatar
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 52
Emir - Kuwait
Charles Helou age 52
President - Lebanon
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 52
President - Switzerland
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 58
President - Costa Rica
René Schick age 56
President - Nicaragua
Washington Beltrán age 51
President - Uruguay
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 70
President - Mongolia
Pietro Reffi age 38
Captain Regent - San Marino
Alvaro Casali age 69
Captain Regent - San Marino
C. R. Swart age 71
State President - South Africa
Lee Kuan Yew age 42
Prime Minister - Singapore
António de Oliveira Salazar age 76
Prime Minister - Portugal
Süleyman Demirel age 41
Prime Minister - Turkey
Lester B. Pearson age 68
Prime Minister - Canada
Hastings Banda age 75
Prime Minister - Malawi
Milton Obote age 39
Prime Minister - Uganda
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 62
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Seretse Khama age 44
Prime Minister - Botswana
Robert Menzies age 71
Prime Minister - Australia
Tage Erlander age 64
Prime Minister - Sweden
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 41
Prime Minister - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 39
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Pascal Lissouba age 34
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 47
Prime Minister - Tonga
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 49
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Mehmet Shehu age 52
Prime Minister - Albania
Bjarni Benediktsson age 57
Prime Minister - Iceland
Jens Otto Krag age 51
Prime Minister - Denmark
Thanom Kittikachorn age 54
Prime Minister - Thailand
Pierre Werner age 51
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 63
Prime Minister - Romania
Per Borten age 52
Prime Minister - Norway
Chung Il-kwon age 48
Prime Minister - South Korea
Johannes Virolainen age 51
Prime Minister - Finland
Pierre Harmel age 54
Prime Minister - Belgium
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 52
Prime Minister - Iraq
Josef Klaus age 55
Chancellor - Austria
Eric Williams age 54
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Gyula Kállai age 55
Prime Minister - Hungary
Alexander Bustamante age 81
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Rashid Karami age 43
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Keith Holyoake age 61
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Jo Cals age 51
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Dudley Senanayake age 54
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 67
Prime Minister - Greece
Wasfi Tal age 46
Prime Minister - Jordan
Abdirizak Haji Hussein age 40
Prime Minister - Somalia
George Borg Olivier age 54
Prime Minister - Malta
Gerard Batliner age 37
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein