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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
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
Chicago Freedom Movement 1965-01-01 - 1967-01-01
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06

People

Elizabeth II age 40
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 72
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Charles de Gaulle age 75
President - France
Lyndon B. Johnson age 58
President - United States
Hirohito age 65
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 76
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 74
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 48
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 74
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 46
Shah - Iran
Walter Ulbricht age 73
First Secretary - East Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 36
King - Belgium
Heinrich Lübke age 71
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 67
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 69
President - Brazil
Abdul Rahman Arif age 50
President - Iraq
Lê Duẩn age 59
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 55
President - Mexico
Osvaldo Dorticós age 47
President - Cuba
Nureddin al-Atassi age 37
President - Syria
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 50
President - Guatemala
Pol Pot age 41
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea - Cambodia
U Thant age 57
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 40
Prime Minister - Cuba
Indira Gandhi age 48
Prime Minister - India
Georges Pompidou age 55
Prime Minister - France
Zhou Enlai age 68
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Wilson age 50
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Aldo Moro age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Ludwig Erhard age 69
Chancellor - Germany
Eisaku Satō age 65
Prime Minister - Japan
Alexei Kosygin age 62
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Levi Eshkol age 70
Prime Minister - Israel
Avery Brundage age 79
President - International Olympic Committee
B. J. Vorster age 50
Prime Minister - South Africa
Walter Hallstein age 64
President - European Commission
Souvanna Phouma age 65
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 60
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 55
Prime Minister - Poland
Yen Chia-kan age 60
Premier - Republic of China
Manlio Brosio age 69
Secretary General - NATO
Seán Lemass age 67
Taoiseach - Ireland
Yusuf Zuayyin age 34
Prime Minister - Syria
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 55
Director-General - World Health Organization
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 47
Prime Minister - Egypt
George David Woods age 65
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 54
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Earl Warren age 75
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hubert Humphrey age 55
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 73
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 80
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Earle Wheeler age 58
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
James Callaghan age 54
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Robert McNamara age 50
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Dean Rusk age 57
Secretary Of State - United States
Roy Jenkins age 45
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry H. Fowler age 58
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Harold Keith Johnson age 54
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 71
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Deng Xiaoping age 62
Secretariat - Communist Party of China
Edward Heath age 50
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Ramsey Clark age 38
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
William J. Brennan Jr. age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 51
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 49
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 67
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 67
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Abe Fortas age 56
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Jo Grimond age 53
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 68
President - African National Congress
Tomás Mac Giolla age 42
President - Sinn Féin
Thurgood Marshall age 58
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Robert F. Kennedy age 40
Senate - United States
Walter Mondale age 38
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 42
Senate - United States
Margaret Thatcher age 40
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 58
Governor of New York - United States
John Connally age 49
Governor of Texas - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 38
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 49
President - Philippines
Francisco Franco age 73
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 65
President - Indonesia
Paul VI age 69
Pope - Vatican City
Park Chung-hee age 48
President - South Korea
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 60
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 35
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 72
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 44
President - Tanzania
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 78
President - India
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 45
President - Central African Republic
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 60
King - Saudi Arabia
Hussein I of Jordan age 30
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 63
President - Tunisia
Hastings Banda age 76
President - Malawi
Urho Kekkonen age 66
President - Finland
Éamon de Valera age 84
President - Ireland
Hassan II age 37
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 42
President - Zambia
Olav V of Norway age 63
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 53
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 44
President - Guinea
Ayub Khan age 59
President - Pakistan
Juliana of the Netherlands age 57
Queen - Netherlands
Milton Obote age 40
President - Uganda
Frederik IX of Denmark age 67
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 83
King - Sweden
Cevdet Sunay age 67
President - Turkey
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 60
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 43
Prince - Monaco
Houari Boumédiène age 34
President - Algeria
François Duvalier age 59
President - Haiti
Makarios III age 53
President - Cyprus
Giuseppe Saragat age 68
President - Italy
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 42
President - Cameroon
Modibo Keïta age 51
President - Mali
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 37
King - Bhutan
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 45
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 57
President - Somalia
Franz Jonas age 67
President - Austria
Sobhuza II age 67
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 72
President - Iceland
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 55
President - Chile
Fernando Belaúnde age 54
President - Peru
Léon M'ba age 64
President - Gabon
Zalman Shazar age 76
President - Israel
Philibert Tsiranana age 53
President - Madagascar
François Tombalbaye age 48
President - Chad
Yakubu Gowon age 31
President - Nigeria
Diori Hamani age 50
President - Niger
William Tubman age 70
President - Liberia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 48
King - Tonga
Joaquín Balaguer age 60
President - Dominican Republic
Yusof bin Ishak age 56
President - Singapore
Moktar Ould Daddah age 41
President - Mauritania
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 56
Sultan - Oman
Isa II of Bahrain age 33
Emir - Bahrain
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 47
President - Bolivia
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 51
President - Ghana
Juan Carlos Onganía age 52
President - Argentina
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 50
President - Burkina Faso
Américo Tomás age 71
President - Portugal
Haxhi Lleshi age 52
President - Albania
Oswaldo López Arellano age 45
President - Honduras
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 28
King - Lesotho
Grégoire Kayibanda age 42
President - Rwanda
Ismail al-Azhari age 65
President - Sudan
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 45
President - Republic of the Congo
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 58
President - Colombia
Raúl Leoni age 61
President - Venezuela
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 46
Emir - Qatar
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 53
Emir - Kuwait
Charles Helou age 53
President - Lebanon
Hans Schaffner age 57
President - Switzerland
Alberto Héber Usher age 48
President - Uruguay
Lorenzo Guerrero age 65
President - Nicaragua
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 71
President - Mongolia
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 50
President - Costa Rica
Carlos María Penadés age 64
President - Uruguay
Emilio Della Balda age 29
Captain Regent - San Marino
C. R. Swart age 71
State President - South Africa
Lee Kuan Yew age 43
Prime Minister - Singapore
António de Oliveira Salazar age 77
Prime Minister - Portugal
Süleyman Demirel age 41
Prime Minister - Turkey
Lester B. Pearson age 69
Prime Minister - Canada
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 63
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Seretse Khama age 45
Prime Minister - Botswana
Harold Holt age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Tage Erlander age 65
Prime Minister - Sweden
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 42
Prime Minister - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 40
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 50
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Mehmet Shehu age 53
Prime Minister - Albania
Michel Micombero age 26
Prime Minister - Burundi
Bjarni Benediktsson age 58
Prime Minister - Iceland
Jens Otto Krag age 52
Prime Minister - Denmark
Thanom Kittikachorn age 55
Prime Minister - Thailand
Pierre Werner age 52
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 64
Prime Minister - Romania
Per Borten age 53
Prime Minister - Norway
Chung Il-kwon age 48
Prime Minister - South Korea
Rafael Paasio age 63
Prime Minister - Finland
Forbes Burnham age 43
Prime Minister - Guyana
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 47
Prime Minister - Belgium
Josef Klaus age 56
Chancellor - Austria
Eric Williams age 55
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Gyula Kállai age 56
Prime Minister - Hungary
Alexander Bustamante age 82
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Rashid Karami age 44
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Keith Holyoake age 62
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Jo Cals age 52
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Dudley Senanayake age 55
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 30
Prime Minister - Sudan
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 68
Prime Minister - Greece
Wasfi Tal age 47
Prime Minister - Jordan
Abdirizak Haji Hussein age 41
Prime Minister - Somalia
George Borg Olivier age 55
Prime Minister - Malta