Explore 1979-02-17 to 1979-03-16

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Sino-Vietnamese War 1979-02-17 - 1979-03-16

People

Tôn Đức Thắng age 90
Chiang Ching-kuo age 68
Fidel Castro age 52
Hafez al-Assad age 48
Pol Pot age 53
Lê Duẩn age 71
Jimmy Carter age 54
Leonid Brezhnev age 72
Hirohito age 77
Sun Yun-suan age 65
Hua Guofeng age 58
Saddam Hussein age 41
Kim Il-sung age 66
Elizabeth II age 52
Walter Mondale age 51
Daniel Inouye age 54
Li Xiannian age 69
Joe Biden age 36
Dan Quayle age 32
Dick Cheney age 38
Al Gore age 30
Warren E. Burger age 71
Margaret Thatcher age 53
William H. Webster age 54
Byron White age 61
William Rehnquist age 54
John Paul Stevens age 58
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 71
Thurgood Marshall age 70
Potter Stewart age 64
William J. Brennan Jr. age 72
Bill Clinton age 32
David Souter age 39
Colin Powell age 41
George H. W. Bush age 54
Lien Chan age 42
Lee Yuan-tsu age 55
Condoleezza Rice age 24
Mike Pence age 19
Kamala Harris age 14
Ronald Reagan age 68
Barack Obama age 17
John Lewis age 39
George Wallace age 59
Rudolf Hess age 84
James Baker age 48
Li Peng age 50
Jiang Zemin age 52
Henry Kissinger age 55
Li Keqiang age 23
Wen Jiabao age 36
Rong Yiren age 62
Wang Zhen (general) age 70
Liz Cheney age 12
Hillary Clinton age 31
John Kerry age 35
Hu Jintao age 36
Clark Clifford age 72
Arthur Goldberg age 70
Yang Shangkun age 71
Zhao Ziyang age 59
Hu Yaobang age 63
Archibald Cox age 66
James R. Schlesinger age 50
Karl Dönitz age 87
Sandra Day O'Connor age 48
Deng Xiaoping age 74
Anthony Kennedy age 42
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 73
John Roberts age 24
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 63
John Major age 35
George Shultz age 58
Albert Speer age 73
Donald Trump age 32
Gerald Ford age 65
Tony Blair age 25
Otto Hofmann age 82
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 60
He Yingqin age 88
Narendra Modi age 28
Rosa Parks age 66
Mikhail Gorbachev age 47
Gennady Yanayev age 41
Konstantin Chernenko age 67
Keir Starmer age 16
Ruhollah Khomeini age 76
Liz Truss age 3
Souphanouvong age 69
Boris Johnson age 14
Richard Nixon age 66
George W. Bush age 32
Theresa May age 22
David Cameron age 12
Gordon Brown age 28
Lee Teng-hui age 56
Yuri Andropov age 64
Nicholas Katzenbach age 57
Ramsey Clark age 51
Jo Ann Robinson age 66
Yasser Arafat age 49
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 45
Stephen Breyer age 40
Clarence Thomas age 30
Antonin Scalia age 42
Aung San Suu Kyi age 33
Muhammad Ali age 37
Clarence M. Kelley age 67
Boris Yeltsin age 48
Abe Fortas age 68
Tim Berners-Lee age 23
François Hollande age 24
Nicolas Sarkozy age 24
Melvin Laird age 56
Nelson Mandela age 60
Kim Jong-il age 38
Souvanna Phouma age 77
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 70
Spiro Agnew age 60
Xi Jinping age 25
Juan José Arévalo age 74
Robert A. Lovett age 83
Charles III age 30
Robert McNamara age 62
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 72
Omar Bradley age 86
Thomas Gage age 261
Zeng Qinghong age 39
Soong Ching-ling age 86
Zhu Rongji age 50
Ronald McNair age 28
Ellison Onizuka age 32
John Connally age 62
Lawrence Eagleburger age 48
Warren Christopher age 53
Jacques Chirac age 46