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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
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
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
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

People

Elizabeth II age 43
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 76
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Richard Nixon age 57
President - United States
Hirohito age 68
Emperor - Japan
Georges Pompidou age 58
President - France
Leonid Brezhnev age 63
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 82
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 77
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 52
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 77
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 50
Shah - Iran
Walter Ulbricht age 76
First Secretary - East Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 39
King - Belgium
Gustav Heinemann age 70
President - Germany
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 55
President - Iraq
Lê Duẩn age 63
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 59
President - Mexico
Osvaldo Dorticós age 50
President - Cuba
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 64
President - Brazil
Tôn Đức Thắng age 81
President of North Vietnam - Vietnam
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 54
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 58
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Pol Pot age 44
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
U Thant age 61
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 43
Prime Minister - Cuba
Indira Gandhi age 52
Prime Minister - India
Golda Meir age 71
Prime Minister - Israel
Willy Brandt age 56
Chancellor - Germany
Zhou Enlai age 72
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Wilson age 54
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Eisaku Satō age 69
Prime Minister - Japan
Alexei Kosygin age 66
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Robert McNamara age 53
President - World Bank
Mariano Rumor age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 55
Prime Minister - France
Avery Brundage age 82
President - International Olympic Committee
B. J. Vorster age 54
Prime Minister - South Africa
Souvanna Phouma age 68
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 64
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 58
Prime Minister - Poland
Jean Rey age 67
President - European Commission
Nureddin al-Atassi age 41
Prime Minister - Syria
Yen Chia-kan age 64
Premier - Republic of China
Jack Lynch age 52
Taoiseach - Ireland
Manlio Brosio age 72
Secretary General - NATO
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 58
Director-General - World Health Organization
Warren E. Burger age 62
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Saddam Hussein age 32
Vice President - Iraq
Spiro Agnew age 51
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 77
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 84
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Hardan al-Tikriti age 45
Vice President - Iraq
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 41
Vice President - Iraq
Deng Xiaoping age 65
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Lin Biao age 62
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian age 60
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 71
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 68
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 70
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Earle Wheeler age 62
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
James Callaghan age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Westmoreland age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Roy Jenkins age 49
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William P. Rogers age 56
Secretary of State - United States
Melvin Laird age 47
Secretary of Defense - United States
John N. Mitchell age 56
Attorney General - United States
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 64
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 75
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Edward Heath age 53
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Thurgood Marshall age 61
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 63
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 52
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 70
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Richard Kleindienst age 46
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth age 49
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Roy Mason age 45
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Jeremy Thorpe age 40
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 52
President - African National Congress
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 37
President - Sinn Féin
Walter Mondale age 42
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 45
Senate - United States
Edmund Muskie age 56
Senate - United States
William B. Saxbe age 53
Senate - United States
Margaret Thatcher age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George H. W. Bush age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Gerald Ford age 56
House of Representatives - United States
Alec Douglas-Home age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Denis Healey age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Macleod age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Reginald Maudling age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Waddington age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 85
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Barber Conable age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Robert Carr age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Barber age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Merlyn Rees age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 79
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Steel age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Reagan age 59
Governor of California - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 61
Governor of New York - United States
Winthrop Rockefeller age 57
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Preston Smith age 58
Governor of Texas - United States
Marvin Mandel age 49
Governor of Maryland - United States
Edgar Whitcomb age 52
Governor of Indiana - United States
Lester Maddox age 54
Governor of Georgia - United States
Jim Rhodes age 60
Governor of Ohio - United States
Francis Sargent age 54
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Buford Ellington age 62
Governor of Tennessee - United States
William T. Cahill age 57
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 42
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 52
President - Philippines
Francisco Franco age 77
Caudillo - Spain
Paul VI age 72
Pope - Vatican City
Suharto age 48
President - Indonesia
Park Chung-hee age 52
President - South Korea
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 63
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 39
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 76
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 48
President - Tanzania
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 49
President - Central African Republic
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 64
King - Saudi Arabia
Hussein I of Jordan age 34
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 66
President - Tunisia
Hastings Banda age 80
President - Malawi
Omar Bongo age 34
President - Gabon
Urho Kekkonen age 69
President - Finland
Éamon de Valera age 87
President - Ireland
Hassan II age 40
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 45
President - Zambia
Olav V of Norway age 66
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 57
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 48
President - Guinea
Juliana of the Netherlands age 60
Queen - Netherlands
Milton Obote age 44
President - Uganda
Frederik IX of Denmark age 71
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 87
King - Sweden
V. V. Giri age 75
President - India
Yahya Khan age 53
President - Pakistan
Cevdet Sunay age 71
President - Turkey
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 64
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 46
Prince - Monaco
Houari Boumédiène age 37
President - Algeria
François Duvalier age 63
President - Haiti
Siad Barre age 50
President - Somalia
Makarios III age 56
President - Cyprus
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 46
President - Equatorial Guinea
Giuseppe Saragat age 71
President - Italy
Seretse Khama age 48
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 45
President - Cameroon
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 34
President - Togo
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 44
President - Nicaragua
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 40
King - Bhutan
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 49
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Franz Jonas age 70
President - Austria
Sobhuza II age 70
King - Eswatini
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 59
President - Chile
Moussa Traoré age 33
President - Mali
Rafael Caldera age 54
President - Venezuela
Zalman Shazar age 80
President - Israel
Philibert Tsiranana age 57
President - Madagascar
François Tombalbaye age 51
President - Chad
Kristján Eldjárn age 53
President - Iceland
Yakubu Gowon age 35
President - Nigeria
Diori Hamani age 53
President - Niger
William Tubman age 74
President - Liberia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 51
King - Tonga
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 59
President - Peru
Gaafar Nimeiry age 39
President - Sudan
Joaquín Balaguer age 63
President - Dominican Republic
Yusof bin Ishak age 59
President - Singapore
Moktar Ould Daddah age 45
President - Mauritania
Michel Micombero age 29
President - Burundi
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 59
Sultan - Oman
Marien Ngouabi age 31
President - Republic of the Congo
Isa II of Bahrain age 36
Emir - Bahrain
Juan Carlos Onganía age 56
President - Argentina
Arthur Chung age 52
President - Guyana
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 54
President - Burkina Faso
Américo Tomás age 75
President - Portugal
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 50
President - Uruguay
Haxhi Lleshi age 56
President - Albania
Oswaldo López Arellano age 48
President - Honduras
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 31
King - Lesotho
Grégoire Kayibanda age 45
President - Rwanda
Hammer DeRoburt age 47
President - Nauru
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 52
President - Bolivia
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 62
President - Colombia
Akwasi Afrifa age 33
President - Ghana
Ibrahim Nasir age 43
President - Maldives
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 52
President - El Salvador
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 50
Emir - Qatar
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 57
Emir - Kuwait