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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
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21

People

Lars Korvald age 52
John Lyng age 62
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 64
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 24
Mohammad Shtayyeh age 10
Denzil Douglas age 15
James Mancham age 28
Siaka Stevens age 62
Benjamin Sheares age 61
Li Tsung-jen age 79
Chuan Leekpai age 30
Perry Christie age 24
Mari Alkatiri age 18
Yıldırım Akbulut age 32
Pavlo Lazarenko age 15
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh age 8
Jan Olszewski age 37
José María Balcázar age 25
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 33
Ho Chong age 72
Creighton Abrams age 53
Charles Haughey age 42
Joseph Luns age 56
William J. Perry age 40
Bashkim Fino age 5
John McEwen age 68
Novruz Mammadov age 21
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 41
Yacouba Isaac Zida age 2
Alfonso López Michelsen age 55
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 62
Ahmed Abdallah age 49
Ivica Račan age 24
Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini age 4 months
Manny Mori age 19
Wiliame Katonivere age 4
Ahti Karjalainen age 45
Martti Miettunen age 61
Maurice Bishop age 24
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 20
Ricardo Maduro age 22
Mátyás Szűrös age 34
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 40
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 10
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 38
Thongsing Thammavong age 24
Camille Chamoun age 68
Ruth Perry age 29
Driss Jettou age 23
Lionel Aingimea age 2
Rosario Murillo age 17
Kim Yong-il age 24
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 30
Crin Antonescu age 8
Jules Wijdenbosch age 27
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 35
Anthony Carmona age 15
A. N. R. Robinson age 41
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 16
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 19
Jaime Lusinchi age 44
Phan Văn Khải age 34
Rashad al-Alimi age 14
Józef Oleksy age 22
Waldemar Pawlak age 8
Lee Hae Chan age 16
Šefik Džaferović age 10
Nebojša Radmanović age 18
Dragan Čović age 11
Giuseppe Bertello age 25
Giovanni Lajolo age 33
Giovanni Messe age 84
Zhang Xueliang age 67
Geoffrey Howe age 41
Maxwell D. Taylor age 66
William Cohen age 27
Loretta Lynch age 9
Warren E. Burger age 60
Christopher Wray age 1
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 13
Rodney Williams age 20
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 77
Achille Van Acker age 70
Jaime Paz Zamora age 29
Joseph Ngute age 14
Philémon Yang age 21
Julio César Turbay age 52
Spiros Cyprianou age 35
Sylvanie Burton age 12
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 33
Lucio Gutiérrez age 11
Hesham Qandil age 5
Ibrahim Mahlab age 19
Kamisese Mara age 48
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 36
Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo age 10
Henrique Rosa age 22
Donald Ramotar age 17
Poul Hartling age 54
Barend Biesheuvel age 48
Muhammetkaliy Abulgaziyev age 6 months
Felix Kulov age 19
Sonexay Siphandone age 2
Nawaf Salam age 14
Tom Thabane age 29
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 62
Kailash Purryag age 20
Vasile Tarlev age 4
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 18
Brigi Rafini age 15
Choe Yong-rim age 37
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani age 8
Victor Khristenko age 10
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 17
Lojze Peterle age 20
Samuel Schmid age 21
Joseph Deiss age 22
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 36
T. V. Soong age 76
Kassim Majaliwa age 7
Phumtham Wechayachai age 14
Hamadi Jebali age 19
Tito Okello age 53
Vitold Fokin age 35
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 42
Nigmatilla Yuldashev age 5
Tallis Obed Moses age 13
Do Muoi age 51
Jung Hong-won age 23
Raif Dizdarević age 41
Sulejman Tihić age 16
Vo Chi Cong age 56
Ajay Banga age 8
Jacqui Smith age 5
Nadhim Zahawi age 1
Lloyd Bentsen age 47
Wang Zhen (general) age 60
Frank Jack Fletcher age 83
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 81
Tajuddin Ahmad age 43
Luis García Meza Tejada age 39
Jorge Quiroga age 8
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 54
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 19
Moussa Faki age 8
Jamil Mahuad age 19
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 16
Hazem Al Beblawi age 31
José Napoleón Duarte age 42
Tiit Vähi age 21
Mart Siimann age 21
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 26
Negasso Gidada age 24
Peter M. Christian age 20
Rafael Paasio age 65
Johannes Virolainen age 54
Georgios Rallis age 49
Nuno Nabiam age 1
Raimundo Pereira age 11
István Dobi age 69
Charles Konan Banny age 25
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 25
Agim Çeku age 7
Moeketsi Majoro age 6
Ali Zeidan age 17
Abd al-Hamid Dbeibeh age 9
Joseph Bech age 81
Ċensu Tabone age 55
Prithvirajsing Roopun age 9
Željko Šturanović age 8
Nahas Angula age 24
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 40
Jim Bolger age 33
Daouda Malam Wanké age 22
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 19
Ernest Shonekan age 32
Talat Xhaferi age 6
Muhammad Junejo age 35
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 27
Vasco Gonçalves age 47
Mihai Tudose age 1
Bernard Makuza age 5
Kenny Anthony age 17
Ong Teng Cheong age 32
Maria das Neves age 10
Patrice Trovoada age 6
Thanin Kraiwichian age 41
Luis Herrera Campins age 43
Manuel Merino age 6
Manuel Odría age 70
Nur Hassan Hussein age 30
Goh Kun age 30
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 44
Marais Viljoen age 52
Sicco Mansholt age 59
François-Xavier Ortoli age 43
Alistair Darling age 14
Jack Lew age 12
Mark Milley age 10
Pandeli Majko age 8 months