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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
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
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
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21

People

Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson age 6
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 21
Michael Manley age 43
Albert Zafy age 41
Christian Ntsay age 7
Anthony Mamo age 59
Amata Kabua age 39
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 26
Navin Ramgoolam age 21
Petru Lucinschi age 28
Pavel Filip age 2
Momir Bulatović age 11
Abbas El Fassi age 27
Baburam Bhattarai age 14
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 43
David Lange age 26
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 17
Johnson Toribiong age 22
Rami Hamdallah age 10
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 34
Philip J. Pierre age 13
Su Tseng-chang age 21
Hubert Minnis age 14
Keith Rowley age 18
Muteesa II of Buganda age 43
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 54
Le Duc Anh age 47
José Raúl Mulino age 9
Ibrahim Abboud age 67
Manfred Wörner age 33
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 54
Alberto Gonzales age 13
Vladimir Ivashko age 35
Ann Richards age 34
David Souter age 28
William P. Rogers age 55
Vazgen Sargsyan age 9
Owen Arthur age 18
George Cadle Price age 49
André Kolingba age 32
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 10
Rodrigo Chaves age 7
Manuel Marrero Cruz age 5
Jiří Paroubek age 16
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 10
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 11
Edgar Savisaar age 18
Taye Atske Selassie age 12
Epeli Nailatikau age 27
Karl-August Fagerholm age 66
Leslie Manigat age 38
Miklós Németh age 20
Robert Guéï age 27
Bah Ndaw age 18
Dioncounda Traoré age 26
Iurie Leancă age 4
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 26
Cindy Kiro age 10
Patsy Reddy age 14
Lars Korvald age 52
John Lyng age 63
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 64
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 24
Mohammad Shtayyeh age 10
Denzil Douglas age 15
James Mancham age 29
Siaka Stevens age 63
Benjamin Sheares age 61
Li Zongren age 78
Chuan Leekpai age 30
Perry Christie age 25
Mari Alkatiri age 18
Yıldırım Akbulut age 32
Pavlo Lazarenko age 15
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh age 8
Jan Olszewski age 38
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 57
William J. Perry age 40
Han Zheng age 14
Lamar Alexander age 28
Bashkim Fino age 5
John McEwen age 68
Novruz Mammadov age 21
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 42
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 5 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 12
Giuseppe Bertello age 25
Giovanni Lajolo age 33
Giovanni Messe age 84
Zhang Xueliang age 67
Geoffrey Howe age 41
Maxwell D. Taylor age 67
William Cohen age 28
Loretta Lynch age 9
Brian Kemp age 4
George Pataki age 23
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 7 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
Dan Caine age 0 months
Jacqui Smith age 5
Nadhim Zahawi age 1
Lloyd Bentsen age 47