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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
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence 1963-01-23 - 1974-09-10
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
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

People

Junius Richard Jayewardene age 62
Ye Jianying age 72
Robert Zoellick age 16
Jack Straw age 23
Mark Esper age 5
Gotthard Heinrici age 82
Milan Babić age 13
Jang Song-thaek age 23
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 61
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 32
Prince Michael of Kent age 27
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 31
Martin O'Malley age 6
Deval Patrick age 13
Klaus Tschütscher age 2
Wim Duisenberg age 34
Ellison Onizuka age 23
Eric Holder age 18
Abd al-Malek Selal age 21
Liamine Zéroual age 28
Karen Karapetyan age 6
Johnny Briceño age 9
Nikolai Denkov age 6
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 22
Khieu Samphan age 38
Abel Pacheco age 35
Tihomir Orešković age 3
Giorgos Vasiliou age 38
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 17
Charles Savarin age 25
León Febres-Cordero age 38
Vano Merabishvili age 1
Hilla Limann age 34
Vasiliki Thanou age 18
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 70
Moussa Dadis Camara age 4
Carmen Pereira age 32
Roberto Micheletti age 26
József Antall age 37
Ayad Allawi age 25
Marouf al-Bakhit age 22
Jens Otto Krag age 54
Isa Mustafa age 18
Khamtai Siphandone age 45
Omar Karami age 34
Mahmoud Jibril age 17
Artūras Paulauskas age 16
David Kabua age 18
Nangolo Mbumba age 28
Ludwig Scotty age 21
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 16
Jan P. Syse age 38
Trygve Bratteli age 59
Odvar Nordli age 41
Chivu Stoica age 61
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 16
Tufuga Efi age 31
Wee Kim Wee age 53
Ignazio Cassis age 8
Carlos Vila Nova age 10
Rahmon Nabiyev age 38
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 18
Carlos Arias Navarro age 60
Trường Chinh age 62
Dương Văn Minh age 53
Garret FitzGerald age 43
John Bruton age 22
Henry Paulson age 23
Larry Summers age 14
Michael Howard age 28
Scott Bessent age 7
Timothy Geithner age 8
Mary Lou McDonald age 3 months
Sayako Kuroda age 4 months
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 76
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 27
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 25
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 26
Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark age 4
Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece age 2
Mark Warner age 14
W. Averell Harriman age 77
Thomas E. Dewey age 67
Eliot Spitzer age 10
Uğur Şahin age 3
John Paul Stevens age 49
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 44
Akhtar Mansour age 1
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 27
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 66
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 39
David Thompson age 7
Viačasław Kiebič age 33
Mark Eyskens age 36
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 52
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 39
Rodrigo Paz age 1
Plamen Oresharski age 9
Elisabeth Domitien age 44
Michel Djotodia age 20
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 47
Jiří Rusnok age 8
Ahmed Shafik age 27
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 54
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 24
Christos Sartzetakis age 40
Boniface Alexandre age 33
Nasry Asfura age 11
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 58
Elias Hrawi age 42
Pakalitha Mosisili age 24
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 31
Pravind Jugnauth age 7
Emilio Portes Gil age 78
Jhala Nath Khanal age 19
Enrique Bolaños age 41
Mahamane Ousmane age 19
Murtala Muhammed age 30
Vlado Bučkovski age 6
Surangel Whipps Jr. age 1
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 36
Fulbert Youlou age 52
Radu Vasile age 26
Petre Roman age 23
Pasteur Bizimungu age 19
Aminata Touré age 6
Mame Madior Boye age 28
Manasseh Sogavare age 14
Lương Cường age 12
Leszek Miller age 23
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 47
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 36
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 70
Guy Mollet age 63
Ferruccio Parri age 79
Liam Cosgrave age 49
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 50
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 59
Vuk Drašković age 22
William Barr age 19
William J. Burns age 13
Harriet Harman age 19
Mehdi Bazargan age 62
Wang Qishan age 21
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 28
Yves Congar age 65
Empress Nagako age 66
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 67
Princess Benedikte of Denmark age 25
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 39
Adrian Hasler age 5
Raymond A. Spruance age 83
Tôn Đức Thắng age 81
James R. Schlesinger age 40
Ayman ibn Abd ar-Rahman age 2
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 51
Héctor José Cámpora age 60
Hovik Abrahamyan age 11
Frank Forde age 79
David Hurley age 15
Viktor Klima age 22
Andrei Kobyakow age 8
Michel Kafando age 27
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 14
Domitien Ndayizeye age 16
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 25
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 70
Ernesto Samper age 19
Judith Suminwa age 1
Juan Bosch age 60
Gustavo Noboa age 32
Zurab Noghaideli age 4
Keith Mitchell age 22
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 23
Arthur Chung age 51
Ariel Henry age 19
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson age 7
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 22
Michael Manley age 44
Albert Zafy age 42
Christian Ntsay age 8
Anthony Mamo age 60
Amata Kabua age 40
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 27
Navin Ramgoolam age 22
Petru Lucinschi age 29
Pavel Filip age 3
Momir Bulatović age 12
Abbas El Fassi age 28
Baburam Bhattarai age 15
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 44
David Lange age 27
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 18
Johnson Toribiong age 23
Rami Hamdallah age 11
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 55
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 35
Philip J. Pierre age 14
Su Tseng-chang age 22
Hubert Minnis age 15