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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
Bangladesh genocide 1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
Bangladesh War of Independence 1971-03-26 - 1971-12-16

People

Junius Richard Jayewardene age 64
Ye Jianying age 74
Robert Zoellick age 18
Jack Straw age 25
Mark Esper age 7
Gotthard Heinrici age 84
Milan Babić age 15
Jang Song-thaek age 25
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 63
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 34
Prince Michael of Kent age 29
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 33
Martin O'Malley age 8
Deval Patrick age 15
Klaus Tschütscher age 4
Wim Duisenberg age 36
Ellison Onizuka age 25
Eric Holder age 20
Abd al-Malek Selal age 23
Liamine Zéroual age 30
Karen Karapetyan age 8
Johnny Briceño age 11
Nikolai Denkov age 8
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 24
Khieu Samphan age 40
Abel Pacheco age 37
Tihomir Orešković age 5
Giorgos Vasiliou age 40
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 19
Charles Savarin age 27
León Febres-Cordero age 40
Vano Merabishvili age 3
Hilla Limann age 36
Vasiliki Thanou age 20
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 72
Moussa Dadis Camara age 6
Carmen Pereira age 34
Roberto Micheletti age 28
József Antall age 39
Ayad Allawi age 27
Marouf al-Bakhit age 24
Jens Otto Krag age 56
Isa Mustafa age 20
Khamtai Siphandone age 47
Omar Karami age 36
Mahmoud Jibril age 19
Artūras Paulauskas age 18
David Kabua age 20
Nangolo Mbumba age 30
Ludwig Scotty age 23
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 18
Jan P. Syse age 40
Odvar Nordli age 43
Chivu Stoica age 63
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 18
Tufuga Efi age 33
Wee Kim Wee age 55
Ignazio Cassis age 10
Carlos Vila Nova age 12
Rahmon Nabiyev age 40
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 20
Carlos Arias Navarro age 62
Trường Chinh age 64
Dương Văn Minh age 55
Garret FitzGerald age 45
John Bruton age 24
Henry Paulson age 25
Larry Summers age 16
Michael Howard age 30
Scott Bessent age 9
Timothy Geithner age 10
Mary Lou McDonald age 2
Sayako Kuroda age 2
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 78
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 29
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 27
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 28
Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark age 6
Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece age 4
Mark Warner age 16
W. Averell Harriman age 79
Eliot Spitzer age 12
Uğur Şahin age 5
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 46
Akhtar Mansour age 3
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 29
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 41
David Thompson age 9
Viačasław Kiebič age 35
Mark Eyskens age 38
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 54
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 41
Rodrigo Paz age 3
Plamen Oresharski age 11
Elisabeth Domitien age 46
Michel Djotodia age 22
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 49
Jiří Rusnok age 10
Stanislav Gross age 1
Ahmed Shafik age 29
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 56
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 26
Christos Sartzetakis age 42
Boniface Alexandre age 35
Nasry Asfura age 13
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 60
Elias Hrawi age 44
Pakalitha Mosisili age 26
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 33
Pravind Jugnauth age 9
Emilio Portes Gil age 80
Jhala Nath Khanal age 21
Enrique Bolaños age 43
Mahamane Ousmane age 21
Murtala Muhammed age 32
Vlado Bučkovski age 8
Surangel Whipps Jr. age 3
Fulbert Youlou age 54
Radu Vasile age 28
Petre Roman age 25
Pasteur Bizimungu age 21
Aminata Touré age 8
Mame Madior Boye age 30
Manasseh Sogavare age 16
Lương Cường age 14
Leszek Miller age 25
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 49
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 38
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 72
Guy Mollet age 65
Ferruccio Parri age 81
Liam Cosgrave age 51
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 52
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 61
Vuk Drašković age 24
William Barr age 21
William J. Burns age 15
Harriet Harman age 21
Mehdi Bazargan age 64
Wang Qishan age 23
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 30
Yves Congar age 67
Empress Nagako age 68
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 69
Princess Benedikte of Denmark age 27
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 41
Adrian Hasler age 7
James R. Schlesinger age 42
Ayman ibn Abd ar-Rahman age 4
Héctor José Cámpora age 62
Juan Carlos Onganía age 57
Hovik Abrahamyan age 13
Frank Forde age 81
David Hurley age 18
Viktor Klima age 24
Andrei Kobyakow age 10
Duma Boko age 1
Michel Kafando age 29
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 16
Domitien Ndayizeye age 18
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 27
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 72
Ernesto Samper age 21
Judith Suminwa age 3
Juan Bosch age 62
Gustavo Noboa age 34
Zurab Noghaideli age 6
Keith Mitchell age 24
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 25
Ariel Henry age 21
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson age 9
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 24
Michael Manley age 46
Albert Zafy age 44
Christian Ntsay age 10
Anthony Mamo age 62
Amata Kabua age 42
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 29
Navin Ramgoolam age 24
Petru Lucinschi age 31
Pavel Filip age 5
Momir Bulatović age 14
Abbas El Fassi age 30
Baburam Bhattarai age 17
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 46
David Lange age 29
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 20
Johnson Toribiong age 25
Rami Hamdallah age 13
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 57
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 37
Philip J. Pierre age 16
Su Tseng-chang age 24
Hubert Minnis age 17
Keith Rowley age 21
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 57
Le Duc Anh age 50
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 60
José Raúl Mulino age 12
Ibrahim Abboud age 70