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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
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Easter Offensive 1972-03-30 - 1972-10-22
Battle of An Lộc 1972-04-13 - 1972-07-20

People

Wavel Ramkalawan age 11
Devan Nair age 48
Johan Ferrier age 62
Surayud Chulanont age 28
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 28
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 30
Guy Scott age 27
Martín Torrijos age 8
Valentín Paniagua age 35
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 65
Ye Jianying age 75
Robert Zoellick age 18
Jack Straw age 25
Mark Esper age 8
Milan Babić age 16
Jang Song-thaek age 26
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 64
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 35
Prince Michael of Kent age 29
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 33
Martin O'Malley age 9
Deval Patrick age 15
Klaus Tschütscher age 4
Wim Duisenberg age 36
Ellison Onizuka age 25
Eric Holder age 21
Abd al-Malek Selal age 23
Liamine Zéroual age 30
Karen Karapetyan age 8
Johnny Briceño age 11
Nikolai Denkov age 9
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 25
Khieu Samphan age 40
Abel Pacheco age 38
Tihomir Orešković age 6
Giorgos Vasiliou age 41
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 19
Charles Savarin age 28
León Febres-Cordero age 41
Vano Merabishvili age 4
Hilla Limann age 37
Vasiliki Thanou age 21
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 72
Moussa Dadis Camara age 7
Carmen Pereira age 35
Roberto Micheletti age 28
József Antall age 40
Ayad Allawi age 27
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro age 0 months
Marouf al-Bakhit age 25
Isa Mustafa age 21
Khamtai Siphandone age 48
Omar Karami age 37
Mahmoud Jibril age 19
Artūras Paulauskas age 18
David Kabua age 21
Nangolo Mbumba age 30
Ludwig Scotty age 23
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 19
Jan P. Syse age 41
Odvar Nordli age 44
Chivu Stoica age 63
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 19
Tufuga Efi age 34
Wee Kim Wee age 56
Ignazio Cassis age 11
Carlos Vila Nova age 12
Rahmon Nabiyev age 41
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 21
Carlos Arias Navarro age 63
Trường Chinh age 65
Dương Văn Minh age 56
Garret FitzGerald age 46
John Bruton age 25
Henry Paulson age 26
Larry Summers age 17
Michael Howard age 30
Scott Bessent age 9
Timothy Geithner age 10
Mary Lou McDonald age 3
Sayako Kuroda age 3
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 79
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 30
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 5
Mark Warner age 17
W. Averell Harriman age 80
Eliot Spitzer age 12
Uğur Şahin age 6
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 47
Akhtar Mansour age 4
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 30
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 42
David Thompson age 10
Viačasław Kiebič age 35
Mark Eyskens age 39
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 55
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 41
Rodrigo Paz age 4
Plamen Oresharski age 12
Elisabeth Domitien age 47
Michel Djotodia age 23
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 50
Jiří Rusnok age 11
Stanislav Gross age 2
Ahmed Shafik age 30
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 56
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 26
Christos Sartzetakis age 43
Boniface Alexandre age 35
Nasry Asfura age 13
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 61
Elias Hrawi age 45
Pakalitha Mosisili age 27
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 34
Pravind Jugnauth age 10
Emilio Portes Gil age 81
Jhala Nath Khanal age 22
Enrique Bolaños age 44
Mahamane Ousmane age 22
Murtala Muhammed age 33
Vlado Bučkovski age 9
Surangel Whipps Jr. age 3
Radu Vasile age 29
Petre Roman age 25
Pasteur Bizimungu age 22
Aminata Touré age 9
Mame Madior Boye age 31
Manasseh Sogavare age 17
Thanom Kittikachorn age 60
Lương Cường age 14
Leszek Miller age 25
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 50
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 39
Guy Mollet age 66
Ferruccio Parri age 82
Liam Cosgrave age 52
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 52
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 62
Vuk Drašković age 25
William Barr age 22
William J. Burns age 16
Harriet Harman age 21
Mehdi Bazargan age 64
Wang Qishan age 23
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 31
Yves Congar age 68
Empress Nagako age 69
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 70
Princess Benedikte of Denmark age 28
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 42
Adrian Hasler age 8
James R. Schlesinger age 43
Ayman ibn Abd ar-Rahman age 5
Héctor José Cámpora age 63
Juan Carlos Onganía age 58
Hovik Abrahamyan age 14
Frank Forde age 81
David Hurley age 18
Viktor Klima age 24
Andrei Kobyakow age 11
Duma Boko age 2
Michel Kafando age 29
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 17
Domitien Ndayizeye age 19
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 28
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 73
Ernesto Samper age 21
Judith Suminwa age 4
Juan Bosch age 62
Gustavo Noboa age 34
Zurab Noghaideli age 7
Keith Mitchell age 25
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 26
Ariel Henry age 22
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson age 10
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 25
Albert Zafy age 45
Christian Ntsay age 11
Anthony Mamo age 63
Amata Kabua age 43
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 30
Navin Ramgoolam age 24
Petru Lucinschi age 32
Ion Chicu age 2 months
Pavel Filip age 6
Momir Bulatović age 15
Abbas El Fassi age 31
Baburam Bhattarai age 17
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 47
David Lange age 29
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 21
Johnson Toribiong age 25
Rami Hamdallah age 13
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 57
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 37
Philip J. Pierre age 17
Su Tseng-chang age 24