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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
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
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09

People

Ye Jianying age 76
Robert Zoellick age 19
Jack Straw age 26
Mark Esper age 9
Milan Babić age 17
Jang Song-thaek age 27
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 36
Prince Michael of Kent age 30
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 34
Martin O'Malley age 10
Deval Patrick age 16
Klaus Tschütscher age 5
Wim Duisenberg age 37
Ellison Onizuka age 26
Eric Holder age 22
Abd al-Malek Selal age 24
Liamine Zéroual age 31
Karen Karapetyan age 9
Johnny Briceño age 12
Nikolai Denkov age 10
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 26
Khieu Samphan age 41
Abel Pacheco age 39
Tihomir Orešković age 7
Giorgos Vasiliou age 41
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 20
Charles Savarin age 29
León Febres-Cordero age 42
Vano Merabishvili age 5
Hilla Limann age 38
Vasiliki Thanou age 22
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 73
Moussa Dadis Camara age 8
Carmen Pereira age 36
Roberto Micheletti age 29
József Antall age 41
Ayad Allawi age 28
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro age 1
Marouf al-Bakhit age 26
Jens Otto Krag age 58
Isa Mustafa age 21
Khamtai Siphandone age 49
Omar Karami age 38
Mahmoud Jibril age 20
Artūras Paulauskas age 19
David Kabua age 21
Nangolo Mbumba age 31
Ludwig Scotty age 24
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 20
Jan P. Syse age 42
Trygve Bratteli age 63
Odvar Nordli age 45
Chivu Stoica age 64
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 19
Tufuga Efi age 35
Wee Kim Wee age 57
Ignazio Cassis age 12
Carlos Vila Nova age 13
Rahmon Nabiyev age 42
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 22
Carlos Arias Navarro age 64
Trường Chinh age 66
Dương Văn Minh age 57
Garret FitzGerald age 47
John Bruton age 25
Henry Paulson age 27
Larry Summers age 18
Michael Howard age 31
Scott Bessent age 10
Timothy Geithner age 11
Mary Lou McDonald age 4
Sayako Kuroda age 4
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 80
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 31
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 28
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 29
Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark age 7
Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece age 5
Mark Warner age 18
W. Averell Harriman age 81
Eliot Spitzer age 13
Uğur Şahin age 7
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 48
Akhtar Mansour age 5
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 31
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 43
David Thompson age 11
Viačasław Kiebič age 36
Mark Eyskens age 40
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 56
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 42
Rodrigo Paz age 5
Plamen Oresharski age 13
Elisabeth Domitien age 48
Michel Djotodia age 24
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 51
Jiří Rusnok age 12
Stanislav Gross age 3
Ahmed Shafik age 31
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 57
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 27
Christos Sartzetakis age 44
Boniface Alexandre age 36
Nasry Asfura age 14
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 62
Elias Hrawi age 46
Pakalitha Mosisili age 28
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 35
Pravind Jugnauth age 11
Emilio Portes Gil age 82
Jhala Nath Khanal age 22
Enrique Bolaños age 45
Mahamane Ousmane age 23
Murtala Muhammed age 34
Vlado Bučkovski age 10
Surangel Whipps Jr. age 4
Radu Vasile age 30
Petre Roman age 26
Édouard Ngirente age 2 months
Pasteur Bizimungu age 23
Aminata Touré age 10
Mame Madior Boye age 32
Manasseh Sogavare age 18
Lương Cường age 15
Leszek Miller age 26
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 51
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 40
Guy Mollet age 67
Ferruccio Parri age 83
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 53
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 63
Vuk Drašković age 26
William Barr age 22
William J. Burns age 17
Harriet Harman age 22
Mehdi Bazargan age 65
Wang Qishan age 24
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 32
Yves Congar age 69
Empress Nagako age 70
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 71
Princess Benedikte of Denmark age 29
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 43
Adrian Hasler age 9
James R. Schlesinger age 44
Ayman ibn Abd ar-Rahman age 6
Héctor José Cámpora age 64
Juan Carlos Onganía age 59
Hovik Abrahamyan age 15
Frank Forde age 82
David Hurley age 19
Viktor Klima age 25
Andrei Kobyakow age 12
Gaston Eyskens age 68
Duma Boko age 3
Michel Kafando age 30
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 18
Domitien Ndayizeye age 20
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 29
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 74
Ernesto Samper age 22
Judith Suminwa age 5
Juan Bosch age 63
Gustavo Noboa age 35
Zurab Noghaideli age 8
Keith Mitchell age 26
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 27
Ariel Henry age 23
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson age 11
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 26
Albert Zafy age 46
Christian Ntsay age 12
Anthony Mamo age 64
Amata Kabua age 44
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 31
Navin Ramgoolam age 25
Petru Lucinschi age 33
Ion Chicu age 1
Pavel Filip age 7
Momir Bulatović age 16
Abbas El Fassi age 32
Baburam Bhattarai age 18
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 48
David Lange age 30
Radmila Šekerinska age 11 months
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 22
Johnson Toribiong age 26
Rami Hamdallah age 14
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 58
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 38
Philip J. Pierre age 18
Su Tseng-chang age 25
Hubert Minnis age 19
Keith Rowley age 23
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 59
Le Duc Anh age 52
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 62
José Raúl Mulino age 13
Ibrahim Abboud age 72
Manfred Wörner age 38