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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
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
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
Siege of Khe Sanh 1968-01-21 - 1968-07-09
Tet Offensive 1968-01-30 - 1968-09-23
Battle of Huế 1968-01-31 - 1968-03-02

People

Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 11
Edgar Savisaar age 17
Taye Atske Selassie age 12
Epeli Nailatikau age 26
Karl-August Fagerholm age 66
Leslie Manigat age 37
Miklós Németh age 20
Robert Guéï age 26
Bah Ndaw age 17
Dioncounda Traoré age 26
Iurie Leancă age 4
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 26
Cindy Kiro age 9
Patsy Reddy age 13
Lars Korvald age 51
John Lyng age 62
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 64
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 24
Mohammad Shtayyeh age 10
Denzil Douglas age 15
James Mancham age 28
Siaka Stevens age 62
Benjamin Sheares age 60
Li Zongren age 77
Chuan Leekpai age 29
Perry Christie age 24
Mari Alkatiri age 18
Yıldırım Akbulut age 32
Pavlo Lazarenko age 15
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh age 8
Jan Olszewski age 37
José María Balcázar age 25
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 33
Ho Chong age 71
Hugh Dowding age 85
Creighton Abrams age 53
Charles Haughey age 42
Joseph Luns age 56
William J. Perry age 40
Matvei Zakharov age 69
Juan Almeida Bosque age 41
Han Zheng age 13
Shapour Bakhtiar age 54
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 83
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta age 64
Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943–2021) age 24
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 62
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies age 57
Anne of Romania age 44
Lamar Alexander age 27
Ian Wilmut age 23
Bashkim Fino age 5
John McEwen age 67
Novruz Mammadov age 20
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 41
Yacouba Isaac Zida age 2
Alfonso López Michelsen age 54
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 61
Ahmed Abdallah age 48
Ivica Račan age 24
Manny Mori age 19
Wiliame Katonivere age 3
Ahti Karjalainen age 45
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 81
Martti Miettunen age 60
Maurice Bishop age 23
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 20
Ricardo Maduro age 21
Mátyás Szűrös age 34
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 39
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 9
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 37
Thongsing Thammavong age 23
Camille Chamoun age 67
Ruth Perry age 28
Driss Jettou age 22
Lionel Aingimea age 2
Rosario Murillo age 16
Kim Yong-il age 23
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 30
Crin Antonescu age 8
Jules Wijdenbosch age 26
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 34
Anthony Carmona age 14
A. N. R. Robinson age 41
Nihat Erim age 56
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 16
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 18
Jaime Lusinchi age 43
Phan Văn Khải age 34
Rashad al-Alimi age 14
Józef Oleksy age 21
Waldemar Pawlak age 8
Lee Hae Chan age 15
Šefik Džaferović age 10
Nebojša Radmanović age 18
Dragan Čović age 11
Giuseppe Bertello age 25
Giovanni Lajolo age 33
Giovanni Messe age 84
Zhang Xueliang age 66
Geoffrey Howe age 41
Maxwell D. Taylor age 66
William Cohen age 27
Loretta Lynch age 8
Iain Duncan Smith age 13
Caspar Weinberger age 50
Lothar Rendulic age 80
Milan Martić age 13
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu age 34
Pavel Grachev age 20
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 25
Mohsen Rezaee age 13
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa age 44
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman age 55
Princess Patricia of Connaught age 81
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969) age 61
Brian Kemp age 4
George Pataki age 22
Leonard Kleinrock age 33
Warren E. Burger age 60
Christopher Wray age 1
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 13
Rodney Williams age 20
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 76
Achille Van Acker age 69
Jaime Paz Zamora age 28
Joseph Ngute age 13
Philémon Yang age 20
Julio César Turbay age 51
Spiros Cyprianou age 35
Sylvanie Burton age 12
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 32
Lucio Gutiérrez age 10
Hesham Qandil age 5
Ibrahim Mahlab age 18
Kamisese Mara age 47
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 36
Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo age 9
Henrique Rosa age 22
Donald Ramotar age 17
Poul Hartling age 53
Barend Biesheuvel age 47
Muhammetkaliy Abulgaziyev age 1 month
Felix Kulov age 19
Sonexay Siphandone age 2
Nawaf Salam age 14
Tom Thabane age 28
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 61
Kailash Purryag age 20
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 67
Vasile Tarlev age 4
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 17
Brigi Rafini age 14
Choe Yong-rim age 37
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani age 8
Victor Khristenko age 10
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 16
Lojze Peterle age 19
Samuel Schmid age 21
Joseph Deiss age 22
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 35
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 55
Ajay Banga age 8
Jacqui Smith age 5
Nadhim Zahawi age 8 months
Lloyd Bentsen age 47
Choe Yong-gon age 67
Ralph Abernathy age 41
David Elazar age 42
Sylvia Rivera age 16
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 54
Iñaki Urdangarin age 1 month
Mark Phillips (born 1948) age 19
Liam Fox age 6
Ralph Northam age 8
Wang Zhen (general) age 59
Frank Jack Fletcher age 82
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 81
Tajuddin Ahmad age 42
Luis García Meza Tejada age 38
Jorge Quiroga age 7
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 53
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 19
Moussa Faki age 7
Jamil Mahuad age 18
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 16