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

People

Su Tseng-chang age 25
Hubert Minnis age 18
Keith Rowley age 23
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 58
Le Duc Anh age 51
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 61
José Raúl Mulino age 13
Ibrahim Abboud age 72
Manfred Wörner age 38
Alberto Gonzales age 17
Yvette Cooper age 3
Vladimir Ivashko age 40
Sisavang Vatthana age 65
Mark Felt age 59
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 89
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 58
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 42
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia age 18
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 38
Margareta of Romania age 23
Princess Michael of Kent age 27
Ari Behn age 1 month
Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg age 8
Ann Richards age 39
Brigitte Haas age 7
David Souter age 33
Vazgen Sargsyan age 13
Owen Arthur age 23
George Cadle Price age 53
André Kolingba age 36
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 14
Rodrigo Chaves age 11
Manuel Marrero Cruz age 9
Jiří Paroubek age 20
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 14
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 15
Edgar Savisaar age 22
Taye Atske Selassie age 16
Epeli Nailatikau age 31
Karl-August Fagerholm age 70
Leslie Manigat age 42
Miklós Németh age 24
Robert Guéï age 31
Bah Ndaw age 22
Dioncounda Traoré age 30
Iurie Leancă age 9
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 30
Cindy Kiro age 14
Patsy Reddy age 18
John Lyng age 67
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 68
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 28
Mohammad Shtayyeh age 14
Denzil Douglas age 19
James Mancham age 33
Chuan Leekpai age 34
Perry Christie age 29
Mari Alkatiri age 22
Yıldırım Akbulut age 37
Pavlo Lazarenko age 19
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh age 12
Jan Olszewski age 42
José María Balcázar age 29
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 37
Ho Chong age 76
Charles Haughey age 47
William J. Perry age 45
Juan Almeida Bosque age 45
Han Zheng age 18
Shapour Bakhtiar age 58
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta age 68
Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943–2021) age 29
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 67
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies age 61
Anne of Romania age 49
Lamar Alexander age 32
Ian Wilmut age 28
Bashkim Fino age 10
John McEwen age 72
Novruz Mammadov age 25
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 46
Yacouba Isaac Zida age 7
Alfonso López Michelsen age 59
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 66
Ahmed Abdallah age 53
Ivica Račan age 28
Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini age 4
Manny Mori age 23
Wiliame Katonivere age 8
Ahti Karjalainen age 49
Martti Miettunen age 65
Maurice Bishop age 28
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 25
Ricardo Maduro age 26
Mátyás Szűrös age 39
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 44
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 14
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 42
Thongsing Thammavong age 28
Camille Chamoun age 72
Ruth Perry age 33
Driss Jettou age 27
Lionel Aingimea age 7
Rosario Murillo age 21
Kim Yong-il age 28
Per Borten age 59
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 35
Crin Antonescu age 13
Jules Wijdenbosch age 31
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 39
Hu'akavameiliku age 2
Anthony Carmona age 19
A. N. R. Robinson age 45
Nihat Erim age 60
Nabbanja Robinah age 2
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 52
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 20
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 23
Jaime Lusinchi age 48
Lê Minh Hưng age 1
Phan Văn Khải age 38
Rashad al-Alimi age 18
Józef Oleksy age 26
Waldemar Pawlak age 13
Lee Hae Chan age 20
Šefik Džaferović age 15
Nebojša Radmanović age 23
Dragan Čović age 16
Giuseppe Bertello age 30
Giovanni Lajolo age 37
Zhang Xueliang age 71
Maxwell D. Taylor age 71
William Cohen age 32
Loretta Lynch age 13
Iain Duncan Smith age 18
Caspar Weinberger age 55
Milan Martić age 18
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu age 39
Pavel Grachev age 24
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 30
Mohsen Rezaee age 18
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa age 49
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman age 60
Princess Patricia of Connaught age 86
Brian Kemp age 9
George Pataki age 27
Leonard Kleinrock age 38
Christopher Wray age 5
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 18
Rodney Williams age 25
Achille Van Acker age 74
Jaime Paz Zamora age 33
Joseph Ngute age 18
Philémon Yang age 25
Julio César Turbay age 56
Spiros Cyprianou age 40
Sylvanie Burton age 16
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 37
Lucio Gutiérrez age 15
Hesham Qandil age 10
Ibrahim Mahlab age 23
Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo age 14
Henrique Rosa age 26
Donald Ramotar age 22
Oswaldo López Arellano age 51
Poul Hartling age 58
Muhammetkaliy Abulgaziyev age 4
Felix Kulov age 24
Sonexay Siphandone age 6
Nawaf Salam age 18
Tom Thabane age 33
Kailash Purryag age 24
Vasile Tarlev age 9
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 22
Brigi Rafini age 19
Choe Yong-rim age 42
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani age 13
Victor Khristenko age 15
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 21
Lojze Peterle age 24
Samuel Schmid age 25
Joseph Deiss age 26
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 40
Kassim Majaliwa age 11
Phumtham Wechayachai age 18
Hamadi Jebali age 23
Tito Okello age 58
Vitold Fokin age 40
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 47
Nigmatilla Yuldashev age 10
Tallis Obed Moses age 18
Do Muoi age 55
Chung Il-kwon age 55
Jung Hong-won age 28
Harini Amarasuriya age 2
Raif Dizdarević age 45
Sulejman Tihić age 20
Vo Chi Cong age 60
Jean Rey age 70
Ajay Banga age 13