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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

Alberto Gonzales age 17
Yvette Cooper age 4
Vladimir Ivashko age 40
Sisavang Vatthana age 65
Mark Felt age 59
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 90
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 58
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 42
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia age 19
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 38
Margareta of Romania age 24
Princess Michael of Kent age 28
Ari Behn age 7 months
Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg age 8
Ann Richards age 39
Brigitte Haas age 8
David Souter age 33
Vazgen Sargsyan age 14
Owen Arthur age 23
George Cadle Price age 54
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 15
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 16
Edgar Savisaar age 22
Taye Atske Selassie age 17
Epeli Nailatikau age 31
Karl-August Fagerholm age 71
Leslie Manigat age 42
Miklós Németh age 25
Robert Guéï age 32
Bah Ndaw age 22
Dioncounda Traoré age 31
Iurie Leancă age 9
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 31
Cindy Kiro age 14
Patsy Reddy age 18
John Lyng age 67
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 69
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 29
Mohammad Shtayyeh age 15
Denzil Douglas age 20
James Mancham age 33
Chuan Leekpai age 34
Perry Christie age 29
Mari Alkatiri age 23
Yıldırım Akbulut age 37
Pavlo Lazarenko age 20
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh age 13
Jan Olszewski age 42
José María Balcázar age 30
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 38
Ho Chong age 77
Charles Haughey age 47
William J. Perry age 45
Juan Almeida Bosque age 46
Han Zheng age 19
Shapour Bakhtiar age 59
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta age 69
Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943–2021) age 29
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 68
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies age 62
Anne of Romania age 49
Lamar Alexander age 32
Ian Wilmut age 28
Bashkim Fino age 10
John McEwen age 73
Novruz Mammadov age 26
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 29
Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini age 5
Manny Mori age 24
Wiliame Katonivere age 9
Ahti Karjalainen age 50
Martti Miettunen age 66
Maurice Bishop age 28
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 25
Ricardo Maduro age 27
Mátyás Szűrös age 39
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 44
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 15
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 43
Thongsing Thammavong age 29
Camille Chamoun age 73
Ruth Perry age 33
Driss Jettou age 27
Lionel Aingimea age 7
Rosario Murillo age 21
Kim Yong-il age 29
Per Borten age 60
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 35
Crin Antonescu age 13
Jules Wijdenbosch age 32
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 39
Hu'akavameiliku age 3
Anthony Carmona age 20
A. N. R. Robinson age 46
Nihat Erim age 61
Nabbanja Robinah age 3
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 53
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 21
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 24
Jaime Lusinchi age 48
Lê Minh Hưng age 2
Phan Văn Khải age 39
Rashad al-Alimi age 19
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 38
Zhang Xueliang age 71
Maxwell D. Taylor age 71
Loretta Lynch age 13
Iain Duncan Smith age 19
Caspar Weinberger age 55
Milan Martić age 18
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu age 39
Pavel Grachev age 25
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 87
Brian Kemp age 9
George Pataki age 27
Leonard Kleinrock age 38
Christopher Wray age 6
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 18
Rodney Williams age 25
Achille Van Acker age 75
Jaime Paz Zamora age 34
Joseph Ngute age 19
Philémon Yang age 25
Julio César Turbay age 56
Spiros Cyprianou age 40
Sylvanie Burton age 17
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 37
Lucio Gutiérrez age 16
Hesham Qandil age 10
Ibrahim Mahlab age 24
Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo age 15
Henrique Rosa age 27
Donald Ramotar age 22
Poul Hartling age 58
Muhammetkaliy Abulgaziyev age 5
Felix Kulov age 24
Sonexay Siphandone age 7
Nawaf Salam age 19
Tom Thabane age 33
Kailash Purryag age 25
Vasile Tarlev age 9
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 23
Brigi Rafini age 20
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 26
Joseph Deiss age 27
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 40
Kassim Majaliwa age 12
Phumtham Wechayachai age 19
Hamadi Jebali age 24
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 56
Chung Il-kwon age 55
Jung Hong-won age 28
Harini Amarasuriya age 3
Raif Dizdarević age 46
Sulejman Tihić age 21
Vo Chi Cong age 60
Jean Rey age 70
Ajay Banga age 13
Dan Caine age 4
Jacqui Smith age 10
Nadhim Zahawi age 5
Choe Yong-gon age 72
Ralph Abernathy age 47
David Elazar age 47
Sylvia Rivera age 21
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 60
Iñaki Urdangarin age 5
Mark Phillips (born 1948) age 24
Liam Fox age 11