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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
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
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
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
Tet Offensive 1968-01-30 - 1968-09-23
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23

People

James Wolfensohn age 34
Eric Shinseki age 25
Frank Carlucci age 37
Les Aspin age 30
Rab Butler age 65
Michael Mullen age 21
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 58
Takeo Kurita age 79
Hal Moore age 46
Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia age 73
Princess Deokhye age 56
Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914) age 54
Kim Kyong-hui age 22
Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia age 60
Ernst August von Hannover (born 1954) age 14
Timothy Laurence age 18
Zell Miller age 36
Pete Wilson age 35
Eric Holcomb age 3 months
Glenn Youngkin age 1
Mitja Ribičič age 49
Abeid Karume age 63
Lien Chan age 32
William H. Webster age 44
Rabah Bitat age 42
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 41
William Deane age 37
Clifford Husbands age 42
Jeffrey Bostic age 7
Reneta Indzhova age 15
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 19
Nikica Valentić age 17
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 57
Hipólito Mejía age 27
Atef Ebeid age 36
Jacob Nena age 26
Raymond Ndong Sima age 13
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 65
Ramiro de León Carpio age 26
Jorge Serrano Elías age 23
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 44
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 21
Gyula Kállai age 58
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 44
Hermann Jónasson age 71
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 57
Hamed Bakayoko age 3
Alexander Bustamante age 84
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 18
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 19
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 11
Baqytzhan Saghyntaev age 4
Jan Eduard de Quay age 67
Djoomart Otorbaev age 13
Rashid Karami age 46
Sam Matekane age 10
Zigmantas Balčytis age 14
Richard Ratsimandrava age 37
Modibo Sidibé age 15
Mohamed Ould Bilal age 4
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 15
Aureliu Ciocoi age 2 months
Abdellatif Filali age 40
René Harris age 20
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 28
Jerry Mateparae age 13
Ali Lamine Zeine age 3
Mohammad Mustafa age 14
Clément Mouamba age 24
Cătălin Predoiu age 0 months
Ilie Verdeț age 43
David Vunagi age 17
Cho Jung-tai age 9
Pote Sarasin age 63
Prawit Wongsuwon age 23
Lynden Pindling age 38
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 30
Feleti Sevele age 24
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 17
Ali Laarayedh age 13
Mohamed Mzali age 42
Ruhakana Rugunda age 20
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 35
Eleazar López Contreras age 85
Diosdado Cabello age 5
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 29
Choi Sang-mok age 8
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 52
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 34
Seán Lemass age 69
Alan Johnson age 18
John J. Sullivan age 8
Robert Rubin age 30
Bayard Rustin age 56
Lucius D. Clay age 71
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi age 9
Mostafa Chamran age 35
Eberhard von Mackensen age 78
Zhang Wentian age 68
Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse age 71
Regina von Habsburg age 43
Infanta Beatriz of Spain age 59
Princess Elena of Romania age 17
Hernando de Soto (economist) age 27
Bill Haslam age 10
Petar Stambolić age 56
Francis Biddle age 82
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 42
Nadir al-Arbawi age 18
Hartwig Löger age 3
Edmond Leburton age 53
Jean Van Houtte age 61
Théo Lefèvre age 54
Philip Dimitrov age 13
Andrey Lukanov age 29
Dimitar Glavchev age 5
Paul Kaba Thieba age 8
Son Sann age 56
Eduardo Santos age 80
Said Mohamed Djohar age 50
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 77
Luis Alberto Monge age 42
Vlatko Pavletić age 37
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 65
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 19
Tafari Benti age 46
Leo Falcam age 32
Wesley Simina age 6
Laisenia Qarase age 27
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 72
Jean-Max Bellerive age 10
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 24
José Azcona del Hoyo age 41
György Lázár age 43
Ferenc Nagy age 64
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 55
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 15
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 20
Wim Schermerhorn age 73
Akylbek Japarov age 3
Suleiman Frangieh age 58
Amos Sawyer age 23
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 29
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 16
Alfred Sant age 20
Paul Xuereb age 45
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 26
Sükhbaataryn Batbold age 5
Pascoal Mocumbi age 27
Aires Ali age 12
Soe Win age 21
Pak Song-chol age 55
Nurul Amin age 75
Shujaat Hussain age 28
Kuniwo Nakamura age 24
Tapley Seaton age 18
John Compton age 43
Henck Arron age 32
Adolf Ogi age 26
Nazim al-Kudsi age 62
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 24
Frank Hsieh age 22
Cornelius A. Smith age 31
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 29
Patrick Manning age 22
Habib Essid age 19
Bülent Ulusu age 45
Feleti Teo age 5
Kausea Natano age 11
Enele Sopoaga age 12
Yusuf Lule age 56
Ham Lini age 16
Kazimierz Sabbat age 55
Michael Ogio age 26
Nicolás Lindley López age 59
Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke age 8
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali age 3
Mohamed Hussein Roble age 4
Richard O'Connor age 79
Charles Q. Brown Jr. age 6
Douglas Hurd age 38
John Shalikashvili age 32
Michael Mukasey age 27
William Calley age 25
Rasim Delić age 19
Otto Braun age 67
Friedrich Hoßbach age 73
Valentin Varennikov age 44
Hisako, Princess Takamado age 15
Natalia Pavlovna Paley age 62
Zakir Hasanov age 9
Princess Sophie of Hohenberg age 67
Kim Song-ae age 43
Sigvard Bernadotte age 61
Carl Johan Bernadotte age 51
Lady Sarah Chatto age 4
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 33
George Deukmejian age 40
Christine Todd Whitman age 21
He Yingqin age 78