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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
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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

People

James Wolfensohn age 38
Eric Shinseki age 29
Frank Carlucci age 41
Rab Butler age 69
Michael Mullen age 25
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 61
Takeo Kurita age 82
Hal Moore age 50
Princess Deokhye age 59
Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914) age 57
Kim Kyong-hui age 25
Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia age 63
Ernst August von Hannover (born 1954) age 17
Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark age 2
Timothy Laurence age 21
Zell Miller age 39
Pete Wilson age 38
Eric Holcomb age 3
Mikie Sherrill age 0 months
Glenn Youngkin age 5
Mitja Ribičič age 52
Abeid Karume age 66
Lien Chan age 35
William H. Webster age 47
Rabah Bitat age 46
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 45
William Deane age 41
Clifford Husbands age 45
Jeffrey Bostic age 11
Reneta Indzhova age 18
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 22
Nikica Valentić age 21
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 61
Hipólito Mejía age 30
Atef Ebeid age 39
Jacob Nena age 30
Raymond Ndong Sima age 17
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 69
Ramiro de León Carpio age 30
Jorge Serrano Elías age 26
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 48
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 24
Gyula Kállai age 61
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 47
Hermann Jónasson age 75
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 61
Hamed Bakayoko age 6
Alexander Bustamante age 87
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 21
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 22
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 15
Baqytzhan Saghyntaev age 8
Jan Eduard de Quay age 70
Djoomart Otorbaev age 16
Rashid Karami age 50
Sam Matekane age 13
Zigmantas Balčytis age 18
Richard Ratsimandrava age 40
Modibo Sidibé age 19
Mohamed Ould Bilal age 8
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 19
Aureliu Ciocoi age 3
Abdellatif Filali age 43
René Harris age 24
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 31
Jerry Mateparae age 17
Ali Lamine Zeine age 7
Mohammad Mustafa age 17
Clément Mouamba age 28
Cătălin Predoiu age 3
Ilie Verdeț age 46
David Vunagi age 21
Cho Jung-tai age 13
Pote Sarasin age 66
Prawit Wongsuwon age 26
Lynden Pindling age 41
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 34
Feleti Sevele age 27
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 20
Ali Laarayedh age 16
Mohamed Mzali age 46
Ruhakana Rugunda age 24
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 38
Eleazar López Contreras age 88
Diosdado Cabello age 8
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 33
Choi Sang-mok age 11
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 56
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 38
Alan Johnson age 21
John J. Sullivan age 12
Robert Rubin age 33
Bayard Rustin age 59
Lucius D. Clay age 74
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi age 13
Mostafa Chamran age 39
Zhang Wentian age 71
Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse age 75
Regina von Habsburg age 47
Infanta Beatriz of Spain age 62
Princess Elena of Romania age 21
Hernando de Soto (economist) age 30
Bill Haslam age 13
Petar Stambolić age 59
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 45
Nadir al-Arbawi age 22
Hartwig Löger age 6
Edmond Leburton age 56
Jean Van Houtte age 64
Théo Lefèvre age 58
Philip Dimitrov age 16
Andrey Lukanov age 33
Dimitar Glavchev age 8
Paul Kaba Thieba age 11
Son Sann age 60
Eduardo Santos age 83
Said Mohamed Djohar age 53
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 80
Luis Alberto Monge age 46
Vlatko Pavletić age 41
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 68
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 22
Tafari Benti age 50
Leo Falcam age 36
Wesley Simina age 10
Laisenia Qarase age 31
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 76
Jean-Max Bellerive age 14
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 28
José Azcona del Hoyo age 45
György Lázár age 47
Ferenc Nagy age 68
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 19
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 24
Wim Schermerhorn age 77
Akylbek Japarov age 7
Amos Sawyer age 26
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 33
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 19
Alfred Sant age 23
Paul Xuereb age 48
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 30
Sükhbaataryn Batbold age 8
Pascoal Mocumbi age 30
Aires Ali age 16
Soe Win age 24
Pak Song-chol age 58
Nurul Amin age 78
Shujaat Hussain age 32
Kuniwo Nakamura age 28
Tapley Seaton age 21
John Compton age 46
Henck Arron age 35
Adolf Ogi age 29
Nazim al-Kudsi age 66
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 28
Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali age 2
Frank Hsieh age 25
Cornelius A. Smith age 34
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 32
Patrick Manning age 25
Habib Essid age 22
Bülent Ulusu age 48
Feleti Teo age 9
Kausea Natano age 14
Enele Sopoaga age 15
Yusuf Lule age 59
Ham Lini age 20
Kazimierz Sabbat age 58
Michael Ogio age 29
Nicolás Lindley López age 63
Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke age 11
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali age 6
Mohamed Hussein Roble age 8
Richard O'Connor age 82
Charles Q. Brown Jr. age 9
Douglas Hurd age 41
John Shalikashvili age 35
Michael Mukasey age 30
William Calley age 28
Rasim Delić age 23
Otto Braun age 71
Friedrich Hoßbach age 77
Valentin Varennikov age 48
Hisako, Princess Takamado age 18
Natalia Pavlovna Paley age 66
Zakir Hasanov age 12
Princess Sophie of Hohenberg age 70
Kim Song-ae age 47
Sigvard Bernadotte age 64
Carl Johan Bernadotte age 55
Lady Sarah Chatto age 7
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 37
George Deukmejian age 43
Christine Todd Whitman age 25
He Yingqin age 81
Abderrahmane Farès age 61
Marc Forné Molné age 25
Vazgen Manukyan age 25
John Kerr age 57