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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
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

People

Pierre Trudeau age 48
Prime Minister - Canada
Mauno Koivisto age 44
Prime Minister - Finland
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 65
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Georgios Papadopoulos age 49
Prime Minister - Greece
Tage Erlander age 67
Prime Minister - Sweden
Piet de Jong age 53
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 44
Prime Minister - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 42
Prime Minister - Kuwait
John Gorton age 57
Prime Minister - Australia
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 52
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Mehmet Shehu age 55
Prime Minister - Albania
Bjarni Benediktsson age 60
Prime Minister - Iceland
Thanom Kittikachorn age 57
Prime Minister - Thailand
Gaston Eyskens age 63
Prime Minister - Belgium
Pierre Werner age 54
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 66
Prime Minister - Romania
Per Borten age 55
Prime Minister - Norway
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 68
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Chung Il-kwon age 50
Prime Minister - South Korea
Forbes Burnham age 45
Prime Minister - Guyana
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 48
Prime Minister - Denmark
Josef Klaus age 58
Chancellor - Austria
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 44
Prime Minister - Croatia
Jenő Fock age 52
Prime Minister - Hungary
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 40
Prime Minister - Somalia
Eric Williams age 56
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Keith Holyoake age 64
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Dudley Senanayake age 57
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Errol Barrow age 48
Prime Minister - Barbados
Penn Nouth age 62
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Hugh Shearer age 45
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Eric Gairy age 46
Prime Minister - Grenada
George Borg Olivier age 57
Prime Minister - Malta
Mohamed Benhima age 44
Prime Minister - Morocco
Gerard Batliner age 39
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Wanis al-Qaddafi age 44
Prime Minister - Libya
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 56
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Abdallah El-Yafi age 67
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Tu'i Pelehake age 46
Prime Minister - Tonga
Makhosini Dlamini age 54
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 47
Prime Minister - Samoa
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 52
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Ksente Bogoev age 48
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Johan Adolf Pengel age 52
Prime Minister - Suriname
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 56
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 44
Premier - Dominica
Vidoje Žarković age 41
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Oswaldo Hercelles García age 60
Prime Minister - Peru
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 68
Governor-General - New Zealand
Richard Casey, Baron Casey age 78
Governor-General - Australia
Clifford Campbell age 76
Governor-General - Jamaica
Arleigh Winston Scott age 68
Governor-General - Barbados
Barack Obama age 7
Donald Trump age 22
Michael Jackson age 10
Vladimir Putin age 15
Nelson Mandela age 50
George W. Bush age 22
Joe Biden age 25
Pablo Picasso age 86
Charlie Chaplin age 79
Bill Gates age 12
Pope Francis age 31
Steve Jobs age 13
Bill Clinton age 22
Angela Merkel age 14
Neil Armstrong age 38
François Hollande age 14
Elvis Presley age 33
John Paul II age 48
Gabriel García Márquez age 41
Mikhail Gorbachev age 37
Stephen Hawking age 26
Jean-Paul Sartre age 63
Jimmy Carter age 43
Benedict XVI age 41
Mother Teresa age 58
Harry S. Truman age 84
Hillary Clinton age 20
Kamala Harris age 3
Nicolas Sarkozy age 13
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 77
Richard Nixon age 55
Xi Jinping age 15
Naruhito age 8
Hugo Chávez age 14
Simone de Beauvoir age 60
Muammar Gaddafi age 26
John Lennon age 27
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 14
Muhammad Ali age 26
Kofi Annan age 30
Charles III age 19
Osama bin Laden age 11
Lech Wałęsa age 24
Leo XIV age 12
Diego Maradona age 7
Narendra Modi age 17
Rafael Correa age 5
Aung San Suu Kyi age 23
Nikita Khrushchev age 74
Benjamin Netanyahu age 18
Dmitry Medvedev age 2
14th Dalai Lama age 33
Silvio Berlusconi age 31
Shinzo Abe age 13
Bob Marley age 23
Tim Berners-Lee age 13
Mahathir Mohamad age 43
Boris Yeltsin age 37
Ali Khamenei age 29
Jacques Chirac age 35
Guillermo Lasso age 12
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 49
Kwame Nkrumah age 59
Alexander Lukashenko age 14
Tony Blair age 15
Yasser Arafat age 39
David Cameron age 1
Ban Ki-moon age 24
Boris Johnson age 4
Diana, Princess of Wales age 7
Bashar al-Assad age 2
Benazir Bhutto age 15
Jair Bolsonaro age 13
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 22
Theresa May age 11
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 11
Henry Kissinger age 45
Václav Havel age 31
Georges Pompidou age 57
Nicolás Maduro age 5
Robert Mugabe age 44
Hosni Mubarak age 40
Golda Meir age 70
Dilma Rousseff age 20
Al Gore age 20
François Mitterrand age 51
David Ben-Gurion age 81
Milton Friedman age 56
Ruhollah Khomeini age 66
Valentina Tereshkova age 31
Ilham Aliyev age 6
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 29
António Guterres age 19
Akihito age 34
Helmut Kohl age 38
Rosa Parks age 55
Gordon Brown age 17
Shimon Peres age 45
Sukarno age 67
John Paul I age 55
Olaf Scholz age 10
Anwar Sadat age 49
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 30
Keir Starmer age 6
Willy Brandt age 54
Gerhard Schröder age 24
Hassan Rouhani age 19
Salvador Allende age 60
Hu Jintao age 25
Evo Morales age 8
Joko Widodo age 7
Petro Poroshenko age 2
Mikheil Saakashvili age 8 months
Augusto Pinochet age 52
Ursula von der Leyen age 9
Mike Pence age 9
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 15
Michelle Bachelet age 16
Ariel Sharon age 40
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 50
Felipe VI of Spain age 7 months
Desmond Tutu age 36
Viktor Yanukovych age 18
Mohamed Morsi age 17
Viktor Orbán age 5
Sergio Mattarella age 27
Manmohan Singh age 35
Pervez Musharraf age 25
Yuri Andropov age 54
Julia Gillard age 6
Abdullah Gül age 17
Lech Kaczyński age 19
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 12
Jeff Bezos age 4
Buzz Aldrin age 38
Mohammad Khatami age 24
Yitzhak Rabin age 46
Tsai Ing-wen age 12
Mariano Rajoy age 13
Andrei Sakharov age 47
Dick Cheney age 27
Condoleezza Rice age 13
Raúl Castro age 37
Sheikh Hasina age 20
Giorgio Napolitano age 43
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 28
Mark Rutte age 1
Idi Amin age 43