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

People

Charles Helou age 55
President - Lebanon
Alfred Raoul age 30
President - Republic of the Congo
Willy Spühler age 66
President - Switzerland
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 73
President - Mongolia
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 52
President - Costa Rica
Pietro Giancecchi age 46
Captain Regent - San Marino
Jim Fouché age 70
State President - South Africa
Lee Kuan Yew age 45
Prime Minister - Singapore
Süleyman Demirel age 44
Prime Minister - Turkey
Pierre Trudeau age 49
Prime Minister - Canada
Mauno Koivisto age 45
Prime Minister - Finland
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 65
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Georgios Papadopoulos age 49
Prime Minister - Greece
Marcelo Caetano age 62
Prime Minister - Portugal
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 51
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 45
Prime Minister - Croatia
Jenő Fock age 52
Prime Minister - Hungary
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 40
Prime Minister - Somalia
Eric Williams age 57
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 40
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
Yoro Diakité age 36
Prime Minister - Mali
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 49
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Johan Adolf Pengel age 52
Prime Minister - Suriname
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 56
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 45
Premier - Dominica
Vidoje Žarković age 41
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Ernesto Montagne Sánchez age 52
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 16
Nelson Mandela age 50
George W. Bush age 22
Joe Biden age 26
Pablo Picasso age 87
Charlie Chaplin age 79
Bill Gates age 13
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 44
Benedict XVI age 41
Mother Teresa age 58
Harry S. Truman age 84
Hillary Clinton age 21
Kamala Harris age 4
Nicolas Sarkozy age 13
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 78
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 28
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 14
Muhammad Ali age 26
Kofi Annan age 30
Charles III age 20
Osama bin Laden age 11
Lech Wałęsa age 25
Leo XIV age 13
Diego Maradona age 8
Narendra Modi age 18
Rafael Correa age 5
Aung San Suu Kyi age 23
Nikita Khrushchev age 74
Benjamin Netanyahu age 19
Dmitry Medvedev age 3
14th Dalai Lama age 33
Silvio Berlusconi age 32
Shinzo Abe age 14
Bob Marley age 23
Tim Berners-Lee age 13
Mahathir Mohamad age 43
Boris Yeltsin age 37
Ali Khamenei age 29
Jacques Chirac age 36
Guillermo Lasso age 13
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 50
Kwame Nkrumah age 59
Alexander Lukashenko age 14
Tony Blair age 15
Yasser Arafat age 39
David Cameron age 2
Ban Ki-moon age 24
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 21
Boris Johnson age 4
Diana, Princess of Wales age 7
Bashar al-Assad age 3
Benazir Bhutto age 15
Jair Bolsonaro age 13
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 23
Theresa May age 12
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 12
Henry Kissinger age 45
Václav Havel age 32
Georges Pompidou age 57
Nicolás Maduro age 6
Robert Mugabe age 44
Hosni Mubarak age 40
Golda Meir age 70
Dilma Rousseff age 20
Al Gore age 20
François Mitterrand age 52
David Ben-Gurion age 82
Milton Friedman age 56
Ruhollah Khomeini age 66
Valentina Tereshkova age 31
Ilham Aliyev age 6
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 30
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 56
Olaf Scholz age 10
Anwar Sadat age 49
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 30
Keir Starmer age 6
Willy Brandt age 55
Gerhard Schröder age 24
Hassan Rouhani age 20
Salvador Allende age 60
Hu Jintao age 25
Evo Morales age 9
Joko Widodo age 7
Petro Poroshenko age 3
Mikheil Saakashvili age 11 months
Augusto Pinochet age 53
Ursula von der Leyen age 10
Mike Pence age 9
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 15
Michelle Bachelet age 17
Ariel Sharon age 40
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 50
Felipe VI of Spain age 10 months
Desmond Tutu age 37
Viktor Yanukovych age 18
Mohamed Morsi age 17
Viktor Orbán age 5
Sergio Mattarella age 27
Manmohan Singh age 36
Pervez Musharraf age 25
Yuri Andropov age 54
Julia Gillard age 7
Abdullah Gül age 18
Lech Kaczyński age 19
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 12
Jeff Bezos age 4
Buzz Aldrin age 38
Mohammad Khatami age 25