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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
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

People

Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 74
President - Mongolia
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 53
President - Costa Rica
Ferruccio Piva age 45
Captain Regent - San Marino
Jim Fouché age 71
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 66
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Georgios Papadopoulos age 50
Prime Minister - Greece
Lon Nol age 55
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Marcelo Caetano age 63
Prime Minister - Portugal
Tage Erlander age 68
Prime Minister - Sweden
Piet de Jong age 54
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 45
Prime Minister - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 43
Prime Minister - Kuwait
John Gorton age 57
Prime Minister - Australia
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 52
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Mehmet Shehu age 56
Prime Minister - Albania
Bjarni Benediktsson age 61
Prime Minister - Iceland
Thanom Kittikachorn age 58
Prime Minister - Thailand
Gaston Eyskens age 64
Prime Minister - Belgium
Pierre Werner age 55
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 66
Prime Minister - Romania
Per Borten age 56
Prime Minister - Norway
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 68
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Chung Il-kwon age 51
Prime Minister - South Korea
Forbes Burnham age 46
Prime Minister - Guyana
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 49
Prime Minister - Denmark
Josef Klaus age 59
Chancellor - Austria
Jenő Fock age 53
Prime Minister - Hungary
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 41
Prime Minister - Somalia
Eric Williams age 57
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Rashid Karami age 47
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Keith Holyoake age 65
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Dudley Senanayake age 58
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 42
Prime Minister - Nepal
Errol Barrow age 49
Prime Minister - Barbados
Hugh Shearer age 46
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Babiker Awadalla age 52
Prime Minister - Sudan
Eric Gairy age 47
Prime Minister - Grenada
George Borg Olivier age 58
Prime Minister - Malta
Mohamed Benhima age 45
Prime Minister - Morocco
Alfred Raoul age 30
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Gerard Batliner age 40
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 57
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Tu'i Pelehake age 47
Prime Minister - Tonga
Makhosini Dlamini age 55
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Yoro Diakité age 36
Prime Minister - Mali
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 48
Prime Minister - Samoa
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 52
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Peter Colotka age 44
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 36
Prime Minister - Yemen
Ksente Bogoev age 49
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 57
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 45
Premier - Dominica
Vidoje Žarković age 42
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Ernesto Montagne Sánchez age 53
Prime Minister - Peru
Arthur May age 66
Prime Minister - Suriname
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 69
Governor-General - New Zealand
Paul Hasluck age 64
Governor-General - Australia
Clifford Campbell age 77
Governor-General - Jamaica
Arleigh Winston Scott age 69
Governor-General - Barbados
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 31
Prince - Spain
Barack Obama age 8
Donald Trump age 23
Michael Jackson age 10
Vladimir Putin age 16
Nelson Mandela age 51
George W. Bush age 23
Joe Biden age 26
Pablo Picasso age 87
Charlie Chaplin age 80
Bill Gates age 13
Pope Francis age 32
Steve Jobs age 14
Bill Clinton age 23
Charles de Gaulle age 78
Angela Merkel age 15
Neil Armstrong age 39
François Hollande age 15
Elvis Presley age 34
John Paul II age 49
Gabriel García Márquez age 42
Mikhail Gorbachev age 38
Stephen Hawking age 27
Jean-Paul Sartre age 64
Jimmy Carter age 44
Benedict XVI age 42
Mother Teresa age 59
Harry S. Truman age 85
Hillary Clinton age 21
Kamala Harris age 4
Nicolas Sarkozy age 14
Xi Jinping age 16
Naruhito age 9
Hugo Chávez age 15
Simone de Beauvoir age 61
Muammar Gaddafi age 27
John Lennon age 28
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 15
Muhammad Ali age 27
Kofi Annan age 31
Charles III age 20
Osama bin Laden age 12
Lech Wałęsa age 25
Lyndon B. Johnson age 61
Leo XIV age 13
Diego Maradona age 8
Narendra Modi age 18
Rafael Correa age 6
Aung San Suu Kyi age 24
Nikita Khrushchev age 75
Benjamin Netanyahu age 19
Dmitry Medvedev age 3
14th Dalai Lama age 34
Silvio Berlusconi age 32
Shinzo Abe age 14
Bob Marley age 24
Tim Berners-Lee age 14
Mahathir Mohamad age 44
Boris Yeltsin age 38
Ali Khamenei age 30
Jacques Chirac age 36
Guillermo Lasso age 13
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 50
Kwame Nkrumah age 59
Alexander Lukashenko age 14
Tony Blair age 16
Yasser Arafat age 40
David Cameron age 2
Ban Ki-moon age 25
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 22
Boris Johnson age 5
Diana, Princess of Wales age 8
Bashar al-Assad age 3
Benazir Bhutto age 16
Jair Bolsonaro age 14
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 23
Theresa May age 12
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 12
Henry Kissinger age 46
Václav Havel age 32
Nicolás Maduro age 6
Robert Mugabe age 45
Hosni Mubarak age 41
Dilma Rousseff age 21
Al Gore age 21
François Mitterrand age 52
David Ben-Gurion age 82
Milton Friedman age 57
Ruhollah Khomeini age 66
Valentina Tereshkova age 32
Ilham Aliyev age 7
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 30
António Guterres age 20
Akihito age 35
Helmut Kohl age 39
Rosa Parks age 56
Gordon Brown age 18
Shimon Peres age 46
Sukarno age 68
John Paul I age 56
Olaf Scholz age 11
Anwar Sadat age 50
Keir Starmer age 6
Willy Brandt age 55
Gerhard Schröder age 25
Hassan Rouhani age 20
Salvador Allende age 61
Hu Jintao age 26
Evo Morales age 9
Joko Widodo age 8
Petro Poroshenko age 3
Mikheil Saakashvili age 1
Augusto Pinochet age 53
Ursula von der Leyen age 10
Mike Pence age 10
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 16
Michelle Bachelet age 17
Ariel Sharon age 41
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 51
Felipe VI of Spain age 1
Desmond Tutu age 37
Viktor Yanukovych age 19
Mohamed Morsi age 18
Viktor Orbán age 6
Sergio Mattarella age 28
Manmohan Singh age 36
Pervez Musharraf age 26
Yuri Andropov age 55
Julia Gillard age 7
Abdullah Gül age 18
Lech Kaczyński age 20
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 13
Jeff Bezos age 5
Buzz Aldrin age 39
Mohammad Khatami age 25
Yitzhak Rabin age 47
Tsai Ing-wen age 12