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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

Georgios Papadopoulos age 50
Prime Minister - Greece
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 34
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Lon Nol age 56
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Marcelo Caetano age 63
Prime Minister - Portugal
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 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 53
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Mehmet Shehu age 57
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 56
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 67
Prime Minister - Romania
Per Borten age 56
Prime Minister - Norway
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 69
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Chung Il-kwon age 52
Prime Minister - South Korea
Forbes Burnham age 47
Prime Minister - Guyana
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 56
Prime Minister - Ghana
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 50
Prime Minister - Denmark
Jenő Fock age 53
Prime Minister - Hungary
Eric Williams age 58
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Rashid Karami age 48
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Keith Holyoake age 66
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Dudley Senanayake age 58
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Ahmed Laraki age 38
Prime Minister - Morocco
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 43
Prime Minister - Nepal
Errol Barrow age 50
Prime Minister - Barbados
Hugh Shearer age 46
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Eric Gairy age 48
Prime Minister - Grenada
George Borg Olivier age 58
Prime Minister - Malta
Bahi Ladgham age 57
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Gerard Batliner age 41
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Jules Sedney age 47
Prime Minister - Suriname
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 57
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Tu'i Pelehake age 48
Prime Minister - Tonga
Makhosini Dlamini age 56
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 48
Prime Minister - Samoa
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 53
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Peter Colotka age 45
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 37
Prime Minister - Yemen
Ksente Bogoev age 50
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 57
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 46
Premier - Dominica
Žarko Bulajić age 47
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Ernesto Montagne Sánchez age 53
Prime Minister - Peru
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 32
Prince - Spain
Barack Obama age 8
Donald Trump age 23
Michael Jackson age 11
Vladimir Putin age 17
Nelson Mandela age 51
George W. Bush age 23
Joe Biden age 27
Pablo Picasso age 88
Charlie Chaplin age 80
Bill Gates age 14
Pope Francis age 33
Steve Jobs age 14
Bill Clinton age 23
Charles de Gaulle age 79
Angela Merkel age 15
Neil Armstrong age 39
François Hollande age 15
Elvis Presley age 35
John Paul II age 49
Gabriel García Márquez age 42
Mikhail Gorbachev age 38
Stephen Hawking age 28
Jean-Paul Sartre age 64
Jimmy Carter age 45
Benedict XVI age 42
Mother Teresa age 59
Harry S. Truman age 85
Hillary Clinton age 22
Kamala Harris age 5
Nicolas Sarkozy age 15
Xi Jinping age 16
Naruhito age 9
Hugo Chávez age 15
Simone de Beauvoir age 62
John Lennon age 29
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 15
Muhammad Ali age 28
Kofi Annan age 31
Charles III age 21
Osama bin Laden age 12
Lech Wałęsa age 26
Lyndon B. Johnson age 61
Leo XIV age 14
Diego Maradona age 9
Narendra Modi age 19
Rafael Correa age 6
Aung San Suu Kyi age 24
Nikita Khrushchev age 75
Benjamin Netanyahu age 20
Dmitry Medvedev age 4
14th Dalai Lama age 34
Silvio Berlusconi age 33
Shinzo Abe age 15
Bob Marley age 25
Tim Berners-Lee age 14
Mahathir Mohamad age 44
Boris Yeltsin age 39
Ali Khamenei age 30
Jacques Chirac age 37
Guillermo Lasso age 14
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 51
Kwame Nkrumah age 60
Alexander Lukashenko age 15
Tony Blair age 16
Yasser Arafat age 40
David Cameron age 3
Linus Torvalds age 1 month
Ban Ki-moon age 25
Boris Johnson age 5
Diana, Princess of Wales age 8
Bashar al-Assad age 4
Benazir Bhutto age 16
Jair Bolsonaro age 14
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 24
Theresa May age 13
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 13
Henry Kissinger age 46
Václav Havel age 33
Nicolás Maduro age 7
Robert Mugabe age 46
Hosni Mubarak age 41
Dilma Rousseff age 22
Al Gore age 21
François Mitterrand age 53
David Ben-Gurion age 83
Milton Friedman age 57
Ruhollah Khomeini age 67
Valentina Tereshkova age 32
Ilham Aliyev age 8
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 31
António Guterres age 20
Akihito age 36
Helmut Kohl age 39
Rosa Parks age 57
Gordon Brown age 19
Shimon Peres age 46
Sukarno age 68
John Paul I age 57
Olaf Scholz age 11
Anwar Sadat age 51
Keir Starmer age 7
Gerhard Schröder age 25
Hassan Rouhani age 21
Salvador Allende age 61
Hu Jintao age 27
Evo Morales age 10
Joko Widodo age 8
Petro Poroshenko age 4
Mikheil Saakashvili age 2
Augusto Pinochet age 54
Ursula von der Leyen age 11
Mike Pence age 10
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 17
Michelle Bachelet age 18
Ariel Sharon age 42
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 52
Felipe VI of Spain age 2
Desmond Tutu age 38
Viktor Yanukovych age 19
Mohamed Morsi age 18
Viktor Orbán age 6
Sergio Mattarella age 28
Manmohan Singh age 37
Pervez Musharraf age 26
Yuri Andropov age 55
Julia Gillard age 8
Abdullah Gül age 19
Lech Kaczyński age 20
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 14
Jeff Bezos age 6
Buzz Aldrin age 40
Mohammad Khatami age 26
Yitzhak Rabin age 48
Tsai Ing-wen age 13
Mariano Rajoy age 14
Andrei Sakharov age 48
Dick Cheney age 29
Condoleezza Rice age 15
Raúl Castro age 38
Sheikh Hasina age 22
Giorgio Napolitano age 44
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 29
Mark Rutte age 3
Idi Amin age 45
Yulia Tymoshenko age 9
Rodrigo Duterte age 24
Abdullah II of Jordan age 8
Helmut Schmidt age 51