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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

Ibrahim Nasir age 44
President - Maldives
Juan José Torres age 50
President - Bolivia
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 47
President - Colombia
Jim Fouché age 72
State President - South Africa
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 53
President - El Salvador
Suleiman Frangieh age 60
President - Lebanon
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 51
Emir - Qatar
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 57
Emir - Kuwait
Rudolf Gnägi age 53
President - Switzerland
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 75
President - Mongolia
Muammar Gaddafi age 28
Prime Minister - Libya
Lee Kuan Yew age 47
Prime Minister - Singapore
Olof Palme age 44
Prime Minister - Sweden
Süleyman Demirel age 46
Prime Minister - Turkey
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 54
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Pierre Trudeau age 51
Prime Minister - Canada
Bruno Kreisky age 60
Chancellor - Austria
Abdou Diouf age 35
Prime Minister - Senegal
Georgios Papadopoulos age 51
Prime Minister - Greece
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 35
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Lon Nol age 57
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Marcelo Caetano age 64
Prime Minister - Portugal
Piet de Jong age 55
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Abdul Razak Hussein age 48
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 44
Prime Minister - Kuwait
John Gorton age 59
Prime Minister - Australia
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 54
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Mehmet Shehu age 58
Prime Minister - Albania
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 38
Prime Minister - Qatar
Thanom Kittikachorn age 59
Prime Minister - Thailand
Gaston Eyskens age 65
Prime Minister - Belgium
Pierre Werner age 57
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 68
Prime Minister - Romania
Ahti Karjalainen age 48
Prime Minister - Finland
Per Borten age 57
Prime Minister - Norway
Kamisese Mara age 50
Prime Minister - Fiji
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 70
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Forbes Burnham age 48
Prime Minister - Guyana
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 57
Prime Minister - Ghana
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 51
Prime Minister - Denmark
Jenő Fock age 54
Prime Minister - Hungary
Eric Williams age 59
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Keith Holyoake age 67
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Jóhann Hafstein age 55
Prime Minister - Iceland
Wasfi Tal age 52
Prime Minister - Jordan
Hedi Amara Nouira age 59
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 45
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Ahmed Laraki age 39
Prime Minister - Morocco
Errol Barrow age 51
Prime Minister - Barbados
Hugh Shearer age 47
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Eric Gairy age 49
Prime Minister - Grenada
George Borg Olivier age 59
Prime Minister - Malta
Alfred Hilbe age 42
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Jules Sedney age 48
Prime Minister - Suriname
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 58
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Tu'i Pelehake age 49
Prime Minister - Tonga
Makhosini Dlamini age 57
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 54
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Peter Colotka age 46
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 38
Prime Minister - Yemen
Ksente Bogoev age 51
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 58
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 47
Premier - Dominica
Said Ibrahim Ben Ali age 59
Prime Minister - Comoros
Žarko Bulajić age 48
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Ernesto Montagne Sánchez age 54
Prime Minister - Peru
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 70
Governor-General - New Zealand
Paul Hasluck age 65
Governor-General - Australia
Clifford Campbell age 78
Governor-General - Jamaica
Arleigh Winston Scott age 70
Governor-General - Barbados
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 33
Prince - Spain
Barack Obama age 9
Donald Trump age 24
Michael Jackson age 12
Vladimir Putin age 18
Nelson Mandela age 52
George W. Bush age 24
Joe Biden age 28
Pablo Picasso age 89
Charlie Chaplin age 81
Bill Gates age 15
Jimmy Wales age 4
Pope Francis age 34
Steve Jobs age 15
Bill Clinton age 24
Angela Merkel age 16
Neil Armstrong age 40
François Hollande age 16
Elvis Presley age 36
John Paul II age 50
Gabriel García Márquez age 43
Mikhail Gorbachev age 39
Stephen Hawking age 29
Jean-Paul Sartre age 65
Benedict XVI age 43
Mother Teresa age 60
Harry S. Truman age 86
Hillary Clinton age 23
George H. W. Bush age 46
Kamala Harris age 6
Nicolas Sarkozy age 16
Xi Jinping age 17
Naruhito age 10
Hugo Chávez age 16
Simone de Beauvoir age 63
John Lennon age 30
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 16
Muhammad Ali age 29
Kofi Annan age 32
Charles III age 22
Osama bin Laden age 13
Lech Wałęsa age 27
Lyndon B. Johnson age 62
Leo XIV age 15
Diego Maradona age 10
Narendra Modi age 20
Rafael Correa age 7
Aung San Suu Kyi age 25
Nikita Khrushchev age 76
Benjamin Netanyahu age 21
Dmitry Medvedev age 5
14th Dalai Lama age 35
Silvio Berlusconi age 34
Shinzo Abe age 16
Bob Marley age 26
Tim Berners-Lee age 15
Mahathir Mohamad age 45
Boris Yeltsin age 40
Ali Khamenei age 31
Jacques Chirac age 38
Guillermo Lasso age 15
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 52
Kwame Nkrumah age 61
Alexander Lukashenko age 16
Tony Blair age 17
Yasser Arafat age 41
David Cameron age 4
Linus Torvalds age 1
Ban Ki-moon age 26
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 23
Boris Johnson age 6
Diana, Princess of Wales age 9
Bashar al-Assad age 5
Benazir Bhutto age 17
Jair Bolsonaro age 15
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 25
Theresa May age 14
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 14
Henry Kissinger age 47
Václav Havel age 34
Nicolás Maduro age 8
Robert Mugabe age 47
Hosni Mubarak age 42
Dilma Rousseff age 23
Kim Jong-il age 30
Al Gore age 22
François Mitterrand age 54
David Ben-Gurion age 84
Milton Friedman age 58
Ruhollah Khomeini age 68
Valentina Tereshkova age 33
John McCain age 34
Ilham Aliyev age 9
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 32
António Guterres age 21
Akihito age 37
Helmut Kohl age 40
Rosa Parks age 58
Gordon Brown age 20
Shimon Peres age 47
Wangari Maathai age 30
John Paul I age 58
Prince Philip age 49
Olaf Scholz age 12
Keir Starmer age 8
Gerhard Schröder age 26
Hassan Rouhani age 22
Hu Jintao age 28
Evo Morales age 11
Joko Widodo age 9
Petro Poroshenko age 5
Mikheil Saakashvili age 3
Augusto Pinochet age 55
Ursula von der Leyen age 12
Mike Pence age 11
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 18
Michelle Bachelet age 19
Ariel Sharon age 43
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 53
Felipe VI of Spain age 3
Desmond Tutu age 39
Viktor Yanukovych age 20
Mohamed Morsi age 19
Viktor Orbán age 7
Sergio Mattarella age 29
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 45
Manmohan Singh age 38
Pervez Musharraf age 27
Yuri Andropov age 56
Julia Gillard age 9