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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
Bangladesh genocide 1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
Bangladesh War of Independence 1971-03-26 - 1971-12-16

People

Ibrahim Nasir age 44
President - Maldives
Juan José Torres age 51
President - Bolivia
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 47
President - Colombia
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 53
President - El Salvador
Suleiman Frangieh age 61
President - Lebanon
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 51
Emir - Qatar
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 58
Emir - Kuwait
Rudolf Gnägi age 53
President - Switzerland
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 75
President - Mongolia
Luigi Lonfernini age 32
Captain Regent - San Marino
Jim Fouché age 73
State President - South Africa
Muammar Gaddafi age 29
Prime Minister - Libya
Lee Kuan Yew age 47
Prime Minister - Singapore
Olof Palme age 44
Prime Minister - Sweden
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 55
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 52
Prime Minister - Greece
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 35
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Marcelo Caetano age 64
Prime Minister - Portugal
Piet de Jong age 56
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Abdul Razak Hussein age 49
Prime Minister - Malaysia
William McMahon age 63
Prime Minister - Australia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 44
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 54
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Mehmet Shehu age 58
Prime Minister - Albania
Trygve Bratteli age 61
Prime Minister - Norway
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 38
Prime Minister - Qatar
Thanom Kittikachorn age 59
Prime Minister - Thailand
Gaston Eyskens age 66
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
Kamisese Mara age 51
Prime Minister - Fiji
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 70
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Tajuddin Ahmad age 45
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
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 55
Prime Minister - Hungary
Kim Jong-pil age 45
Prime Minister - South Korea
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 60
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 45
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Sisowath Sirik Matak age 57
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Ahmed Laraki age 39
Prime Minister - Morocco
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 44
Prime Minister - Nepal
Errol Barrow age 51
Prime Minister - Barbados
Hugh Shearer age 48
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 59
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
Ksente Bogoev age 51
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 59
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 47
Premier - Dominica
Said Ibrahim Ben Ali age 60
Prime Minister - Comoros
Žarko Bulajić age 48
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Ernesto Montagne Sánchez age 54
Prime Minister - Peru
Nihat Erim age 59
Prime Minister - Turkey
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 70
Governor-General - New Zealand
Paul Hasluck age 66
Governor-General - Australia
Clifford Campbell age 78
Governor-General - Jamaica
Arleigh Winston Scott age 71
Governor-General - Barbados
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 33
Prince - Spain
George H. W. Bush age 47
United States Ambassador to the UN
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 82
Bill Gates age 15
Pope Francis age 34
Steve Jobs age 16
Bill Clinton age 24
Angela Merkel age 16
Neil Armstrong age 40
François Hollande age 16
Elvis Presley age 36
John Paul II age 51
Gabriel García Márquez age 44
Mikhail Gorbachev age 40
Stephen Hawking age 29
Jean-Paul Sartre age 66
Benedict XVI age 44
Mother Teresa age 60
Harry S. Truman age 87
Hillary Clinton age 23
Kamala Harris age 6
Nicolas Sarkozy age 16
Xi Jinping age 17
Naruhito age 11
Hugo Chávez age 16
Simone de Beauvoir age 63
John Lennon age 30
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 17
Muhammad Ali age 29
Kofi Annan age 33
Charles III age 22
Osama bin Laden age 14
Lech Wałęsa age 27
Lyndon B. Johnson age 62
Leo XIV age 15
Diego Maradona age 10
Narendra Modi age 20
Rafael Correa age 8
Aung San Suu Kyi age 25
Nikita Khrushchev age 77
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 16
Mahathir Mohamad age 45
Boris Yeltsin age 40
Ali Khamenei age 32
Jacques Chirac age 38
Guillermo Lasso age 15
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 52
Kwame Nkrumah age 61
Alexander Lukashenko age 16
Tony Blair age 18
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 16
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 25
Theresa May age 14
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 14
Henry Kissinger age 48
Václav Havel age 34
Nicolás Maduro age 8
Robert Mugabe age 47
Hosni Mubarak age 43
Dilma Rousseff age 23
Al Gore age 23
François Mitterrand age 54
David Ben-Gurion age 84
Milton Friedman age 58
Ruhollah Khomeini age 68
Valentina Tereshkova age 34
Ilham Aliyev age 9
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 32
António Guterres age 22
Akihito age 37
Helmut Kohl age 41
Rosa Parks age 58
Gordon Brown age 20
Shimon Peres age 47
John Paul I age 58
Olaf Scholz age 12
Keir Starmer age 8
Gerhard Schröder age 27
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 12
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 8
Sergio Mattarella age 29
Manmohan Singh age 38
Pervez Musharraf age 27
Yuri Andropov age 57
Julia Gillard age 9
Abdullah Gül age 20
Lech Kaczyński age 21
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 15