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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
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
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Easter Offensive 1972-03-30 - 1972-10-22
Battle of An Lộc 1972-04-13 - 1972-07-20
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09

People

Jenő Fock age 56
Prime Minister - Hungary
Kim Jong-pil age 46
Prime Minister - South Korea
Eric Williams age 60
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 48
Prime Minister - Guinea
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 59
Prime Minister - Iceland
Son Ngoc Thanh age 63
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Hedi Amara Nouira age 61
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Ferit Melen age 65
Prime Minister - Turkey
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 46
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 45
Prime Minister - Nepal
Errol Barrow age 52
Prime Minister - Barbados
Rashidi Kawawa age 46
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Eric Gairy age 50
Prime Minister - Grenada
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 53
Prime Minister - Morocco
Alfred Hilbe age 43
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Jules Sedney age 49
Prime Minister - Suriname
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 60
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Jack Marshall age 60
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Tu'i Pelehake age 50
Prime Minister - Tonga
Makhosini Dlamini age 58
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Ahmad Lawzi age 47
Prime Minister - Jordan
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 55
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Peter Colotka age 47
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 39
Prime Minister - Yemen
Ksente Bogoev age 52
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 48
Premier - Dominica
Said Ibrahim Ben Ali age 61
Prime Minister - Comoros
Žarko Bulajić age 49
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Ernesto Montagne Sánchez age 55
Prime Minister - Peru
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 71
Governor-General - New Zealand
Paul Hasluck age 67
Governor-General - Australia
Clifford Campbell age 80
Governor-General - Jamaica
Arleigh Winston Scott age 72
Governor-General - Barbados
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 34
Prince - Spain
George H. W. Bush age 48
United States Ambassador to the UN
Barack Obama age 10
Donald Trump age 26
Michael Jackson age 13
Vladimir Putin age 19
Nelson Mandela age 53
George W. Bush age 25
Joe Biden age 29
Pablo Picasso age 90
Charlie Chaplin age 83
Bill Gates age 16
Pope Francis age 35
Steve Jobs age 17
Bill Clinton age 25
Angela Merkel age 17
Neil Armstrong age 41
François Hollande age 17
Elvis Presley age 37
John Paul II age 52
Gabriel García Márquez age 45
Mikhail Gorbachev age 41
Elon Musk age 11 months
Stephen Hawking age 30
Jean-Paul Sartre age 67
Benedict XVI age 45
Mother Teresa age 61
Harry S. Truman age 88
Hillary Clinton age 24
Kamala Harris age 7
Nicolas Sarkozy age 17
Xi Jinping age 19
Naruhito age 12
Hugo Chávez age 17
Simone de Beauvoir age 64
John Lennon age 31
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 18
Muhammad Ali age 30
Kofi Annan age 34
Charles III age 23
Osama bin Laden age 15
Lech Wałęsa age 28
Lyndon B. Johnson age 63
Leo XIV age 16
Diego Maradona age 11
Narendra Modi age 21
Rafael Correa age 9
Aung San Suu Kyi age 27
Benjamin Netanyahu age 22
Dmitry Medvedev age 6
14th Dalai Lama age 36
Silvio Berlusconi age 35
Shinzo Abe age 17
Bob Marley age 27
Tim Berners-Lee age 17
Mahathir Mohamad age 46
Boris Yeltsin age 41
Ali Khamenei age 33
Jacques Chirac age 39
Guillermo Lasso age 16
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 53
Alexander Lukashenko age 17
Tony Blair age 19
Yasser Arafat age 42
David Cameron age 5
Linus Torvalds age 2
Ban Ki-moon age 28
Boris Johnson age 8
Diana, Princess of Wales age 10
Bashar al-Assad age 6
Benazir Bhutto age 19
Jair Bolsonaro age 17
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 26
Theresa May age 15
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 15
Henry Kissinger age 49
Václav Havel age 35
Justin Trudeau age 5 months
Nicolás Maduro age 9
Robert Mugabe age 48
Hosni Mubarak age 44
Dilma Rousseff age 24
Deng Xiaoping age 67
Al Gore age 24
François Mitterrand age 55
David Ben-Gurion age 85
Milton Friedman age 59
Ruhollah Khomeini age 69
Valentina Tereshkova age 35
Ilham Aliyev age 10
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 33
António Guterres age 23
Akihito age 38
Helmut Kohl age 42
Rosa Parks age 59
Gordon Brown age 21
Shimon Peres age 48
John Paul I age 59
Olaf Scholz age 14
Keir Starmer age 9
Gerhard Schröder age 28
Hassan Rouhani age 23
Hu Jintao age 29
Evo Morales age 12
Joko Widodo age 10
Petro Poroshenko age 6
Mikheil Saakashvili age 4
Augusto Pinochet age 56
Ursula von der Leyen age 13
Mike Pence age 13
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 19
Michelle Bachelet age 20
Ariel Sharon age 44
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 54
Felipe VI of Spain age 4
Desmond Tutu age 40
Viktor Yanukovych age 21
Mohamed Morsi age 20
Viktor Orbán age 9
Sergio Mattarella age 30
Manmohan Singh age 39
Pervez Musharraf age 28
Yuri Andropov age 58
Julia Gillard age 10
Abdullah Gül age 21
Lech Kaczyński age 23
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 16
Jeff Bezos age 8
Buzz Aldrin age 42
Mohammad Khatami age 28
Yitzhak Rabin age 50
Tsai Ing-wen age 15
Mariano Rajoy age 17
Andrei Sakharov age 51
Dick Cheney age 31
Condoleezza Rice age 17
Raúl Castro age 41
Sheikh Hasina age 24
Giorgio Napolitano age 47
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 31
Mark Rutte age 5
Yulia Tymoshenko age 11
Rodrigo Duterte age 27
Abdullah II of Jordan age 10
Helmut Schmidt age 53
Stephen Harper age 13
Donald Tusk age 15
Corazon Aquino age 39
John Kerry age 28
Madeleine Albright age 35
Hamid Karzai age 14
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 5
José Mujica age 37
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 47
Yoshihide Suga age 23
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 4
Rajiv Gandhi age 27
Andrzej Duda age 1 month
Thabo Mbeki age 30
Wernher von Braun age 60
Harald V of Norway age 35
Viktor Yushchenko age 18
John Major age 29
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 17
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 35
Jens Stoltenberg age 13
Slobodan Milošević age 30