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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
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

People

Hussein I of Jordan age 36
Margrethe II of Denmark age 32
Juliana of the Netherlands age 63
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 59
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 34
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 51
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 49
Hassan II age 43
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 72
Olav V of Norway age 69
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 31
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 89
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 44
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 54
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 34
Paul VI age 74
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 66
Arleigh Winston Scott age 72
George H. W. Bush age 48
United States Ambassador to the UN
George W. Bush age 26
Air National Guard
Mikhail Gorbachev age 41
Harry S. Truman age 88
Lyndon B. Johnson age 63
Deng Xiaoping age 68
Ruhollah Khomeini age 69
Souphanouvong age 63
Bill Clinton age 25
Barack Obama age 11
Donald Trump age 26
Joe Biden age 29
Rudolf Hess age 78
Albert Speer age 67
Karl Dönitz age 80
Baldur von Schirach age 65
Naoki Hoshino age 80
Francisco Franco age 79
He Yingqin age 82
Otto Hofmann age 76
Konstantin Chernenko age 60
Jiang Zemin age 46
Lee Teng-hui age 49
Yuri Andropov age 58
Henry Kissinger age 49
Anthony Eden age 75
Earl Warren age 81
John Roberts age 17
Al Gore age 24
Dick Cheney age 31
Peng Dehuai age 73
Xi Jinping age 19
Hu Jintao age 29
Li Xiannian age 63
Yang Shangkun age 65
Zhao Ziyang age 52
Hu Yaobang age 56
Hua Guofeng age 51
Robert McNamara age 56
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 66
Erich von Manstein age 84
Omar Bradley age 79
Dan Quayle age 25
Li Peng age 43
Zeng Qinghong age 33
Rong Yiren age 56
Wang Zhen (general) age 64
Zhu De age 85
Zhu Rongji age 43
Wen Jiabao age 29
Li Keqiang age 17
Ronald McNair age 21
Ellison Onizuka age 26
John Connally age 55
James Baker age 42
Lawrence Eagleburger age 42
Warren Christopher age 46
Nicholas Katzenbach age 50
Ramsey Clark age 44
Gennady Yanayev age 34
Yasser Arafat age 42
Kamala Harris age 7
Mike Pence age 13
Frank Jack Fletcher age 87
Sun Yun-suan age 58
Lee Yuan-tsu age 48
Lien Chan age 35
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 39
Stephen Breyer age 34
Clarence Thomas age 24
David Souter age 32
Anthony Kennedy age 36
Antonin Scalia age 36
Sandra Day O'Connor age 42
Archibald Cox age 60
Clarence M. Kelley age 60
William H. Webster age 48
Abe Fortas age 62
Arthur Goldberg age 64
Hillary Clinton age 24
Liz Cheney age 6
Clark Clifford age 65
James R. Schlesinger age 43
Nelson Mandela age 54
Kim Jong-il age 31
Narendra Modi age 21
Jacques Chirac age 39
Nicolas Sarkozy age 17
François Hollande age 18
Tim Berners-Lee age 17
Boris Yeltsin age 41
Muhammad Ali age 30
Aung San Suu Kyi age 27
Condoleezza Rice age 17
Rosa Parks age 59
Jo Ann Robinson age 60
John Lewis age 32
George Wallace age 52
Thomas Gage age 254
Charles III age 23
Robert A. Lovett age 76
Juan José Arévalo age 67
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 64
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 56
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 67
John Major age 29
Tony Blair age 19
Gordon Brown age 21
David Cameron age 5
Theresa May age 15
Boris Johnson age 8
Keir Starmer age 9
Harold Macmillan age 78
Alec Douglas-Home age 69
Harold Wilson age 56
James Callaghan age 60
Andy Burnham age 2
Ludwig Erhard age 75
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 68
Helmut Schmidt age 53
Helmut Kohl age 42
Gerhard Schröder age 28
Angela Merkel age 18
Olaf Scholz age 14
Friedrich Merz age 16
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 46
François Mitterrand age 55
Vladimir Putin age 19
Dmitry Medvedev age 6
William S. Sessions age 42
Louis Freeh age 22
Robert Mueller age 28
James Comey age 11
Christopher Wray age 5
Tom C. Clark age 72
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 68
John N. Mitchell age 58
Elliot Richardson age 52
Janet Reno age 34
John Ashcroft age 30
Eric Holder age 21
Merrick Garland age 19
Pam Bondi age 6
Dean Rusk age 63
Cyrus Vance age 55
Edmund Muskie age 58
Alexander Haig age 47
Madeleine Albright age 35
Rex Tillerson age 20
Mike Pompeo age 8
Antony Blinken age 10
Marco Rubio age 1
Abolhassan Banisadr age 39
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 39
Ali Khamenei age 33
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 37
Mohammad Khatami age 28
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 15
Hassan Rouhani age 23
Ebrahim Raisi age 11
Masoud Pezeshkian age 17
Bashar al-Assad age 6
Hosni Mubarak age 44
Mohamed Morsi age 21
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 17
Raúl Castro age 41
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 12
David Ben-Gurion age 85
Neil Armstrong age 42
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 63
Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani age 20
Mohammad Rabbani age 16
Babrak Karmal age 43
Hafizullah Amin age 43
Abdul Kabir age 14
Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai age 24
Mohammed Omar age 12
Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal age 51
Mohammad Yusuf age 55
Fazal khaliq age 38
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 46
Hamid Karzai age 14