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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
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09

People

Ibrahim Nasir age 46
President - Maldives
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 49
President - Colombia
William Gopallawa age 75
President - Sri Lanka
Suleiman Frangieh age 62
President - Lebanon
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 59
Emir - Kuwait
Arturo Armando Molina age 45
President - El Salvador
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury age 51
President - Bangladesh
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 69
President - Honduras
Nello Celio age 58
President - Switzerland
Jim Fouché age 74
State President - South Africa
Lee Kuan Yew age 49
Prime Minister - Singapore
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 52
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Olof Palme age 45
Prime Minister - Sweden
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 56
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Pierre Trudeau age 53
Prime Minister - Canada
Bruno Kreisky age 61
Chancellor - Austria
Abdou Diouf age 37
Prime Minister - Senegal
Georgios Papadopoulos age 53
Prime Minister - Greece
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 37
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Marcelo Caetano age 66
Prime Minister - Portugal
Abdul Razak Hussein age 50
Prime Minister - Malaysia
William McMahon age 64
Prime Minister - Australia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 46
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Anker Jørgensen age 50
Prime Minister - Denmark
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 56
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Dom Mintoff age 56
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 59
Prime Minister - Albania
Kalevi Sorsa age 41
Prime Minister - Finland
Gaston Eyskens age 67
Prime Minister - Belgium
Michael Manley age 47
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Pierre Werner age 58
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 70
Prime Minister - Romania
Lars Korvald age 56
Prime Minister - Norway
Kamisese Mara age 52
Prime Minister - Fiji
Barend Biesheuvel age 52
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 72
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Forbes Burnham age 49
Prime Minister - Guyana
Jenő Fock age 56
Prime Minister - Hungary
Kim Jong-pil age 46
Prime Minister - South Korea
Eric Williams age 61
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 48
Prime Minister - Guinea
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 59
Prime Minister - Iceland
Hedi Amara Nouira age 61
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Ferit Melen age 66
Prime Minister - Turkey
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 47
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
Ahmed Osman age 42
Prime Minister - Morocco
Alfred Hilbe age 44
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Jules Sedney age 50
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
Abdessalam Jalloud age 27
Prime Minister - Libya
Hang Thun Hak age 48
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Makhosini Dlamini age 58
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Ahmad Lawzi age 47
Prime Minister - Jordan
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 56
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Peter Colotka age 47
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 40
Prime Minister - Yemen
Ksente Bogoev age 53
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 49
Premier - Dominica
Albin Nyamoya age 48
Prime Minister - Burundi
Žarko Bulajić age 50
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Ernesto Montagne Sánchez age 56
Prime Minister - Peru
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 11
Donald Trump age 26
Michael Jackson age 14
Vladimir Putin age 20
Nelson Mandela age 54
George W. Bush age 26
Joe Biden age 30
Pablo Picasso age 91
Charlie Chaplin age 83
Bill Gates age 17
Pope Francis age 35
Steve Jobs age 17
Bill Clinton age 26
Angela Merkel age 18
Neil Armstrong age 42
François Hollande age 18
Elvis Presley age 37
John Paul II age 52
Gabriel García Márquez age 45
Mikhail Gorbachev age 41
Elon Musk age 1
Stephen Hawking age 30
Jean-Paul Sartre age 67
Benedict XVI age 45
Mother Teresa age 62
Harry S. Truman age 88
Hillary Clinton age 25
Kamala Harris age 8
Nicolas Sarkozy age 17
Xi Jinping age 19
Naruhito age 12
Hugo Chávez age 18
Simone de Beauvoir age 64
Muammar Gaddafi age 30
John Lennon age 32
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 18
Muhammad Ali age 30
Kofi Annan age 34
Charles III age 24
Osama bin Laden age 15
Lech Wałęsa age 29
Lyndon B. Johnson age 64
Leo XIV age 17
Diego Maradona age 12
Narendra Modi age 22
Rafael Correa age 9
Aung San Suu Kyi age 27
Benjamin Netanyahu age 23
Dmitry Medvedev age 7
14th Dalai Lama age 37
Silvio Berlusconi age 36
Shinzo Abe age 18
Bob Marley age 27
Tim Berners-Lee age 17
Mahathir Mohamad age 47
Boris Yeltsin age 41
Ali Khamenei age 33
Jacques Chirac age 40
Guillermo Lasso age 17
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 53
Alexander Lukashenko age 18
Tony Blair age 19
Yasser Arafat age 43
David Cameron age 6
Linus Torvalds age 2
Ban Ki-moon age 28
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 25
Boris Johnson age 8
Diana, Princess of Wales age 11
Bashar al-Assad age 7
Benazir Bhutto age 19
Jair Bolsonaro age 17
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 27
Theresa May age 16
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 16
Henry Kissinger age 49
Václav Havel age 36
Justin Trudeau age 11 months
Nicolás Maduro age 10
Robert Mugabe age 48
Hosni Mubarak age 44
Dilma Rousseff age 24
Al Gore age 24
François Mitterrand age 56
David Ben-Gurion age 86
Milton Friedman age 60
Ruhollah Khomeini age 70
Valentina Tereshkova age 35
Ilham Aliyev age 10
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 34
António Guterres age 23
Akihito age 38
Helmut Kohl age 42
Rosa Parks age 59
Gordon Brown age 21
Shimon Peres age 49
John Paul I age 60
Olaf Scholz age 14
Keir Starmer age 10
Gerhard Schröder age 28
Hassan Rouhani age 24
Hu Jintao age 29
Evo Morales age 13
Joko Widodo age 11
Petro Poroshenko age 7
Mikheil Saakashvili age 4
Augusto Pinochet age 57
Ursula von der Leyen age 14
Mike Pence age 13
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 19
Michelle Bachelet age 21
Ariel Sharon age 44
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 54
Felipe VI of Spain age 4
Desmond Tutu age 41
Viktor Yanukovych age 22
Mohamed Morsi age 21
Viktor Orbán age 9
Sergio Mattarella age 31
Manmohan Singh age 40
Pervez Musharraf age 29
Yuri Andropov age 58
Julia Gillard age 11
Abdullah Gül age 22
Lech Kaczyński age 23
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 16
Jeff Bezos age 8
Buzz Aldrin age 42