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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
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

Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 66
President - Madagascar
Grégoire Kayibanda age 48
President - Rwanda
Hammer DeRoburt age 50
President - Nauru
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 52
President - Bangladesh
Roger Bonvin age 65
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 46
Prime Minister - Sweden
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 56
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Pierre Trudeau age 53
Prime Minister - Canada
Gough Whitlam age 56
Prime Minister - Australia
Bruno Kreisky age 62
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 51
Prime Minister - Malaysia
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 60
Prime Minister - Albania
Kalevi Sorsa age 42
Prime Minister - Finland
Thanom Kittikachorn age 61
Prime Minister - Thailand
Michael Manley age 48
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Pierre Werner age 59
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 50
Prime Minister - Guyana
Jenő Fock age 56
Prime Minister - Hungary
Kim Jong-pil age 47
Prime Minister - South Korea
Eric Williams age 61
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 49
Prime Minister - Guinea
Edmond Leburton age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 60
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 46
Prime Minister - Nepal
Errol Barrow age 53
Prime Minister - Barbados
Norman Kirk age 50
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rashidi Kawawa age 46
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Eric Gairy age 51
Prime Minister - Grenada
Ahmed Osman age 43
Prime Minister - Morocco
Alfred Hilbe age 44
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Jules Sedney age 50
Prime Minister - Suriname
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 61
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Tu'i Pelehake age 51
Prime Minister - Tonga
Abdessalam Jalloud age 28
Prime Minister - Libya
Hang Thun Hak age 48
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Makhosini Dlamini age 59
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Ahmad Lawzi age 48
Prime Minister - Jordan
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 56
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Peter Colotka age 48
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Ksente Bogoev age 53
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 49
Premier - Dominica
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 53
Prime Minister - Peru
Albin Nyamoya age 48
Prime Minister - Burundi
Žarko Bulajić age 50
Prime Minister - Montenegro
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 35
Prince - Spain
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
Pablo Picasso age 91
Charlie Chaplin age 83
Bill Gates age 17
Pope Francis age 36
Steve Jobs age 18
Bill Clinton age 26
Angela Merkel age 18
Neil Armstrong age 42
François Hollande age 18
Elvis Presley age 38
John Paul II age 52
Gabriel García Márquez age 46
Mikhail Gorbachev age 42
Elon Musk age 1
Stephen Hawking age 31
Jean-Paul Sartre age 67
Benedict XVI age 45
Mother Teresa age 62
Hillary Clinton age 25
George H. W. Bush age 48
Kamala Harris age 8
Nicolas Sarkozy age 18
Xi Jinping age 19
Naruhito age 13
Hugo Chávez age 18
Simone de Beauvoir age 65
Muammar Gaddafi age 30
John Lennon age 32
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 19
Muhammad Ali age 31
Kofi Annan age 34
Charles III age 24
Osama bin Laden age 15
Lech Wałęsa age 29
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 28
Tim Berners-Lee age 17
Mahathir Mohamad age 47
Boris Yeltsin age 42
Ali Khamenei age 33
Jacques Chirac age 40
Guillermo Lasso age 17
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 54
Alexander Lukashenko age 18
Tony Blair age 19
Yasser Arafat age 43
David Cameron age 6
Linus Torvalds age 3
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 1
Nicolás Maduro age 10
Robert Mugabe age 49
Hosni Mubarak age 44
Dilma Rousseff age 25
Al Gore age 24
François Mitterrand age 56
David Ben-Gurion age 86
Milton Friedman age 60
Ruhollah Khomeini age 70
Valentina Tereshkova age 36
Ilham Aliyev age 11
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 34
António Guterres age 23
Akihito age 39
Helmut Kohl age 42
Rosa Parks age 60
Gordon Brown age 22
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 30
Evo Morales age 13
Joko Widodo age 11
Petro Poroshenko age 7
Mikheil Saakashvili age 5
Augusto Pinochet age 57
Ursula von der Leyen age 14
Mike Pence age 13
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 20
Michelle Bachelet age 21
Ariel Sharon age 45
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 55
Felipe VI of Spain age 5
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 17
Jeff Bezos age 9
Buzz Aldrin age 43
Mohammad Khatami age 29