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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
1973 oil crisis 1973-10-17 - 1974-03-18

People

Arturo Armando Molina age 46
President - El Salvador
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury age 52
President - Bangladesh
Roger Bonvin age 66
President - Switzerland
Antonio Lazzaro Volpinari age 30
Captain Regent - San Marino
Jim Fouché age 75
State President - South Africa
Lee Kuan Yew age 50
Prime Minister - Singapore
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 53
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 45
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Olof Palme age 46
Prime Minister - Sweden
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 57
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Pierre Trudeau age 54
Prime Minister - Canada
Gough Whitlam age 57
Prime Minister - Australia
Bruno Kreisky age 62
Chancellor - Austria
Abdou Diouf age 38
Prime Minister - Senegal
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 37
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Marcelo Caetano age 67
Prime Minister - Portugal
Luis Carrero Blanco age 69
Prime Minister - Spain
Abdul Razak Hussein age 51
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 47
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Anker Jørgensen age 51
Prime Minister - Denmark
Joop den Uyl age 54
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 57
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Dom Mintoff age 57
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 60
Prime Minister - Albania
Kalevi Sorsa age 42
Prime Minister - Finland
Trygve Bratteli age 63
Prime Minister - Norway
Michael Manley age 48
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Pierre Werner age 59
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 71
Prime Minister - Romania
George Cadle Price age 54
Premier - Belize
Kamisese Mara age 53
Prime Minister - Fiji
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 73
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Forbes Burnham age 50
Prime Minister - Guyana
Jenő Fock age 57
Prime Minister - Hungary
Kim Jong-pil age 47
Prime Minister - South Korea
Sanya Dharmasakti age 66
Prime Minister - Thailand
Eric Williams age 62
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 49
Prime Minister - Guinea
Lynden Pindling age 43
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Edmond Leburton age 58
Prime Minister - Belgium
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 60
Prime Minister - Iceland
Spiridon Markezinis age 64
Prime Minister - Greece
Francisco Mendes age 34
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Hedi Amara Nouira age 62
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 48
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Errol Barrow age 53
Prime Minister - Barbados
Norman Kirk age 50
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rashidi Kawawa age 47
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Eric Gairy age 51
Prime Minister - Grenada
Ahmed Osman age 43
Prime Minister - Morocco
Zaid al-Rifai age 36
Prime Minister - Jordan
Naim Talu age 54
Prime Minister - Turkey
Henri Lopès age 36
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
In Tam age 51
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Alfred Hilbe age 45
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Jules Sedney age 51
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
Makhosini Dlamini age 59
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Takieddin el-Solh age 65
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 52
Prime Minister - Samoa
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 57
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Peter Colotka age 48
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Ksente Bogoev age 54
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Mainza Chona age 43
Prime Minister - Zambia
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 50
Premier - Dominica
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 54
Prime Minister - Peru
Žarko Bulajić age 51
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Paul Hasluck age 68
Governor-General - Australia
Florizel Glasspole age 64
Governor-General - Jamaica
Milo Butler age 67
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Arleigh Winston Scott age 73
Governor-General - Barbados
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 35
Prince - Spain
Barack Obama age 12
Donald Trump age 27
Michael Jackson age 15
Vladimir Putin age 21
Nelson Mandela age 55
George W. Bush age 27
Charlie Chaplin age 84
Bill Gates age 18
Pope Francis age 36
Steve Jobs age 18
Bill Clinton age 27
Angela Merkel age 19
Neil Armstrong age 43
François Hollande age 19
Elvis Presley age 38
John Paul II age 53
Gabriel García Márquez age 46
Mikhail Gorbachev age 42
Elon Musk age 2
Stephen Hawking age 31
Jean-Paul Sartre age 68
Benedict XVI age 46
Mother Teresa age 63
Hillary Clinton age 26
George H. W. Bush age 49
Kamala Harris age 9
Nicolas Sarkozy age 18
Xi Jinping age 20
Naruhito age 13
Hugo Chávez age 19
Simone de Beauvoir age 65
Muammar Gaddafi age 31
John Lennon age 33
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 19
Muhammad Ali age 31
Kofi Annan age 35
Charles III age 25
Osama bin Laden age 16
Lech Wałęsa age 30
Leo XIV age 18
Diego Maradona age 13
Narendra Modi age 23
Rafael Correa age 10
Aung San Suu Kyi age 28
Benjamin Netanyahu age 24
Dmitry Medvedev age 8
14th Dalai Lama age 38
Silvio Berlusconi age 37
Shinzo Abe age 19
Bob Marley age 28
Tim Berners-Lee age 18
Mahathir Mohamad age 48
Boris Yeltsin age 42
Ali Khamenei age 34
Jacques Chirac age 40
Guillermo Lasso age 17
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 54
Alexander Lukashenko age 19
Tony Blair age 20
Yasser Arafat age 44
David Cameron age 7
Linus Torvalds age 3
Ban Ki-moon age 29
Boris Johnson age 9
Diana, Princess of Wales age 12
Bashar al-Assad age 8
Benazir Bhutto age 20
Jair Bolsonaro age 18
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 28
Theresa May age 17
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 17
Václav Havel age 37
Justin Trudeau age 1
Nicolás Maduro age 10
Robert Mugabe age 49
Hosni Mubarak age 45
Dilma Rousseff age 25
Al Gore age 25
François Mitterrand age 57
David Ben-Gurion age 87
Milton Friedman age 61
Ruhollah Khomeini age 71
Valentina Tereshkova age 36
Ilham Aliyev age 11
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 35
António Guterres age 24
Akihito age 39
Helmut Kohl age 43
Rosa Parks age 60
Gordon Brown age 22
Shimon Peres age 50
John Paul I age 61
Olaf Scholz age 15
Keir Starmer age 11
Gerhard Schröder age 29
Hassan Rouhani age 25
Hu Jintao age 30
Evo Morales age 14
Joko Widodo age 12
Petro Poroshenko age 8
Mikheil Saakashvili age 5
Ursula von der Leyen age 15
Mike Pence age 14
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 20
Michelle Bachelet age 22
Ariel Sharon age 45
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 55
Felipe VI of Spain age 5
Desmond Tutu age 42
Viktor Yanukovych age 23
Mohamed Morsi age 22
Viktor Orbán age 10
Sergio Mattarella age 32
Manmohan Singh age 41
Pervez Musharraf age 30
Yuri Andropov age 59
Julia Gillard age 12
Abdullah Gül age 23
Lech Kaczyński age 24
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 17
Jeff Bezos age 9
Buzz Aldrin age 43
Mohammad Khatami age 30
Yitzhak Rabin age 51
Tsai Ing-wen age 17
Mariano Rajoy age 18