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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
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

People

Kamisese Mara age 54
Prime Minister - Fiji
Poul Hartling age 60
Prime Minister - Denmark
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 73
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Forbes Burnham age 51
Prime Minister - Guyana
Vasco Gonçalves age 53
Prime Minister - Portugal
Manea Mănescu age 58
Prime Minister - Romania
Jenő Fock age 58
Prime Minister - Hungary
Kim Jong-pil age 48
Prime Minister - South Korea
Sanya Dharmasakti age 67
Prime Minister - Thailand
Eric Williams age 62
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 50
Prime Minister - Guinea
Lynden Pindling age 44
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 61
Prime Minister - Iceland
Henck Arron age 38
Prime Minister - Suriname
Francisco Mendes age 35
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Hedi Amara Nouira age 63
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Errol Barrow age 54
Prime Minister - Barbados
Norman Kirk age 51
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rashidi Kawawa age 48
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Eric Gairy age 52
Prime Minister - Grenada
Ahmed Osman age 44
Prime Minister - Morocco
Zaid al-Rifai age 37
Prime Minister - Jordan
Long Boret age 41
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Patrick John age 36
Premier - Dominica
Walter Kieber age 43
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Henri Lopès age 36
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Tu'i Pelehake age 52
Prime Minister - Tonga
Abdessalam Jalloud age 29
Prime Minister - Libya
Makhosini Dlamini age 60
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Takieddin el-Solh age 66
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 53
Prime Minister - Samoa
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 57
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Peter Colotka age 49
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 41
Prime Minister - Yemen
Mainza Chona age 44
Prime Minister - Zambia
Mikael Imru age 44
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 54
Prime Minister - Peru
Marko Orlandić age 43
Prime Minister - Montenegro
John Kerr age 59
Governor-General - Australia
Florizel Glasspole age 64
Governor-General - Jamaica
Milo Butler age 68
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Arleigh Winston Scott age 74
Governor-General - Barbados
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 36
Prince - Spain
Barack Obama age 13
Donald Trump age 28
Michael Jackson age 15
Vladimir Putin age 21
Nelson Mandela age 56
George W. Bush age 28
Charlie Chaplin age 85
Bill Gates age 18
Pope Francis age 37
Steve Jobs age 19
Bill Clinton age 28
Angela Merkel age 20
Neil Armstrong age 44
François Hollande age 20
Elvis Presley age 39
John Paul II age 54
Gabriel García Márquez age 47
Mikhail Gorbachev age 43
Elon Musk age 3
Stephen Hawking age 32
Jean-Paul Sartre age 69
Benedict XVI age 47
Mother Teresa age 64
Hillary Clinton age 26
George H. W. Bush age 50
Kamala Harris age 9
Nicolas Sarkozy age 19
Richard Nixon age 61
Xi Jinping age 21
Naruhito age 14
Hugo Chávez age 20
Simone de Beauvoir age 66
Muammar Gaddafi age 32
John Lennon age 33
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 20
Muhammad Ali age 32
Kofi Annan age 36
Charles III age 25
Osama bin Laden age 17
Lech Wałęsa age 30
Leo XIV age 18
Diego Maradona age 13
Narendra Modi age 23
Rafael Correa age 11
Aung San Suu Kyi age 29
Benjamin Netanyahu age 24
Dmitry Medvedev age 8
14th Dalai Lama age 39
Silvio Berlusconi age 37
Shinzo Abe age 19
Bob Marley age 29
Tim Berners-Lee age 19
Mahathir Mohamad age 49
Boris Yeltsin age 43
Ali Khamenei age 35
Guillermo Lasso age 18
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 55
Alexander Lukashenko age 19
Tony Blair age 21
Yasser Arafat age 45
David Cameron age 7
Linus Torvalds age 4
Ban Ki-moon age 30
Boris Johnson age 10
Diana, Princess of Wales age 13
Bashar al-Assad age 8
Benazir Bhutto age 21
Jair Bolsonaro age 19
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 28
Theresa May age 17
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 17
Václav Havel age 37
Justin Trudeau age 2
Nicolás Maduro age 11
Robert Mugabe age 50
Hosni Mubarak age 46
Golda Meir age 76
Dilma Rousseff age 26
Deng Xiaoping age 70
Al Gore age 26
François Mitterrand age 57
Milton Friedman age 62
Ruhollah Khomeini age 71
Valentina Tereshkova age 37
Ilham Aliyev age 12
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 35
António Guterres age 25
Akihito age 40
Helmut Kohl age 44
Rosa Parks age 61
Gordon Brown age 23
Shimon Peres age 51
John Paul I age 61
Olaf Scholz age 16
Keir Starmer age 11
Willy Brandt age 60
Gerhard Schröder age 30
Hassan Rouhani age 25
Hu Jintao age 31
Evo Morales age 14
Joko Widodo age 13
Petro Poroshenko age 8
Mikheil Saakashvili age 6
Ursula von der Leyen age 15
Mike Pence age 15
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 21
Michelle Bachelet age 22
Ariel Sharon age 46
Felipe VI of Spain age 6
Desmond Tutu age 42
Viktor Yanukovych age 24
Mohamed Morsi age 23
Viktor Orbán age 11
Sergio Mattarella age 33
Manmohan Singh age 41
Pervez Musharraf age 31
Yuri Andropov age 60
Julia Gillard age 12
Abdullah Gül age 23
Lech Kaczyński age 25
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 18
Jeff Bezos age 10
Buzz Aldrin age 44
Mohammad Khatami age 30
Tsai Ing-wen age 17
Mariano Rajoy age 19
Andrei Sakharov age 53
Dick Cheney age 33
Condoleezza Rice age 19
Raúl Castro age 43
Sheikh Hasina age 26
Giorgio Napolitano age 49
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 34
Mark Rutte age 7
Yulia Tymoshenko age 13
Rodrigo Duterte age 29
Abdullah II of Jordan age 12
Stephen Harper age 15
Donald Tusk age 17
Corazon Aquino age 41
John Kerry age 30
Madeleine Albright age 37
Hamid Karzai age 16
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 7
José Mujica age 39
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 50
Yoshihide Suga age 25
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 6
Rajiv Gandhi age 30
Andrzej Duda age 2
Thabo Mbeki age 32
Wernher von Braun age 62
Harald V of Norway age 37
Viktor Yushchenko age 20
John Major age 31
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 19
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 37