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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

People

Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 43
President - Ghana
Oswaldo López Arellano age 53
President - Honduras
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 36
King - Lesotho
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 68
President - Madagascar
Hammer DeRoburt age 52
President - Nauru
Phaedon Gizikis age 57
President - Greece
Ibrahim Nasir age 48
President - Maldives
William Gopallawa age 77
President - Sri Lanka
Suleiman Frangieh age 64
President - Lebanon
Aman Andom age 50
President - Ethiopia
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 61
Emir - Kuwait
Arturo Armando Molina age 47
President - El Salvador
Mohammad Mohammadullah age 53
President - Bangladesh
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 53
President - Costa Rica
Sergej Kraigher age 60
President - Slovenia
Ernst Brugger age 60
President - Switzerland
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 60
President - Portugal
Enrico Andreoli age 53
Captain Regent - San Marino
Jim Fouché age 76
State President - South Africa
Lee Kuan Yew age 51
Prime Minister - Singapore
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 54
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 46
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Olof Palme age 47
Prime Minister - Sweden
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 58
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Pierre Trudeau age 55
Prime Minister - Canada
Bülent Ecevit age 49
Prime Minister - Turkey
Gough Whitlam age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Joaquim Chissano age 35
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Bruno Kreisky age 63
Chancellor - Austria
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 67
Prime Minister - Greece
Abdou Diouf age 39
Prime Minister - Senegal
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 38
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Abdul Razak Hussein age 52
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 48
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Gaston Thorn age 46
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Leo Tindemans age 52
Prime Minister - Belgium
Joop den Uyl age 55
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Dom Mintoff age 58
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 61
Prime Minister - Albania
Kalevi Sorsa age 43
Prime Minister - Finland
Trygve Bratteli age 64
Prime Minister - Norway
Carlos Arias Navarro age 65
Prime Minister - Spain
Michael Manley age 49
Prime Minister - Jamaica
George Cadle Price age 55
Premier - Belize
Kamisese Mara age 54
Prime Minister - Fiji
Poul Hartling age 60
Prime Minister - Denmark
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 74
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 63
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 50
Prime Minister - Guinea
Lynden Pindling age 44
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
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
Rashidi Kawawa age 48
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Eric Gairy age 52
Prime Minister - Grenada
Ahmed Osman age 44
Prime Minister - Morocco
Bill Rowling age 46
Prime Minister - New Zealand
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 37
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 58
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Peter Colotka age 49
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 42
Prime Minister - Yemen
Mainza Chona age 44
Prime Minister - Zambia
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 55
Prime Minister - Peru
Marko Orlandić age 44
Prime Minister - Montenegro
John Kerr age 60
Governor-General - Australia
Florizel Glasspole age 65
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 16
Vladimir Putin age 22
Nelson Mandela age 56
George W. Bush age 28
Charlie Chaplin age 85
Bill Gates age 19
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 27
George H. W. Bush age 50
Kamala Harris age 10
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 34
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 31
Leo XIV age 19
Diego Maradona age 13
Narendra Modi age 24
Rafael Correa age 11
Aung San Suu Kyi age 29
Benjamin Netanyahu age 25
Dmitry Medvedev age 9
14th Dalai Lama age 39
Silvio Berlusconi age 38
Shinzo Abe age 20
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 20
Tony Blair age 21
Yasser Arafat age 45
David Cameron age 8
Linus Torvalds age 4
Ban Ki-moon age 30
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 27
Boris Johnson age 10
Diana, Princess of Wales age 13
Bashar al-Assad age 9
Benazir Bhutto age 21
Jair Bolsonaro age 19
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 29
Theresa May age 18
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 18
Václav Havel age 38
Justin Trudeau age 2
Nicolás Maduro age 11
Robert Mugabe age 50
Hosni Mubarak age 46
Golda Meir age 76
Dilma Rousseff age 26
Al Gore age 26
François Mitterrand age 58
Milton Friedman age 62
Ruhollah Khomeini age 72
Valentina Tereshkova age 37
Ilham Aliyev age 12
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 36
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 62
Olaf Scholz age 16
Keir Starmer age 12
Willy Brandt age 60
Gerhard Schröder age 30
Hassan Rouhani age 25
Hu Jintao age 31
Evo Morales age 15
Joko Widodo age 13
Petro Poroshenko age 9
Mikheil Saakashvili age 6
Ursula von der Leyen age 16
Mike Pence age 15
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 21
Michelle Bachelet age 23
Ariel Sharon age 46
Felipe VI of Spain age 6
Desmond Tutu age 43
Viktor Yanukovych age 24
Mohamed Morsi age 23
Viktor Orbán age 11
Sergio Mattarella age 33
Manmohan Singh age 42