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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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
1975 spring offensive 1974-12-13 - 1975-04-30
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07

People

Michael Stasinopoulos age 71
President - Greece
Ibrahim Nasir age 48
President - Maldives
William Gopallawa age 77
President - Sri Lanka
Tafari Benti age 53
President - Ethiopia
Suleiman Frangieh age 64
President - Lebanon
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 62
Emir - Kuwait
Arturo Armando Molina age 47
President - El Salvador
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 53
President - Costa Rica
Pierre Graber age 66
President - Switzerland
Gilles Andriamahazo age 56
President - Madagascar
Sergej Kraigher age 60
President - Slovenia
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 44
President - Honduras
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 60
President - Portugal
Alberto Cecchetti age 31
Captain Regent - San Marino
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 62
King - Saudi Arabia
Nicolaas Diederichs age 71
State President - South Africa
Lee Kuan Yew age 51
Prime Minister - Singapore
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 47
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Olof Palme age 48
Prime Minister - Sweden
Süleyman Demirel age 50
Prime Minister - Turkey
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 59
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Pierre Trudeau age 55
Prime Minister - Canada
Gough Whitlam age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Joaquim Chissano age 35
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Bruno Kreisky age 64
Chancellor - Austria
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 68
Prime Minister - Greece
Abdou Diouf age 39
Prime Minister - Senegal
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 39
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Abdul Razak Hussein age 53
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 48
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Gaston Thorn age 46
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Leo Tindemans age 53
Prime Minister - Belgium
Anker Jørgensen age 52
Prime Minister - Denmark
Joop den Uyl age 55
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Dom Mintoff age 58
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 62
Prime Minister - Albania
Kalevi Sorsa age 44
Prime Minister - Finland
Trygve Bratteli age 65
Prime Minister - Norway
Carlos Arias Navarro age 66
Prime Minister - Spain
Elisabeth Domitien age 50
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 53
Prime Minister - Peru
Michael Manley age 50
Prime Minister - Jamaica
George Cadle Price age 56
Premier - Belize
Kamisese Mara age 54
Prime Minister - Fiji
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 74
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Forbes Burnham age 52
Prime Minister - Guyana
Vasco Gonçalves age 54
Prime Minister - Portugal
Manea Mănescu age 58
Prime Minister - Romania
Kukrit Pramoj age 64
Prime Minister - Thailand
Jenő Fock age 58
Prime Minister - Hungary
Kim Jong-pil age 49
Prime Minister - South Korea
Geir Hallgrímsson age 49
Prime Minister - Iceland
Eric Williams age 63
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 51
Prime Minister - Guinea
Lynden Pindling age 45
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Henck Arron age 39
Prime Minister - Suriname
Francisco Mendes age 36
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Hedi Amara Nouira age 64
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Errol Barrow age 55
Prime Minister - Barbados
Penn Nouth age 69
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Rashidi Kawawa age 48
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Eric Gairy age 53
Prime Minister - Grenada
Ahmed Osman age 45
Prime Minister - Morocco
Bill Rowling age 47
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Zaid al-Rifai age 38
Prime Minister - Jordan
Muhammad Mansur Ali age 56
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Léon Mébiame age 40
Prime Minister - Gabon
Rachid Solh age 48
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Patrick John age 37
Premier - Dominica
Walter Kieber age 44
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Henri Lopès age 37
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Tu'i Pelehake age 53
Prime Minister - Tonga
Abdessalam Jalloud age 30
Prime Minister - Libya
Makhosini Dlamini age 61
Prime Minister - Eswatini
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 50
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Mainza Chona age 45
Prime Minister - Zambia
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 75
Governor-General - Barbados
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 37
Prince - Spain
Barack Obama age 13
Donald Trump age 28
Michael Jackson age 16
Vladimir Putin age 22
Ronald Reagan age 64
Nelson Mandela age 56
George W. Bush age 28
Charlie Chaplin age 86
Bill Gates age 19
Pope Francis age 38
Steve Jobs age 20
Bill Clinton age 28
Angela Merkel age 20
Neil Armstrong age 44
François Hollande age 20
Elvis Presley age 40
John Paul II age 54
Gabriel García Márquez age 48
Mikhail Gorbachev age 44
Elon Musk age 3
Stephen Hawking age 33
Jean-Paul Sartre age 69
Jimmy Carter age 50
Benedict XVI age 48
Mother Teresa age 64
Hillary Clinton age 27
George H. W. Bush age 50
Kamala Harris age 10
Nicolas Sarkozy age 20
Richard Nixon age 62
Xi Jinping age 21
Naruhito age 15
Hugo Chávez age 20
Simone de Beauvoir age 67
Muammar Gaddafi age 32
John Lennon age 34
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 21
Muhammad Ali age 33
Kofi Annan age 37
Charles III age 26
Osama bin Laden age 18
Lech Wałęsa age 31
Leo XIV age 19
Diego Maradona age 14
Narendra Modi age 24
Rafael Correa age 12
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 30
Tim Berners-Lee age 19
Mahathir Mohamad age 49
Boris Yeltsin age 44
Ali Khamenei age 36
Guillermo Lasso age 19
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 56
Alexander Lukashenko age 20
Tony Blair age 21
Yasser Arafat age 45
David Cameron age 8
Linus Torvalds age 5
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 20
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 29
Theresa May age 18
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 18
Václav Havel age 38
Justin Trudeau age 3
Nicolás Maduro age 12
Robert Mugabe age 51
Hosni Mubarak age 46
Golda Meir age 77
Dilma Rousseff age 27
Al Gore age 27
François Mitterrand age 58
Milton Friedman age 62
Ruhollah Khomeini age 72
Valentina Tereshkova age 38
Ilham Aliyev age 13
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 36
António Guterres age 25
Akihito age 41
Helmut Kohl age 45
Rosa Parks age 62
Gordon Brown age 24
Shimon Peres age 51
John Paul I age 62
Olaf Scholz age 16
Keir Starmer age 12
Willy Brandt age 61
Gerhard Schröder age 31
Hassan Rouhani age 26
Hu Jintao age 32
Evo Morales age 15
Joko Widodo age 13
Petro Poroshenko age 9
Mikheil Saakashvili age 7
Ursula von der Leyen age 16
Mike Pence age 15
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 22
Michelle Bachelet age 23
Ariel Sharon age 47
Felipe VI of Spain age 7
Desmond Tutu age 43
Viktor Yanukovych age 24
Mohamed Morsi age 23
Viktor Orbán age 11
Sergio Mattarella age 33