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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
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
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04

People

Alfonso López Michelsen age 62
President - Colombia
Haxhi Lleshi age 62
President - Albania
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 44
President - Ghana
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 37
King - Lesotho
Hammer DeRoburt age 53
President - Nauru
Ibrahim Nasir age 49
President - Maldives
William Gopallawa age 78
President - Sri Lanka
Tafari Benti age 54
President - Ethiopia
Suleiman Frangieh age 65
President - Lebanon
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 62
Emir - Kuwait
Arturo Armando Molina age 48
President - El Salvador
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem age 59
President - Bangladesh
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 54
President - Costa Rica
Pierre Graber age 66
President - Switzerland
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 57
President - Comoros
Sergej Kraigher age 61
President - Slovenia
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 45
President - Honduras
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 61
President - Portugal
Giovanni Vito Marcucci age 48
Captain Regent - San Marino
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 62
King - Saudi Arabia
Nicolaas Diederichs age 72
State President - South Africa
Lee Kuan Yew age 52
Prime Minister - Singapore
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 47
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Olof Palme age 48
Prime Minister - Sweden
Süleyman Demirel age 51
Prime Minister - Turkey
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 59
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Pierre Trudeau age 56
Prime Minister - Canada
Paul Biya age 42
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Bruno Kreisky age 64
Chancellor - Austria
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 68
Prime Minister - Greece
Malcolm Fraser age 45
Prime Minister - Australia
Abdou Diouf age 40
Prime Minister - Senegal
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 40
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Abdul Razak Hussein age 53
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 49
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Gaston Thorn age 47
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Michael Somare age 39
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Leo Tindemans age 53
Prime Minister - Belgium
Anker Jørgensen age 53
Prime Minister - Denmark
Joop den Uyl age 56
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Dom Mintoff age 59
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 62
Prime Minister - Albania
Trygve Bratteli age 65
Prime Minister - Norway
Carlos Arias Navarro age 66
Prime Minister - Spain
Elisabeth Domitien age 50
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Michael Manley age 50
Prime Minister - Jamaica
George Cadle Price age 56
Premier - Belize
Kamisese Mara age 55
Prime Minister - Fiji
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 75
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Forbes Burnham age 52
Prime Minister - Guyana
Manea Mănescu age 59
Prime Minister - Romania
Miguel Trovoada age 38
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Kukrit Pramoj age 64
Prime Minister - Thailand
Kim Jong-pil age 49
Prime Minister - South Korea
Keijo Liinamaa age 46
Prime Minister - Finland
Geir Hallgrímsson age 49
Prime Minister - Iceland
Eric Williams age 64
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 51
Prime Minister - Guinea
Rashid Karami age 53
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Lynden Pindling age 45
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
György Lázár age 51
Prime Minister - Hungary
Henck Arron age 39
Prime Minister - Suriname
Francisco Mendes age 36
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 58
Prime Minister - Portugal
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 49
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Eric Gairy age 53
Prime Minister - Grenada
Ahmed Osman age 45
Prime Minister - Morocco
Lopo do Nascimento age 35
Prime Minister - Angola
Bill Rowling age 48
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Zaid al-Rifai age 39
Prime Minister - Jordan
Léon Mébiame age 41
Prime Minister - Gabon
Patrick John age 37
Premier - Dominica
Walter Kieber age 44
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Henri Lopès age 38
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
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 59
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Peter Colotka age 50
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Elijah Mudenda age 48
Prime Minister - Zambia
Óscar Vargas Prieto age 58
Prime Minister - Peru
Marko Orlandić age 45
Prime Minister - Montenegro
John Kerr age 61
Governor-General - Australia
Florizel Glasspole age 66
Governor-General - Jamaica
Milo Butler age 69
Governor-General - The Bahamas
John Guise age 61
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Arleigh Winston Scott age 75
Governor-General - Barbados
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 37
Prince - Spain
Barack Obama age 14
Donald Trump age 29
Michael Jackson age 17
Vladimir Putin age 23
Ronald Reagan age 64
Nelson Mandela age 57
George W. Bush age 29
Charlie Chaplin age 86
Bill Gates age 20
Pope Francis age 38
Steve Jobs age 20
Bill Clinton age 29
Angela Merkel age 21
Neil Armstrong age 45
François Hollande age 21
Elvis Presley age 40
John Paul II age 55
Gabriel García Márquez age 48
Mikhail Gorbachev age 44
Elon Musk age 4
Stephen Hawking age 33
Jean-Paul Sartre age 70
Jimmy Carter age 51
Benedict XVI age 48
Mother Teresa age 65
Hillary Clinton age 28
George H. W. Bush age 51
Kamala Harris age 11
Nicolas Sarkozy age 20
Richard Nixon age 62
Xi Jinping age 22
Naruhito age 15
Hugo Chávez age 21
Simone de Beauvoir age 67
Muammar Gaddafi age 33
John Lennon age 35
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 21
Muhammad Ali age 33
Kofi Annan age 37
Charles III age 27
Osama bin Laden age 18
Lech Wałęsa age 32
Leo XIV age 20
Diego Maradona age 15
Narendra Modi age 25
Rafael Correa age 12
Aung San Suu Kyi age 30
Benjamin Netanyahu age 26
Dmitry Medvedev age 10
14th Dalai Lama age 40
Silvio Berlusconi age 39
Shinzo Abe age 21
Bob Marley age 30
Tim Berners-Lee age 20
Mahathir Mohamad age 50
Boris Yeltsin age 44
Ali Khamenei age 36
Guillermo Lasso age 20
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 56
Alexander Lukashenko age 21
Tony Blair age 22
Yasser Arafat age 46
David Cameron age 9
Linus Torvalds age 5
Ban Ki-moon age 31
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 28
Boris Johnson age 11
Diana, Princess of Wales age 14
Bashar al-Assad age 10
Benazir Bhutto age 22
Jair Bolsonaro age 20
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 30
Theresa May age 19
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 19
Václav Havel age 39
Justin Trudeau age 3
Nicolás Maduro age 12
Robert Mugabe age 51
Hosni Mubarak age 47
Golda Meir age 77
Dilma Rousseff age 27
Al Gore age 27
François Mitterrand age 59
Milton Friedman age 63
Ruhollah Khomeini age 73
Valentina Tereshkova age 38
Ilham Aliyev age 13
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 37
António Guterres age 26
Akihito age 41
Helmut Kohl age 45
Rosa Parks age 62
Gordon Brown age 24
Shimon Peres age 52
John Paul I age 63
Olaf Scholz age 17
Keir Starmer age 13
Willy Brandt age 61
Gerhard Schröder age 31
Hassan Rouhani age 27
Hu Jintao age 32
Evo Morales age 16
Joko Widodo age 14
Petro Poroshenko age 10
Mikheil Saakashvili age 7
Liz Truss age 3 months
Ursula von der Leyen age 17
Mike Pence age 16
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 22