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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
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
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28

People

Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem age 59
President - Bangladesh
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 54
President - Costa Rica
Rudolf Gnägi age 58
President - Switzerland
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 63
King - Saudi Arabia
Nicolaas Diederichs age 72
State President - South Africa
Lee Kuan Yew age 52
Prime Minister - Singapore
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 48
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Olof Palme age 49
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 43
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Bruno Kreisky age 65
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
Choi Kyu-hah age 56
Prime Minister - South Korea
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
Ange-Félix Patassé age 39
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Joop den Uyl age 56
Prime Minister - Netherlands
France-Albert René age 40
Prime Minister - Seychelles
Dom Mintoff age 59
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 63
Prime Minister - Albania
Odvar Nordli age 48
Prime Minister - Norway
Carlos Arias Navarro age 67
Prime Minister - Spain
Elisabeth Domitien age 51
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Michael Manley age 51
Prime Minister - Jamaica
George Cadle Price age 57
Premier - Belize
Martti Miettunen age 68
Prime Minister - Finland
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 39
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Hussein Onn age 54
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Geir Hallgrímsson age 50
Prime Minister - Iceland
Eric Williams age 64
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 52
Prime Minister - Guinea
Rashid Karami age 54
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
Tulsi Giri age 49
Prime Minister - Nepal
Francisco Mendes age 37
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Robert Muldoon age 54
Prime Minister - New Zealand
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 58
Prime Minister - Portugal
Hedi Amara Nouira age 64
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Errol Barrow age 56
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 46
Prime Minister - Morocco
Lopo do Nascimento age 35
Prime Minister - Angola
Zaid al-Rifai age 39
Prime Minister - Jordan
Léon Mébiame age 41
Prime Minister - Gabon
Patrick John age 38
Premier - Dominica
Walter Kieber age 44
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Tu'i Pelehake age 54
Prime Minister - Tonga
Abdessalam Jalloud age 31
Prime Minister - Libya
Makhosini Dlamini age 62
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 59
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Peter Colotka age 51
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Abdallah Mohamed age 26
Prime Minister - Comoros
Elijah Mudenda age 48
Prime Minister - Zambia
Marko Orlandić age 45
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Jorge Fernández-Maldonado age 53
Prime Minister - Peru
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
Barack Obama age 14
Donald Trump age 29
Michael Jackson age 17
Vladimir Putin age 23
Ronald Reagan age 65
Nelson Mandela age 57
George W. Bush age 29
Charlie Chaplin age 86
Bill Gates age 20
Pope Francis age 39
Steve Jobs age 20
Bill Clinton age 29
Angela Merkel age 21
Neil Armstrong age 45
François Hollande age 21
Elvis Presley age 41
John Paul II age 55
Gabriel García Márquez age 48
Mikhail Gorbachev age 44
Elon Musk age 4
Stephen Hawking age 34
Jean-Paul Sartre age 70
Jimmy Carter age 51
Benedict XVI age 48
Mother Teresa age 65
Hillary Clinton age 28
Kamala Harris age 11
Nicolas Sarkozy age 21
Richard Nixon age 63
Xi Jinping age 22
Naruhito age 15
Hugo Chávez age 21
Simone de Beauvoir age 68
Muammar Gaddafi age 33
John Lennon age 35
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 21
Muhammad Ali age 34
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 31
Tim Berners-Lee age 20
Mahathir Mohamad age 50
Boris Yeltsin age 45
Ali Khamenei age 36
Guillermo Lasso age 20
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 57
Alexander Lukashenko age 21
Tony Blair age 22
Yasser Arafat age 46
David Cameron age 9
Linus Torvalds age 6
Ban Ki-moon age 31
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 4
Nicolás Maduro age 13
Robert Mugabe age 51
Hosni Mubarak age 47
Golda Meir age 77
Dilma Rousseff age 28
Al Gore age 27
François Mitterrand age 59
Milton Friedman age 63
Ruhollah Khomeini age 73
Valentina Tereshkova age 38
Ilham Aliyev age 14
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 37
António Guterres age 26
Akihito age 42
Helmut Kohl age 45
Rosa Parks age 63
Gordon Brown age 24
Shimon Peres age 52
John Paul I age 63
Olaf Scholz age 17
Keir Starmer age 13
Willy Brandt age 62
Gerhard Schröder age 31
Hassan Rouhani age 27
Hu Jintao age 33
Evo Morales age 16
Joko Widodo age 14
Petro Poroshenko age 10
Mikheil Saakashvili age 8
Liz Truss age 6 months
Ursula von der Leyen age 17
Mike Pence age 16
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 22
Michelle Bachelet age 24
Ariel Sharon age 47
Felipe VI of Spain age 8
Desmond Tutu age 44
Viktor Yanukovych age 25
Mohamed Morsi age 24
Viktor Orbán age 12
Sergio Mattarella age 34
Manmohan Singh age 43
Pervez Musharraf age 32
Yuri Andropov age 61
Julia Gillard age 14
Abdullah Gül age 25