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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
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
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28

People

Gaston Thorn age 47
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Michael Somare age 40
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Leo Tindemans age 54
Prime Minister - Belgium
Anker Jørgensen age 54
Prime Minister - Denmark
Ange-Félix Patassé age 39
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Joop den Uyl age 57
Prime Minister - Netherlands
France-Albert René age 40
Prime Minister - Seychelles
Dom Mintoff age 60
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 63
Prime Minister - Albania
Odvar Nordli age 48
Prime Minister - Norway
Tufuga Efi age 38
Prime Minister - Samoa
Michael Manley age 51
Prime Minister - Jamaica
George Cadle Price age 57
Premier - Belize
Martti Miettunen age 69
Prime Minister - Finland
Kamisese Mara age 56
Prime Minister - Fiji
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 75
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Forbes Burnham age 53
Prime Minister - Guyana
Manea Mănescu age 60
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 46
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
György Lázár age 51
Prime Minister - Hungary
Henck Arron age 40
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
Hedi Amara Nouira age 65
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Errol Barrow age 56
Prime Minister - Barbados
Mudar Badran age 42
Prime Minister - Jordan
Rashidi Kawawa age 50
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Eric Gairy age 54
Prime Minister - Grenada
Ahmed Osman age 46
Prime Minister - Morocco
Lopo do Nascimento age 36
Prime Minister - Angola
Léon Mébiame age 41
Prime Minister - Gabon
Patrick John age 38
Premier - Dominica
Walter Kieber age 45
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Tu'i Pelehake age 54
Prime Minister - Tonga
Abdessalam Jalloud age 31
Prime Minister - Libya
Maphevu Dlamini age 54
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 49
Prime Minister - Zambia
Marko Orlandić age 45
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Guillermo Arbulú Galliani age 55
Prime Minister - Peru
Adolfo Suárez age 43
Prime Minister - Spain
John Kerr age 61
Governor-General - Australia
Florizel Glasspole age 66
Governor-General - Jamaica
Milo Butler age 70
Governor-General - The Bahamas
John Guise age 62
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 15
Donald Trump age 30
Michael Jackson age 17
Vladimir Putin age 23
Ronald Reagan age 65
Nelson Mandela age 58
George W. Bush age 30
Charlie Chaplin age 87
Bill Gates age 20
Pope Francis age 39
Steve Jobs age 21
Bill Clinton age 30
Angela Merkel age 22
Neil Armstrong age 46
François Hollande age 22
Elvis Presley age 41
John Paul II age 56
Gabriel García Márquez age 49
Mikhail Gorbachev age 45
Elon Musk age 5
Stephen Hawking age 34
Jean-Paul Sartre age 71
Jimmy Carter age 51
Benedict XVI age 49
Mother Teresa age 66
Hillary Clinton age 28
Kamala Harris age 11
Nicolas Sarkozy age 21
Richard Nixon age 63
Xi Jinping age 23
Naruhito age 16
Hugo Chávez age 22
Simone de Beauvoir age 68
Muammar Gaddafi age 34
John Lennon age 35
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 22
Muhammad Ali age 34
Kofi Annan age 38
Charles III age 27
Osama bin Laden age 19
Lech Wałęsa age 32
Leo XIV age 20
Diego Maradona age 15
Narendra Modi age 25
Rafael Correa age 13
Aung San Suu Kyi age 31
Benjamin Netanyahu age 26
Dmitry Medvedev age 10
14th Dalai Lama age 41
Silvio Berlusconi age 39
Shinzo Abe age 21
Bob Marley age 31
Tim Berners-Lee age 21
Mahathir Mohamad age 51
Boris Yeltsin age 45
Ali Khamenei age 37
Guillermo Lasso age 20
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 57
Alexander Lukashenko age 21
Tony Blair age 23
Yasser Arafat age 47
David Cameron age 9
Linus Torvalds age 6
Ban Ki-moon age 32
Boris Johnson age 12
Diana, Princess of Wales age 15
Bashar al-Assad age 10
Benazir Bhutto age 23
Jair Bolsonaro age 21
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 52
Hosni Mubarak age 48
Golda Meir age 78
Dilma Rousseff age 28
Deng Xiaoping age 72
Al Gore age 28
François Mitterrand age 59
Milton Friedman age 64
Ruhollah Khomeini age 73
Valentina Tereshkova age 39
Ilham Aliyev age 14
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 37
António Guterres age 27
Akihito age 42
Helmut Kohl age 46
Rosa Parks age 63
Gordon Brown age 25
Shimon Peres age 53
John Paul I age 63
Olaf Scholz age 18
Keir Starmer age 13
Willy Brandt age 62
Gerhard Schröder age 32
Hassan Rouhani age 27
Hu Jintao age 33
Evo Morales age 16
Joko Widodo age 15
Petro Poroshenko age 10
Mikheil Saakashvili age 8
Liz Truss age 1
Ursula von der Leyen age 17
Mike Pence age 17
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 23
Michelle Bachelet age 24
Ariel Sharon age 48
Felipe VI of Spain age 8
Desmond Tutu age 44
Viktor Yanukovych age 26
Mohamed Morsi age 25
Viktor Orbán age 13
Sergio Mattarella age 35
Manmohan Singh age 43
Pervez Musharraf age 33
Yuri Andropov age 62
Julia Gillard age 14
Abdullah Gül age 25
Lech Kaczyński age 27
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 20
Jeff Bezos age 12
Buzz Aldrin age 46
Mohammad Khatami age 32
Tsai Ing-wen age 19
Mariano Rajoy age 21
Andrei Sakharov age 55
Dick Cheney age 35
Condoleezza Rice age 21
Raúl Castro age 45
Sheikh Hasina age 28
Giorgio Napolitano age 51
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 36
Mark Rutte age 9
Yulia Tymoshenko age 15
Rodrigo Duterte age 31
Abdullah II of Jordan age 14
Stephen Harper age 17
Donald Tusk age 19
Corazon Aquino age 43
John Kerry age 32
Madeleine Albright age 39
Hamid Karzai age 18
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 9