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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
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
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04

People

Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 45
President - Ghana
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 39
King - Lesotho
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 38
President - Republic of the Congo
Ibrahim Nasir age 51
President - Maldives
Aparicio Méndez age 73
President - Uruguay
William Gopallawa age 79
President - Sri Lanka
Anton Buttigieg age 65
President - Malta
Elias Sarkis age 53
President - Lebanon
Bernard Dowiyogo age 31
President - Nauru
Ali Soilih age 40
President - Comoros
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 64
Emir - Kuwait
Kurt Furgler age 53
President - Switzerland
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 56
President - Costa Rica
Ellis Clarke age 59
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Sergej Kraigher age 63
President - Slovenia
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 47
President - Honduras
Antonio Lazzaro Volpinari age 33
Captain Regent - San Marino
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 64
King - Saudi Arabia
Nicolaas Diederichs age 73
State President - South Africa
Lee Kuan Yew age 53
Prime Minister - Singapore
Süleyman Demirel age 52
Prime Minister - Turkey
Pierre Trudeau age 57
Prime Minister - Canada
Paul Biya age 44
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Mário Soares age 52
Prime Minister - Portugal
Bruno Kreisky age 66
Chancellor - Austria
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 70
Prime Minister - Greece
Malcolm Fraser age 47
Prime Minister - Australia
Abdou Diouf age 41
Prime Minister - Senegal
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 41
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Choi Kyu-hah age 58
Prime Minister - South Korea
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 51
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Gaston Thorn age 49
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Michael Somare age 41
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 51
Prime Minister - Sweden
Leo Tindemans age 55
Prime Minister - Belgium
Anker Jørgensen age 55
Prime Minister - Denmark
Ange-Félix Patassé age 40
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Joop den Uyl age 58
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Dom Mintoff age 61
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 64
Prime Minister - Albania
Kalevi Sorsa age 46
Prime Minister - Finland
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 70
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Odvar Nordli age 49
Prime Minister - Norway
Tufuga Efi age 39
Prime Minister - Samoa
Michael Manley age 52
Prime Minister - Jamaica
George Cadle Price age 58
Premier - Belize
Kamisese Mara age 57
Prime Minister - Fiji
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 76
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Forbes Burnham age 54
Prime Minister - Guyana
Thanin Kraiwichian age 50
Prime Minister - Thailand
Manea Mănescu age 61
Prime Minister - Romania
Miguel Trovoada age 40
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Hussein Onn age 55
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Geir Hallgrímsson age 51
Prime Minister - Iceland
Salim al-Huss age 47
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Eric Williams age 65
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 53
Prime Minister - Guinea
Lynden Pindling age 47
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
György Lázár age 52
Prime Minister - Hungary
Henck Arron age 41
Prime Minister - Suriname
Tulsi Giri age 50
Prime Minister - Nepal
Francisco Mendes age 38
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Robert Muldoon age 55
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Hedi Amara Nouira age 66
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Mudar Badran age 43
Prime Minister - Jordan
Eric Gairy age 55
Prime Minister - Grenada
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi age 37
Prime Minister - Libya
Ahmed Osman age 47
Prime Minister - Morocco
Lopo do Nascimento age 37
Prime Minister - Angola
Tom Adams age 45
Prime Minister - Barbados
Léon Mébiame age 43
Prime Minister - Gabon
Ahmed Dini Ahmed age 47
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Patrick John age 39
Premier - Dominica
Walter Kieber age 46
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Edward Sokoine age 39
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Tu'i Pelehake age 55
Prime Minister - Tonga
Maphevu Dlamini age 55
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 60
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Peter Colotka age 52
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Mainza Chona age 47
Prime Minister - Zambia
Édouard Nzambimana age 31
Prime Minister - Burundi
Abdallah Mohamed age 27
Prime Minister - Comoros
Marko Orlandić age 46
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Guillermo Arbulú Galliani age 56
Prime Minister - Peru
Adolfo Suárez age 44
Prime Minister - Spain
John Kerr age 62
Governor-General - Australia
Florizel Glasspole age 67
Governor-General - Jamaica
Milo Butler age 71
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Tore Lokoloko age 46
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Bill Clinton age 31
Attorney General of Arkansas
Barack Obama age 16
Donald Trump age 31
Michael Jackson age 18
Vladimir Putin age 24
Ronald Reagan age 66
Nelson Mandela age 59
George W. Bush age 31
Charlie Chaplin age 88
Bill Gates age 21
Pope Francis age 40
Steve Jobs age 22
Angela Merkel age 23
Neil Armstrong age 47
François Hollande age 23
John Paul II age 57
Gabriel García Márquez age 50
Mikhail Gorbachev age 46
Elon Musk age 6
Stephen Hawking age 35
Jean-Paul Sartre age 72
Benedict XVI age 50
Mother Teresa age 67
Hillary Clinton age 29
George H. W. Bush age 53
Kamala Harris age 12
Nicolas Sarkozy age 22
Richard Nixon age 64
Xi Jinping age 24
Naruhito age 17
Hugo Chávez age 23
Simone de Beauvoir age 69
Muammar Gaddafi age 35
John Lennon age 36
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 23
Muhammad Ali age 35
Kofi Annan age 39
Charles III age 28
Osama bin Laden age 20
Lech Wałęsa age 33
Gerald Ford age 64
Leo XIV age 21
Diego Maradona age 16
Narendra Modi age 26
Rafael Correa age 14
Indira Gandhi age 59
Aung San Suu Kyi age 32
Benjamin Netanyahu age 27
Dmitry Medvedev age 11
14th Dalai Lama age 42
Silvio Berlusconi age 40
Shinzo Abe age 22
Bob Marley age 32
Tim Berners-Lee age 22
Mahathir Mohamad age 52
Boris Yeltsin age 46
Ali Khamenei age 38
Jacques Chirac age 44
Guillermo Lasso age 21
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 58
Alexander Lukashenko age 22
Tony Blair age 24
Yasser Arafat age 48
David Cameron age 10
Linus Torvalds age 7
Ban Ki-moon age 33
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 30
Boris Johnson age 13
Diana, Princess of Wales age 16
Bashar al-Assad age 11
Benazir Bhutto age 24
Jair Bolsonaro age 22
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 31
Theresa May age 20
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 20
Henry Kissinger age 54
Václav Havel age 40
Justin Trudeau age 5
Nicolás Maduro age 14
Robert Mugabe age 53
Hosni Mubarak age 49
Golda Meir age 79
Dilma Rousseff age 29
François Mitterrand age 60
Milton Friedman age 65
Ruhollah Khomeini age 74
Valentina Tereshkova age 40
Ilham Aliyev age 15
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 38
António Guterres age 28
Akihito age 43
Helmut Kohl age 47
Rosa Parks age 64
Gordon Brown age 26
Shimon Peres age 54
Giorgia Meloni age 7 months
John Paul I age 64
Olaf Scholz age 19
Keir Starmer age 14
Willy Brandt age 63
Gerhard Schröder age 33
Hassan Rouhani age 28
Hu Jintao age 34
Evo Morales age 17
Joko Widodo age 16
Petro Poroshenko age 11
Mikheil Saakashvili age 9
Liz Truss age 2
Ursula von der Leyen age 18
Mike Pence age 18
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 24