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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
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11

People

Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 39
President - Republic of the Congo
Fred Akuffo age 41
President - Ghana
Ibrahim Nasir age 51
President - Maldives
Aparicio Méndez age 74
President - Uruguay
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 51
President - Costa Rica
Anton Buttigieg age 66
President - Malta
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 67
President - Dominican Republic
Elias Sarkis age 54
President - Lebanon
Bernard Dowiyogo age 32
President - Nauru
Juan Pereda age 47
President - Bolivia
Mustafa Ould Salek age 42
President - Mauritania
Ellis Clarke age 60
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Sergej Kraigher age 64
President - Slovenia
Policarpo Paz García age 45
President - Honduras
Willi Ritschard age 59
President - Switzerland
Mohamed Ahmed age 61
President - Comoros
Enrico Andreoli age 57
Captain Regent - San Marino
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 65
King - Saudi Arabia
Nicolaas Diederichs age 74
State President - South Africa
Lee Kuan Yew age 54
Prime Minister - Singapore
Pierre Trudeau age 58
Prime Minister - Canada
Paul Biya age 45
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Bülent Ecevit age 53
Prime Minister - Turkey
Mário Soares age 53
Prime Minister - Portugal
Bruno Kreisky age 67
Chancellor - Austria
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 71
Prime Minister - Greece
Malcolm Fraser age 48
Prime Minister - Australia
Abdou Diouf age 42
Prime Minister - Senegal
Dries van Agt age 47
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 42
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Choi Kyu-hah age 59
Prime Minister - South Korea
Gaston Thorn age 49
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Michael Somare age 42
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 52
Prime Minister - Sweden
Leo Tindemans age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Anker Jørgensen age 56
Prime Minister - Denmark
Dom Mintoff age 62
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 65
Prime Minister - Albania
Kalevi Sorsa age 47
Prime Minister - Finland
Odvar Nordli age 50
Prime Minister - Norway
Tufuga Efi age 40
Prime Minister - Samoa
Michael Manley age 53
Prime Minister - Jamaica
George Cadle Price age 59
Premier - Belize
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 48
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Kamisese Mara age 58
Prime Minister - Fiji
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 77
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Forbes Burnham age 55
Prime Minister - Guyana
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 54
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Manea Mănescu age 62
Prime Minister - Romania
Miguel Trovoada age 41
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Hussein Onn age 56
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Geir Hallgrímsson age 52
Prime Minister - Iceland
Salim al-Huss age 48
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Kriangsak Chamanan age 60
Prime Minister - Thailand
Eric Williams age 66
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 54
Prime Minister - Guinea
Lynden Pindling age 48
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
György Lázár age 53
Prime Minister - Hungary
Henck Arron age 42
Prime Minister - Suriname
Robert Muldoon age 56
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Hedi Amara Nouira age 67
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 51
Prime Minister - Nepal
Mudar Badran age 44
Prime Minister - Jordan
Eric Gairy age 56
Prime Minister - Grenada
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi age 38
Prime Minister - Libya
Ahmed Osman age 48
Prime Minister - Morocco
Lopo do Nascimento age 38
Prime Minister - Angola
Peter Kenilorea age 35
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Tom Adams age 46
Prime Minister - Barbados
Léon Mébiame age 43
Prime Minister - Gabon
Joseph Conombo age 61
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Patrick John age 40
Premier - Dominica
Abdallah Mohamed Kamil age 42
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Edward Sokoine age 40
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Tu'i Pelehake age 56
Prime Minister - Tonga
Henri Maïdou age 42
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Maphevu Dlamini age 56
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Peter Colotka age 53
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Daniel Lisulo age 47
Prime Minister - Zambia
Édouard Nzambimana age 32
Prime Minister - Burundi
Paul Southwell age 65
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Abdallah Mohamed age 28
Prime Minister - Comoros
Momčilo Cemović age 50
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Adolfo Suárez age 45
Prime Minister - Spain
Óscar Molina Pallochia age 57
Prime Minister - Peru
Keith Holyoake age 74
Governor-General - New Zealand
Zelman Cowen age 58
Governor-General - Australia
Florizel Glasspole age 68
Governor-General - Jamaica
Milo Butler age 72
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Tore Lokoloko age 47
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Bill Clinton age 32
Attorney General of Arkansas
Barack Obama age 17
Donald Trump age 32
Michael Jackson age 19
Vladimir Putin age 25
Ronald Reagan age 67
Nelson Mandela age 60
George W. Bush age 32
Bill Gates age 22
Pope Francis age 41
Steve Jobs age 23
Angela Merkel age 24
Neil Armstrong age 48
François Hollande age 24
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 6 months
John Paul II age 58
Gabriel García Márquez age 51
Mikhail Gorbachev age 47
Elon Musk age 7
Stephen Hawking age 36
Jean-Paul Sartre age 73
Emmanuel Macron age 8 months
Benedict XVI age 51
Mother Teresa age 68
Hillary Clinton age 30
George H. W. Bush age 54
Kamala Harris age 13
Nicolas Sarkozy age 23
Richard Nixon age 65
Xi Jinping age 25
Naruhito age 18
Hugo Chávez age 24
Simone de Beauvoir age 70
Muammar Gaddafi age 36
John Lennon age 37
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 24
Muhammad Ali age 36
Kofi Annan age 40
Charles III age 29
Osama bin Laden age 21
Lech Wałęsa age 34
Gerald Ford age 65
Leo XIV age 22
Diego Maradona age 17
Narendra Modi age 27
Rafael Correa age 15
Indira Gandhi age 60
Aung San Suu Kyi age 33
Benjamin Netanyahu age 28
Dmitry Medvedev age 12
14th Dalai Lama age 43
Silvio Berlusconi age 41
Shinzo Abe age 23
Bob Marley age 33
Tim Berners-Lee age 23
Mahathir Mohamad age 53
Boris Yeltsin age 47
Ali Khamenei age 39
Jacques Chirac age 45
Guillermo Lasso age 22
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 59
Alexander Lukashenko age 23
Tony Blair age 25
Yasser Arafat age 49
David Cameron age 11
Linus Torvalds age 8
Ban Ki-moon age 34
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 31
Boris Johnson age 14
Diana, Princess of Wales age 17
Bashar al-Assad age 12
Benazir Bhutto age 25
Jair Bolsonaro age 23
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 32
Theresa May age 21
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 21
Henry Kissinger age 55
Václav Havel age 41
Justin Trudeau age 6
Nicolás Maduro age 15
Robert Mugabe age 54
Hosni Mubarak age 50
Golda Meir age 80
Dilma Rousseff age 30
François Mitterrand age 61
Milton Friedman age 66
Ruhollah Khomeini age 75
Valentina Tereshkova age 41
Ilham Aliyev age 16
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 39
António Guterres age 29
Akihito age 44
Helmut Kohl age 48
Rosa Parks age 65
Gordon Brown age 27
Shimon Peres age 55
Giorgia Meloni age 1
John Paul I age 65
Olaf Scholz age 20
Keir Starmer age 15
Willy Brandt age 64
Gerhard Schröder age 34
Hassan Rouhani age 29
Hu Jintao age 35
Evo Morales age 18
Joko Widodo age 17
Petro Poroshenko age 12
Mikheil Saakashvili age 10
Liz Truss age 3
Ursula von der Leyen age 19