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

People

Kalevi Sorsa age 47
Prime Minister - Finland
Odvar Nordli age 51
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 78
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
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 59
Prime Minister - Belgium
Hussein Onn age 56
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Salim al-Huss age 48
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Kriangsak Chamanan age 60
Prime Minister - Thailand
Eric Williams age 67
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 54
Prime Minister - Guinea
Lynden Pindling age 48
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
György Lázár age 54
Prime Minister - Hungary
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 65
Prime Minister - Iceland
Henck Arron age 42
Prime Minister - Suriname
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 55
Prime Minister - Portugal
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 48
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Robert Muldoon age 57
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 39
Prime Minister - Libya
Ahmed Osman age 48
Prime Minister - Morocco
Toaripi Lauti age 50
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Lopo do Nascimento age 38
Prime Minister - Angola
Peter Kenilorea age 35
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Tom Adams age 47
Prime Minister - Barbados
Léon Mébiame age 44
Prime Minister - Gabon
Joseph Conombo age 61
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Patrick John age 40
Prime Minister - Dominica
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
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 46
Prime Minister - Spain
Óscar Molina Pallochia age 57
Prime Minister - Peru
Keith Holyoake age 74
Governor-General - New Zealand
Zelman Cowen age 59
Governor-General - Australia
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 67
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Florizel Glasspole age 69
Governor-General - Jamaica
Milo Butler age 72
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Tore Lokoloko age 48
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Bill Clinton age 32
Attorney General of Arkansas
Barack Obama age 17
Donald Trump age 32
Michael Jackson age 20
Vladimir Putin age 26
Ronald Reagan age 67
Nelson Mandela age 60
George W. Bush age 32
Bill Gates age 23
Pope Francis age 41
Steve Jobs age 23
Angela Merkel age 24
Neil Armstrong age 48
François Hollande age 24
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 10 months
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 11 months
Benedict XVI age 51
Mother Teresa age 68
Hillary Clinton age 31
George H. W. Bush age 54
Kamala Harris age 14
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 38
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 24
Muhammad Ali age 36
Kofi Annan age 40
Charles III age 30
Osama bin Laden age 21
Lech Wałęsa age 35
Gerald Ford age 65
Leo XIV age 23
Diego Maradona age 18
Narendra Modi age 28
Rafael Correa age 15
Indira Gandhi age 61
Aung San Suu Kyi age 33
Benjamin Netanyahu age 29
Dmitry Medvedev age 13
14th Dalai Lama age 43
Silvio Berlusconi age 42
Shinzo Abe age 24
Bob Marley age 33
Tim Berners-Lee age 23
Mahathir Mohamad age 53
Boris Yeltsin age 47
Ali Khamenei age 39
Jacques Chirac age 46
Guillermo Lasso age 23
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 59
Alexander Lukashenko age 24
Tony Blair age 25
Yasser Arafat age 49
David Cameron age 12
Linus Torvalds age 8
Ban Ki-moon age 34
Boris Johnson age 14
Diana, Princess of Wales age 17
Bashar al-Assad age 13
Benazir Bhutto age 25
Jair Bolsonaro age 23
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 33
Theresa May age 22
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 22
Henry Kissinger age 55
Václav Havel age 42
Justin Trudeau age 6
Nicolás Maduro age 16
Robert Mugabe age 54
Hosni Mubarak age 50
Golda Meir age 80
Dilma Rousseff age 30
Deng Xiaoping age 74
François Mitterrand age 62
Milton Friedman age 66
Ruhollah Khomeini age 76
Valentina Tereshkova age 41
Ilham Aliyev age 16
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 40
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
Olaf Scholz age 20
Keir Starmer age 16
Willy Brandt age 64
Gerhard Schröder age 34
Hassan Rouhani age 30
Hu Jintao age 35
Evo Morales age 19
Joko Widodo age 17
Petro Poroshenko age 13
Mikheil Saakashvili age 10
Liz Truss age 3
Ursula von der Leyen age 20
Mike Pence age 19
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 25
Michelle Bachelet age 27
Ariel Sharon age 50
Felipe VI of Spain age 10
Desmond Tutu age 47
Viktor Yanukovych age 28
Mohamed Morsi age 27
Viktor Orbán age 15
Sergio Mattarella age 37
Manmohan Singh age 46
Pervez Musharraf age 35
Yuri Andropov age 64
Julia Gillard age 17
Abdullah Gül age 28
Lech Kaczyński age 29
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 22
Jeff Bezos age 14
Buzz Aldrin age 48
Mohammad Khatami age 35
Yitzhak Rabin age 56
Tsai Ing-wen age 22
Mariano Rajoy age 23
Andrei Sakharov age 57
Dick Cheney age 37
Condoleezza Rice age 24
Raúl Castro age 47
Sheikh Hasina age 31
Giorgio Napolitano age 53
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 38
Mark Rutte age 11
Yulia Tymoshenko age 17
Rodrigo Duterte age 33
Abdullah II of Jordan age 16
Stephen Harper age 19
Donald Tusk age 21
Corazon Aquino age 45