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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
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Lynden Pindling age 48
Tu'i Pelehake age 57
Eric Williams age 67
Hedi Amara Nouira age 67
Bülent Ecevit age 53
Toaripi Lauti age 50
Daniel Lisulo age 48
Michael Somare age 42
Choi Kyu-hah age 59
Adolfo Suárez age 46
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 54
Óscar Molina Pallochia age 58
Zelman Cowen age 59
Bruno Kreisky age 68
Isa II of Bahrain age 45
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 23
Sobhuza II age 79
Florizel Glasspole age 69
Hussein I of Jordan age 43
Margrethe II of Denmark age 38
Juliana of the Netherlands age 69
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 52
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 40
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 58
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 55
Hassan II age 49
Keith Holyoake age 74
Olav V of Norway age 75
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 38
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 32
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 51
Milo Butler age 72
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 60
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 67
Tore Lokoloko age 48
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 41
Ermenegildo Gasperoni age 72
John Paul II age 58
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 65
Mikhail Gorbachev age 47
Deng Xiaoping age 74
Ruhollah Khomeini age 76
Richard Nixon age 66
Gerald Ford age 65
Ronald Reagan age 67
George H. W. Bush age 54
George W. Bush age 32
Barack Obama age 17
Donald Trump age 32
Rudolf Hess age 84
Albert Speer age 73
Karl Dönitz age 87
He Yingqin age 88
Otto Hofmann age 82
Konstantin Chernenko age 67
Jiang Zemin age 52
Lee Teng-hui age 56
Yuri Andropov age 64
Souvanna Phouma age 77
Henry Kissinger age 55
George Shultz age 58
John Roberts age 23
Spiro Agnew age 60
Xi Jinping age 25
Hu Jintao age 36
Yang Shangkun age 71
Zhao Ziyang age 59
Hu Yaobang age 63
Robert McNamara age 62
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 72
Omar Bradley age 85
Nelson Rockefeller age 70
Li Peng age 50
Zeng Qinghong age 39
Rong Yiren age 62
Wang Zhen (general) age 70
Soong Ching-ling age 86
Zhu Rongji age 50
Wen Jiabao age 36
Li Keqiang age 23
Ronald McNair age 28
Ellison Onizuka age 32
John Connally age 61
James Baker age 48
Lawrence Eagleburger age 48
Warren Christopher age 53
Nicholas Katzenbach age 57
Ramsey Clark age 51
Gennady Yanayev age 41
Yasser Arafat age 49
Kamala Harris age 14
Mike Pence age 19
Lee Yuan-tsu age 55
Lien Chan age 42
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 45
Stephen Breyer age 40
Clarence Thomas age 30
David Souter age 39
Antonin Scalia age 42
Sandra Day O'Connor age 48
Archibald Cox age 66
Clarence M. Kelley age 67
Abe Fortas age 68
Arthur Goldberg age 70
John Kerry age 35
Hillary Clinton age 31
Liz Cheney age 12
Clark Clifford age 72
Melvin Laird age 56
James R. Schlesinger age 49
Nelson Mandela age 60
Kim Jong-il age 37
Narendra Modi age 28
Jacques Chirac age 46
Nicolas Sarkozy age 23
François Hollande age 24
Tim Berners-Lee age 23
Boris Yeltsin age 47
Muhammad Ali age 37
Aung San Suu Kyi age 33
Condoleezza Rice age 24
Rosa Parks age 65
Jo Ann Robinson age 66
John Lewis age 38
George Wallace age 59
Thomas Gage age 261
Charles III age 30
Robert A. Lovett age 83
Juan José Arévalo age 74
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 70
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 63
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 60
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 73
John Major age 35
Tony Blair age 25
Gordon Brown age 27
David Cameron age 12
Theresa May age 22
Boris Johnson age 14
Liz Truss age 3
Keir Starmer age 16
Harold Macmillan age 84
Alec Douglas-Home age 75
Harold Wilson age 62
Edward Heath age 62
Andy Burnham age 9
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 74
Willy Brandt age 65
Helmut Kohl age 48
Gerhard Schröder age 34
Angela Merkel age 24
Olaf Scholz age 20
Friedrich Merz age 23
François Mitterrand age 62
Emmanuel Macron age 1
Vladimir Putin age 26
Dmitry Medvedev age 13
William S. Sessions age 48
Louis Freeh age 29
Robert Mueller age 34
James Comey age 18
Christopher Wray age 12
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 74
John N. Mitchell age 65
Elliot Richardson age 58
Janet Reno age 40
John Ashcroft age 36
Eric Holder age 28
Merrick Garland age 26
Pam Bondi age 13
Dean Rusk age 69
William P. Rogers age 65
Edmund Muskie age 64
Alexander Haig age 54
Madeleine Albright age 41
Rex Tillerson age 26
Mike Pompeo age 15
Antony Blinken age 16
Marco Rubio age 7
Abolhassan Banisadr age 45
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 45
Ali Khamenei age 39
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 44
Mohammad Khatami age 35
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 22
Hassan Rouhani age 30
Ebrahim Raisi age 18
Masoud Pezeshkian age 24
Bashar al-Assad age 13
Hosni Mubarak age 50
Mohamed Morsi age 27
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 24
Raúl Castro age 47
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 18
Neil Armstrong age 48
Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani age 27
Mohammad Rabbani age 23
Babrak Karmal age 50
Hafizullah Amin age 49
Abdul Kabir age 21