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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
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
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

David Padilla age 51
President - Bolivia
Elias Sarkis age 54
President - Lebanon
Mustafa Ould Salek age 43
President - Mauritania
Ellis Clarke age 61
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Sergej Kraigher age 64
President - Slovenia
Hans Hürlimann age 60
President - Switzerland
Arístides Royo age 38
President - Panama
Policarpo Paz García age 46
President - Honduras
Viktor Avbelj age 64
President - Slovenia
Ermenegildo Gasperoni age 72
Captain Regent - San Marino
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 66
King - Saudi Arabia
Lee Kuan Yew age 55
Prime Minister - Singapore
Pierre Trudeau age 59
Prime Minister - Canada
Paul Biya age 45
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Bülent Ecevit age 53
Prime Minister - Turkey
João Bernardo Vieira age 39
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Bruno Kreisky age 68
Chancellor - Austria
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 71
Prime Minister - Greece
Malcolm Fraser age 48
Prime Minister - Australia
Abdou Diouf age 43
Prime Minister - Senegal
Hissène Habré age 36
Prime Minister - Chad
Dries van Agt age 48
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 43
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Choi Kyu-hah age 59
Prime Minister - South Korea
Gaston Thorn age 50
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Michael Somare age 42
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Anker Jørgensen age 56
Prime Minister - Denmark
Dom Mintoff age 62
Prime Minister - Malta
Ola Ullsten age 47
Prime Minister - Sweden
Mehmet Shehu age 66
Prime Minister - Albania
Kalevi Sorsa age 48
Prime Minister - Finland
Odvar Nordli age 51
Prime Minister - Norway
Tufuga Efi age 40
Prime Minister - Samoa
Michael Manley age 54
Prime Minister - Jamaica
George Cadle Price age 60
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 42
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 59
Prime Minister - Belgium
Hussein Onn age 57
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Salim al-Huss age 49
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Kriangsak Chamanan age 61
Prime Minister - Thailand
Eric Williams age 67
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 55
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
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 49
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Robert Muldoon age 57
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Hedi Amara Nouira age 67
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 52
Prime Minister - Nepal
Carlos Mota Pinto age 42
Prime Minister - Portugal
Mudar Badran age 45
Prime Minister - Jordan
Eric Gairy age 56
Prime Minister - Grenada
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi age 39
Prime Minister - Libya
Ahmed Osman age 49
Prime Minister - Morocco
Toaripi Lauti age 50
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
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 62
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Patrick John age 41
Prime Minister - Dominica
Edward Sokoine age 40
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Tu'i Pelehake age 57
Prime Minister - Tonga
Henri Maïdou age 42
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Maphevu Dlamini age 56
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Peter Colotka age 54
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Daniel Lisulo age 48
Prime Minister - Zambia
Paul Southwell age 65
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Salim Ben Ali age 61
Prime Minister - Comoros
Momčilo Cemović age 50
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Adolfo Suárez age 46
Prime Minister - Spain
Óscar Molina Pallochia age 58
Prime Minister - Peru
Keith Holyoake age 75
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
Gerald Cash age 61
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Tore Lokoloko age 48
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 17
Donald Trump age 32
Michael Jackson age 20
Vladimir Putin age 26
Ronald Reagan age 68
Nelson Mandela age 60
George W. Bush age 32
Bill Gates age 23
Pope Francis age 42
Steve Jobs age 23
Angela Merkel age 24
Neil Armstrong age 48
François Hollande age 24
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 1
Gabriel García Márquez age 51
Mikhail Gorbachev age 47
Elon Musk age 7
Stephen Hawking age 37
Jean-Paul Sartre age 73
Emmanuel Macron age 1
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 24
Richard Nixon age 66
Xi Jinping age 25
Naruhito age 18
Hugo Chávez age 24
Simone de Beauvoir age 71
Muammar Gaddafi age 36
John Lennon age 38
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 24
Muhammad Ali age 37
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 34
Tim Berners-Lee age 23
Mahathir Mohamad age 53
Boris Yeltsin age 48
Ali Khamenei age 39
Jacques Chirac age 46
Guillermo Lasso age 23
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 60
Alexander Lukashenko age 24
Tony Blair age 25
Yasser Arafat age 49
David Cameron age 12
Linus Torvalds age 9
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 7
Nicolás Maduro age 16
Robert Mugabe age 54
Hosni Mubarak age 50
Dilma Rousseff age 31
François Mitterrand age 62
Milton Friedman age 66
Ruhollah Khomeini age 76
Valentina Tereshkova age 41
Ilham Aliyev age 17
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 40
António Guterres age 29
Akihito age 45
Helmut Kohl age 48
Rosa Parks age 66
Gordon Brown age 27
Shimon Peres age 55
Giorgia Meloni age 2
Olaf Scholz age 20
Keir Starmer age 16
Willy Brandt age 65
Gerhard Schröder age 34
Hassan Rouhani age 30
Hu Jintao age 36
Evo Morales age 19
Joko Widodo age 17
Petro Poroshenko age 13
Mikheil Saakashvili age 11
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 11
Desmond Tutu age 47
Viktor Yanukovych age 28
Mohamed Morsi age 27
Viktor Orbán age 15
Sergio Mattarella age 37
Manmohan Singh age 46