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

People

Dom Mintoff age 62
Ahmed Ould Bouceif age 45
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 78
Momčilo Cemović age 50
Maati Bouabid age 51
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 52
Robert Muldoon age 57
Odvar Nordli age 51
Carlos Mota Pinto age 42
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 46
Ilie Verdeț age 54
Paul Southwell age 65
John Compton age 54
Tufuga Efi age 41
Abdou Diouf age 43
Kuan Yew Lee age 55
Peter Colotka age 54
Peter Kenilorea age 35
Henck Arron age 43
Ola Ullsten age 47
Edward Sokoine age 40
Kriangsak Chamanan age 61
Lynden Pindling age 49
Tu'i Pelehake age 57
Eric Williams age 67
Hedi Amara Nouira age 68
Bülent Ecevit age 53
Toaripi Lauti age 50
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 66
Daniel Lisulo age 48
Michael Somare age 43
Choi Kyu-hah age 59
Adolfo Suárez age 46
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 54
Pedro Richter Prada 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 39
Juliana of the Netherlands age 70
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 52
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 41
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 58
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 55
Hassan II age 49
Keith Holyoake age 75
Olav V of Norway age 75
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 38
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 33
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 51
Gerald Cash age 61
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 60
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 67
Tore Lokoloko age 48
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 41
Marino Bollini age 46
John Paul II age 59
Mikhail Gorbachev age 48
Ruhollah Khomeini age 76
Richard Nixon age 66
Gerald Ford age 65
George W. Bush age 32
Donald Trump age 32
Albert Speer age 74
He Yingqin age 89
Otto Hofmann age 83
Konstantin Chernenko age 67
Lee Teng-hui age 56
Yuri Andropov age 64
Souvanna Phouma age 77
George Shultz age 58
John Roberts age 24
Spiro Agnew age 60
Xi Jinping age 25
Robert McNamara age 62
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 73
Omar Bradley age 86
Zeng Qinghong age 39
Soong Ching-ling age 86
Zhu Rongji age 50
Ronald McNair age 28
Ellison Onizuka age 32
John Connally age 62
Lawrence Eagleburger age 48
Warren Christopher age 53
Nicholas Katzenbach age 57
Ramsey Clark age 51
Gennady Yanayev age 41
Yasser Arafat age 49
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 46
Stephen Breyer age 40
Clarence Thomas age 30
Antonin Scalia age 43
Clarence M. Kelley age 67
Abe Fortas age 68
Melvin Laird age 56
Nelson Mandela age 60
Kim Jong-il age 38
Narendra Modi age 28
Jacques Chirac age 46
Nicolas Sarkozy age 24
François Hollande age 24
Tim Berners-Lee age 23
Boris Yeltsin age 48
Muhammad Ali age 37
Aung San Suu Kyi age 33
Rosa Parks age 66
Jo Ann Robinson age 67
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 36
Tony Blair age 26
Gordon Brown age 28
David Cameron age 12
Theresa May age 22
Boris Johnson age 14
Liz Truss age 3
Keir Starmer age 16
Harold Macmillan age 85
Alec Douglas-Home age 75
Harold Wilson age 63
Edward Heath age 62
James Callaghan age 67
Andy Burnham age 9
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 75
Willy Brandt age 65
Helmut Kohl age 49
Gerhard Schröder age 35
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 75
John N. Mitchell age 65
Elliot Richardson age 58
Janet Reno age 40
John Ashcroft age 37
Eric Holder age 28
Merrick Garland age 26
Pam Bondi age 13
Dean Rusk age 70
William P. Rogers age 65
Edmund Muskie age 65
Alexander Haig age 54
Madeleine Albright age 42
Rex Tillerson age 27
Mike Pompeo age 15
Antony Blinken age 17
Marco Rubio age 7
Abolhassan Banisadr age 46
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 45
Ali Khamenei age 40
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 51
Mohamed Morsi age 27
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 24
Raúl Castro age 47
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 19
Neil Armstrong age 48
Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani age 27
Mohammad Rabbani age 23
Babrak Karmal age 50
Abdul Kabir age 21
Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai age 31
Mohammed Omar age 19
Mohammad Yusuf age 62
Fazal khaliq age 45
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 52
Hamid Karzai age 21
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 54
Ashraf Ghani age 29
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 38
Mohammad Najibullah age 31
Akhtar Mansour age 11
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 11
Rexhep Meidani age 34