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

People

Luis Herrera Campins age 54
President - Venezuela
Marais Viljoen age 63
State President - South Africa
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 38
President - Ecuador
Godfrey Binaisa age 59
President - Uganda
Tosiwo Nakayama age 47
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Aparicio Méndez age 75
President - Uruguay
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 52
President - Costa Rica
Anton Buttigieg age 67
President - Malta
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 68
President - Dominican Republic
Wálter Guevara age 67
President - Bolivia
Lol Mahamat Choua age 40
President - Chad
Elias Sarkis age 55
President - Lebanon
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly age 36
President - Mauritania
Ieremia Tabai age 29
President - Kiribati
Ellis Clarke age 61
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Hans Hürlimann age 61
President - Switzerland
Arístides Royo age 39
President - Panama
Policarpo Paz García age 46
President - Honduras
Viktor Avbelj age 65
President - Slovenia
Peter Gatkuoth age 41
President - South Sudan
Marino Bollini age 46
Captain Regent - San Marino
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 66
King - Saudi Arabia
Lee Kuan Yew age 55
Prime Minister - Singapore
Paul Biya age 46
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Bülent Ecevit age 54
Prime Minister - Turkey
Mauno Koivisto age 55
Prime Minister - Finland
João Bernardo Vieira age 40
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Bruno Kreisky age 68
Chancellor - Austria
Hafizullah Amin age 50
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 72
Prime Minister - Greece
Malcolm Fraser age 49
Prime Minister - Australia
Abdou Diouf age 44
Prime Minister - Senegal
Dries van Agt age 48
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 43
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Choi Kyu-hah age 60
Prime Minister - South Korea
Wilfried Martens age 43
Prime Minister - Belgium
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 49
Prime Minister - Portugal
Joe Clark age 40
Prime Minister - Canada
Michael Somare age 43
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Anker Jørgensen age 57
Prime Minister - Denmark
Dom Mintoff age 63
Prime Minister - Malta
Ola Ullsten age 48
Prime Minister - Sweden
Mehmet Shehu age 66
Prime Minister - Albania
Odvar Nordli age 51
Prime Minister - Norway
Tufuga Efi age 41
Prime Minister - Samoa
Michael Manley age 54
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Pierre Werner age 65
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
George Cadle Price age 60
Premier - Belize
Maurice Bishop age 35
Prime Minister - Grenada
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 49
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Kamisese Mara age 59
Prime Minister - Fiji
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 78
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Forbes Burnham age 56
Prime Minister - Guyana
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 55
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Hussein Onn age 57
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 67
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
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
Ilie Verdeț age 54
Prime Minister - Romania
Lynden Pindling age 49
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
György Lázár age 54
Prime Minister - Hungary
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 66
Prime Minister - Iceland
Henck Arron age 43
Prime Minister - Suriname
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 49
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 39
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Robert Muldoon age 57
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Hedi Amara Nouira age 68
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Mudar Badran age 45
Prime Minister - Jordan
Maati Bouabid age 51
Prime Minister - Morocco
Toaripi Lauti age 50
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 52
Prime Minister - Algeria
Peter Kenilorea age 36
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Tom Adams age 47
Prime Minister - Barbados
Léon Mébiame age 45
Prime Minister - Gabon
Joseph Conombo age 62
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Shah Azizur Rahman age 53
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 40
Prime Minister - Libya
Allan Louisy age 63
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Edward Sokoine age 41
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Tu'i Pelehake age 57
Prime Minister - Tonga
Henri Maïdou age 43
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Maphevu Dlamini age 57
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Peter Colotka age 54
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Daniel Lisulo age 48
Prime Minister - Zambia
Oliver Seraphin age 36
Prime Minister - Dominica
Lee Moore age 40
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Pedro Richter Prada age 58
Prime Minister - Peru
Salim Ben Ali age 61
Prime Minister - Comoros
Momčilo Cemović age 51
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Adolfo Suárez age 46
Prime Minister - Spain
Hans Brunhart age 34
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Keith Holyoake age 75
Governor-General - New Zealand
Zelman Cowen age 59
Governor-General - Australia
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 68
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Florizel Glasspole age 69
Governor-General - Jamaica
Gerald Cash age 62
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Tore Lokoloko age 48
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 18
Donald Trump age 33
Michael Jackson age 21
Vladimir Putin age 26
Ronald Reagan age 68
Nelson Mandela age 61
George W. Bush age 33
Bill Gates age 23
Pope Francis age 42
Steve Jobs age 24
Angela Merkel age 25
Neil Armstrong age 49
François Hollande age 25
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 1
Gabriel García Márquez age 52
Mikhail Gorbachev age 48
Elon Musk age 8
Stephen Hawking age 37
Jean-Paul Sartre age 74
Emmanuel Macron age 1
Benedict XVI age 52
Mother Teresa age 69
Hillary Clinton age 31
George H. W. Bush age 55
Kamala Harris age 14
Nicolas Sarkozy age 24
Richard Nixon age 66
Xi Jinping age 26
Naruhito age 19
Hugo Chávez age 25
Simone de Beauvoir age 71
Muammar Gaddafi age 37
John Lennon age 38
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 25
Muhammad Ali age 37
Kofi Annan age 41
Charles III age 30
Osama bin Laden age 22
Lech Wałęsa age 35
Gerald Ford age 66
Leo XIV age 23
Diego Maradona age 18
Narendra Modi age 28
Rafael Correa age 16
Indira Gandhi age 61
Aung San Suu Kyi age 34
Benjamin Netanyahu age 29
Dmitry Medvedev age 13
14th Dalai Lama age 44
Silvio Berlusconi age 42
Shinzo Abe age 24
Bob Marley age 34
Tim Berners-Lee age 24
Mahathir Mohamad age 54
Boris Yeltsin age 48
Ali Khamenei age 40
Jacques Chirac age 46
Guillermo Lasso age 23
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 60
Alexander Lukashenko age 25
Tony Blair age 26
Yasser Arafat age 50
David Cameron age 12
Linus Torvalds age 9
Ban Ki-moon age 35
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 32
Boris Johnson age 15
Diana, Princess of Wales age 18
Bashar al-Assad age 13
Benazir Bhutto age 26
Jair Bolsonaro age 24
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 33
Theresa May age 22
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 22
Henry Kissinger age 56
Václav Havel age 42
Justin Trudeau age 7
Nicolás Maduro age 16
Robert Mugabe age 55
Hosni Mubarak age 51
Dilma Rousseff age 31
François Mitterrand age 62
Milton Friedman age 67
Ruhollah Khomeini age 76
Valentina Tereshkova age 42
Ilham Aliyev age 17
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 40
António Guterres age 30
Akihito age 45
Helmut Kohl age 49
Rosa Parks age 66
Gordon Brown age 28
Shimon Peres age 56
Giorgia Meloni age 2
Olaf Scholz age 21
Keir Starmer age 17
Willy Brandt age 65
Gerhard Schröder age 35
Hassan Rouhani age 30
Hu Jintao age 36
Evo Morales age 19