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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
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15

People

Anton Buttigieg age 68
President - Malta
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 69
President - Dominican Republic
Elias Sarkis age 56
President - Lebanon
Henk Chin A Sen age 46
President - Suriname
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 40
President - Mauritania
Ieremia Tabai age 30
President - Kiribati
Georges-André Chevallaz age 65
President - Switzerland
Ellis Clarke age 62
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Ati George Sokomanu age 44
President - Vanuatu
Arístides Royo age 39
President - Panama
Policarpo Paz García age 47
President - Honduras
İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil age 72
President - Turkey
Viktor Avbelj age 66
President - Slovenia
Aurelius Marie age 75
President - Dominica
Saulo Musoke age 60
President - Uganda
Yoweri Hunter Wacha-Olwol age 57
President - Uganda
Primo Marani age 57
Captain Regent - San Marino
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 67
King - Saudi Arabia
Robert Mugabe age 56
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Lee Kuan Yew age 56
Prime Minister - Singapore
Süleyman Demirel age 55
Prime Minister - Turkey
Pierre Trudeau age 60
Prime Minister - Canada
Paul Biya age 47
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Mauno Koivisto age 56
Prime Minister - Finland
João Bernardo Vieira age 41
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Prem Tinsulanonda age 59
Prime Minister - Thailand
Bruno Kreisky age 69
Chancellor - Austria
Babrak Karmal age 51
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Malcolm Fraser age 50
Prime Minister - Australia
Abdou Diouf age 44
Prime Minister - Senegal
Dries van Agt age 49
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 44
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Wilfried Martens age 44
Prime Minister - Belgium
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 54
Prime Minister - Sweden
Eugenia Charles age 61
Prime Minister - Dominica
Anker Jørgensen age 58
Prime Minister - Denmark
Dom Mintoff age 64
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 67
Prime Minister - Albania
Odvar Nordli age 52
Prime Minister - Norway
Tufuga Efi age 42
Prime Minister - Samoa
Michael Manley age 55
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Pierre Werner age 66
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 46
Prime Minister - Portugal
George Cadle Price age 61
Premier - Belize
Maurice Bishop age 36
Prime Minister - Grenada
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 50
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Kamisese Mara age 60
Prime Minister - Fiji
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 79
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Georgios Rallis age 61
Prime Minister - Greece
Forbes Burnham age 57
Prime Minister - Guyana
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 56
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Hussein Onn age 58
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 68
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Eric Williams age 68
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Julius Chan age 40
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 56
Prime Minister - Guinea
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 69
Prime Minister - Iceland
Ilie Verdeț age 55
Prime Minister - Romania
Lynden Pindling age 50
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Mohamed Mzali age 54
Prime Minister - Tunisia
György Lázár age 55
Prime Minister - Hungary
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 50
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Robert Muldoon age 58
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Walter Lini age 38
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Maati Bouabid age 52
Prime Minister - Morocco
Toaripi Lauti age 51
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 53
Prime Minister - Algeria
Peter Kenilorea age 37
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Tom Adams age 48
Prime Minister - Barbados
Léon Mébiame age 45
Prime Minister - Gabon
Milton Cato age 65
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Joseph Conombo age 63
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Kennedy Simmonds age 44
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Shah Azizur Rahman age 54
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 41
Prime Minister - Libya
Allan Louisy age 63
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Edward Sokoine age 42
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Tu'i Pelehake age 58
Prime Minister - Tonga
Peter Colotka age 55
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Daniel Lisulo age 49
Prime Minister - Zambia
Kassim al-Rimawi age 62
Prime Minister - Jordan
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 57
Prime Minister - Peru
Bernard Ayandho age 49
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Salim Ben Ali age 62
Prime Minister - Comoros
Momčilo Cemović age 52
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Adolfo Suárez age 47
Prime Minister - Spain
Keith Holyoake age 76
Governor-General - New Zealand
Zelman Cowen age 60
Governor-General - Australia
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 69
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Florizel Glasspole age 70
Governor-General - Jamaica
Gerald Cash age 63
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Tore Lokoloko age 49
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 19
Donald Trump age 34
Michael Jackson age 21
Vladimir Putin age 27
Ronald Reagan age 69
Nelson Mandela age 62
George W. Bush age 34
Bill Gates age 24
Pope Francis age 43
Steve Jobs age 25
Angela Merkel age 26
Neil Armstrong age 50
François Hollande age 25
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 2
Gabriel García Márquez age 53
Mikhail Gorbachev age 49
Elon Musk age 9
Stephen Hawking age 38
Emmanuel Macron age 2
Benedict XVI age 53
Mother Teresa age 69
Hillary Clinton age 32
George H. W. Bush age 56
Kamala Harris age 15
Nicolas Sarkozy age 25
Richard Nixon age 67
Xi Jinping age 27
Naruhito age 20
Hugo Chávez age 26
Simone de Beauvoir age 72
Muammar Gaddafi age 38
John Lennon age 39
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 26
Muhammad Ali age 38
Kofi Annan age 42
Charles III age 31
Osama bin Laden age 23
Lech Wałęsa age 36
Gerald Ford age 67
Leo XIV age 24
Diego Maradona age 19
Narendra Modi age 29
Rafael Correa age 17
Aung San Suu Kyi age 35
Benjamin Netanyahu age 30
Dmitry Medvedev age 14
14th Dalai Lama age 45
Silvio Berlusconi age 43
Shinzo Abe age 25
Bob Marley age 35
Tim Berners-Lee age 25
Mahathir Mohamad age 55
Boris Yeltsin age 49
Ali Khamenei age 41
Jacques Chirac age 47
Guillermo Lasso age 24
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 61
Alexander Lukashenko age 25
Tony Blair age 27
Yasser Arafat age 50
David Cameron age 13
Linus Torvalds age 10
Ban Ki-moon age 36
Boris Johnson age 16
Diana, Princess of Wales age 19
Bashar al-Assad age 14
Benazir Bhutto age 27
Jair Bolsonaro age 25
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 34
Theresa May age 23
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 23
Henry Kissinger age 57
Václav Havel age 43
Rishi Sunak age 2 months
Justin Trudeau age 8
Nicolás Maduro age 17
Hosni Mubarak age 52
Dilma Rousseff age 32
François Mitterrand age 63
Milton Friedman age 68
Valentina Tereshkova age 43
Ilham Aliyev age 18
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 41
António Guterres age 31
Akihito age 46
Helmut Kohl age 50
Rosa Parks age 67
Gordon Brown age 29
Shimon Peres age 57
Giorgia Meloni age 3
Olaf Scholz age 22
Keir Starmer age 17
Willy Brandt age 66
Gerhard Schröder age 36
Hassan Rouhani age 31
Hu Jintao age 37
Evo Morales age 20
Joko Widodo age 19
Petro Poroshenko age 14
Mikheil Saakashvili age 12
Liz Truss age 5
Ursula von der Leyen age 21
Mike Pence age 21
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 27
Michelle Bachelet age 28
Ariel Sharon age 52
Felipe VI of Spain age 12
Desmond Tutu age 48