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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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26

People

Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 47
Prime Minister - Portugal
Hun Sen age 34
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Felipe González age 44
Prime Minister - Spain
Brian Mulroney age 47
Prime Minister - Canada
Bob Hawke age 56
Prime Minister - Australia
Prem Tinsulanonda age 66
Prime Minister - Thailand
Andreas Papandreou age 67
Prime Minister - Greece
Ruud Lubbers age 47
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Ingvar Carlsson age 51
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacques Santer age 49
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 50
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Anerood Jugnauth age 56
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Franz Vranitzky age 48
Chancellor - Austria
Wilfried Martens age 50
Prime Minister - Belgium
Poul Schlüter age 57
Prime Minister - Denmark
Eugenia Charles age 67
Prime Minister - Dominica
Kalevi Sorsa age 55
Prime Minister - Finland
David Lange age 44
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 58
Prime Minister - Iceland
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 56
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Kamisese Mara age 66
Prime Minister - Fiji
Muhammad Junejo age 54
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 62
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Edward Seaga age 56
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Constantin Dăscălescu age 63
Prime Minister - Romania
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 74
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Rashid Karami age 64
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Lynden Pindling age 56
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
György Lázár age 61
Prime Minister - Hungary
John Compton age 61
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Manuel Esquivel age 46
Prime Minister - Belize
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 50
Prime Minister - Sudan
Adil Çarçani age 64
Prime Minister - Albania
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 56
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Vere Bird age 75
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 53
Prime Minister - Malta
Rachid Sfar age 52
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Walter Lini age 44
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Errol Barrow age 66
Prime Minister - Barbados
Mário da Graça Machungo age 45
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 67
Prime Minister - Morocco
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 50
Prime Minister - Algeria
Zaid al-Rifai age 49
Prime Minister - Jordan
Peter Kenilorea age 43
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Tomasi Puapua age 47
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Josep Pintat-Solans age 61
Prime Minister - Andorra
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury age 57
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Léon Mébiame age 51
Prime Minister - Gabon
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 55
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 46
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Kennedy Simmonds age 50
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Herbert Blaize age 68
Prime Minister - Grenada
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 47
Prime Minister - Libya
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 53
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Tu'i Pelehake age 64
Prime Minister - Tonga
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 85
Prime Minister - Peru
Hamid Algabid age 45
Prime Minister - Niger
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 45
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Mamadou Dembelé age 52
Prime Minister - Mali
Peter Colotka age 61
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Kebby Musokotwane age 40
Prime Minister - Zambia
Luis Alva Castro age 44
Prime Minister - Peru
Ange Édouard Poungui age 44
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Pretaap Radhakishun age 51
Prime Minister - Suriname
Vuko Vukadinović age 49
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Elmira Minita Gordon age 55
Governor-General - Belize
Ninian Stephen age 63
Governor-General - Australia
Tupua Leupena age 64
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Florizel Glasspole age 76
Governor-General - Jamaica
Gerald Cash age 69
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Kingsford Dibela age 54
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 25
Donald Trump age 40
Michael Jackson age 27
Vladimir Putin age 33
Nelson Mandela age 68
George W. Bush age 40
Bill Gates age 30
Pope Francis age 49
Steve Jobs age 31
Angela Merkel age 32
Neil Armstrong age 56
François Hollande age 32
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 8
Gabriel García Márquez age 59
Elon Musk age 15
Stephen Hawking age 44
Jimmy Carter age 61
Emmanuel Macron age 8
Benedict XVI age 59
Mother Teresa age 76
Hillary Clinton age 38
Kamala Harris age 21
Nicolas Sarkozy age 31
Richard Nixon age 73
Xi Jinping age 33
Naruhito age 26
Hugo Chávez age 32
Muammar Gaddafi age 44
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 32
Muhammad Ali age 44
Kofi Annan age 48
Charles III age 37
Osama bin Laden age 29
Lech Wałęsa age 42
Gerald Ford age 73
Leo XIV age 30
Diego Maradona age 25
Narendra Modi age 35
Rafael Correa age 23
Aung San Suu Kyi age 41
Benjamin Netanyahu age 36
Dmitry Medvedev age 20
14th Dalai Lama age 51
Mark Zuckerberg age 2
Silvio Berlusconi age 49
Shinzo Abe age 31
Tim Berners-Lee age 31
Boris Yeltsin age 55
Guillermo Lasso age 30
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 67
Alexander Lukashenko age 31
Tony Blair age 33
Yasser Arafat age 57
David Cameron age 19
Linus Torvalds age 16
Ban Ki-moon age 42
Boris Johnson age 22
Diana, Princess of Wales age 25
Bashar al-Assad age 20
Benazir Bhutto age 33
Jair Bolsonaro age 31
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 40
Theresa May age 29
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 29
Henry Kissinger age 63
Václav Havel age 49
Rishi Sunak age 6
Justin Trudeau age 14
Nicolás Maduro age 23
Dilma Rousseff age 38
Ferdinand Marcos age 68
Milton Friedman age 74
Valentina Tereshkova age 49
Pol Pot age 61
Ilham Aliyev age 24
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 47
António Guterres age 37
Akihito age 52
Rosa Parks age 73
Gordon Brown age 35
Giorgia Meloni age 9
Olaf Scholz age 28
Keir Starmer age 23
Willy Brandt age 72
Gerhard Schröder age 42
Hassan Rouhani age 37
Hu Jintao age 43
Evo Morales age 26
Joko Widodo age 25
Petro Poroshenko age 20
Mikheil Saakashvili age 18
Liz Truss age 11
Ursula von der Leyen age 27
Mike Pence age 27
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 33
Michelle Bachelet age 34
Ariel Sharon age 58
Felipe VI of Spain age 18
Desmond Tutu age 54
Viktor Yanukovych age 36
Mohamed Morsi age 35
Viktor Orbán age 23
Sergio Mattarella age 45
Manmohan Singh age 53
Pervez Musharraf age 43
Julia Gillard age 24
Abdullah Gül age 35
Lech Kaczyński age 37
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 30
Jeff Bezos age 22
Buzz Aldrin age 56
Mohammad Khatami age 42
Yitzhak Rabin age 64
Tsai Ing-wen age 29
Mariano Rajoy age 31
Andrei Sakharov age 65
Condoleezza Rice age 31
Raúl Castro age 55
Sheikh Hasina age 38
Giorgio Napolitano age 61
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 46
Mark Rutte age 19
Idi Amin age 61
Yulia Tymoshenko age 25
Rodrigo Duterte age 41
JD Vance age 2
Abdullah II of Jordan age 24
Helmut Schmidt age 67
Stephen Harper age 27