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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
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12

People

Hassanal Bolkiah age 42
Prime Minister - Brunei
Turgut Özal age 60
Prime Minister - Turkey
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 49
Prime Minister - Portugal
Hun Sen age 36
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Felipe González age 46
Prime Minister - Spain
Brian Mulroney age 49
Prime Minister - Canada
Bob Hawke age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Andreas Papandreou age 69
Prime Minister - Greece
Ruud Lubbers age 49
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Ingvar Carlsson age 53
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacques Santer age 51
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 52
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Anerood Jugnauth age 58
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Franz Vranitzky age 50
Chancellor - Austria
Wilfried Martens age 52
Prime Minister - Belgium
Eddie Fenech Adami age 54
Prime Minister - Malta
Harri Holkeri age 51
Prime Minister - Finland
Poul Schlüter age 59
Prime Minister - Denmark
Eugenia Charles age 69
Prime Minister - Dominica
David Lange age 46
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 58
Prime Minister - Kuwait
A. N. R. Robinson age 61
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Kamisese Mara age 68
Prime Minister - Fiji
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 64
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 40
Prime Minister - Iceland
Edward Seaga age 58
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Constantin Dăscălescu age 65
Prime Minister - Romania
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 76
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Károly Grósz age 58
Prime Minister - Hungary
Salim al-Huss age 58
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Chatchai Chunhawan age 68
Prime Minister - Thailand
Lynden Pindling age 58
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
John Compton age 63
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Manuel Esquivel age 48
Prime Minister - Belize
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 52
Prime Minister - Sudan
Adil Çarçani age 66
Prime Minister - Albania
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 58
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Vere Bird age 77
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Azzeddine Laraki age 59
Prime Minister - Morocco
Walter Lini age 46
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Moudud Ahmed age 48
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Mário da Graça Machungo age 47
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Hédi Baccouche age 58
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 52
Prime Minister - Algeria
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 51
Prime Minister - Barbados
Zaid al-Rifai age 51
Prime Minister - Jordan
Ezekiel Alebua age 41
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Tomasi Puapua age 50
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Josep Pintat-Solans age 63
Prime Minister - Andorra
Léon Mébiame age 54
Prime Minister - Gabon
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 57
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 48
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Kennedy Simmonds age 52
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Herbert Blaize age 70
Prime Minister - Grenada
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 55
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 57
Prime Minister - Somalia
Tu'i Pelehake age 66
Prime Minister - Tonga
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 87
Prime Minister - Peru
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 43
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 64
Prime Minister - Samoa
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 48
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Peter Colotka age 63
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Kebby Musokotwane age 42
Prime Minister - Zambia
Mamane Oumarou age 43
Prime Minister - Niger
Ange Édouard Poungui age 46
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Armando Villanueva age 72
Prime Minister - Peru
Vuko Vukadinović age 51
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Elmira Minita Gordon age 57
Governor-General - Belize
Ninian Stephen age 65
Governor-General - Australia
Tupua Leupena age 66
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Florizel Glasspole age 79
Governor-General - Jamaica
Kingsford Dibela age 56
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 27
Donald Trump age 42
Michael Jackson age 30
Vladimir Putin age 35
Nelson Mandela age 70
George W. Bush age 42
Bill Gates age 32
Pope Francis age 51
Steve Jobs age 33
Angela Merkel age 34
Neil Armstrong age 58
François Hollande age 34
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 10
Gabriel García Márquez age 61
Elon Musk age 17
Stephen Hawking age 46
Jimmy Carter age 64
Emmanuel Macron age 10
Benedict XVI age 61
Mother Teresa age 78
Hillary Clinton age 40
Kamala Harris age 23
Nicolas Sarkozy age 33
Richard Nixon age 75
Xi Jinping age 35
Naruhito age 28
Hugo Chávez age 34
Muammar Gaddafi age 46
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 34
Muhammad Ali age 46
Kofi Annan age 50
Charles III age 39
Osama bin Laden age 31
Lech Wałęsa age 44
Gerald Ford age 75
Leo XIV age 33
Diego Maradona age 27
Narendra Modi age 38
Rafael Correa age 25
Aung San Suu Kyi age 43
Benjamin Netanyahu age 38
Dmitry Medvedev age 23
14th Dalai Lama age 53
Mark Zuckerberg age 4
Silvio Berlusconi age 52
Shinzo Abe age 34
Tim Berners-Lee age 33
Boris Yeltsin age 57
Jacques Chirac age 55
Guillermo Lasso age 32
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 69
Alexander Lukashenko age 34
Tony Blair age 35
Yasser Arafat age 59
David Cameron age 21
Linus Torvalds age 18
Ban Ki-moon age 44
Boris Johnson age 24
Diana, Princess of Wales age 27
Bashar al-Assad age 23
Benazir Bhutto age 35
Jair Bolsonaro age 33
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 42
Theresa May age 31
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 31
Henry Kissinger age 65
Václav Havel age 51
Rishi Sunak age 8
Justin Trudeau age 16
Nicolás Maduro age 25
Dilma Rousseff age 40
Ferdinand Marcos age 71
Milton Friedman age 76
Valentina Tereshkova age 51
Pol Pot age 63
Ilham Aliyev age 26
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 49
António Guterres age 39
Akihito age 54
Rosa Parks age 75
Gordon Brown age 37
Shimon Peres age 65
Giorgia Meloni age 11
Olaf Scholz age 30
Keir Starmer age 26
Willy Brandt age 74
Gerhard Schröder age 44
Hassan Rouhani age 39
Hu Jintao age 45
Evo Morales age 28
Joko Widodo age 27
Petro Poroshenko age 22
Mikheil Saakashvili age 20
Liz Truss age 13
Ursula von der Leyen age 29
Mike Pence age 29
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 35
Michelle Bachelet age 36
Ariel Sharon age 60
Felipe VI of Spain age 20
Desmond Tutu age 56
Viktor Yanukovych age 38
Mohamed Morsi age 37
Viktor Orbán age 25
Sergio Mattarella age 47
Manmohan Singh age 56
Pervez Musharraf age 45
Julia Gillard age 26
Abdullah Gül age 37
Lech Kaczyński age 39
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 32
Jeff Bezos age 24
Buzz Aldrin age 58
Mohammad Khatami age 44
Yitzhak Rabin age 66
Tsai Ing-wen age 32
Mariano Rajoy age 33
Andrei Sakharov age 67
Condoleezza Rice age 33
Raúl Castro age 57
Sheikh Hasina age 40
Giorgio Napolitano age 63
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 48
Mark Rutte age 21
Idi Amin age 63
Yulia Tymoshenko age 27
Rodrigo Duterte age 43
JD Vance age 4