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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

People

Yitzhak Rabin age 47
Tsai Ing-wen age 12
Mariano Rajoy age 14
Andrei Sakharov age 47
Dick Cheney age 28
Condoleezza Rice age 14
Raúl Castro age 37
Sheikh Hasina age 21
Giorgio Napolitano age 43
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 28
Mark Rutte age 2
Idi Amin age 44
Yulia Tymoshenko age 8
Rodrigo Duterte age 24
Abdullah II of Jordan age 7
Helmut Schmidt age 50
Stephen Harper age 10
Margrethe II of Denmark age 29
Donald Tusk age 12
Corazon Aquino age 36
Edward VIII age 74
John Kerry age 25
Madeleine Albright age 32
Hamid Karzai age 11
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 2
José Mujica age 33
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 44
Yoshihide Suga age 20
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 1
Rajiv Gandhi age 24
Thabo Mbeki age 26
Wernher von Braun age 57
Harald V of Norway age 32
Viktor Yushchenko age 15
John Major age 26
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 14
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 32
Jens Stoltenberg age 10
Slobodan Milošević age 27
Enver Hoxha age 60
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 5
Jacob Zuma age 27
Park Geun-hye age 17
Martti Ahtisaari age 31
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 23
Moon Jae-in age 16
Mitt Romney age 22
Juan Manuel Santos age 17
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 33
Konstantin Chernenko age 57
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 37
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 31
Jiang Zemin age 42
Friedrich Merz age 13
Sauli Niinistö age 20
Eduard Shevardnadze age 41
Romano Prodi age 29
Giuseppe Conte age 4
Ebrahim Raisi age 8
Cyril Ramaphosa age 16
Serzh Sargsyan age 14
Pranab Mukherjee age 33
Vyacheslav Molotov age 79
Joachim Gauck age 29
Anthony Eden age 71
Thomas Sankara age 19
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 22
Menachem Begin age 55
Jean-Claude Juncker age 14
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 11
Erich Honecker age 56
Hafez al-Assad age 38
Li Keqiang age 13
Harold Macmillan age 75
Muhammadu Buhari age 26
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 8
Horst Köhler age 26
Fumio Kishida age 11
Sanae Takaichi age 8
Kevin Rudd age 11
Sebastián Piñera age 19
Tarja Halonen age 25
Daniel Ortega age 23
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 30
Islam Karimov age 31
Dan Quayle age 22
Scott Morrison age 11 months
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 49
George Weah age 2
Paul Kagame age 11
Omar al-Bashir age 25
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 304
Naoto Kan age 22
Philippe of Belgium age 9
Pratibha Patil age 34
Droupadi Murmu age 10
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 19
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 41
António de Oliveira Salazar age 80
Juan Perón age 73
Heydar Aliyev age 46
Hassanal Bolkiah age 22
Norodom Sihanouk age 46
Mario Draghi age 21
Kim Dae-jung age 45
Christian Wulff age 9
Radovan Karadžić age 23
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 46
Aldo Moro age 52
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 28
Asif Ali Zardari age 13
Yoon Suk Yeol age 8
F. W. de Klerk age 33
Ludwig Erhard age 72
Ashraf Ghani age 19
Kurt Waldheim age 50
Alexander Van der Bellen age 25
Mark Carney age 4
Miloš Zeman age 24
Salome Zourabichvili age 17
Emomali Rahmon age 16
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 11
Saparmurat Niyazov age 29
Yoweri Museveni age 24
Leonid Kuchma age 30
Donald Rumsfeld age 36
Masoud Pezeshkian age 14
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 15
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 11
Klaus Iohannis age 9
Robert Fico age 4
Olof Palme age 42
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 10
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 53
Queen Camilla age 21
Jonas Salk age 54
Karl Dönitz age 77
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 36
Fulgencio Batista age 68
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 80
Mikhail Mishustin age 3
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 45
Bronisław Komorowski age 16
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 22
Junichiro Koizumi age 27
Tarō Asō age 28
Rudolf Hess age 75
Colin Powell age 32
Norodom Sihamoni age 15
Giulio Andreotti age 50
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 16
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 32
Alexander Dubček age 47
Wen Jiabao age 26
Anthony Albanese age 6
Václav Klaus age 27
Ehud Olmert age 23
Francesco Cossiga age 40
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 13
İsmet İnönü age 84
Leonid Kravchuk age 35
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 22
Antony Blinken age 7
Ahmed Ben Bella age 52
Tony Abbott age 11
Heinz Fischer age 30
Michael D. Higgins age 28
Paolo Gentiloni age 14
Mario Monti age 26
Alberto Fujimori age 30
Roh Moo-hyun age 22
Bernard Montgomery age 81
Richard von Weizsäcker age 49
Albert Speer age 64
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 9
Ram Nath Kovind age 23
Nawaz Sharif age 19
François Fillon age 15
Albert II of Belgium age 34
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 34
José Eduardo dos Santos age 26
Néstor Kirchner age 19
John Howard age 29
Idriss Déby age 16
Alexander Kerensky age 88
Turgut Özal age 41
Yukio Hatoyama age 22
Georgy Malenkov age 67
Edi Rama age 4
Mswati III age 1
Sahle-Work Zewde age 19
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 1
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 7
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 49
Michel Temer age 28
Mauricio Macri age 10
Erna Solberg age 8
Traian Băsescu age 17
Yingluck Shinawatra age 1
Mike Pompeo age 5