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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
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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

People

Tsai Ing-wen age 13
Mariano Rajoy age 15
Andrei Sakharov age 49
Dick Cheney age 29
Condoleezza Rice age 15
Raúl Castro age 39
Sheikh Hasina age 22
Giorgio Napolitano age 45
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 30
Mark Rutte age 3
Idi Amin age 45
Yulia Tymoshenko age 9
Rodrigo Duterte age 25
Abdullah II of Jordan age 8
Helmut Schmidt age 51
Stephen Harper age 11
Margrethe II of Denmark age 30
Donald Tusk age 13
Corazon Aquino age 37
Edward VIII age 76
John Kerry age 26
Madeleine Albright age 33
Hamid Karzai age 12
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 3
José Mujica age 35
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 46
Yoshihide Suga age 21
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 2
Rajiv Gandhi age 25
Thabo Mbeki age 28
Wernher von Braun age 58
Harald V of Norway age 33
Viktor Yushchenko age 16
John Major age 27
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 15
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 33
Jens Stoltenberg age 11
Slobodan Milošević age 28
Enver Hoxha age 61
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 6
Jacob Zuma age 28
Park Geun-hye age 18
Martti Ahtisaari age 33
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 24
Moon Jae-in age 17
Mitt Romney age 23
Juan Manuel Santos age 18
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 34
Konstantin Chernenko age 58
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 38
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 32
Jiang Zemin age 43
Friedrich Merz age 14
Sauli Niinistö age 21
Eduard Shevardnadze age 42
Romano Prodi age 31
Giuseppe Conte age 5
Ebrahim Raisi age 9
Cyril Ramaphosa age 17
Serzh Sargsyan age 16
Pranab Mukherjee age 34
Vyacheslav Molotov age 80
Joachim Gauck age 30
Anthony Eden age 73
Thomas Sankara age 20
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 23
Menachem Begin age 56
Jean-Claude Juncker age 15
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 13
Erich Honecker age 57
Hafez al-Assad age 39
Li Keqiang age 15
Harold Macmillan age 76
Kersti Kaljulaid age 7 months
Muhammadu Buhari age 27
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 9
Horst Köhler age 27
Fumio Kishida age 13
Sanae Takaichi age 9
Kevin Rudd age 12
Sebastián Piñera age 20
Tarja Halonen age 26
Daniel Ortega age 24
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 31
Islam Karimov age 32
Dan Quayle age 23
Scott Morrison age 2
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 50
George Weah age 3
Paul Kagame age 12
Omar al-Bashir age 26
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 305
Naoto Kan age 23
Philippe of Belgium age 10
Pratibha Patil age 35
Droupadi Murmu age 12
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 20
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 42
Juan Perón age 74
Heydar Aliyev age 47
Hassanal Bolkiah age 24
Norodom Sihanouk age 47
Mario Draghi age 22
Kim Dae-jung age 46
Christian Wulff age 11
Radovan Karadžić age 25
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 47
Aldo Moro age 53
Asif Ali Zardari age 15
Yoon Suk Yeol age 9
F. W. de Klerk age 34
Ludwig Erhard age 73
Ashraf Ghani age 21
Kurt Waldheim age 51
Alexander Van der Bellen age 26
Mark Carney age 5
Miloš Zeman age 25
Salome Zourabichvili age 18
Emomali Rahmon age 17
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 13
Saparmurat Niyazov age 30
Yoweri Museveni age 25
Leonid Kuchma age 32
Donald Rumsfeld age 38
Masoud Pezeshkian age 15
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 17
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 12
Klaus Iohannis age 11
Aleksandar Vučić age 4 months
Robert Fico age 5
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 11
Queen Camilla age 23
Jonas Salk age 55
Karl Dönitz age 78
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 37
Fulgencio Batista age 69
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 81
Mikhail Mishustin age 4
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 47
Bronisław Komorowski age 18
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 23
Junichiro Koizumi age 28
Tarō Asō age 29
Rudolf Hess age 76
Colin Powell age 33
Norodom Sihamoni age 17
Giulio Andreotti age 51
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 17
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 33
Alexander Dubček age 48
Wen Jiabao age 27
Andy Burnham age 6 months
Anthony Albanese age 7
Václav Klaus age 29
Ehud Olmert age 24
Francesco Cossiga age 42
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 14
İsmet İnönü age 85
Leonid Kravchuk age 36
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 23
Antony Blinken age 8
Ahmed Ben Bella age 53
Tony Abbott age 12
Heinz Fischer age 31
Michael D. Higgins age 29
Paolo Gentiloni age 15
Mario Monti age 27
Alberto Fujimori age 32
Roh Moo-hyun age 23
Bernard Montgomery age 82
Richard von Weizsäcker age 50
Albert Speer age 65
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 10
Ram Nath Kovind age 24
Nawaz Sharif age 20
François Fillon age 16
Albert II of Belgium age 36
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 35
José Eduardo dos Santos age 27
Néstor Kirchner age 20
John Howard age 31
Idriss Déby age 18
Turgut Özal age 42
Yukio Hatoyama age 23
Georgy Malenkov age 68
Edi Rama age 6
Mswati III age 2
Sahle-Work Zewde age 20
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 2
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 9
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 50
Michel Temer age 29
Mauricio Macri age 11
Erna Solberg age 9
Traian Băsescu age 18
Yingluck Shinawatra age 3
Mike Pompeo age 6
Rumen Radev age 7
Paul Biya age 37
Lester B. Pearson age 73