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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
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
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Bangladesh genocide 1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
Bangladesh War of Independence 1971-03-26 - 1971-12-16

People

Slobodan Milošević age 30
Enver Hoxha age 62
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 8
Jacob Zuma age 29
Park Geun-hye age 19
Martti Ahtisaari age 34
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 25
Moon Jae-in age 18
Juan Manuel Santos age 20
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 35
Konstantin Chernenko age 59
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 39
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 33
Jiang Zemin age 45
Friedrich Merz age 15
Sauli Niinistö age 23
Eduard Shevardnadze age 43
Romano Prodi age 32
Giuseppe Conte age 7
Ebrahim Raisi age 10
Cyril Ramaphosa age 18
Serzh Sargsyan age 17
Pranab Mukherjee age 35
Vyacheslav Molotov age 81
Joachim Gauck age 31
Anthony Eden age 74
Thomas Sankara age 21
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 24
Menachem Begin age 58
Jean-Claude Juncker age 16
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 14
Li Keqiang age 16
Harold Macmillan age 77
Kersti Kaljulaid age 1
Muhammadu Buhari age 28
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 11
Horst Köhler age 28
Fumio Kishida age 14
Sanae Takaichi age 10
Kevin Rudd age 13
Sebastián Piñera age 21
Tarja Halonen age 27
Daniel Ortega age 25
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 32
Islam Karimov age 33
Dan Quayle age 24
Scott Morrison age 3
George Weah age 4
Paul Kagame age 13
Omar al-Bashir age 27
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 306
Naoto Kan age 24
Philippe of Belgium age 11
James Callaghan age 59
Pratibha Patil age 36
Droupadi Murmu age 13
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 21
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 43
Juan Perón age 75
Heydar Aliyev age 48
Hassanal Bolkiah I of Brunei age 25
Norodom Sihanouk age 48
Mario Draghi age 23
Kim Dae-jung age 47
Christian Wulff age 12
Radovan Karadžić age 26
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 48
Aldo Moro age 54
Asif Ali Zardari age 16
Yoon Suk Yeol age 10
F. W. de Klerk age 35
Ludwig Erhard age 74
Ashraf Ghani age 22
Javier Milei age 10 months
Kurt Waldheim age 52
Alexander Van der Bellen age 27
Mark Carney age 6
Miloš Zeman age 26
Salome Zourabichvili age 19
Emomali Rahmon age 18
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 14
Saparmyrat Nyýazow age 31
Yoweri Museveni age 26
Leonid Kuchma age 33
Donald Rumsfeld age 39
Masoud Pezeshkian age 16
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 18
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 13
Klaus Iohannis age 12
Aleksandar Vučić age 1
Robert Fico age 6
Süleyman Demirel age 46
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 12
Queen Camilla age 24
Jonas Salk age 56
Karl Dönitz age 79
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 38
Fulgencio Batista age 70
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 83
Mikhail Mishustin age 5
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 48
Bronisław Komorowski age 19
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 24
Junichiro Koizumi age 29
Tarō Asō age 30
Rudolf Hess age 77
Colin Powell age 34
Marco Rubio age 2 months
Norodom Sihamoni age 18
Giulio Andreotti age 52
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 18
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 34
Alexander Dubček age 49
Wen Jiabao age 28
Andy Burnham age 1
Anthony Albanese age 8
Václav Klaus age 30
Ehud Olmert age 25
Francesco Cossiga age 43
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 15
İsmet İnönü age 86
Leonid Kravchuk age 37
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 24
Antony Blinken age 9
Ahmad ibn Billah age 54
Tony Abbott age 13
Heinz Fischer age 32
Michael D. Higgins age 30
Paolo Gentiloni age 16
Mario Monti age 28
Alberto Fujimori age 33
Roh Moo-hyun age 24
Bernard Montgomery age 83
Richard von Weizsäcker age 51
Albert Speer age 66
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 11
Ram Nath Kovind age 25
Nawaz Sharif age 21
François Fillon age 17
Albert II of Belgium age 37
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 37
José Eduardo dos Santos age 29
Néstor Kirchner age 21
John Howard age 32
Idriss Déby age 19
Turgut Özal age 43
Yukio Hatoyama age 24
Georgy Malenkov age 69
Edi Rama age 7
Joseph Kabila age 2 months
Mswati III age 3
Sahle-Work Zewde age 21
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 3
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 10
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 51
Michel Temer age 30
Mauricio Macri age 12
Erna Solberg age 10
Traian Băsescu age 19
Yingluck Shinawatra age 4
Mike Pompeo age 7
Rumen Radev age 8
Paul Biya age 38
Lester B. Pearson age 74
Borut Pahor age 7
Tansu Çiller age 25
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 22
Ratko Mladić age 29
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 25
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 40
Teodoro Obiang age 29
B. J. Habibie age 35
Mary Robinson age 27
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 50
Enrico Letta age 5
Thaksin Shinawatra age 22
Jarosław Kaczyński age 22
Moshe Dayan age 56
Yoshihiko Noda age 14
Alberto Fernández age 12
Hamad II of Bahrain age 21
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 12
John Mahama age 12
János Áder age 12
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 41
Abdurrahman Wahid age 30
Alassane Ouattara age 29
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 27
Stefan Löfven age 14
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 16
Johannes Rau age 40
Yasuo Fukuda age 35
Dominique de Villepin age 17
Manuel Valls age 9
Malcolm Turnbull age 16
Pierre Nkurunziza age 6
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 29
Omar Bongo age 35
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 1
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 15