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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
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
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09

People

Park Geun-hye age 21
Martti Ahtisaari age 35
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 27
Moon Jae-in age 20
Juan Manuel Santos age 21
Pedro Sánchez age 1
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 37
Konstantin Chernenko age 61
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 41
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 35
Jiang Zemin age 46
Friedrich Merz age 17
Sauli Niinistö age 24
Eduard Shevardnadze age 45
Romano Prodi age 33
Giuseppe Conte age 8
Ebrahim Raisi age 12
Cyril Ramaphosa age 20
Serzh Sargsyan age 18
Pranab Mukherjee age 37
Maia Sandu age 11 months
Vyacheslav Molotov age 83
Joachim Gauck age 33
Anthony Eden age 75
Thomas Sankara age 23
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 26
Menachem Begin age 59
Jean-Claude Juncker age 18
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 15
Li Keqiang age 17
Harold Macmillan age 79
Kersti Kaljulaid age 3
Muhammadu Buhari age 30
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 12
Horst Köhler age 30
Fumio Kishida age 15
Sanae Takaichi age 12
Kevin Rudd age 15
Sebastián Piñera age 23
Tarja Halonen age 29
Daniel Ortega age 27
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 34
Islam Karimov age 35
Dan Quayle age 26
Scott Morrison age 4
George Weah age 6
Paul Kagame age 15
Omar al-Bashir age 29
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 308
Naoto Kan age 26
Philippe of Belgium age 13
James Callaghan age 61
Pratibha Patil age 38
Droupadi Murmu age 14
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 23
Juan Perón age 77
Heydar Aliyev age 50
Hassanal Bolkiah age 26
Norodom Sihanouk age 50
Mario Draghi age 25
Kim Dae-jung age 49
Christian Wulff age 13
Radovan Karadžić age 27
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 50
Aldo Moro age 56
Asif Ali Zardari age 17
Yoon Suk Yeol age 12
F. W. de Klerk age 37
Ludwig Erhard age 76
Ashraf Ghani age 23
Javier Milei age 2
Alexander Van der Bellen age 29
Mark Carney age 8
Miloš Zeman age 28
Salome Zourabichvili age 21
Emomali Rahmon age 20
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 15
Saparmurat Niyazov age 33
Yoweri Museveni age 28
Leonid Kuchma age 34
Donald Rumsfeld age 40
Masoud Pezeshkian age 18
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 19
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 15
Klaus Iohannis age 13
Aleksandar Vučić age 3
Robert Fico age 8
Süleyman Demirel age 48
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 14
Queen Camilla age 25
Jonas Salk age 58
Karl Dönitz age 81
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 40
Fulgencio Batista age 72
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 84
Mikhail Mishustin age 7
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 49
Bronisław Komorowski age 20
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 26
Junichiro Koizumi age 31
Tarō Asō age 32
U Thant age 64
Rudolf Hess age 79
Colin Powell age 36
Marco Rubio age 1
Norodom Sihamoni age 19
Naftali Bennett age 1
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 20
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 36
Alexander Dubček age 51
Wen Jiabao age 30
Andy Burnham age 3
Anthony Albanese age 10
Václav Klaus age 31
Ehud Olmert age 27
Francesco Cossiga age 44
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 17
İsmet İnönü age 88
Leonid Kravchuk age 39
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 26
Antony Blinken age 11
Ahmed Ben Bella age 56
Tony Abbott age 15
Heinz Fischer age 34
Michael D. Higgins age 32
Paolo Gentiloni age 18
Mario Monti age 30
Alberto Fujimori age 34
Roh Moo-hyun age 26
Bernard Montgomery age 85
Richard von Weizsäcker age 53
Albert Speer age 68
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 13
Ram Nath Kovind age 27
Nawaz Sharif age 23
François Fillon age 19
Albert II of Belgium age 38
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 38
José Eduardo dos Santos age 30
Néstor Kirchner age 23
John Howard age 33
Idriss Déby age 20
Turgut Özal age 45
Eisaku Satō age 72
Yukio Hatoyama age 26
Georgy Malenkov age 71
Edi Rama age 8
Joseph Kabila age 1
Mswati III age 5
Sahle-Work Zewde age 23
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 5
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 11
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 53
Michel Temer age 32
Mauricio Macri age 14
Erna Solberg age 12
Traian Băsescu age 21
Yingluck Shinawatra age 5
Mike Pompeo age 9
Rumen Radev age 9
Paul Biya age 40
Borut Pahor age 9
Tansu Çiller age 26
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 24
Ratko Mladić age 31
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 27
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 42
Teodoro Obiang age 30
B. J. Habibie age 36
Mary Robinson age 28
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 52
Enrico Letta age 6
Thaksin Shinawatra age 23
Jarosław Kaczyński age 23
Moshe Dayan age 58
Yoshihiko Noda age 15
Alberto Fernández age 14
Hamad II of Bahrain age 23
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 14
John Mahama age 14
János Áder age 14
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 43
Abdurrahman Wahid age 32
Alassane Ouattara age 31
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 29
Stefan Löfven age 15
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 18
Johannes Rau age 42
Yasuo Fukuda age 36
Dominique de Villepin age 19
Manuel Valls age 10
Malcolm Turnbull age 18
Pierre Nkurunziza age 8
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 31
Omar Bongo age 37
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 3
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 16
Frederik X of Denmark age 4
Najib Razak age 19
Helen Clark age 23