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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
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

Felipe VI of Spain age 6
Desmond Tutu age 42
Viktor Yanukovych age 24
Mohamed Morsi age 23
Viktor Orbán age 11
Sergio Mattarella age 33
Manmohan Singh age 41
Pervez Musharraf age 31
Yuri Andropov age 60
Julia Gillard age 12
Abdullah Gül age 23
Lech Kaczyński age 25
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 18
Jeff Bezos age 10
Buzz Aldrin age 44
Mohammad Khatami age 30
Tsai Ing-wen age 17
Mariano Rajoy age 19
Andrei Sakharov age 53
Larry Sanger age 6
Dick Cheney age 33
Condoleezza Rice age 19
Raúl Castro age 43
Sheikh Hasina age 26
Giorgio Napolitano age 49
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 34
Mark Rutte age 7
Yulia Tymoshenko age 13
Rodrigo Duterte age 29
Abdullah II of Jordan age 12
Stephen Harper age 15
Donald Tusk age 17
Corazon Aquino age 41
James Watson age 46
John Kerry age 30
Madeleine Albright age 37
Hamid Karzai age 16
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 7
José Mujica age 39
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 50
Yoshihide Suga age 25
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 6
Rajiv Gandhi age 30
Andrzej Duda age 2
Thabo Mbeki age 32
Wernher von Braun age 62
Harald V of Norway age 37
Viktor Yushchenko age 20
John Major age 31
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 19
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 37
Jens Stoltenberg age 15
Slobodan Milošević age 33
Vajiralongkorn age 22
Enver Hoxha age 65
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 11
Jacob Zuma age 32
Park Geun-hye age 22
Martti Ahtisaari age 37
Zuzana Čaputová age 1
Moon Jae-in age 21
Mitt Romney age 27
Juan Manuel Santos age 23
Pedro Sánchez age 2
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 38
Konstantin Chernenko age 62
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 42
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 36
Jiang Zemin age 48
Friedrich Merz age 18
Sauli Niinistö age 26
Eduard Shevardnadze age 46
Romano Prodi age 35
Giuseppe Conte age 10
Claudia Sheinbaum age 12
Imran Khan age 21
Ebrahim Raisi age 13
Cyril Ramaphosa age 21
Serzh Sargsyan age 20
Pranab Mukherjee age 38
Maia Sandu age 2
Vyacheslav Molotov age 84
Joachim Gauck age 34
Anthony Eden age 77
Thomas Sankara age 24
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 27
Menachem Begin age 61
Jean-Claude Juncker age 19
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 17
Francis Crick age 58
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi age 3
Li Keqiang age 19
Harold Macmillan age 80
Kersti Kaljulaid age 4
Muhammadu Buhari age 31
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 14
Horst Köhler age 31
Fumio Kishida age 17
Sanae Takaichi age 13
Peter Higgs age 45
Kevin Rudd age 16
Sebastián Piñera age 24
Tarja Halonen age 30
Alexis Tsipras age 0 months
Daniel Ortega age 28
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 35
Islam Karimov age 36
Dan Quayle age 27
Scott Morrison age 6
George Weah age 7
Paul Kagame age 16
Omar al-Bashir age 30
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 309
Naoto Kan age 27
Philippe of Belgium age 14
Pratibha Patil age 39
Droupadi Murmu age 16
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 24
Heydar Aliyev age 51
Herman Van Rompuy age 26
Hassanal Bolkiah age 28
Norodom Sihanouk age 51
Mario Draghi age 26
Kim Dae-jung age 50
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon age 74
Christian Wulff age 15
Radovan Karadžić age 29
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 51
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 49
Aldo Moro age 57
Asif Ali Zardari age 19
Yoon Suk Yeol age 13
F. W. de Klerk age 38
Ludwig Erhard age 77
Ashraf Ghani age 25
Javier Milei age 3
Alexander Van der Bellen age 30
Mark Carney age 9
Miloš Zeman age 29
Salome Zourabichvili age 22
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 20
Emomali Rahmon age 21
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 17
Saparmurat Niyazov age 34
Yoweri Museveni age 29
Leonid Kuchma age 36
Donald Rumsfeld age 42
Masoud Pezeshkian age 19
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 21
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 16
Klaus Iohannis age 15
Aleksandar Vučić age 4
Robert Fico age 9
Süleyman Demirel age 49
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 15
Queen Camilla age 27
Jonas Salk age 59
Karl Dönitz age 82
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 41
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 86
Mikhail Mishustin age 8
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 51
Bronisław Komorowski age 22
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 27
Junichiro Koizumi age 32
Tarō Asō age 33
U Thant age 65
Rudolf Hess age 80
Colin Powell age 37
Marco Rubio age 3
Norodom Sihamoni age 21
Naftali Bennett age 2
Giulio Andreotti age 55
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 21
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 37
Alexander Dubček age 52
Wen Jiabao age 31
Andy Burnham age 4
Anthony Albanese age 11
Václav Klaus age 33
Ehud Olmert age 28
Francesco Cossiga age 46
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 18
José Manuel Barroso age 18
Leonid Kravchuk age 40
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 27
Antony Blinken age 12
Ahmed Ben Bella age 57
Tony Abbott age 16
Heinz Fischer age 35
Michael D. Higgins age 33
Paolo Gentiloni age 19
Mario Monti age 31
Alberto Fujimori age 36
Roh Moo-hyun age 27
Bernard Montgomery age 86
Richard von Weizsäcker age 54
Albert Speer age 69
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 14
Ram Nath Kovind age 28