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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28

People

Yoshihide Suga age 27
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 7
Rajiv Gandhi age 31
Andrzej Duda age 3
Thabo Mbeki age 33
Wernher von Braun age 63
Harald V of Norway age 38
Viktor Yushchenko age 21
John Major age 32
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 21
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 38
Jens Stoltenberg age 16
Slobodan Milošević age 34
Enver Hoxha age 67
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 12
Jacob Zuma age 33
Park Geun-hye age 23
Martti Ahtisaari age 38
Zuzana Čaputová age 2
Moon Jae-in age 22
Juan Manuel Santos age 24
Matteo Renzi age 11 months
Pedro Sánchez age 3
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 39
Konstantin Chernenko age 64
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 44
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 37
Jiang Zemin age 49
Friedrich Merz age 20
Sauli Niinistö age 27
Eduard Shevardnadze age 47
Romano Prodi age 36
Giuseppe Conte age 11
Ebrahim Raisi age 14
Cyril Ramaphosa age 23
Serzh Sargsyan age 21
Pranab Mukherjee age 40
Maia Sandu age 3
Vyacheslav Molotov age 85
Joachim Gauck age 35
Anthony Eden age 78
Thomas Sankara age 25
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 28
Menachem Begin age 62
Jean-Claude Juncker age 21
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 18
Li Keqiang age 20
Harold Macmillan age 81
Kersti Kaljulaid age 5
Muhammadu Buhari age 32
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 15
Horst Köhler age 32
Fumio Kishida age 18
Sanae Takaichi age 14
Kevin Rudd age 18
Sebastián Piñera age 26
Tarja Halonen age 31
Alexis Tsipras age 1
Daniel Ortega age 30
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 36
Islam Karimov age 37
Dan Quayle age 28
Scott Morrison age 7
George Weah age 9
Paul Kagame age 18
Omar al-Bashir age 31
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 311
Naoto Kan age 29
Philippe of Belgium age 15
James Callaghan age 63
Pratibha Patil age 40
Droupadi Murmu age 17
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 26
Heydar Aliyev age 52
Hassanal Bolkiah age 29
Norodom Sihanouk age 53
Mario Draghi age 28
Kim Dae-jung age 51
Christian Wulff age 16
Radovan Karadžić age 30
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 53
Asif Ali Zardari age 20
Yoon Suk Yeol age 14
F. W. de Klerk age 39
Ludwig Erhard age 78
Ashraf Ghani age 26
Javier Milei age 5
Alexander Van der Bellen age 31
Mark Carney age 10
Miloš Zeman age 31
Salome Zourabichvili age 23
Emomali Rahmon age 23
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 18
Saparmurat Niyazov age 35
Yoweri Museveni age 31
Leonid Kuchma age 37
Masoud Pezeshkian age 21
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 22
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 17
Klaus Iohannis age 16
Aleksandar Vučić age 5
Robert Fico age 11
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 16
Queen Camilla age 28
Jonas Salk age 61
Karl Dönitz age 84
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 42
Mikhail Mishustin age 9
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 52
Bronisław Komorowski age 23
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 28
Junichiro Koizumi age 33
Tarō Asō age 35
Rudolf Hess age 81
Colin Powell age 38
Marco Rubio age 4
Norodom Sihamoni age 22
Naftali Bennett age 3
Giulio Andreotti age 56
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 22
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 39
Alexander Dubček age 54
Wen Jiabao age 33
Andy Burnham age 5
Anthony Albanese age 12
Václav Klaus age 34
Ehud Olmert age 30
Francesco Cossiga age 47
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 19
Leonid Kravchuk age 41
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 28
Antony Blinken age 13
Ahmed Ben Bella age 58
Tony Abbott age 18
Heinz Fischer age 37
Michael D. Higgins age 34
Paolo Gentiloni age 21
Mario Monti age 32
Alberto Fujimori age 37
Roh Moo-hyun age 29
Bernard Montgomery age 88
Richard von Weizsäcker age 55
Albert Speer age 70
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 15
Ram Nath Kovind age 30
Nawaz Sharif age 25
François Fillon age 21
Albert II of Belgium age 41
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 41
José Eduardo dos Santos age 33
Néstor Kirchner age 25
Nikol Pashinyan age 6 months
John Howard age 36
Idriss Déby age 23
Turgut Özal age 48
Yukio Hatoyama age 28
Georgy Malenkov age 73
Edi Rama age 11
Joseph Kabila age 4
Mswati III age 7
Sahle-Work Zewde age 25
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 7
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 14
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 55
Michel Temer age 35
Edward Heath age 59
Mauricio Macri age 16
Erna Solberg age 14
Traian Băsescu age 24
Yingluck Shinawatra age 8
Mike Pompeo age 11
Rumen Radev age 12
Borut Pahor age 12
Tansu Çiller age 29
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 27
Ratko Mladić age 33
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 30
Teodoro Obiang age 33
B. J. Habibie age 39
Mary Robinson age 31
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 55
Enrico Letta age 9
Thaksin Shinawatra age 26
Jarosław Kaczyński age 26
Moshe Dayan age 60
Yoshihiko Noda age 18
Alberto Fernández age 16
Hamad II of Bahrain age 25
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 16
John Mahama age 17
János Áder age 16
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 45
Abdurrahman Wahid age 35
Alassane Ouattara age 33
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 32
Stefan Löfven age 18
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 21
Johannes Rau age 44
Yasuo Fukuda age 39
Dominique de Villepin age 22