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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
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
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
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11

People

Liz Truss age 3
Ursula von der Leyen age 19
Mike Pence age 19
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 25
Michelle Bachelet age 26
Ariel Sharon age 50
Felipe VI of Spain age 10
Desmond Tutu age 46
Viktor Yanukovych age 28
Mohamed Morsi age 27
Viktor Orbán age 15
Sergio Mattarella age 37
Manmohan Singh age 45
Pervez Musharraf age 35
Yuri Andropov age 64
Julia Gillard age 16
Abdullah Gül age 27
Lech Kaczyński age 29
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 22
Jeff Bezos age 14
Buzz Aldrin age 48
Mohammad Khatami age 34
Yitzhak Rabin age 56
Tsai Ing-wen age 21
Mariano Rajoy age 23
Andrei Sakharov age 57
Dick Cheney age 37
Condoleezza Rice age 23
Raúl Castro age 47
Sheikh Hasina age 30
Giorgio Napolitano age 53
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 38
Mark Rutte age 11
Yulia Tymoshenko age 17
Rodrigo Duterte age 33
Abdullah II of Jordan age 16
Stephen Harper age 19
Donald Tusk age 21
Corazon Aquino age 45
John Kerry age 34
Madeleine Albright age 41
Hamid Karzai age 20
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 11
José Mujica age 43
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 54
Yoshihide Suga age 29
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 10
Rajiv Gandhi age 34
Andrzej Duda age 6
Thabo Mbeki age 36
Harald V of Norway age 41
Viktor Yushchenko age 24
John Major age 35
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 23
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 41
Jens Stoltenberg age 19
Slobodan Milošević age 37
Enver Hoxha age 69
Kaja Kallas age 1
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 15
Jacob Zuma age 36
Park Geun-hye age 26
Martti Ahtisaari age 41
Zuzana Čaputová age 5
Moon Jae-in age 25
Mitt Romney age 31
Juan Manuel Santos age 27
Matteo Renzi age 3
Pedro Sánchez age 6
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 42
Konstantin Chernenko age 66
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 46
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 40
Jiang Zemin age 52
Friedrich Merz age 22
Sauli Niinistö age 30
Eduard Shevardnadze age 50
Romano Prodi age 39
Giuseppe Conte age 14
Ebrahim Raisi age 17
Cyril Ramaphosa age 25
Serzh Sargsyan age 24
Pranab Mukherjee age 42
Maia Sandu age 6
Vyacheslav Molotov age 88
Joachim Gauck age 38
Thomas Sankara age 28
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 31
Jean-Claude Juncker age 23
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 21
Li Keqiang age 23
Harold Macmillan age 84
Kersti Kaljulaid age 8
Muhammadu Buhari age 35
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 18
Horst Köhler age 35
Fumio Kishida age 21
Sanae Takaichi age 17
Kevin Rudd age 20
Sebastián Piñera age 28
Tarja Halonen age 34
Alexis Tsipras age 4
Daniel Ortega age 32
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 39
Islam Karimov age 40
Scott Morrison age 10
George Weah age 11
Paul Kagame age 20
Omar al-Bashir age 34
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 313
Naoto Kan age 31
Philippe of Belgium age 18
Pratibha Patil age 43
Droupadi Murmu age 20
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 28
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 50
Heydar Aliyev age 55
Hassanal Bolkiah age 32
Norodom Sihanouk age 55
Abiy Ahmed age 2
Mario Draghi age 30
Kim Dae-jung age 54
Christian Wulff age 19
Radovan Karadžić age 33
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 55
Asif Ali Zardari age 23
Yoon Suk Yeol age 17
F. W. de Klerk age 42
Ashraf Ghani age 29
Javier Milei age 7
Alexander Van der Bellen age 34
Mark Carney age 13
Miloš Zeman age 33
Salome Zourabichvili age 26
Emomali Rahmon age 25
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 21
Saparmurat Niyazov age 38
Yoweri Museveni age 33
Leonid Kuchma age 40
Donald Rumsfeld age 46
Masoud Pezeshkian age 23
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 25
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 20
Klaus Iohannis age 19
Aleksandar Vučić age 8
Robert Fico age 13
Olof Palme age 51
Süleyman Demirel age 53
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 19
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 62
Queen Camilla age 31
Jonas Salk age 63
Karl Dönitz age 86
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 45
Mikhail Mishustin age 12
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 55
Bronisław Komorowski age 26
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 31
Junichiro Koizumi age 36
Tarō Asō age 37
Rudolf Hess age 84
Colin Powell age 41
Marco Rubio age 7
Norodom Sihamoni age 25
Naftali Bennett age 6
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 25
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 41
Alexander Dubček age 56
Wen Jiabao age 35
Andy Burnham age 8
Anthony Albanese age 15
Václav Klaus age 37
Ehud Olmert age 32
Francesco Cossiga age 50
Mette Frederiksen age 9 months
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 22
Leonid Kravchuk age 44
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 31
Antony Blinken age 16
Ahmed Ben Bella age 61
Tony Abbott age 20
Heinz Fischer age 39
Michael D. Higgins age 37
Paolo Gentiloni age 23
Mario Monti age 35
Alberto Fujimori age 40
Roh Moo-hyun age 31
Richard von Weizsäcker age 58
Albert Speer age 73
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 18
Ram Nath Kovind age 32
Nawaz Sharif age 28
François Fillon age 24
Albert II of Belgium age 44
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 44
José Eduardo dos Santos age 35
Néstor Kirchner age 28
Nikol Pashinyan age 3
John Howard age 39
Idriss Déby age 26