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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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 11
José Mujica age 43
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 54
Yoshihide Suga age 30
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 24
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 41
Jens Stoltenberg age 19
Slobodan Milošević age 37
Enver Hoxha age 70
Kaja Kallas age 1
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 15
Jacob Zuma age 36
Park Geun-hye age 27
Martti Ahtisaari age 41
Zuzana Čaputová age 5
Moon Jae-in age 26
Juan Manuel Santos age 27
Matteo Renzi age 4
Pedro Sánchez age 6
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 43
Konstantin Chernenko age 67
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 47
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 41
Jiang Zemin age 52
Friedrich Merz age 23
Sauli Niinistö age 30
Eduard Shevardnadze age 51
Romano Prodi age 39
Giuseppe Conte age 14
Ebrahim Raisi age 18
Cyril Ramaphosa age 26
Serzh Sargsyan age 24
Pranab Mukherjee age 43
Maia Sandu age 6
Vyacheslav Molotov age 88
Joachim Gauck age 39
Thomas Sankara age 29
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 32
Jean-Claude Juncker age 24
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 21
Li Keqiang age 23
Harold Macmillan age 85
Kersti Kaljulaid age 9
Muhammadu Buhari age 36
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 18
Horst Köhler age 35
Fumio Kishida age 21
Sanae Takaichi age 17
Kevin Rudd age 21
Sebastián Piñera age 29
Tarja Halonen age 35
Alexis Tsipras age 4
Daniel Ortega age 33
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 39
Islam Karimov age 41
Harold Wilson age 62
Scott Morrison age 10
George Weah age 12
Paul Kagame age 21
Omar al-Bashir age 35
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 314
Naoto Kan age 32
Philippe of Belgium age 18
Pratibha Patil age 44
Droupadi Murmu age 20
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 29
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 51
Heydar Aliyev age 55
Hassanal Bolkiah age 32
Norodom Sihanouk age 56
Abiy Ahmed age 2
Mario Draghi age 31
Kim Dae-jung age 55
Christian Wulff age 19
Radovan Karadžić age 33
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 56
Asif Ali Zardari age 23
Yoon Suk Yeol age 18
F. W. de Klerk age 42
Ashraf Ghani age 29
Javier Milei age 8
Alexander Van der Bellen age 35
Mark Carney age 13
Miloš Zeman age 34
Salome Zourabichvili age 26
Emomali Rahmon age 26
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 21
Saparmurat Niyazov age 38
Yoweri Museveni age 34
Leonid Kuchma age 40
Donald Rumsfeld age 46
Masoud Pezeshkian age 24
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 25
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 20
Klaus Iohannis age 19
Aleksandar Vučić age 8
Robert Fico age 14
Olof Palme age 52
Süleyman Demirel age 54
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 19
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 62
Queen Camilla age 31
Jonas Salk age 64
Karl Dönitz age 87
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 37
Tarō Asō age 38
Rudolf Hess age 84
Colin Powell age 41
Marco Rubio age 7
Norodom Sihamoni age 25
Naftali Bennett age 6
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 26
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 42
Alexander Dubček age 57
Wen Jiabao age 36
Andy Burnham age 9
Anthony Albanese age 15
Václav Klaus age 37
Ehud Olmert age 33
Francesco Cossiga age 50
Mette Frederiksen age 1
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 22
Leonid Kravchuk age 45
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 31
Antony Blinken age 16
Ahmed Ben Bella age 62
Tony Abbott age 21
Heinz Fischer age 40
Michael D. Higgins age 37
Paolo Gentiloni age 24
Mario Monti age 35
Alberto Fujimori age 40
Roh Moo-hyun age 32
Richard von Weizsäcker age 58
Albert Speer age 73
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 18
Ram Nath Kovind age 33
Nawaz Sharif age 29
François Fillon age 24
Albert II of Belgium age 44
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 44
José Eduardo dos Santos age 36
Néstor Kirchner age 28
Nikol Pashinyan age 3
John Howard age 39
Idriss Déby age 26
Turgut Özal age 51
Yukio Hatoyama age 32
Georgy Malenkov age 77
Edi Rama age 14
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 57
Joseph Kabila age 7
Mswati III age 10
Sahle-Work Zewde age 28
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 10
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 17
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 59
Michel Temer age 38
Edward Heath age 62
Mauricio Macri age 20
Erna Solberg age 17
Traian Băsescu age 27
Yingluck Shinawatra age 11
Mike Pompeo age 15
Rumen Radev age 15
Borut Pahor age 15
Tansu Çiller age 32
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 30
Ratko Mladić age 36
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 33
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 48
Teodoro Obiang age 36
B. J. Habibie age 42
Mary Robinson age 34
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 58
Enrico Letta age 12
Thaksin Shinawatra age 29
Jarosław Kaczyński age 29
Moshe Dayan age 63
Yoshihiko Noda age 21
Alberto Fernández age 19
Hamad II of Bahrain age 29
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 20
John Mahama age 20
János Áder age 19
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 48
Abdurrahman Wahid age 38
Alassane Ouattara age 37