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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
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
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Liz Truss age 3
Ursula von der Leyen age 20
Mike Pence age 19
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 26
Michelle Bachelet age 27
Ariel Sharon age 51
Felipe VI of Spain age 11
Desmond Tutu age 47
Viktor Yanukovych age 28
Mohamed Morsi age 27
Viktor Orbán age 15
Sergio Mattarella age 37
Manmohan Singh age 46
Pervez Musharraf age 35
Yuri Andropov age 64
Julia Gillard age 17
Abdullah Gül age 28
Lech Kaczyński age 29
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 23
Jeff Bezos age 15
Buzz Aldrin age 49
Mohammad Khatami age 35
Yitzhak Rabin age 57
Tsai Ing-wen age 22
Mariano Rajoy age 24
Andrei Sakharov age 57
Condoleezza Rice age 24
Raúl Castro age 47
Sheikh Hasina age 31
Giorgio Napolitano age 53
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 38
Mark Rutte age 12
Yulia Tymoshenko age 18
Rodrigo Duterte age 34
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 59
Abdullah II of Jordan age 17
Stephen Harper age 19
Donald Tusk age 21
Corazon Aquino age 46
John Kerry age 35
Madeleine Albright age 41
Hamid Karzai age 21
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 42
Viktor Yushchenko age 25
John Major age 36
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 24
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 42
Jens Stoltenberg age 20
Slobodan Milošević age 37
Enver Hoxha age 70
Kaja Kallas age 1
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 15
Jacob Zuma age 37
Park Geun-hye age 27
Martti Ahtisaari age 41
Zuzana Čaputová age 5
Moon Jae-in age 26
Mitt Romney age 32
Juan Manuel Santos age 27
Matteo Renzi age 4
Pedro Sánchez age 7
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 89
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 36
Fumio Kishida age 21
Sanae Takaichi age 18
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
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
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 43
Ashraf Ghani age 29
Javier Milei age 8
Alexander Van der Bellen age 35
Mark Carney age 14
Miloš Zeman age 34
Salome Zourabichvili age 27
Emomali Rahmon age 26
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 21
Saparmurat Niyazov age 39
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 21
Klaus Iohannis age 19
Aleksandar Vučić age 9
Robert Fico age 14
Olof Palme age 52
Süleyman Demirel age 54
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 20
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 63
Queen Camilla age 31
Jonas Salk age 64
Karl Dönitz age 87
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 46
Mikhail Mishustin age 13
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 55
Bronisław Komorowski age 26
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 32
Junichiro Koizumi age 37
Tarō Asō age 38
Rudolf Hess age 85
Colin Powell age 42
Marco Rubio age 7
Norodom Sihamoni age 25
Naftali Bennett age 7
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 16
Václav Klaus age 37
Ehud Olmert age 33
Francesco Cossiga age 50
Mette Frederiksen age 1
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 23
Leonid Kravchuk age 45
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 32
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 36
Alberto Fujimori age 40
Roh Moo-hyun age 32
Richard von Weizsäcker age 59
Albert Speer age 74
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 18
Ram Nath Kovind age 33
Nawaz Sharif age 29
François Fillon age 25
Albert II of Belgium age 44
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 44
José Eduardo dos Santos age 36
Néstor Kirchner age 29
Nikol Pashinyan age 3
John Howard age 39
Idriss Déby age 26
Turgut Özal age 51