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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
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Wen Jiabao age 36
Andy Burnham age 9
Anthony Albanese age 16
Václav Klaus age 37
Antony Blinken age 17
Ahmad ibn Billah age 62
Tony Abbott age 21
Heinz Fischer age 40
Richard von Weizsäcker age 59
Albert Speer age 74
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 19
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
Yukio Hatoyama age 32
Georgy Malenkov age 77
Edi Rama age 14
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 58
Joseph Kabila age 7
Michel Temer age 38
Edward Heath age 62
Mauricio Macri age 20
Mike Pompeo age 15
Rumen Radev age 15
Ratko Mladić age 37
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 33
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 48
Yoshihiko Noda age 21
Alberto Fernández age 20
Hamad II of Bahrain age 29
Johannes Rau age 48
Yasuo Fukuda age 42
Dominique de Villepin age 25
Manuel Valls age 16
Malcolm Turnbull age 24
Charles Michel age 3
Pierre Nkurunziza age 14
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 37
Franjo Tuđman age 57
Alec Douglas-Home age 75
Gustavo Petro age 19
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 14
Armen Sarkissian age 25
Boyko Borissov age 19
Andrei Gromyko age 69
Spiro Agnew age 60
Carlos Menem age 48
Robert Kocharyan age 24
Laura Chinchilla age 20
Zoran Milanović age 12
Nikos Anastasiades age 32
Roman Herzog age 45
Jean Castex age 13
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 11
Sali Berisha age 34
Stjepan Mesić age 44
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 60
Umberto II of Italy age 74
Leo Varadkar age 3 months
Ivo Josipović age 21
Petr Pavel age 17
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 29
Leopold III of Belgium age 77
Mohammed Omar age 19
Félix Tshisekedi age 15
Édouard Philippe age 8
Karl Nehammer age 6
Yves Leterme age 18
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 58
Bujar Nishani age 12
Abdul Hamid age 35
Hun Sen age 26
Kim Campbell age 32
Andrej Babiš age 24
Lenín Moreno age 26
Shigeru Ishiba age 22
Lionel Jospin age 41
Abolhassan Banisadr age 46
Patrice Talon age 21
Blaise Compaoré age 28
Élisabeth Borne age 18
Thomas Bach age 25
Raúl Alfonsín age 52
Thomas Boni Yayi age 26
Georgi Parvanov age 21
Paul Martin age 40
Zhao Ziyang age 59
Rex Tillerson age 27
Alexander Schallenberg age 9
Mia Mottley age 13
Elio Di Rupo age 27
Jean Chrétien age 45
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 22
Andrej Plenković age 9
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 39
Karl Carstens age 64
Jacques Delors age 53
Mohammad Najibullah age 31
João Lourenço age 25
Werner Faymann age 19
Guy Verhofstadt age 26
Dimitris Christofias age 32
George F. Kennan age 75
Itamar Franco age 48
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 47
Jacques Rogge age 37
Bamir Topi age 22
Ilir Meta age 10
Alexander De Croo age 3
Sophie Wilmès age 4
Luis Arce age 15
Jeanine Áñez age 11
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 41
Zhu Rongji age 50
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 45
Gough Whitlam age 62
Mathieu Kérékou age 45
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 31
Armand Fallières age 137
Pierre Mauroy age 50
Laurent Fabius age 32
Édith Cresson age 45
Michel Barnier age 28
Enda Kenny age 28
Omar Bradley age 86
Soong Ching-ling age 86
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 38
Ivo Sanader age 25
Mohamed Naguib age 78
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 141
John Roberts age 24
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 22
Brian Mulroney age 40
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 26
Yoshirō Mori age 41
Vahagn Khachatryan age 20
Bob Hawke age 49
Sandra Mason age 30
Iván Duque age 2
Jadranka Kosor age 25
Bernard Cazeneuve age 15
Lee Teng-hui age 56
Paul Keating age 35
Thomas Klestil age 46
Mokgweetsi Masisi age 17
Petr Fiala age 14
Tomiichi Murayama age 55
Micheál Martin age 18
Li Peng age 50
Ferhat Abbas age 79
Brigitte Bierlein age 29
Bart De Wever age 8
Rosen Plevneliev age 14
José Antonio Kast age 13
Tassos Papadopoulos age 45
François Bayrou age 27
Egon Krenz age 42
Fernando Collor de Mello age 29
Robert Mueller age 34
Ramiz Alia age 53
Leopoldo Galtieri age 52
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 34
Festus Mogae age 39
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 26
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 28
Jean Casimir-Perier age 131
Alain Juppé age 33
Bajram Begaj age 12
Kakuei Tanaka age 61
Bertie Ahern age 27
James Baker age 49
Antonin Scalia age 43
Babrak Karmal age 50
Alfred Moisiu age 49
Zillur Rahman age 50
Iliana Iotova age 14
François Bozizé age 32
Mirek Topolánek age 22
Petr Nečas age 14
Javier Solana age 36
James Comey age 18
Alfred Gusenbauer age 19
Ali Asadov age 22
Raman Halowchanka age 5
Nobusuke Kishi age 82
Toshiki Kaifu age 48
Kiichi Miyazawa age 59
Tsutomu Hata age 43
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 30
Édouard Balladur age 50
Eduardo Duhalde age 37
Wolfgang Schüssel age 33
Artur Rasizade age 44
John Diefenbaker age 83
José Maria Neves age 19