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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
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20

People

Joko Widodo age 18
Petro Poroshenko age 14
Mikheil Saakashvili age 11
Liz Truss age 4
Ursula von der Leyen age 21
Mike Pence age 20
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 26
Michelle Bachelet age 28
Ariel Sharon age 51
Felipe VI of Spain age 11
Desmond Tutu age 48
Viktor Yanukovych age 29
Mohamed Morsi age 28
Viktor Orbán age 16
Sergio Mattarella age 38
Manmohan Singh age 47
Pervez Musharraf age 36
Yuri Andropov age 65
Julia Gillard age 18
Abdullah Gül age 29
Lech Kaczyński age 30
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 23
Jeff Bezos age 15
Buzz Aldrin age 49
Mohammad Khatami age 36
Yitzhak Rabin age 57
Tsai Ing-wen age 23
Mariano Rajoy age 24
Andrei Sakharov age 58
Condoleezza Rice age 25
Raúl Castro age 48
Sheikh Hasina age 32
Giorgio Napolitano age 54
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 39
Mark Rutte age 12
Idi Amin age 54
Yulia Tymoshenko age 19
Rodrigo Duterte age 34
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 60
Abdullah II of Jordan age 17
Stephen Harper age 20
Donald Tusk age 22
Corazon Aquino age 46
John Kerry age 36
Madeleine Albright age 42
Hamid Karzai age 21
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 12
José Mujica age 44
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 55
Yoshihide Suga age 31
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 11
Rajiv Gandhi age 35
Andrzej Duda age 7
Thabo Mbeki age 37
Harald V of Norway age 42
Viktor Yushchenko age 25
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 25
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 42
Jens Stoltenberg age 20
Slobodan Milošević age 38
Enver Hoxha age 71
Kaja Kallas age 2
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 16
Jacob Zuma age 37
Park Geun-hye age 27
Martti Ahtisaari age 42
Zuzana Čaputová age 6
Moon Jae-in age 26
Mitt Romney age 32
Juan Manuel Santos age 28
Matteo Renzi age 4
Pedro Sánchez age 7
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 43
Konstantin Chernenko age 68
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 48
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 41
Jiang Zemin age 53
Friedrich Merz age 24
Sauli Niinistö age 31
Eduard Shevardnadze age 51
Romano Prodi age 40
Giuseppe Conte age 15
Ebrahim Raisi age 18
Cyril Ramaphosa age 27
Serzh Sargsyan age 25
Pranab Mukherjee age 44
Maia Sandu age 7
Vyacheslav Molotov age 89
Joachim Gauck age 39
Thomas Sankara age 29
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 32
Jean-Claude Juncker age 25
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 22
Li Keqiang age 24
Harold Macmillan age 85
Kersti Kaljulaid age 9
Muhammadu Buhari age 36
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 19
Horst Köhler age 36
Fumio Kishida age 22
Sanae Takaichi age 18
Kevin Rudd age 22
Sebastián Piñera age 30
Tarja Halonen age 35
Alexis Tsipras age 5
Daniel Ortega age 34
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 40
Islam Karimov age 41
Scott Morrison age 11
George Weah age 13
Paul Kagame age 22
Omar al-Bashir age 35
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 315
Naoto Kan age 33
Philippe of Belgium age 19
Pratibha Patil age 44
Droupadi Murmu age 21
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 30
Heydar Aliyev age 56
Hassanal Bolkiah age 33
Norodom Sihanouk age 57
Abiy Ahmed age 3
Mario Draghi age 32
Kim Dae-jung age 55
Christian Wulff age 20
Radovan Karadžić age 34
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 57
Asif Ali Zardari age 24
Yoon Suk Yeol age 18
F. W. de Klerk age 43
Ashraf Ghani age 30
Javier Milei age 9
Alexander Van der Bellen age 35
Mark Carney age 14
Miloš Zeman age 35
Salome Zourabichvili age 27
Emomali Rahmon age 27
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 22
Saparmurat Niyazov age 39
Yoweri Museveni age 35
Leonid Kuchma age 41
Donald Rumsfeld age 47
Masoud Pezeshkian age 25
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 26
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 21
Klaus Iohannis age 20
Aleksandar Vučić age 9
Robert Fico age 15
Olof Palme age 52
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 20
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 63
Queen Camilla age 32
Jonas Salk age 65
Karl Dönitz age 88
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 46
Pierre Trudeau age 60
Mikhail Mishustin age 13
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 56
Bronisław Komorowski age 27
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 32
Junichiro Koizumi age 37
Tarō Asō age 39
Rudolf Hess age 85
Colin Powell age 42
Marco Rubio age 8
Norodom Sihamoni age 26
Naftali Bennett age 7
Giulio Andreotti age 60
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 26
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 43
Alexander Dubček age 58
Wen Jiabao age 37
Andy Burnham age 9
Anthony Albanese age 16
Václav Klaus age 38
Ehud Olmert age 34
Mette Frederiksen age 2
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 23
Leonid Kravchuk age 45
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 32
Antony Blinken age 17
Ahmed Ben Bella age 62
Tony Abbott age 22
Heinz Fischer age 41
Michael D. Higgins age 38
Paolo Gentiloni age 25
Mario Monti age 36
Alberto Fujimori age 41
Roh Moo-hyun age 33
Richard von Weizsäcker age 59
Albert Speer age 74
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 19
Ram Nath Kovind age 34
Nawaz Sharif age 29
François Fillon age 25
Albert II of Belgium age 45
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 45
Néstor Kirchner age 29
Nikol Pashinyan age 4
John Howard age 40