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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
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27

People

John Kerry age 37
Madeleine Albright age 43
Hamid Karzai age 22
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 13
Jacinda Ardern age 4 months
José Mujica age 45
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 56
Yoshihide Suga age 32
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 12
Rajiv Gandhi age 36
Andrzej Duda age 8
Thabo Mbeki age 38
Harald V of Norway age 43
Viktor Yushchenko age 26
John Major age 37
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 26
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 43
Jens Stoltenberg age 21
Slobodan Milošević age 39
Enver Hoxha age 72
Kaja Kallas age 3
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 17
Jacob Zuma age 38
Park Geun-hye age 28
Martti Ahtisaari age 43
Zuzana Čaputová age 7
Moon Jae-in age 27
Juan Manuel Santos age 29
Matteo Renzi age 5
Pedro Sánchez age 8
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 44
Konstantin Chernenko age 69
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 49
Jiang Zemin age 54
Friedrich Merz age 25
Sauli Niinistö age 32
Eduard Shevardnadze age 52
Romano Prodi age 41
Giuseppe Conte age 16
Ebrahim Raisi age 19
Cyril Ramaphosa age 28
Serzh Sargsyan age 26
Pranab Mukherjee age 45
Maia Sandu age 8
Vyacheslav Molotov age 90
Joachim Gauck age 40
Thomas Sankara age 30
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 33
Jean-Claude Juncker age 26
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 23
Li Keqiang age 25
Harold Macmillan age 86
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 9 months
Kersti Kaljulaid age 10
Muhammadu Buhari age 38
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 20
Horst Köhler age 37
Fumio Kishida age 23
Sanae Takaichi age 19
Kevin Rudd age 23
Sebastián Piñera age 31
Tarja Halonen age 36
Alexis Tsipras age 6
Daniel Ortega age 35
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 41
Islam Karimov age 42
Harold Wilson age 64
Scott Morrison age 12
George Weah age 14
Paul Kagame age 23
Omar al-Bashir age 36
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 316
Naoto Kan age 34
Philippe of Belgium age 20
James Callaghan age 68
Pratibha Patil age 46
Droupadi Murmu age 22
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 31
Heydar Aliyev age 57
Hassanal Bolkiah age 34
Norodom Sihanouk age 58
Abiy Ahmed age 4
Mario Draghi age 33
Kim Dae-jung age 56
Christian Wulff age 21
Radovan Karadžić age 35
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 58
Asif Ali Zardari age 25
Yoon Suk Yeol age 19
F. W. de Klerk age 44
Ashraf Ghani age 31
Javier Milei age 10
Alexander Van der Bellen age 36
Mark Carney age 15
Miloš Zeman age 36
Salome Zourabichvili age 28
Emomali Rahmon age 28
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 23
Saparmurat Niyazov age 40
Yoweri Museveni age 36
Leonid Kuchma age 42
Donald Rumsfeld age 48
Masoud Pezeshkian age 26
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 27
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 22
Klaus Iohannis age 21
Aleksandar Vučić age 10
Robert Fico age 16
Olof Palme age 53
Süleyman Demirel age 56
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 21
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 64
Queen Camilla age 33
Jonas Salk age 66
Karl Dönitz age 89
Mikhail Mishustin age 14
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 57
Bronisław Komorowski age 28
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 33
Junichiro Koizumi age 38
Tarō Asō age 40
Rudolf Hess age 86
Colin Powell age 43
Marco Rubio age 9
Norodom Sihamoni age 27
Naftali Bennett age 8
Giulio Andreotti age 61
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 27
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 44
Alexander Dubček age 59
Wen Jiabao age 38
Andy Burnham age 10
Anthony Albanese age 17
Václav Klaus age 39
Ehud Olmert age 35
Francesco Cossiga age 52
Mette Frederiksen age 3
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 24
Leonid Kravchuk age 46
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 33
Antony Blinken age 18
Ahmed Ben Bella age 63
Tony Abbott age 23
Heinz Fischer age 42
Michael D. Higgins age 39
Paolo Gentiloni age 26
Mario Monti age 37
Alberto Fujimori age 42
Roh Moo-hyun age 34
Richard von Weizsäcker age 60
Albert Speer age 75
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 20
Ram Nath Kovind age 35
Nawaz Sharif age 30
François Fillon age 26
Albert II of Belgium age 46
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 46
Néstor Kirchner age 30
Nikol Pashinyan age 5
John Howard age 41
Idriss Déby age 28
Turgut Özal age 53
Yukio Hatoyama age 33
Georgy Malenkov age 78
Edi Rama age 16
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 59
Joseph Kabila age 9
Mswati III age 12
Sahle-Work Zewde age 30
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 12
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 19
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 60
Michel Temer age 40
Edward Heath age 64
Mauricio Macri age 21
Erna Solberg age 19
Traian Băsescu age 29
Yingluck Shinawatra age 13
Mike Pompeo age 16
Rumen Radev age 17
Borut Pahor age 17
Tansu Çiller age 34
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 32
Ratko Mladić age 38
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 35
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 49
B. J. Habibie age 44
Mary Robinson age 36
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 60
Enrico Letta age 14
Thaksin Shinawatra age 31
Jarosław Kaczyński age 31
Moshe Dayan age 65
Yoshihiko Noda age 23
Alberto Fernández age 21
Hamad II of Bahrain age 30
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 21
John Mahama age 22
János Áder age 21
Abdurrahman Wahid age 40