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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
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27

People

Olaf Scholz age 22
Keir Starmer age 18
Willy Brandt age 67
Gerhard Schröder age 36
Hassan Rouhani age 32
Hu Jintao age 38
Evo Morales age 21
Joko Widodo age 19
Petro Poroshenko age 15
Mikheil Saakashvili age 13
Liz Truss age 5
Ursula von der Leyen age 22
Mike Pence age 21
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 28
Michelle Bachelet age 29
Ariel Sharon age 53
Felipe VI of Spain age 13
Desmond Tutu age 49
Viktor Yanukovych age 30
Mohamed Morsi age 29
Viktor Orbán age 17
Sergio Mattarella age 39
Manmohan Singh age 48
Pervez Musharraf age 37
Yuri Andropov age 66
Julia Gillard age 19
Abdullah Gül age 30
Lech Kaczyński age 31
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 25
Jeff Bezos age 17
Buzz Aldrin age 51
Mohammad Khatami age 37
Yitzhak Rabin age 59
Tsai Ing-wen age 24
Mariano Rajoy age 25
Andrei Sakharov age 59
Larry Sanger age 12
Condoleezza Rice age 26
Raúl Castro age 49
Sheikh Hasina age 33
Giorgio Napolitano age 55
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 40
Mark Rutte age 14
Idi Amin age 56
Yulia Tymoshenko age 20
Rodrigo Duterte age 35
Abdullah II of Jordan age 19
Stephen Harper age 21
Donald Tusk age 23
Corazon Aquino age 48
James Watson age 52
John Kerry age 37
Madeleine Albright age 43
Hamid Karzai age 23
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 13
Jacinda Ardern age 6 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 44
Viktor Yushchenko age 27
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 26
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 43
Jens Stoltenberg age 21
Slobodan Milošević age 39
Vajiralongkorn age 28
Enver Hoxha age 72
Kaja Kallas age 3
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 17
Jacob Zuma age 38
Park Geun-hye age 29
Martti Ahtisaari age 43
Zuzana Čaputová age 7
Moon Jae-in age 28
Mitt Romney age 33
Juan Manuel Santos age 29
Matteo Renzi age 6
Pedro Sánchez age 8
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 45
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 53
Romano Prodi age 41
Giuseppe Conte age 16
Claudia Sheinbaum age 18
Imran Khan age 28
Ebrahim Raisi age 20
Cyril Ramaphosa age 28
Serzh Sargsyan age 26
Pranab Mukherjee age 45
Maia Sandu age 8
Vyacheslav Molotov age 91
Joachim Gauck age 41
Thomas Sankara age 31
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 34
Jean-Claude Juncker age 26
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 23
Francis Crick age 64
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi age 9
Li Keqiang age 25
Harold Macmillan age 87
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 12 months
Kersti Kaljulaid age 11
Muhammadu Buhari age 38
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 20
Horst Köhler age 38
Fumio Kishida age 23
Sanae Takaichi age 19
Peter Higgs age 51
Kevin Rudd age 23
Sebastián Piñera age 31
Tarja Halonen age 37
Alexis Tsipras age 6
Daniel Ortega age 35
Islam Karimov age 43
Scott Morrison age 12
George Weah age 14
Paul Kagame age 23
Omar al-Bashir age 37
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 316
Naoto Kan age 34
Philippe of Belgium age 20
Pratibha Patil age 46
Droupadi Murmu age 22
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 31
Heydar Aliyev age 57
Herman Van Rompuy age 33
Hassanal Bolkiah age 34
Norodom Sihanouk age 58
Abiy Ahmed age 4
Mario Draghi age 33
Kim Dae-jung age 57
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon age 80
Christian Wulff age 21
Radovan Karadžić age 35
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 58
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 56
Asif Ali Zardari age 25
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 74
Yoon Suk Yeol age 20
F. W. de Klerk age 44
Ashraf Ghani age 31
Javier Milei age 10
Alexander Van der Bellen age 37
Mark Carney age 15
Miloš Zeman age 36
Salome Zourabichvili age 28
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 27
Emomali Rahmon age 28
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 23
Saparmurat Niyazov age 41
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 54
Süleyman Demirel age 56
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 21
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 64
Queen Camilla age 33
Jonas Salk age 66
Mikhail Mishustin age 14
Bronisław Komorowski age 28
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 33
Junichiro Koizumi age 39
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 62
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 28
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 44
Alexander Dubček age 59
Wen Jiabao age 38
Andy Burnham age 11
Anthony Albanese age 17
Václav Klaus age 39
Ehud Olmert age 35
Francesco Cossiga age 52
Mette Frederiksen age 3
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 24
José Manuel Barroso age 24
Leonid Kravchuk age 47
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 33
Antony Blinken age 18
Ahmed Ben Bella age 64