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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
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
HIV/AIDS epidemic 1981-06-05

People

Hamid Karzai age 23
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 14
Jacinda Ardern age 10 months
José Mujica age 46
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 56
Yoshihide Suga age 32
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 13
Rajiv Gandhi age 36
Andrzej Duda age 9
Thabo Mbeki age 38
Harald V of Norway age 44
Viktor Yushchenko age 27
John Major age 38
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 26
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 44
Jens Stoltenberg age 22
Slobodan Milošević age 39
Enver Hoxha age 72
Kaja Kallas age 3
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 17
Jacob Zuma age 39
Park Geun-hye age 29
Martti Ahtisaari age 43
Zuzana Čaputová age 7
Moon Jae-in age 28
Juan Manuel Santos age 29
Matteo Renzi age 6
Pedro Sánchez age 9
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
Ebrahim Raisi age 20
Cyril Ramaphosa age 28
Serzh Sargsyan age 26
Pranab Mukherjee age 45
Maia Sandu age 9
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
Li Keqiang age 25
Harold Macmillan age 87
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 1
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 20
Kevin Rudd age 23
Sebastián Piñera age 31
Tarja Halonen age 37
Alexis Tsipras age 6
Daniel Ortega age 35
Islam Karimov age 43
Harold Wilson age 65
Scott Morrison age 13
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 21
James Callaghan age 69
Pratibha Patil age 46
Droupadi Murmu age 22
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 31
Heydar Aliyev age 58
Hassanal Bolkiah age 34
Norodom Sihanouk age 58
Abiy Ahmed age 4
Mario Draghi age 33
Kim Dae-jung age 57
Christian Wulff age 21
Radovan Karadžić age 35
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 58
Asif Ali Zardari age 25
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 74
Yoon Suk Yeol age 20
F. W. de Klerk age 45
Ashraf Ghani age 32
Javier Milei age 10
Alexander Van der Bellen age 37
Mark Carney age 16
Miloš Zeman age 36
Salome Zourabichvili age 29
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 28
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 23
Klaus Iohannis age 21
Aleksandar Vučić age 11
Robert Fico age 16
Olof Palme age 54
Süleyman Demirel age 56
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 22
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 65
Queen Camilla age 33
Jonas Salk age 66
Mikhail Mishustin age 15
Bronisław Komorowski age 29
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 34
Junichiro Koizumi age 39
Tarō Asō age 40
Rudolf Hess age 87
Colin Powell age 44
Marco Rubio age 10
Norodom Sihamoni age 28
Naftali Bennett age 9
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 18
Václav Klaus age 39
Ehud Olmert age 35
Francesco Cossiga age 52
Mette Frederiksen age 3
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 25
Leonid Kravchuk age 47
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 34
Antony Blinken age 19
Ahmed Ben Bella age 64
Tony Abbott age 23
Heinz Fischer age 42
Michael D. Higgins age 40
Paolo Gentiloni age 26
Mario Monti age 38
Alberto Fujimori age 42
Roh Moo-hyun age 34
Richard von Weizsäcker age 61
Albert Speer age 76
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 21
Ram Nath Kovind age 35
Nawaz Sharif age 31
François Fillon age 27
Albert II of Belgium age 47
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 46
Néstor Kirchner age 31
Nikol Pashinyan age 6
John Howard age 41
Idriss Déby age 28
Turgut Özal age 53
Yukio Hatoyama age 34
Georgy Malenkov age 79
Edi Rama age 16
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 60
Joseph Kabila age 10
Mswati III age 13
Sahle-Work Zewde age 31
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 13
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 19
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 61
Michel Temer age 40
Edward Heath age 64
Mauricio Macri age 22
Erna Solberg age 20
Traian Băsescu age 29
Yingluck Shinawatra age 13
Walter Mondale age 53
Mike Pompeo age 17
Rumen Radev age 17
Borut Pahor age 17
Tansu Çiller age 35
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 32
Ratko Mladić age 39
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 35
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 50
B. J. Habibie age 44
Mary Robinson age 37
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 60
Enrico Letta age 14
Thaksin Shinawatra age 31
Jarosław Kaczyński age 31
Moshe Dayan age 66
Yoshihiko Noda age 24
Alberto Fernández age 22
Hamad II of Bahrain age 31
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 22
John Mahama age 22
János Áder age 22
Abdurrahman Wahid age 40
Alassane Ouattara age 39
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 37
Stefan Löfven age 23