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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
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
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26

People

Hamid Karzai age 28
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 19
Jacinda Ardern age 5
José Mujica age 51
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 61
Yoshihide Suga age 37
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 18
Andrzej Duda age 13
Thabo Mbeki age 43
Harald V of Norway age 49
Viktor Yushchenko age 32
John Major age 43
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 31
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 49
Jens Stoltenberg age 27
Slobodan Milošević age 44
Kaja Kallas age 8
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 22
Jacob Zuma age 44
Park Geun-hye age 34
Martti Ahtisaari age 48
Zuzana Čaputová age 12
Moon Jae-in age 33
Juan Manuel Santos age 34
Matteo Renzi age 11
Pedro Sánchez age 14
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 50
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 54
Jiang Zemin age 59
Friedrich Merz age 30
Sauli Niinistö age 37
Eduard Shevardnadze age 58
Romano Prodi age 46
Giuseppe Conte age 21
Ebrahim Raisi age 25
Cyril Ramaphosa age 33
Serzh Sargsyan age 31
Sanna Marin age 5 months
Pranab Mukherjee age 50
Maia Sandu age 13
Vyacheslav Molotov age 96
Joachim Gauck age 46
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 39
Menachem Begin age 72
Jean-Claude Juncker age 31
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 28
Li Keqiang age 30
Harold Macmillan age 92
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 6
Kersti Kaljulaid age 16
Muhammadu Buhari age 43
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 25
Horst Köhler age 43
Fumio Kishida age 28
Sanae Takaichi age 25
Kevin Rudd age 28
Sebastián Piñera age 36
Tarja Halonen age 42
Alexis Tsipras age 11
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 47
Islam Karimov age 48
Harold Wilson age 70
Scott Morrison age 17
George Weah age 19
Paul Kagame age 28
Omar al-Bashir age 42
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 321
Naoto Kan age 39
Philippe of Belgium age 26
James Callaghan age 74
Pratibha Patil age 51
Droupadi Murmu age 27
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 36
Heydar Aliyev age 63
Norodom Sihanouk age 63
Abiy Ahmed age 9
Mario Draghi age 38
Kim Dae-jung age 62
Christian Wulff age 26
Radovan Karadžić age 40
Mohammed bin Salman age 8 months
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 63
Asif Ali Zardari age 30
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 79
Yoon Suk Yeol age 25
F. W. de Klerk age 50
Ashraf Ghani age 36
Javier Milei age 15
Kurt Waldheim age 67
Alexander Van der Bellen age 42
Mark Carney age 21
Miloš Zeman age 41
Salome Zourabichvili age 34
Emomali Rahmon age 33
Julius Nyerere age 64
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 28
Saparmurat Niyazov age 46
Leonid Kuchma age 47
Donald Rumsfeld age 53
Masoud Pezeshkian age 31
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 32
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 28
Klaus Iohannis age 26
Aleksandar Vučić age 16
Robert Fico age 21
Süleyman Demirel age 61
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 27
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 70
Queen Camilla age 38
Jonas Salk age 71
Pierre Trudeau age 66
Mikhail Mishustin age 20
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 62
Bronisław Komorowski age 33
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 39
Junichiro Koizumi age 44
Tarō Asō age 45
Rudolf Hess age 92
Colin Powell age 49
Marco Rubio age 14
Norodom Sihamoni age 33
Gabriel Boric age 2 months
Naftali Bennett age 14
Giulio Andreotti age 67
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 33
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 49
Alexander Dubček age 64
Wen Jiabao age 43
Andy Burnham age 16
Anthony Albanese age 23
Václav Klaus age 44
Ehud Olmert age 40
Mette Frederiksen age 8
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 30
Leonid Kravchuk age 52
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 39
Antony Blinken age 24
Ahmed Ben Bella age 69
Tony Abbott age 28
Heinz Fischer age 47
Michael D. Higgins age 45
Paolo Gentiloni age 31
Mario Monti age 43
Alberto Fujimori age 47
Roh Moo-hyun age 39
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 26
Ram Nath Kovind age 40
Nawaz Sharif age 36
François Fillon age 32
Albert II of Belgium age 51
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 51
Néstor Kirchner age 36
Nikol Pashinyan age 10
John Howard age 46
Idriss Déby age 33
Yukio Hatoyama age 39
Georgy Malenkov age 84
Ahmed al-Sharaa age 3
Edi Rama age 21
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 65
Joseph Kabila age 14
Sahle-Work Zewde age 36
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 18
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 24
Michel Temer age 45
Edward Heath age 69
Mauricio Macri age 27
Erna Solberg age 25
Traian Băsescu age 34
Yingluck Shinawatra age 18
Walter Mondale age 58
Mike Pompeo age 22
Rumen Radev age 22
Nayib Bukele age 4
Borut Pahor age 22
Tansu Çiller age 39
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 37
Ratko Mladić age 44
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 40
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 55
B. J. Habibie age 49
Mary Robinson age 41
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 65
Enrico Letta age 19
Thaksin Shinawatra age 36
Jarosław Kaczyński age 36
Yoshihiko Noda age 28
Alberto Fernández age 27
Hamad II of Bahrain age 36
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 27
John Mahama age 27
János Áder age 27
Abdurrahman Wahid age 45
Alassane Ouattara age 44
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 42
Stefan Löfven age 28
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 31
Johannes Rau age 55
Yasuo Fukuda age 49
Dominique de Villepin age 32