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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
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

Felipe VI of Spain age 18
Desmond Tutu age 54
Viktor Yanukovych age 36
Mohamed Morsi age 35
Viktor Orbán age 23
Sergio Mattarella age 45
Manmohan Singh age 53
Pervez Musharraf age 43
Julia Gillard age 24
Abdullah Gül age 35
Lech Kaczyński age 37
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 30
Jeff Bezos age 22
Buzz Aldrin age 56
Mohammad Khatami age 42
Yitzhak Rabin age 64
Tsai Ing-wen age 29
Mariano Rajoy age 31
Andrei Sakharov age 65
Condoleezza Rice age 31
Raúl Castro age 55
Sheikh Hasina age 38
Giorgio Napolitano age 61
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 46
Mark Rutte age 19
Idi Amin age 61
Yulia Tymoshenko age 25
Rodrigo Duterte age 41
JD Vance age 2
Abdullah II of Jordan age 24
Helmut Schmidt age 67
Stephen Harper age 27
Donald Tusk age 29
Madeleine Albright age 49
Hamid Karzai age 28
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 19
Jacinda Ardern age 6
José Mujica age 51
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 62
Yoshihide Suga age 37
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 18
Andrzej Duda age 14
Thabo Mbeki age 44
Harald V of Norway age 49
Viktor Yushchenko age 32
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 31
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 49
Jens Stoltenberg age 27
Slobodan Milošević age 45
Kaja Kallas age 9
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 23
Jacob Zuma age 44
Park Geun-hye age 34
Martti Ahtisaari age 49
Zuzana Čaputová age 13
Moon Jae-in age 33
Juan Manuel Santos age 35
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 60
Friedrich Merz age 30
Sauli Niinistö age 38
Eduard Shevardnadze age 58
Romano Prodi age 47
Giuseppe Conte age 22
Ebrahim Raisi age 25
Cyril Ramaphosa age 33
Serzh Sargsyan age 32
Sanna Marin age 9 months
Pranab Mukherjee age 50
Maia Sandu age 14
Vyacheslav Molotov age 96
Joachim Gauck age 46
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 39
Menachem Begin age 73
Jean-Claude Juncker age 31
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 29
Li Keqiang age 31
Harold Macmillan age 92
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 6
Kersti Kaljulaid age 16
Muhammadu Buhari age 43
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 26
Horst Köhler age 43
Fumio Kishida age 29
Sanae Takaichi age 25
Kevin Rudd age 28
Sebastián Piñera age 36
Tarja Halonen age 42
Alexis Tsipras age 12
Islam Karimov age 48
Harold Wilson age 70
Scott Morrison age 18
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
Pratibha Patil age 51
Droupadi Murmu age 28
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 36
Heydar Aliyev age 63
Norodom Sihanouk age 63
Abiy Ahmed age 10
Mario Draghi age 38
Kim Dae-jung age 62
Christian Wulff age 27
Radovan Karadžić age 41
Mohammed bin Salman age 11 months
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 63
Asif Ali Zardari age 31
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 79
Yoon Suk Yeol age 25
F. W. de Klerk age 50
Ashraf Ghani age 37
Javier Milei age 15
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 29
Saparmurat Niyazov age 46
Leonid Kuchma age 48
Donald Rumsfeld age 54
Masoud Pezeshkian age 31
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 33
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 28
Klaus Iohannis age 27
Aleksandar Vučić age 16
Robert Fico age 21
Süleyman Demirel age 61
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 27
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 70
Queen Camilla age 39
Jonas Salk age 71
Pierre Trudeau age 66
Mikhail Mishustin age 20
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 63
Bronisław Komorowski age 34
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 39
Junichiro Koizumi age 44
Tarō Asō age 45
Rudolf Hess age 92
Colin Powell age 49
Marco Rubio age 15
Norodom Sihamoni age 33
Gabriel Boric age 6 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 45
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 48
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 52
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 52
Néstor Kirchner age 36
Nikol Pashinyan age 11
John Howard age 47
Idriss Déby age 34
Yukio Hatoyama age 39
Georgy Malenkov age 84
Ahmed al-Sharaa age 3
Edi Rama age 22
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 65
Joseph Kabila age 15
Sahle-Work Zewde age 36
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 18
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 25
Michel Temer age 45
Mauricio Macri age 27
Erna Solberg age 25
Traian Băsescu age 34
Yingluck Shinawatra age 19
Walter Mondale age 58