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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
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
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Black Monday (1987) 1987-10-19

People

Michelle Bachelet age 36
Ariel Sharon age 59
Felipe VI of Spain age 19
Desmond Tutu age 56
Viktor Yanukovych age 37
Mohamed Morsi age 36
Viktor Orbán age 24
Sergio Mattarella age 46
Manmohan Singh age 55
Pervez Musharraf age 44
Julia Gillard age 26
Abdullah Gül age 36
Lech Kaczyński age 38
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 31
Jeff Bezos age 23
Buzz Aldrin age 57
Mohammad Khatami age 44
Yitzhak Rabin age 65
Tsai Ing-wen age 31
Mariano Rajoy age 32
Andrei Sakharov age 66
Condoleezza Rice age 32
Raúl Castro age 56
Sheikh Hasina age 40
Giorgio Napolitano age 62
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 47
Mark Rutte age 20
Idi Amin age 62
Yulia Tymoshenko age 26
Rodrigo Duterte age 42
JD Vance age 3
Abdullah II of Jordan age 25
Helmut Schmidt age 68
Stephen Harper age 28
Donald Tusk age 30
Madeleine Albright age 50
Hamid Karzai age 29
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 20
Jacinda Ardern age 7
José Mujica age 52
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 63
Yoshihide Suga age 38
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 19
Andrzej Duda age 15
Thabo Mbeki age 45
Harald V of Norway age 50
Viktor Yushchenko age 33
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 32
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 50
Jens Stoltenberg age 28
Slobodan Milošević age 46
Kaja Kallas age 10
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 24
Jacob Zuma age 45
Park Geun-hye age 35
Martti Ahtisaari age 50
Zuzana Čaputová age 14
Moon Jae-in age 34
Juan Manuel Santos age 36
Matteo Renzi age 12
Pedro Sánchez age 15
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 51
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 56
Jiang Zemin age 61
Friedrich Merz age 31
Sauli Niinistö age 39
Eduard Shevardnadze age 59
Romano Prodi age 48
Giuseppe Conte age 23
Ebrahim Raisi age 26
Cyril Ramaphosa age 34
Serzh Sargsyan age 33
Sanna Marin age 1
Pranab Mukherjee age 51
Maia Sandu age 15
Joachim Gauck age 47
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 40
Menachem Begin age 74
Jean-Claude Juncker age 32
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 30
Li Keqiang age 32
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 7
Kersti Kaljulaid age 17
Muhammadu Buhari age 44
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 27
Horst Köhler age 44
Fumio Kishida age 30
Sanae Takaichi age 26
Kevin Rudd age 30
Sebastián Piñera age 37
Tarja Halonen age 43
Alexis Tsipras age 13
Islam Karimov age 49
Harold Wilson age 71
Scott Morrison age 19
George Weah age 21
Paul Kagame age 30
Omar al-Bashir age 43
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 322
Naoto Kan age 41
Philippe of Belgium age 27
James Callaghan age 75
Pratibha Patil age 52
Droupadi Murmu age 29
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 38
Heydar Aliyev age 64
Norodom Sihanouk age 65
Abiy Ahmed age 11
Mario Draghi age 40
Kim Dae-jung age 63
Christian Wulff age 28
Radovan Karadžić age 42
Mohammed bin Salman age 2
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 64
Asif Ali Zardari age 32
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 81
Yoon Suk Yeol age 26
F. W. de Klerk age 51
Ashraf Ghani age 38
Javier Milei age 17
Alexander Van der Bellen age 43
Mark Carney age 22
Miloš Zeman age 43
Salome Zourabichvili age 35
Emomali Rahmon age 35
Julius Nyerere age 65
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 30
Saparmurat Niyazov age 47
Leonid Kuchma age 49
Donald Rumsfeld age 55
Masoud Pezeshkian age 33
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 34
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 29
Klaus Iohannis age 28
Aleksandar Vučić age 17
Robert Fico age 23
Süleyman Demirel age 63
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 28
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 71
Queen Camilla age 40
Jonas Salk age 73
Pierre Trudeau age 68
Mikhail Mishustin age 21
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 64
Bronisław Komorowski age 35
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 40
Junichiro Koizumi age 45
Tarō Asō age 47
Colin Powell age 50
Marco Rubio age 16
Sebastian Kurz age 1
Norodom Sihamoni age 34
Gabriel Boric age 1
Naftali Bennett age 15
Giulio Andreotti age 68
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 34
Alexander Dubček age 65
Wen Jiabao age 45
Andy Burnham age 17
Anthony Albanese age 24
Václav Klaus age 46
Ehud Olmert age 42
Mette Frederiksen age 9
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 31
Leonid Kravchuk age 53
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 40
Antony Blinken age 25
Ahmed Ben Bella age 70
Tony Abbott age 29
Heinz Fischer age 49
Michael D. Higgins age 46
Paolo Gentiloni age 32
Mario Monti age 44
Alberto Fujimori age 49
Roh Moo-hyun age 41
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 27
Ram Nath Kovind age 42
Nawaz Sharif age 37
François Fillon age 33
Albert II of Belgium age 53
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 53
Néstor Kirchner age 37
Nikol Pashinyan age 12
John Howard age 48
Idriss Déby age 35
Yukio Hatoyama age 40
Georgy Malenkov age 85
Ahmed al-Sharaa age 4
Edi Rama age 23
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 66
Joseph Kabila age 16
Sahle-Work Zewde age 37
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 19
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 26
Michel Temer age 47
Mauricio Macri age 28
Erna Solberg age 26
Traian Băsescu age 35
Yingluck Shinawatra age 20
Walter Mondale age 59