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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

Donald Tusk age 31
Madeleine Albright age 51
Hamid Karzai age 30
William Alexander of the Netherlands age 21
Jacinda Ardern age 8
José Mujica age 53
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 64
Yoshihide Suga age 39
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 20
Andrzej Duda age 16
Thabo Mbeki age 46
Harald V of Norway age 51
Viktor Yushchenko age 34
John Major age 45
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 33
Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa age 51
Jens Stoltenberg age 29
Slobodan Milošević age 46
Kaja Kallas age 11
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 24
Jacob Zuma age 46
Park Geun-hye age 36
Martti Ahtisaari age 51
Zuzana Čaputová age 15
Moon Jae-in age 35
Juan Manuel Santos age 37
Matteo Renzi age 13
Pedro Sánchez age 16
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 52
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 56
Jiang Zemin age 62
Friedrich Merz age 32
Sauli Niinistö age 39
Eduard Shevardnadze age 60
Romano Prodi age 49
Giuseppe Conte age 23
Ebrahim Raisi age 27
Cyril Ramaphosa age 35
Serzh Sargsyan age 34
Sanna Marin age 2
Pranab Mukherjee age 52
Maia Sandu age 16
Joachim Gauck age 48
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 41
Menachem Begin age 75
Jean-Claude Juncker age 33
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 31
Li Keqiang age 33
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 8
Kersti Kaljulaid age 18
Muhammadu Buhari age 45
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 28
Horst Köhler age 45
Fumio Kishida age 31
Sanae Takaichi age 27
Kevin Rudd age 30
Sebastián Piñera age 38
Tarja Halonen age 44
Alexis Tsipras age 14
Islam Karimov age 50
Harold Wilson age 72
Scott Morrison age 20
George Weah age 21
Paul Kagame age 30
Omar al-Bashir age 44
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 323
Naoto Kan age 41
Philippe of Belgium age 28
James Callaghan age 76
Pratibha Patil age 53
Droupadi Murmu age 30
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 38
Heydar Aliyev age 65
Norodom Sihanouk age 65
Abiy Ahmed age 11
Mario Draghi age 40
Kim Dae-jung age 64
Christian Wulff age 29
Radovan Karadžić age 43
Mohammed bin Salman age 2
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 65
Asif Ali Zardari age 33
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 81
Yoon Suk Yeol age 27
F. W. de Klerk age 52
Ashraf Ghani age 39
Javier Milei age 17
Alexander Van der Bellen age 44
Mark Carney age 23
Miloš Zeman age 43
Salome Zourabichvili age 36
Emomali Rahmon age 35
Julius Nyerere age 66
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 31
Saparmyrat Nyýazow age 48
Leonid Kuchma age 50
Donald Rumsfeld age 56
Masoud Pezeshkian age 33
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 35
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 30
Klaus Iohannis age 29
Aleksandar Vučić age 18
Robert Fico age 23
Süleyman Demirel age 63
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 29
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 72
Queen Camilla age 41
Jonas Salk age 73
Pierre Trudeau age 68
Mikhail Mishustin age 22
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 65
Bronisław Komorowski age 36
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 41
Junichiro Koizumi age 46
Tarō Asō age 47
Colin Powell age 51
Marco Rubio age 17
Sebastian Kurz age 1
Norodom Sihamoni age 35
Gabriel Boric age 2
Naftali Bennett age 16
Giulio Andreotti age 69
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 35
Alexander Dubček age 66
Wen Jiabao age 45
Andy Burnham age 18
Anthony Albanese age 25
Václav Klaus age 47
Ehud Olmert age 42
Mette Frederiksen age 10
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 32
Leonid Kravchuk age 54
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 41
Antony Blinken age 26
Ahmad ibn Billah age 71
Tony Abbott age 30
Heinz Fischer age 49
Michael D. Higgins age 47
Paolo Gentiloni age 33
Mario Monti age 45
Alberto Fujimori age 50
Roh Moo-hyun age 41
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 28
Ram Nath Kovind age 42
Nawaz Sharif age 38
François Fillon age 34
Albert II of Belgium age 54
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 53
Néstor Kirchner age 38
Nikol Pashinyan age 13
John Howard age 49
Idriss Déby age 36
Yukio Hatoyama age 41
Ahmed al-Sharaa age 5
Edi Rama age 24
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 67
Joseph Kabila age 17
Sahle-Work Zewde age 38
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 20
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 27
Michel Temer age 47
Edward Heath age 72
Mauricio Macri age 29
Erna Solberg age 27
Traian Băsescu age 36
Yingluck Shinawatra age 21
Walter Mondale age 60
Mike Pompeo age 24
Rumen Radev age 25
Nayib Bukele age 7
Borut Pahor age 24
Habib Bourguiba age 85
Tansu Çiller age 42
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 39
Ratko Mladić age 46
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 42
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 57
B. J. Habibie age 52
Mary Robinson age 44
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 67
Enrico Letta age 21
Thaksin Shinawatra age 39
Jarosław Kaczyński age 39
Yoshihiko Noda age 31
Alberto Fernández age 29
Hamad II of Bahrain age 38
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 29
John Mahama age 29
János Áder age 29
Abdurrahman Wahid age 47
Alassane Ouattara age 46
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 44
Stefan Löfven age 31
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 33
Johannes Rau age 57
Yasuo Fukuda age 52
Dominique de Villepin age 34
Manuel Valls age 25
Malcolm Turnbull age 33
Charles Michel age 12