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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
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12

People

Pol Pot age 63
Ilham Aliyev age 26
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 50
António Guterres age 39
Akihito age 54
Rosa Parks age 75
Shimon Peres age 65
Wangari Maathai age 48
Giorgia Meloni age 11
Prince Philip age 67
Olaf Scholz age 30
Keir Starmer age 26
Willy Brandt age 74
Gerhard Schröder age 44
Hassan Rouhani age 39
Hu Jintao age 45
Evo Morales age 29
Joko Widodo age 27
Petro Poroshenko age 23
Mikheil Saakashvili age 20
Liz Truss age 13
Ursula von der Leyen age 30
Mike Pence age 29
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 35
Michelle Bachelet age 37
Ariel Sharon age 60
Felipe VI of Spain age 20
Desmond Tutu age 57
Viktor Yanukovych age 38
Mohamed Morsi age 37
Viktor Orbán age 25
Sergio Mattarella age 47
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 62
Manmohan Singh age 56
Pervez Musharraf age 45
Julia Gillard age 27
Abdullah Gül age 38
Lech Kaczyński age 39
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 32
Jeff Bezos age 24
Buzz Aldrin age 58
Mohammad Khatami age 45
Yitzhak Rabin age 66
Tsai Ing-wen age 32
Mariano Rajoy age 33
Andrei Sakharov age 67
Larry Sanger age 20
Condoleezza Rice age 33
Raúl Castro age 57
Sheikh Hasina age 41
Giorgio Napolitano age 63
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 48
Mark Rutte age 21
Idi Amin age 63
Yulia Tymoshenko age 27
Rodrigo Duterte age 43
JD Vance age 4
Abdullah II of Jordan age 26
William, Prince of Wales age 6
Helmut Schmidt age 69
Stephen Harper age 29
Donald Tusk age 31
James Watson age 60
Madeleine Albright age 51
Hamid Karzai age 30
Willem-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
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 33
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 51
Jens Stoltenberg age 29
Slobodan Milošević age 47
Vajiralongkorn age 36
Kaja Kallas age 11
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 25
Jacob Zuma age 46
Park Geun-hye age 36
Martti Ahtisaari age 51
Zuzana Čaputová age 15
Moon Jae-in age 35
Mitt Romney age 41
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 57
Jiang Zemin age 62
Friedrich Merz age 32
Sauli Niinistö age 40
Eduard Shevardnadze age 60
Romano Prodi age 49
Giuseppe Conte age 24
Claudia Sheinbaum age 26
Imran Khan age 36
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
Francis Crick age 72
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi age 17
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
Peter Higgs age 59
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex age 4
Kevin Rudd age 31
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 22
Paul Kagame age 31
Omar al-Bashir age 44
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 323
Naoto Kan age 42
Philippe of Belgium age 28
James Callaghan age 76
Pratibha Patil age 53
Droupadi Murmu age 30
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 39
Heydar Aliyev age 65
Herman Van Rompuy age 41
Norodom Sihanouk age 66
Abiy Ahmed age 12
Mario Draghi age 41
Kim Dae-jung age 64
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon age 88
Christian Wulff age 29
Radovan Karadžić age 43
Mohammed bin Salman age 3
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 65
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 63
Asif Ali Zardari age 33
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 82
Yoon Suk Yeol age 27
F. W. de Klerk age 52
Ashraf Ghani age 39
Javier Milei age 18
Alexander Van der Bellen age 44
Mark Carney age 23
Miloš Zeman age 44
Salome Zourabichvili age 36
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 34
Emomali Rahmon age 36
Julius Nyerere age 66
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 31
Saparmurat Niyazov age 48
Leonid Kuchma age 50
Donald Rumsfeld age 56
Masoud Pezeshkian age 34
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 35
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 30
Klaus Iohannis age 29
Aleksandar Vučić age 18
Robert Fico age 24
Süleyman Demirel age 64
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 29
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 72
Queen Camilla age 41
Jonas Salk age 74
Pierre Trudeau age 69
Mikhail Mishustin age 22
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 65
Bronisław Komorowski age 36
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 41
Junichiro Koizumi age 46
Tarō Asō age 48
Colin Powell age 51
Marco Rubio age 17
Sebastian Kurz age 2
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 46
Andy Burnham age 18
Anthony Albanese age 25