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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

Willy Brandt age 75
Gerhard Schröder age 44
Hassan Rouhani age 40
Hu Jintao age 46
Evo Morales age 29
Joko Widodo age 27
Petro Poroshenko age 23
Mikheil Saakashvili age 21
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
Manmohan Singh age 56
Pervez Musharraf age 45
Julia Gillard age 27
Abdullah Gül age 38
Lech Kaczyński age 39
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 33
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
Condoleezza Rice age 34
Raúl Castro age 57
Sheikh Hasina age 41
Giorgio Napolitano age 63
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 48
Mark Rutte age 21
Idi Amin age 64
Yulia Tymoshenko age 28
Rodrigo Duterte age 43
JD Vance age 4
Abdullah II of Jordan age 26
Helmut Schmidt age 70
Stephen Harper age 29
Donald Tusk age 31
Madeleine Albright age 51
Hamid Karzai age 31
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 21
Jacinda Ardern age 8
José Mujica age 53
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 64
Yoshihide Suga age 40
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 34
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 51
Jens Stoltenberg age 29
Slobodan Milošević age 47
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 53
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 57
Jiang Zemin age 62
Friedrich Merz age 33
Sauli Niinistö age 40
Eduard Shevardnadze age 60
Romano Prodi age 49
Giuseppe Conte age 24
Ebrahim Raisi age 28
Cyril Ramaphosa age 36
Serzh Sargsyan age 34
Sanna Marin age 3
Pranab Mukherjee age 53
Maia Sandu age 16
Joachim Gauck age 48
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 41
Menachem Begin age 75
Jean-Claude Juncker age 34
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 31
Li Keqiang age 33
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 8
Kersti Kaljulaid age 19
Muhammadu Buhari age 46
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 28
Horst Köhler age 45
Fumio Kishida age 31
Sanae Takaichi age 27
Kevin Rudd age 31
Sebastián Piñera age 39
Tarja Halonen age 45
Alexis Tsipras age 14
Islam Karimov age 50
Dan Quayle age 41
Harold Wilson age 72
Scott Morrison age 20
George Weah age 22
Paul Kagame age 31
Omar al-Bashir age 45
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 324
Naoto Kan age 42
Philippe of Belgium age 28
James Callaghan age 76
Pratibha Patil age 54
Droupadi Murmu age 30
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 39
Heydar Aliyev age 65
Norodom Sihanouk age 66
Abiy Ahmed age 12
Mario Draghi age 41
Kim Dae-jung age 65
Christian Wulff age 29
Radovan Karadžić age 43
Mohammed bin Salman age 3
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 66
Asif Ali Zardari age 33
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 82
Yoon Suk Yeol age 28
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
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 47
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 70
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 35
Alexander Dubček age 67
Wen Jiabao age 46
Andy Burnham age 19
Anthony Albanese age 25
Václav Klaus age 47
Ehud Olmert age 43
Mette Frederiksen age 11
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 32
Leonid Kravchuk age 55
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 41
Antony Blinken age 26
Ahmed Ben Bella age 72
Tony Abbott age 31
Heinz Fischer age 50
Michael D. Higgins age 47
Paolo Gentiloni age 34
Mario Monti age 45
Alberto Fujimori age 50
Roh Moo-hyun age 42
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 28
Ram Nath Kovind age 43
Nawaz Sharif age 39
François Fillon age 34
Albert II of Belgium age 54
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 54
Néstor Kirchner age 38
Nikol Pashinyan age 13
John Howard age 49
Idriss Déby age 36
Yukio Hatoyama age 41