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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
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26

People

Hamid Karzai age 31
William 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
John Major age 45
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 34
Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa 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 36
Juan Manuel Santos age 37
Matteo Renzi age 14
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 61
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 49
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 42
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 51
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 45
Mark Carney age 23
Miloš Zeman age 44
Salome Zourabichvili age 36
Emomali Rahmon age 36
Julius Nyerere age 66
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 31
Saparmyrat Nyýazow 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 36
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
Ahmad ibn Billah 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
Ahmed al-Sharaa age 6
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 48
Edward Heath age 72
Mauricio Macri age 29
Erna Solberg age 27
Traian Băsescu age 37
Yingluck Shinawatra age 21
Walter Mondale age 61
Mike Pompeo age 25
Rumen Radev age 25
Nayib Bukele age 7
Borut Pahor age 25
Habib Bourguiba age 85
Tansu Çiller age 42
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 40
Ratko Mladić age 46
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 43
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 57
B. J. Habibie age 52
Mary Robinson age 44
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 68
Enrico Letta age 22
Thaksin Shinawatra age 39
Jarosław Kaczyński age 39
Yoshihiko Noda age 31
Alberto Fernández age 29
Hamad II of Bahrain age 39
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 29
John Mahama age 30
János Áder age 29
Abdurrahman Wahid age 48
Alassane Ouattara age 47
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 45
Stefan Löfven age 31
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 34
Johannes Rau age 58
Yasuo Fukuda age 52
Dominique de Villepin age 35
Manuel Valls age 26
Malcolm Turnbull age 34
Charles Michel age 13
Pierre Nkurunziza age 24