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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
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
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Baltic Way 1989-08-23

People

Ariel Sharon age 61
Felipe VI of Spain age 21
Desmond Tutu age 57
Viktor Yanukovych age 39
Mohamed Morsi age 38
Viktor Orbán age 26
Sergio Mattarella age 48
Manmohan Singh age 56
Pervez Musharraf age 46
Julia Gillard age 27
Abdullah Gül age 38
Lech Kaczyński age 40
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 33
Jeff Bezos age 25
Buzz Aldrin age 59
Mohammad Khatami age 45
Yitzhak Rabin age 67
Tsai Ing-wen age 33
Mariano Rajoy age 34
Andrei Sakharov age 68
Condoleezza Rice age 34
Raúl Castro age 58
Sheikh Hasina age 41
Giorgio Napolitano age 64
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 49
Mark Rutte age 22
Idi Amin age 64
Yulia Tymoshenko age 28
Rodrigo Duterte age 44
JD Vance age 5
Abdullah II of Jordan age 27
Helmut Schmidt age 70
Stephen Harper age 30
Donald Tusk age 32
Madeleine Albright age 52
Hamid Karzai age 31
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 22
Jacinda Ardern age 9
José Mujica age 54
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 65
Yoshihide Suga age 40
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 21
Andrzej Duda age 17
Thabo Mbeki age 47
Harald V of Norway age 52
Viktor Yushchenko age 35
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 34
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 52
Jens Stoltenberg age 30
Kaja Kallas age 12
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 26
Jacob Zuma age 47
Park Geun-hye age 37
Martti Ahtisaari age 52
Zuzana Čaputová age 16
Moon Jae-in age 36
Juan Manuel Santos age 38
Matteo Renzi age 14
Pedro Sánchez age 17
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 53
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 57
Friedrich Merz age 33
Sauli Niinistö age 41
Eduard Shevardnadze age 61
Romano Prodi age 50
Giuseppe Conte age 25
Ebrahim Raisi age 28
Cyril Ramaphosa age 36
Serzh Sargsyan age 35
Sanna Marin age 3
Pranab Mukherjee age 53
Maia Sandu age 17
Joachim Gauck age 49
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 42
Menachem Begin age 76
Jean-Claude Juncker age 34
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 32
Li Keqiang age 34
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 9
Kersti Kaljulaid age 19
Muhammadu Buhari age 46
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 29
Horst Köhler age 46
Fumio Kishida age 32
Sanae Takaichi age 28
Kevin Rudd age 31
Sebastián Piñera age 39
Tarja Halonen age 45
Alexis Tsipras age 15
Islam Karimov age 51
Harold Wilson age 73
Scott Morrison age 21
George Weah age 22
Paul Kagame age 31
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 324
Naoto Kan age 42
Philippe of Belgium age 29
James Callaghan age 77
Pratibha Patil age 54
Droupadi Murmu age 31
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 39
Heydar Aliyev age 66
Norodom Sihanouk age 66
Abiy Ahmed age 13
Mario Draghi age 42
Kim Dae-jung age 65
Christian Wulff age 30
Radovan Karadžić age 44
Mohammed bin Salman age 3
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 66
Asif Ali Zardari age 34
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 82
Yoon Suk Yeol age 28
Ashraf Ghani age 40
Javier Milei age 18
Alexander Van der Bellen age 45
Mark Carney age 24
Miloš Zeman age 44
Salome Zourabichvili age 37
Emomali Rahmon age 36
Julius Nyerere age 67
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 32
Saparmurat Niyazov age 49
Leonid Kuchma age 51
Donald Rumsfeld age 57
Masoud Pezeshkian age 34
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 36
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 31
Klaus Iohannis age 30
Aleksandar Vučić age 19
Robert Fico age 24
Süleyman Demirel age 64
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 30
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 73
Queen Camilla age 42
Jonas Salk age 74
Pierre Trudeau age 69
Mikhail Mishustin age 23
Bronisław Komorowski age 37
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 42
Junichiro Koizumi age 47
Tarō Asō age 48
Colin Powell age 52
Marco Rubio age 18
Sebastian Kurz age 2
Norodom Sihamoni age 36
Gabriel Boric age 3
Naftali Bennett age 17
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 36
Alexander Dubček age 67
Wen Jiabao age 46
Andy Burnham age 19
Anthony Albanese age 26
Václav Klaus age 48
Ehud Olmert age 43
Mette Frederiksen age 11
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 33
Leonid Kravchuk age 55
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 42
Antony Blinken age 27
Ahmed Ben Bella age 72
Tony Abbott age 31
Heinz Fischer age 50
Michael D. Higgins age 48
Paolo Gentiloni age 34
Mario Monti age 46
Alberto Fujimori age 51
Roh Moo-hyun age 43
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 29
Ram Nath Kovind age 43
Nawaz Sharif age 39
François Fillon age 35
Albert II of Belgium age 55
Néstor Kirchner age 39
Nikol Pashinyan age 14
John Howard age 50
Idriss Déby age 37
Yukio Hatoyama age 42
Ahmed al-Sharaa age 6
Edi Rama age 25
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 68
Joseph Kabila age 18
Sahle-Work Zewde age 39
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 21
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 28
Michel Temer age 48
Mauricio Macri age 30
Erna Solberg age 28
Traian Băsescu age 37
Yingluck Shinawatra age 22
Walter Mondale age 61
Mike Pompeo age 25
Rumen Radev age 26
Nayib Bukele age 8
Borut Pahor age 25
Habib Bourguiba age 86
Tansu Çiller age 43
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 40
Ratko Mladić age 47
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 43