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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
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
Velvet Revolution 1989-11-17 - 1989-12-29
United States invasion of Panama 1989-12-20 - 1990-01-31

People

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 51
António Guterres age 40
Rosa Parks age 76
Shimon Peres age 66
Wangari Maathai age 49
Giorgia Meloni age 12
Prince Philip age 68
Olaf Scholz age 31
Keir Starmer age 27
Willy Brandt age 76
Gerhard Schröder age 45
Hassan Rouhani age 41
Hu Jintao age 47
Evo Morales age 30
Joko Widodo age 28
Petro Poroshenko age 24
Mikheil Saakashvili age 22
Liz Truss age 14
Ursula von der Leyen age 31
Mike Pence age 30
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 36
Michelle Bachelet age 38
Ariel Sharon age 61
Felipe VI of Spain age 21
Desmond Tutu age 58
Viktor Yanukovych age 39
Mohamed Morsi age 38
Viktor Orbán age 26
Sergio Mattarella age 48
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 63
Manmohan Singh age 57
Pervez Musharraf age 46
Julia Gillard age 28
Abdullah Gül age 39
Lech Kaczyński age 40
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 34
Jeff Bezos age 25
Buzz Aldrin age 59
Mohammad Khatami age 46
Yitzhak Rabin age 67
Tsai Ing-wen age 33
Mariano Rajoy age 34
Larry Sanger age 21
Condoleezza Rice age 35
Raúl Castro age 58
Sheikh Hasina age 42
Giorgio Napolitano age 64
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 49
Mark Rutte age 22
Idi Amin age 65
Yulia Tymoshenko age 29
Rodrigo Duterte age 44
JD Vance age 5
Abdullah II of Jordan age 27
William, Prince of Wales age 7
Helmut Schmidt age 71
Stephen Harper age 30
Donald Tusk age 32
James Watson age 61
Madeleine Albright age 52
Hamid Karzai age 32
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 22
Jacinda Ardern age 9
José Mujica age 54
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 65
Yoshihide Suga age 41
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 21
Rajiv Gandhi age 45
Andrzej Duda age 17
Thabo Mbeki age 47
Harald V of Norway age 52
Viktor Yushchenko age 35
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 35
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 52
Jens Stoltenberg age 30
Vajiralongkorn age 37
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
Mitt Romney age 42
Juan Manuel Santos age 38
Matteo Renzi age 14
Pedro Sánchez age 17
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 54
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 58
Friedrich Merz age 34
Sauli Niinistö age 41
Eduard Shevardnadze age 61
Romano Prodi age 50
Giuseppe Conte age 25
Claudia Sheinbaum age 27
Imran Khan age 37
Ebrahim Raisi age 29
Cyril Ramaphosa age 37
Serzh Sargsyan age 35
Sanna Marin age 4
Pranab Mukherjee age 54
Maia Sandu age 17
Joachim Gauck age 49
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 42
Menachem Begin age 76
Jean-Claude Juncker age 35
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 32
Erich Honecker age 77
Francis Crick age 73
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi age 18
Li Keqiang age 34
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 9
Kersti Kaljulaid age 20
Muhammadu Buhari age 47
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 29
Horst Köhler age 46
Fumio Kishida age 32
Sanae Takaichi age 28
Peter Higgs age 60
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex age 5
Kevin Rudd age 32
Sebastián Piñera age 40
Tarja Halonen age 46
Alexis Tsipras age 15
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 50
Islam Karimov age 51
Harold Wilson age 73
Scott Morrison age 21
George Weah age 23
Paul Kagame age 32
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 325
Naoto Kan age 43
Philippe of Belgium age 29
James Callaghan age 77
Pratibha Patil age 55
Droupadi Murmu age 31
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 40
Heydar Aliyev age 66
Herman Van Rompuy age 42
Norodom Sihanouk age 67
Abiy Ahmed age 13
Mario Draghi age 42
Kim Dae-jung age 66
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon age 89
Christian Wulff age 30
Radovan Karadžić age 44
Mohammed bin Salman age 4
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 67
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 65
Asif Ali Zardari age 34
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 83
Yoon Suk Yeol age 29
Ashraf Ghani age 40
Javier Milei age 19
Alexander Van der Bellen age 45
Mark Carney age 24
Miloš Zeman age 45
Salome Zourabichvili age 37
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 36
Emomali Rahmon age 37
Julius Nyerere age 67
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 32
Saparmurat Niyazov age 49
Leonid Kuchma age 51
Donald Rumsfeld age 57
Masoud Pezeshkian age 35
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 36
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 31
Klaus Iohannis age 30
Aleksandar Vučić age 19
Robert Fico age 25
Süleyman Demirel age 65
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 30
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 73
Queen Camilla age 42
Jonas Salk age 75
Pierre Trudeau age 70
Mikhail Mishustin age 23
Bronisław Komorowski age 37
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 42
Junichiro Koizumi age 48
Tarō Asō age 49
Marco Rubio age 18
Sebastian Kurz age 3
Norodom Sihamoni age 36
Gabriel Boric age 3
Naftali Bennett age 17
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 36
Alexander Dubček age 68
Wen Jiabao age 47
Andy Burnham age 19
Anthony Albanese age 26
Václav Klaus age 48
Ehud Olmert age 44
Mette Frederiksen age 12
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 33
José Manuel Barroso age 33
Leonid Kravchuk age 56
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 42
Antony Blinken age 27