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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

People

Võ Nguyên Giáp age 57
Albert II of Belgium age 35
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 34
José Eduardo dos Santos age 26
Néstor Kirchner age 19
John Howard age 30
Idriss Déby age 17
Alexander Kerensky age 88
Turgut Özal age 41
Yukio Hatoyama age 22
Georgy Malenkov age 67
Edi Rama age 5
Mswati III age 1
Sahle-Work Zewde age 19
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 1
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 8
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 49
Michel Temer age 28
Mauricio Macri age 10
Erna Solberg age 8
Traian Băsescu age 17
Yingluck Shinawatra age 2
Mike Pompeo age 5
Rumen Radev age 6
Paul Biya age 36
Lester B. Pearson age 72
António Costa age 8
Borut Pahor age 5
Tansu Çiller age 23
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 20
Ratko Mladić age 27
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 25
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 23
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 38
Teodoro Obiang age 27
B. J. Habibie age 33
Mary Robinson age 25
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 48
Enrico Letta age 2
Thaksin Shinawatra age 20
Jarosław Kaczyński age 20
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 48
Moshe Dayan age 54
Yoshihiko Noda age 12
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 15
Alberto Fernández age 10
Hamad II of Bahrain age 19
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 10
John Mahama age 10
János Áder age 10
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 39
Abdurrahman Wahid age 28
Alassane Ouattara age 27
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 25
Stefan Löfven age 12
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 14
Johannes Rau age 38
Yasuo Fukuda age 33
Dominique de Villepin age 15
Manuel Valls age 6
Jeremy Corbyn age 20
Malcolm Turnbull age 14
Pierre Nkurunziza age 4
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 27
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 13
Frederik X of Denmark age 1
Najib Razak age 16
Helen Clark age 19
Lee Hsien Loong age 17
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 9
Celâl Bayar age 86
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 26
Lee Myung-bak age 27
Alija Izetbegović age 44
Franjo Tuđman age 47
Jorge Rafael Videla age 44
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 30
Nana Akufo-Addo age 25
Prabowo Subianto age 17
Isaac Herzog age 8
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 14
Tomislav Nikolić age 17
Boris Tadić age 11
José Ramos-Horta age 19
Adolfo Suárez age 36
François Englert age 36
Hubert Humphrey age 58
Gustavo Petro age 9
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 15
John Evans Atta Mills age 25
Reuven Rivlin age 29
Hashim Thaçi age 1
Almazbek Atambaev age 12
Roza Otunbayeva age 18
Magdalena Andersson age 2
Trương Tấn Sang age 20
Alan García age 20
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 17
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 4
Janet Yellen age 22
Anne, Princess Royal age 18
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor age 9
Armen Sarkissian age 16
Boyko Borissov age 10
Jovenel Moïse age 1
Yair Lapid age 5
Joyce Banda age 19
Felipe Calderón age 6
John Key age 7
Goodluck Jonathan age 11
Victor Chernomyrdin age 31
Halimah Yacob age 14
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 27
Binali Yıldırım age 13
José María Aznar age 16
Andrei Gromyko age 60
Constantine II of Greece age 29
Robert G. Edwards age 43
Kliment Voroshilov age 88
Carlos Menem age 39
Robert Kocharyan age 14
Laura Chinchilla age 10
Zoran Milanović age 2
Nikos Anastasiades age 22
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 26
Laurent Gbagbo age 24
Shehbaz Sharif age 17
Macky Sall age 7
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 4
Kenan Evren age 52
Benigno Aquino III age 9
Roman Herzog age 35
Jean Castex age 4
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 1
Sali Berisha age 24
Stjepan Mesić age 34
Alexander Stubb age 1
Isaac Shamir age 53
Michel Aoun age 35
Letsie III of Lesotho age 6
Gitanas Nausėda age 5
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 45
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 30
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 20
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 23
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 51
Umberto II of Italy age 64
Katalin Karikó age 14
Ivo Josipović age 11
Petr Pavel age 7
Isaias Afwerki age 23
Meles Zenawi age 14
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 32
Jan Peter Balkenende age 13
Filip Vujanović age 14
Milo Đukanović age 7
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 17
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 20
Ion Iliescu age 39
Janez Janša age 10
Bülent Ecevit age 44
Beata Szydło age 6
Kim Young-sam age 41
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 19
Leopold III of Belgium age 67
Erich von Manstein age 81
Sandro Pertini age 72
Anwar Ibrahim age 22
Gjorge Ivanov age 9
Tabaré Vázquez age 29
Walter Scheel age 50
Mohammed Omar age 9
Félix Tshisekedi age 6
Jalal Talabani age 35
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 40
Vicente Fox age 27
Olusegun Obasanjo age 32
Yahya Jammeh age 4
Beji Caid Essebsi age 42
Trần Đại Quang age 12
Mateusz Morawiecki age 1
Fidel Ramos age 41
Wallis Simpson age 73
Juscelino Kubitschek age 66
Aslan Maskhadov age 17
Hua Guofeng age 48
Agostinho Neto age 46
Yves Leterme age 8
Alpha Condé age 31
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 26
Morarji Desai age 73
Mary McAleese age 18
Ehud Barak age 27
Giuliano Amato age 31
Uhuru Kenyatta age 7
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 2
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 5
Ayub Khan age 62
Ma Ying-jeou age 19
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 3