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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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

People

Lester B. Pearson age 72
Borut Pahor age 6
Tansu Çiller age 23
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 21
Ratko Mladić age 27
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 24
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 39
Teodoro Obiang age 27
B. J. Habibie age 33
Mary Robinson age 25
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 49
Enrico Letta age 3
Thaksin Shinawatra age 20
Jarosław Kaczyński age 20
Moshe Dayan age 54
Yoshihiko Noda age 12
Alberto Fernández age 10
Hamad II of Bahrain age 20
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 11
John Mahama age 11
János Áder age 10
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 39
Abdurrahman Wahid age 29
Alassane Ouattara age 28
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 26
Stefan Löfven age 12
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 15
Johannes Rau age 39
Yasuo Fukuda age 33
Dominique de Villepin age 16
Manuel Valls age 7
Malcolm Turnbull age 15
Pierre Nkurunziza age 5
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 28
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 5 months
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 13
Frederik X of Denmark age 1
Najib Razak age 16
Helen Clark age 19
Lee Hsien Loong age 18
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 10
Celâl Bayar age 86
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 27
Lee Myung-bak age 28
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 18
Isaac Herzog age 9
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 14
Tomislav Nikolić age 18
Boris Tadić age 12
José Ramos-Horta age 20
Hubert Humphrey age 58
Gustavo Petro age 9
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 16
John Evans Atta Mills age 25
Reuven Rivlin age 30
Hashim Thaçi age 1
Almazbek Atambaev age 13
Roza Otunbayeva age 19
Magdalena Andersson age 3
Trương Tấn Sang age 21
Alan García age 20
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 18
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 4
Janet Yellen age 23
Armen Sarkissian age 16
Boyko Borissov age 10
Jovenel Moïse age 1
Yair Lapid age 6
Joyce Banda age 19
John Key age 8
Goodluck Jonathan age 12
Victor Chernomyrdin age 31
Halimah Yacob age 15
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 28
Binali Yıldırım age 14
José María Aznar age 16
Andrei Gromyko age 60
Carlos Menem age 39
Robert Kocharyan age 15
Laura Chinchilla age 10
Zoran Milanović age 3
Nikos Anastasiades age 23
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 27
Laurent Gbagbo age 24
Shehbaz Sharif age 18
Macky Sall age 8
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 4
Kenan Evren age 52
Benigno Aquino III age 10
Roman Herzog age 35
Jean Castex age 4
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 2
Sali Berisha age 25
Stjepan Mesić age 35
Alexander Stubb age 1
Isaac Shamir age 54
Michel Aoun age 36
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 24
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 51
Umberto II of Italy age 65
Ivo Josipović age 12
Petr Pavel age 8
Isaias Afwerki age 24
Meles Zenawi age 14
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 32
Jan Peter Balkenende age 13
Filip Vujanović age 15
Milo Đukanović age 8
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 18
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 21
Ion Iliescu age 39
Janez Janša age 11
Bülent Ecevit age 44
Beata Szydło age 6
Kim Young-sam age 42
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 20
Leopold III of Belgium age 68
Erich von Manstein age 82
Sandro Pertini age 73
Anwar Ibrahim age 22
Gjorge Ivanov age 9
Tabaré Vázquez age 30
Walter Scheel age 50
Mohammed Omar age 10
Félix Tshisekedi age 6
Jalal Talabani age 36
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 43
Trần Đại Quang age 13
Mateusz Morawiecki age 1
Fidel Ramos age 41
Wallis Simpson age 73
Juscelino Kubitschek age 67
Hua Guofeng age 49
Agostinho Neto age 47
Yves Leterme age 9
Alpha Condé age 31
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 26
Mary McAleese age 18
Ehud Barak age 28
Giuliano Amato age 31
Uhuru Kenyatta age 8
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 3
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 5
Ayub Khan age 62
Ma Ying-jeou age 19
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 3
Dina Boluarte age 7
Bongbong Marcos age 12
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 49
Bujar Nishani age 3
Abdul Hamid age 26
Hun Sen age 17
Kim Campbell age 22
Andrej Babiš age 15
Lenín Moreno age 16
Mari Kiviniemi age 1
Giorgos Papandreou age 17
Karolos Papoulias age 40
Rafiq Hariri age 25
Ulf Kristersson age 6
Lai Ching-te age 10
John Magufuli age 10
Pridi Banomyong age 69
Horacio Cartes age 13
Yun Po-sun age 72
Shigeru Ishiba age 13
Lionel Jospin age 32
Abolhassan Banisadr age 36
Patrice Talon age 11
Blaise Compaoré age 19
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 19
János Kádár age 57
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 51
Bettino Craxi age 36
Valdas Adamkus age 43
Samora Moisés Machel age 36
Mamnoon Hussain age 29
Andrej Kiska age 7
Fahri Korutürk age 66
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 24
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 24
Michael I of Romania age 48
Élisabeth Borne age 8
Édouard Daladier age 85
Thomas Bach age 16
Raúl Alfonsín age 42