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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

Borut Pahor age 6
Tansu Çiller age 24
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 21
Ratko Mladić age 28
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 24
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 39
Teodoro Obiang age 28
B. J. Habibie age 34
Mary Robinson age 26
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 49
Enrico Letta age 4
Thaksin Shinawatra age 21
Jarosław Kaczyński age 21
Moshe Dayan age 55
Yoshihiko Noda age 13
Alberto Fernández age 11
Hamad II of Bahrain age 20
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 11
John Mahama age 11
János Áder age 11
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 40
Abdurrahman Wahid age 29
Alassane Ouattara age 28
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 26
Stefan Löfven age 13
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 15
Johannes Rau age 39
Yasuo Fukuda age 34
Dominique de Villepin age 16
Manuel Valls age 8
Malcolm Turnbull age 15
Pierre Nkurunziza age 5
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 28
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 11 months
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 14
Frederik X of Denmark age 2
Najib Razak age 17
Helen Clark age 20
Lee Hsien Loong age 18
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 10
Celâl Bayar age 87
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 27
Lee Myung-bak age 28
Alija Izetbegović age 45
Franjo Tuđman age 48
Jorge Rafael Videla age 45
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 31
Nana Akufo-Addo age 26
Prabowo Subianto age 18
Isaac Herzog age 9
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 15
Tomislav Nikolić age 18
Boris Tadić age 12
José Ramos-Horta age 20
Hubert Humphrey age 59
Gustavo Petro age 10
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 16
John Evans Atta Mills age 26
Reuven Rivlin age 30
Hashim Thaçi age 2
Almazbek Atambaev age 13
Roza Otunbayeva age 20
Magdalena Andersson age 3
Trương Tấn Sang age 21
Alan García age 21
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 18
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 5
Janet Yellen age 24
Armen Sarkissian age 17
Boyko Borissov age 11
Jovenel Moïse age 2
Yair Lapid age 6
Joyce Banda age 20
John Key age 9
Goodluck Jonathan age 12
Victor Chernomyrdin age 32
Halimah Yacob age 16
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 28
Binali Yıldırım age 14
José María Aznar age 17
Andrei Gromyko age 61
Carlos Menem age 40
Robert Kocharyan age 15
Laura Chinchilla age 11
Zoran Milanović age 3
Nikos Anastasiades age 23
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 27
Laurent Gbagbo age 25
Shehbaz Sharif age 18
Macky Sall age 8
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 5
Kenan Evren age 53
Benigno Aquino III age 10
Roman Herzog age 36
Jean Castex age 5
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 2
Sali Berisha age 25
Stjepan Mesić age 35
Alexander Stubb age 2
Isaac Shamir age 54
Michel Aoun age 36
Letsie III of Lesotho age 7
Gitanas Nausėda age 6
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 46
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 31
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 21
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 24
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 52
Umberto II of Italy age 65
Ivo Josipović age 12
Petr Pavel age 8
Isaias Afwerki age 24
Meles Zenawi age 15
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 33
Jan Peter Balkenende age 14
Filip Vujanović age 15
Milo Đukanović age 8
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 19
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 21
Ion Iliescu age 40
Janez Janša age 11
Bülent Ecevit age 45
Beata Szydło age 7
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 23
Gjorge Ivanov age 10
Tabaré Vázquez age 30
Walter Scheel age 51
Mohammed Omar age 10
Félix Tshisekedi age 7
Jalal Talabani age 36
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 41
Vicente Fox age 28
Olusegun Obasanjo age 33
Yahya Jammeh age 5
Beji Caid Essebsi age 43
Trần Đại Quang age 13
Mateusz Morawiecki age 2
Fidel Ramos age 42
Wallis Simpson age 74
Juscelino Kubitschek age 67
Hua Guofeng age 49
Agostinho Neto age 47
Yves Leterme age 9
Alpha Condé age 32
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 27
Mary McAleese age 19
Ehud Barak age 28
Giuliano Amato age 32
Uhuru Kenyatta age 8
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 3
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 6
Ayub Khan age 63
Ma Ying-jeou age 20
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 4
Dina Boluarte age 8
Bongbong Marcos age 12
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 50
Bujar Nishani age 3
Abdul Hamid age 26
Hun Sen age 18
Kim Campbell age 23
Andrej Babiš age 15
Lenín Moreno age 17
Mauno Koivisto age 46
Mari Kiviniemi age 1
Giorgos Papandreou age 18
Karolos Papoulias age 41
Rafiq Hariri age 25
Ulf Kristersson age 6
Lai Ching-te age 10
John Magufuli age 10
Pridi Banomyong age 70
Horacio Cartes age 14
Yun Po-sun age 73
Shigeru Ishiba age 13
Lionel Jospin age 33
Abolhassan Banisadr age 37
Patrice Talon age 12
Blaise Compaoré age 19
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 20
János Kádár age 58
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 67
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 24
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 25
Michael I of Romania age 48
Élisabeth Borne age 9
Édouard Daladier age 86
Thomas Bach age 16
Raúl Alfonsín age 43