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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
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence 1963-01-23 - 1974-09-10
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
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Bangladesh genocide 1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
Bangladesh War of Independence 1971-03-26 - 1971-12-16

People

Enrique Peña Nieto age 5
Nawaz Sharif age 21
François Fillon age 17
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 60
Albert II of Belgium age 37
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 37
José Eduardo dos Santos age 29
Néstor Kirchner age 21
John Howard age 32
Idriss Déby age 19
Turgut Özal age 43
Yukio Hatoyama age 24
Georgy Malenkov age 69
Edi Rama age 7
Joseph Kabila age 2 months
Mswati III age 3
Sahle-Work Zewde age 21
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 3
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 10
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 51
Michel Temer age 30
Mauricio Macri age 12
Erna Solberg age 10
Traian Băsescu age 19
Yingluck Shinawatra age 4
Mike Pompeo age 7
Rumen Radev age 8
Paul Biya age 38
Lester B. Pearson age 74
António Costa age 10
Borut Pahor age 7
Tansu Çiller age 25
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 22
Ratko Mladić age 29
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 27
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 25
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 40
Teodoro Obiang age 29
B. J. Habibie age 35
Mary Robinson age 27
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 50
Enrico Letta age 5
Thaksin Shinawatra age 22
Jarosław Kaczyński age 22
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 50
Moshe Dayan age 56
Yoshihiko Noda age 14
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 17
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 67
Alberto Fernández age 12
Hamad II of Bahrain age 21
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 12
John Mahama age 12
János Áder age 12
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 41
Abdurrahman Wahid age 30
Alassane Ouattara age 29
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 27
Stefan Löfven age 14
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 16
Johannes Rau age 40
Yasuo Fukuda age 35
Dominique de Villepin age 17
Manuel Valls age 9
Jeremy Corbyn age 22
Malcolm Turnbull age 16
Pierre Nkurunziza age 6
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 29
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 1
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 15
Frederik X of Denmark age 3
Najib Razak age 18
Helen Clark age 21
Lee Hsien Loong age 19
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 11
Celâl Bayar age 88
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 28
Lee Myung-bak age 29
Alija Izetbegović age 46
Franjo Tuđman age 49
Jorge Rafael Videla age 46
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 32
Nana Akufo-Addo age 27
Prabowo Subianto age 19
Isaac Herzog age 10
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 16
Tomislav Nikolić age 19
Boris Tadić age 13
José Ramos-Horta age 21
Adolfo Suárez age 38
Walter Ulbricht age 78
François Englert age 38
Gustavo Petro age 11
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 17
John Evans Atta Mills age 27
Reuven Rivlin age 31
Hashim Thaçi age 3
Almazbek Atambaev age 14
Roza Otunbayeva age 21
Magdalena Andersson age 4
Trương Tấn Sang age 22
Alan García age 22
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 19
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 6
Janet Yellen age 25
Anne, Princess Royal age 21
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor age 11
Armen Sarkissian age 18
Boyko Borissov age 12
Jovenel Moïse age 3
Yair Lapid age 7
Joyce Banda age 21
Felipe Calderón age 9
John Key age 10
Goodluck Jonathan age 13
Victor Chernomyrdin age 33
Halimah Yacob age 17
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 29
Binali Yıldırım age 15
José María Aznar age 18
Andrei Gromyko age 62
Constantine II of Greece age 31
Robert G. Edwards age 45
Carlos Menem age 41
Robert Kocharyan age 16
Laura Chinchilla age 12
Zoran Milanović age 4
Nikos Anastasiades age 24
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 28
Laurent Gbagbo age 26
Shehbaz Sharif age 19
Macky Sall age 9
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 6
Kenan Evren age 54
Benigno Aquino III age 11
Roman Herzog age 37
Jean Castex age 6
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 3
Sali Berisha age 26
Stjepan Mesić age 36
Alexander Stubb age 3
Isaac Shamir age 55
Michel Aoun age 37
Letsie III of Lesotho age 8
Gitanas Nausėda age 7
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 47
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 32
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 22
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 25
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 53
Umberto II of Italy age 66
Katalin Karikó age 16
Ivo Josipović age 14
Petr Pavel age 9
Isaias Afwerki age 25
Meles Zenawi age 16
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 34
Jan Peter Balkenende age 15
Filip Vujanović age 16
Milo Đukanović age 9
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 20
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 22
Ion Iliescu age 41
Janez Janša age 12
Bülent Ecevit age 46
Beata Szydło age 8
Kim Young-sam age 43
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 21
Leopold III of Belgium age 69
Erich von Manstein age 83
Sandro Pertini age 74
Anwar Ibrahim age 24
Gjorge Ivanov age 11
Tabaré Vázquez age 31
Walter Scheel age 52
Mohammed Omar age 11
Félix Tshisekedi age 8
Jalal Talabani age 37
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 42
Vicente Fox age 29
Olusegun Obasanjo age 34
Yahya Jammeh age 6
Beji Caid Essebsi age 44
Trần Đại Quang age 14
Mateusz Morawiecki age 3
Fidel Ramos age 43
Wallis Simpson age 75
Édouard Philippe age 9 months
Juscelino Kubitschek age 69
Aslan Maskhadov age 19
Hua Guofeng age 50
Agostinho Neto age 48
Yves Leterme age 10
Alpha Condé age 33
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 28
Morarji Desai age 75
Mary McAleese age 20
Ehud Barak age 29
Giuliano Amato age 33
Uhuru Kenyatta age 9