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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
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09

People

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 38
José Eduardo dos Santos age 30
Néstor Kirchner age 22
John Howard age 33
Idriss Déby age 20
Turgut Özal age 45
Eisaku Satō age 71
Yukio Hatoyama age 25
Georgy Malenkov age 70
Edi Rama age 8
Joseph Kabila age 1
Mswati III age 4
Sahle-Work Zewde age 22
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 4
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 11
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 52
Michel Temer age 32
Mauricio Macri age 13
Erna Solberg age 11
Traian Băsescu age 21
Yingluck Shinawatra age 5
Mike Pompeo age 8
Rumen Radev age 9
Paul Biya age 39
Lester B. Pearson age 75
António Costa age 11
Borut Pahor age 9
Tansu Çiller age 26
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 24
Ratko Mladić age 30
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 28
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 27
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 41
Teodoro Obiang age 30
B. J. Habibie age 36
Mary Robinson age 28
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 51
Enrico Letta age 6
Thaksin Shinawatra age 23
Jarosław Kaczyński age 23
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 51
Moshe Dayan age 57
Yoshihiko Noda age 15
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 19
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 68
Alberto Fernández age 13
Hamad II of Bahrain age 22
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 13
John Mahama age 13
János Áder age 13
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 42
Abdurrahman Wahid age 32
Alassane Ouattara age 30
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 29
Stefan Löfven age 15
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 18
Johannes Rau age 41
Yasuo Fukuda age 36
Dominique de Villepin age 19
Manuel Valls age 10
Jeremy Corbyn age 23
Malcolm Turnbull age 18
Pierre Nkurunziza age 7
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 31
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 3
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 16
Frederik X of Denmark age 4
Najib Razak age 19
Helen Clark age 22
Lee Hsien Loong age 20
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 12
Celâl Bayar age 89
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 30
Lee Myung-bak age 30
Alija Izetbegović age 47
Franjo Tuđman age 50
Jorge Rafael Videla age 47
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 33
Nana Akufo-Addo age 28
Prabowo Subianto age 21
Isaac Herzog age 12
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 17
Tomislav Nikolić age 20
Boris Tadić age 14
José Ramos-Horta age 22
Adolfo Suárez age 40
Walter Ulbricht age 79
François Englert age 40
Gustavo Petro age 12
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 18
John Evans Atta Mills age 28
Reuven Rivlin age 33
Hashim Thaçi age 4
Almazbek Atambaev age 16
Roza Otunbayeva age 22
Magdalena Andersson age 5
Trương Tấn Sang age 23
Alan García age 23
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 21
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 7
Janet Yellen age 26
Anne, Princess Royal age 22
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor age 12
Armen Sarkissian age 19
Boyko Borissov age 13
Jovenel Moïse age 4
Yair Lapid age 9
Joyce Banda age 22
Felipe Calderón age 10
John Key age 11
Goodluck Jonathan age 15
Victor Chernomyrdin age 34
Halimah Yacob age 18
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 31
Binali Yıldırım age 16
José María Aznar age 19
Andrei Gromyko age 63
Constantine II of Greece age 32
Robert G. Edwards age 47
Carlos Menem age 42
Robert Kocharyan age 18
Laura Chinchilla age 13
Zoran Milanović age 6
Nikos Anastasiades age 26
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 30
Laurent Gbagbo age 27
Shehbaz Sharif age 21
Macky Sall age 10
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 7
Kenan Evren age 55
Benigno Aquino III age 12
Roman Herzog age 38
Jean Castex age 7
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 5
Sali Berisha age 28
Stjepan Mesić age 37
Alexander Stubb age 4
Isaac Shamir age 57
Michel Aoun age 39
Letsie III of Lesotho age 9
Gitanas Nausėda age 8
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 48
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 33
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 23
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 27
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 54
Umberto II of Italy age 68
Katalin Karikó age 17
Ivo Josipović age 15
Petr Pavel age 11
Isaias Afwerki age 26
Meles Zenawi age 17
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 35
Jan Peter Balkenende age 16
Filip Vujanović age 18
Milo Đukanović age 10
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 21
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 23
Ion Iliescu age 42
Janez Janša age 14
Bülent Ecevit age 47
Beata Szydło age 9
Kim Young-sam age 44
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 22
Leopold III of Belgium age 71
Erich von Manstein age 85
Sandro Pertini age 76
Anwar Ibrahim age 25
Gjorge Ivanov age 12
Tabaré Vázquez age 32
Walter Scheel age 53
Mohammed Omar age 12
Félix Tshisekedi age 9
Jalal Talabani age 39
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 43
Vicente Fox age 30
Olusegun Obasanjo age 35
Yahya Jammeh age 7
Beji Caid Essebsi age 46
Trần Đại Quang age 16
Mateusz Morawiecki age 4
Fidel Ramos age 44
Wallis Simpson age 76
Édouard Philippe age 1
Juscelino Kubitschek age 70
Aslan Maskhadov age 21
Hua Guofeng age 51
Agostinho Neto age 50
Karl Nehammer age 1 month
Yves Leterme age 12
Alpha Condé age 34
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 29
Morarji Desai age 76
Mary McAleese age 21
Ehud Barak age 30
Giuliano Amato age 34
Uhuru Kenyatta age 11
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 5
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 8
Ayub Khan age 65