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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
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

Jarosław Kaczyński age 23
Moshe Dayan age 58
Yoshihiko Noda age 15
Alberto Fernández age 14
Hamad II of Bahrain age 23
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 14
John Mahama age 14
János Áder age 14
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 43
Abdurrahman Wahid age 32
Alassane Ouattara age 31
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 29
Stefan Löfven age 15
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 18
Johannes Rau age 42
Yasuo Fukuda age 36
Dominique de Villepin age 19
Manuel Valls age 10
Malcolm Turnbull age 18
Pierre Nkurunziza age 8
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 31
Omar Bongo age 37
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 3
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 16
Frederik X of Denmark age 4
Najib Razak age 19
Helen Clark age 23
Lee Hsien Loong age 21
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 13
Celâl Bayar age 90
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 30
Lee Myung-bak age 31
Alija Izetbegović age 47
Franjo Tuđman age 51
Jorge Rafael Videla age 47
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 34
Nana Akufo-Addo age 29
Prabowo Subianto age 21
Isaac Herzog age 12
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 18
Tomislav Nikolić age 21
Boris Tadić age 15
José Ramos-Horta age 23
Walter Ulbricht age 79
Gustavo Petro age 13
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 19
John Evans Atta Mills age 28
Reuven Rivlin age 33
Hashim Thaçi age 5
Almazbek Atambaev age 16
Roza Otunbayeva age 22
Magdalena Andersson age 6
Trương Tấn Sang age 24
Alan García age 23
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 21
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 8
Janet Yellen age 26
Armen Sarkissian age 19
Boyko Borissov age 13
Jovenel Moïse age 4
Yair Lapid age 9
Joyce Banda age 23
John Key age 11
Goodluck Jonathan age 15
Victor Chernomyrdin age 35
Halimah Yacob age 18
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 31
Binali Yıldırım age 17
José María Aznar age 20
Andrei Gromyko age 63
Carlos Menem age 42
Robert Kocharyan age 18
Laura Chinchilla age 14
Zoran Milanović age 6
Nikos Anastasiades age 26
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 30
Laurent Gbagbo age 27
Shehbaz Sharif age 21
Macky Sall age 11
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 7
Kenan Evren age 55
Benigno Aquino III age 13
Roman Herzog age 39
Jean Castex age 7
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 5
Sali Berisha age 28
Stjepan Mesić age 38
Alexander Stubb age 5
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
Ivo Josipović age 15
Petr Pavel age 11
Isaias Afwerki age 27
Meles Zenawi age 18
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 35
Jan Peter Balkenende age 17
Filip Vujanović age 18
Milo Đukanović age 11
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 21
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 24
Ion Iliescu age 43
Janez Janša age 14
Bülent Ecevit age 47
Beata Szydło age 10
Kim Young-sam age 45
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 23
Leopold III of Belgium age 71
Erich von Manstein age 85
Sandro Pertini age 76
Anwar Ibrahim age 25
Gjorge Ivanov age 13
Tabaré Vázquez age 33
Walter Scheel age 53
Mohammed Omar age 13
Félix Tshisekedi age 9
Jalal Talabani age 39
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 43
Vicente Fox age 30
Olusegun Obasanjo age 36
Yahya Jammeh age 7
Beji Caid Essebsi age 46
Trần Đại Quang age 16
Mateusz Morawiecki age 4
Fidel Ramos age 45
Wallis Simpson age 76
Édouard Philippe age 2
Juscelino Kubitschek age 70
Hua Guofeng age 52
Agostinho Neto age 50
Karl Nehammer age 6 months
Yves Leterme age 12
Alpha Condé age 35
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 30
Mary McAleese age 21
Ehud Barak age 31
Giuliano Amato age 35
Uhuru Kenyatta age 11
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 6
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 8
Ayub Khan age 66
Ma Ying-jeou age 22
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 6
Dina Boluarte age 10
Bongbong Marcos age 15
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 52
Bujar Nishani age 6
Abdul Hamid age 29
Hun Sen age 20
Kim Campbell age 26
Andrej Babiš age 18
Lenín Moreno age 20
Mauno Koivisto age 49
Mari Kiviniemi age 4
Giorgos Papandreou age 20
Karolos Papoulias age 43
Rafiq Hariri age 28
Ulf Kristersson age 9
Lai Ching-te age 13
John Magufuli age 13
Pridi Banomyong age 73
Milton Obote age 47
Horacio Cartes age 16
Yun Po-sun age 75
Shigeru Ishiba age 16
Lionel Jospin age 35
Abolhassan Banisadr age 40
Patrice Talon age 15
Blaise Compaoré age 22
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 22
János Kádár age 60
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 54
Bettino Craxi age 39
Valdas Adamkus age 46
Samora Moisés Machel age 39
Mamnoon Hussain age 32
Andrej Kiska age 10
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 27
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 27
Michael I of Romania age 51
Élisabeth Borne age 12
Thomas Bach age 19
Raúl Alfonsín age 46
Thomas Boni Yayi age 20
Georgi Parvanov age 15
Paul Martin age 34
Mwai Kibaki age 41
Xavier Bettel age 2 months
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 70
Oleksandr Turchynov age 9
Ollanta Humala age 10
Chun Doo-hwan age 42
Zhao Ziyang age 53