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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28

People

Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 27
Ratko Mladić age 33
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 30
Teodoro Obiang age 33
B. J. Habibie age 39
Mary Robinson age 31
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 55
Enrico Letta age 9
Thaksin Shinawatra age 26
Jarosław Kaczyński age 26
Moshe Dayan age 60
Yoshihiko Noda age 18
Alberto Fernández age 16
Hamad II of Bahrain age 25
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 16
John Mahama age 17
János Áder age 16
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 45
Abdurrahman Wahid age 35
Alassane Ouattara age 33
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 32
Stefan Löfven age 18
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 21
Johannes Rau age 44
Yasuo Fukuda age 39
Dominique de Villepin age 22
Manuel Valls age 13
Malcolm Turnbull age 21
Pierre Nkurunziza age 10
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 34
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 6
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 19
Frederik X of Denmark age 7
Najib Razak age 22
Helen Clark age 25
Lee Hsien Loong age 23
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 15
Celâl Bayar age 92
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 33
Lee Myung-bak age 33
Alija Izetbegović age 50
Franjo Tuđman age 53
Jorge Rafael Videla age 50
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 36
Nana Akufo-Addo age 31
Prabowo Subianto age 24
Isaac Herzog age 15
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 20
Tomislav Nikolić age 23
Boris Tadić age 17
José Ramos-Horta age 25
Alec Douglas-Home age 72
Gustavo Petro age 15
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 21
John Evans Atta Mills age 31
Reuven Rivlin age 36
Hashim Thaçi age 7
Almazbek Atambaev age 19
Roza Otunbayeva age 25
Haakon VIII of Norway age 2
Magdalena Andersson age 8
Denys Shmyhal age 1 month
Trương Tấn Sang age 26
Alan García age 26
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 24
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 10
Janet Yellen age 29
Armen Sarkissian age 22
Boyko Borissov age 16
Jovenel Moïse age 7
Yair Lapid age 12
Joyce Banda age 25
John Key age 14
Goodluck Jonathan age 18
Victor Chernomyrdin age 37
Ana Brnabić age 2 months
Halimah Yacob age 21
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 34
Binali Yıldırım age 19
José María Aznar age 22
Andrei Gromyko age 66
Spiro Agnew age 57
Carlos Menem age 45
Robert Kocharyan age 21
Laura Chinchilla age 16
Zoran Milanović age 9
Nikos Anastasiades age 29
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 33
Laurent Gbagbo age 30
Ingrida Šimonytė age 1
Shehbaz Sharif age 24
Macky Sall age 14
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 10
Kenan Evren age 58
Benigno Aquino III age 15
Roman Herzog age 41
Jean Castex age 10
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 8
Sali Berisha age 31
Stjepan Mesić age 40
Alexander Stubb age 7
Isaac Shamir age 60
Michel Aoun age 42
Letsie III of Lesotho age 12
Gitanas Nausėda age 11
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 51
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 36
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 26
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 30
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 57
Umberto II of Italy age 71
Ivo Josipović age 18
Petr Pavel age 14
Isaias Afwerki age 29
Meles Zenawi age 20
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 38
Jan Peter Balkenende age 19
Filip Vujanović age 21
Milo Đukanović age 13
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 24
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 27
Ion Iliescu age 45
Janez Janša age 17
Bülent Ecevit age 50
Beata Szydło age 12
Kim Young-sam age 48
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 25
Leopold III of Belgium age 74
Sandro Pertini age 79
Evika Siliņa age 4 months
Anwar Ibrahim age 28
Gjorge Ivanov age 15
Tabaré Vázquez age 35
Mohammed Omar age 15
Félix Tshisekedi age 12
Jalal Talabani age 42
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 46
Vicente Fox age 33
Olusegun Obasanjo age 38
Yahya Jammeh age 10
Beji Caid Essebsi age 49
Trần Đại Quang age 19
Mateusz Morawiecki age 7
Fidel Ramos age 47
Wallis Simpson age 79
Édouard Philippe age 5
Juscelino Kubitschek age 73
Hua Guofeng age 54
Karl Nehammer age 3
Yves Leterme age 15
Alpha Condé age 37
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 32
Mary McAleese age 24
Ehud Barak age 33
Giuliano Amato age 37
Uhuru Kenyatta age 14
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 8
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 11
Ma Ying-jeou age 25
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 9
Dina Boluarte age 13
Bongbong Marcos age 18
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 55
Bujar Nishani age 9
Abdul Hamid age 31
Hun Sen age 23
Kim Campbell age 28
Andrej Babiš age 21
Lenín Moreno age 22
Mauno Koivisto age 52
Mari Kiviniemi age 7
Giorgos Papandreou age 23
Karolos Papoulias age 46
Rafiq Hariri age 31
Ulf Kristersson age 11
Lai Ching-te age 16
John Magufuli age 16
Pridi Banomyong age 75
Milton Obote age 49
Horacio Cartes age 19
Yun Po-sun age 78
Gustav Heinemann age 76
Shigeru Ishiba age 18
Lionel Jospin age 38
Abolhassan Banisadr age 42
Patrice Talon age 17
Blaise Compaoré age 24
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 25
János Kádár age 63
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 57
Bettino Craxi age 41
Valdas Adamkus age 49
Mamnoon Hussain age 34
Andrej Kiska age 12
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 30
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 30
Michael I of Romania age 54
Élisabeth Borne age 14
Thomas Bach age 21
Raúl Alfonsín age 48