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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
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28

People

Albert Speer age 71
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 16
Ram Nath Kovind age 30
Enrique Peña Nieto age 9
Nawaz Sharif age 26
François Fillon age 22
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 64
Albert II of Belgium age 41
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 41
José Eduardo dos Santos age 33
Néstor Kirchner age 26
Nikol Pashinyan age 11 months
John Howard age 36
Idriss Déby age 23
Turgut Özal age 48
Yukio Hatoyama age 29
Georgy Malenkov age 74
Edi Rama age 11
Joseph Kabila age 4
Mswati III age 8
Sahle-Work Zewde age 26
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 8
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 14
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 56
Michel Temer age 35
Mauricio Macri age 17
Erna Solberg age 15
Traian Băsescu age 24
Yingluck Shinawatra age 8
Mike Pompeo age 12
Rumen Radev age 12
António Costa age 14
Borut Pahor age 12
Tansu Çiller age 29
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 27
Ratko Mladić age 34
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 32
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 30
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 45
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
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 55
Moshe Dayan age 61
Yoshihiko Noda age 18
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 22
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 72
Alberto Fernández age 17
Hamad II of Bahrain age 26
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 17
John Mahama age 17
János Áder age 17
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 46
Abdurrahman Wahid age 35
Alassane Ouattara age 34
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 32
Stefan Löfven age 18
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 21
Johannes Rau age 45
Yasuo Fukuda age 39
Dominique de Villepin age 22
Manuel Valls age 13
Jeremy Corbyn age 26
Malcolm Turnbull age 21
Charles Michel age 4 months
Pierre Nkurunziza age 11
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 26
Lee Hsien Loong age 24
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 16
Celâl Bayar age 93
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 33
Lee Myung-bak age 34
Alija Izetbegović age 50
Franjo Tuđman age 54
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 37
Nana Akufo-Addo age 32
Prabowo Subianto age 24
Isaac Herzog age 15
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 21
Tomislav Nikolić age 24
Boris Tadić age 18
José Ramos-Horta age 26
Adolfo Suárez age 43
François Englert age 43
Alec Douglas-Home age 72
Gustavo Petro age 16
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 22
John Evans Atta Mills age 31
Reuven Rivlin age 36
Hashim Thaçi age 8
Almazbek Atambaev age 19
Roza Otunbayeva age 25
Haakon VIII of Norway age 2
Magdalena Andersson age 9
Denys Shmyhal age 6 months
Trương Tấn Sang age 27
Alan García age 26
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 24
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 11
Janet Yellen age 29
Anne, Princess Royal age 25
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor age 16
Armen Sarkissian age 22
Boyko Borissov age 16
Jovenel Moïse age 7
Katrín Jakobsdóttir age 3 months
Yair Lapid age 12
Joyce Banda age 26
Felipe Calderón age 13
John Key age 14
Goodluck Jonathan age 18
Victor Chernomyrdin age 38
Ana Brnabić age 7 months
Halimah Yacob age 21
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 34
Binali Yıldırım age 20
José María Aznar age 23
Andrei Gromyko age 66
Constantine II of Greece age 35
Robert G. Edwards age 50
Spiro Agnew age 57
Carlos Menem age 45
Robert Kocharyan age 21
Laura Chinchilla age 17
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 16
Roman Herzog age 42
Jean Castex age 10
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 8
Sali Berisha age 31
Stjepan Mesić age 41
Alexander Stubb age 8
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
Katalin Karikó age 21
Ivo Josipović age 18
Petr Pavel age 14
Isaias Afwerki age 30
Meles Zenawi age 21
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 38
Jan Peter Balkenende age 20
Filip Vujanović age 21
Milo Đukanović age 14
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 24
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 27
Ion Iliescu age 46
Janez Janša age 17
Bülent Ecevit age 50
Beata Szydło age 13
Kim Young-sam age 48
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 26
Leopold III of Belgium age 74
Sandro Pertini age 79
Evika Siliņa age 9 months
Anwar Ibrahim age 28
Gjorge Ivanov age 16
Tabaré Vázquez age 36
Mohammed Omar age 16
Félix Tshisekedi age 12
Jalal Talabani age 42
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 46
Vicente Fox age 33
Yahya Jammeh age 10
Beji Caid Essebsi age 49
Trần Đại Quang age 19
Mateusz Morawiecki age 7
Fidel Ramos age 48
Wallis Simpson age 79
Édouard Philippe age 5
Juscelino Kubitschek age 73
Aslan Maskhadov age 24
Karl Nehammer age 3
Yves Leterme age 15
Alpha Condé age 38
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 33