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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
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
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11

People

Rumen Radev age 14
Borut Pahor age 14
Tansu Çiller age 31
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 29
Ratko Mladić age 36
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 32
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 47
Teodoro Obiang age 35
B. J. Habibie age 41
Mary Robinson age 33
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 57
Enrico Letta age 11
Thaksin Shinawatra age 28
Jarosław Kaczyński age 28
Moshe Dayan age 63
Yoshihiko Noda age 20
Alberto Fernández age 19
Hamad II of Bahrain age 28
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 19
John Mahama age 19
János Áder age 19
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 48
Abdurrahman Wahid age 37
Alassane Ouattara age 36
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 34
Stefan Löfven age 20
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 23
Johannes Rau age 47
Yasuo Fukuda age 41
Dominique de Villepin age 24
Manuel Valls age 15
Malcolm Turnbull age 23
Charles Michel age 2
Pierre Nkurunziza age 13
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 36
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 8
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 21
Frederik X of Denmark age 9
Najib Razak age 24
Helen Clark age 28
Lee Hsien Loong age 26
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 18
Celâl Bayar age 95
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 35
Lee Myung-bak age 36
Alija Izetbegović age 52
Franjo Tuđman age 56
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 39
Nana Akufo-Addo age 34
Prabowo Subianto age 26
Isaac Herzog age 17
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 23
Tomislav Nikolić age 26
Boris Tadić age 20
José Ramos-Horta age 28
Nelson Rockefeller age 69
Alec Douglas-Home age 74
Gustavo Petro age 18
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 24
John Evans Atta Mills age 33
Reuven Rivlin age 38
Hashim Thaçi age 10
Almazbek Atambaev age 21
Roza Otunbayeva age 27
Haakon VIII of Norway age 4
Magdalena Andersson age 11
Denys Shmyhal age 2
Trương Tấn Sang age 29
Alan García age 28
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 26
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 13
Janet Yellen age 31
Armen Sarkissian age 24
Boyko Borissov age 18
Jovenel Moïse age 9
Katrín Jakobsdóttir age 2
Yair Lapid age 14
Joyce Banda age 28
John Key age 16
Goodluck Jonathan age 20
Victor Chernomyrdin age 40
Ana Brnabić age 2
Halimah Yacob age 23
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 36
Binali Yıldırım age 22
José María Aznar age 25
Andrei Gromyko age 68
Spiro Agnew age 59
Carlos Menem age 47
Robert Kocharyan age 23
Laura Chinchilla age 19
Zoran Milanović age 11
Nikos Anastasiades age 31
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 35
Laurent Gbagbo age 32
Ingrida Šimonytė age 3
Shehbaz Sharif age 26
Macky Sall age 16
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 12
Kenan Evren age 60
Benigno Aquino III age 18
Roman Herzog age 44
Jean Castex age 12
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 10
Sali Berisha age 33
Stjepan Mesić age 43
Alexander Stubb age 10
Katalin Novák age 8 months
Isaac Shamir age 62
Michel Aoun age 44
Letsie III of Lesotho age 14
Gitanas Nausėda age 13
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 53
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 38
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 28
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 32
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 59
Umberto II of Italy age 73
Ivo Josipović age 20
Petr Pavel age 16
Isaias Afwerki age 32
Meles Zenawi age 23
Jan Peter Balkenende age 22
Filip Vujanović age 23
Milo Đukanović age 16
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 26
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 29
Ion Iliescu age 48
Janez Janša age 19
Beata Szydło age 15
Kim Young-sam age 50
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 28
Leopold III of Belgium age 76
Sandro Pertini age 81
Evika Siliņa age 2
Anwar Ibrahim age 30
Gjorge Ivanov age 18
Tabaré Vázquez age 38
Mohammed Omar age 18
Félix Tshisekedi age 14
Jalal Talabani age 44
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 48
Vicente Fox age 35
Yahya Jammeh age 12
Beji Caid Essebsi age 51
Trần Đại Quang age 21
Mateusz Morawiecki age 9
Fidel Ramos age 50
Wallis Simpson age 81
Édouard Philippe age 7
Karl Nehammer age 5
Yves Leterme age 17
Alpha Condé age 40
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 35
Mary McAleese age 26
Ehud Barak age 36
Giuliano Amato age 40
Uhuru Kenyatta age 16
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 11
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 13
Ma Ying-jeou age 27
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 11
Dina Boluarte age 15
Bongbong Marcos age 20
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 57
Bujar Nishani age 11
Abdul Hamid age 34
Hun Sen age 25
Kim Campbell age 31
Andrej Babiš age 23
Lenín Moreno age 25
Mauno Koivisto age 54
Mari Kiviniemi age 9
Giorgos Papandreou age 25
Karolos Papoulias age 48
Rafiq Hariri age 33
Ulf Kristersson age 14
Lai Ching-te age 18
John Magufuli age 18
Pridi Banomyong age 78
Milton Obote age 52
Horacio Cartes age 21
Yun Po-sun age 80
Shigeru Ishiba age 21
Lionel Jospin age 40
Abolhassan Banisadr age 45
Patrice Talon age 20
Blaise Compaoré age 27
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 27
János Kádár age 65
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 59
Bettino Craxi age 44
Valdas Adamkus age 51
Mamnoon Hussain age 37
Andrej Kiska age 15
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 32
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 32
Michael I of Romania age 56
Élisabeth Borne age 17
Thomas Bach age 24