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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
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
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11

People

Turgut Özal age 51
Yukio Hatoyama age 31
Georgy Malenkov age 76
Edi Rama age 14
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 57
Joseph Kabila age 7
Mswati III age 10
Sahle-Work Zewde age 28
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 10
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 17
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 58
Michel Temer age 38
Mauricio Macri age 19
Erna Solberg age 17
Traian Băsescu age 27
Yingluck Shinawatra age 11
Mike Pompeo age 14
Rumen Radev age 15
Borut Pahor age 15
Tansu Çiller age 32
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 30
Ratko Mladić age 36
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 33
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 47
Teodoro Obiang age 36
B. J. Habibie age 42
Mary Robinson age 34
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 58
Enrico Letta age 12
Thaksin Shinawatra age 29
Jarosław Kaczyński age 29
Moshe Dayan age 63
Yoshihiko Noda age 21
Alberto Fernández age 19
Hamad II of Bahrain age 28
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 19
John Mahama age 20
János Áder age 19
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 48
Abdurrahman Wahid age 38
Alassane Ouattara age 36
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 35
Stefan Löfven age 21
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 24
Johannes Rau age 47
Yasuo Fukuda age 42
Dominique de Villepin age 25
Manuel Valls age 16
Malcolm Turnbull age 24
Charles Michel age 2
Pierre Nkurunziza age 13
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 37
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 9
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 22
Frederik X of Denmark age 10
Najib Razak age 25
Helen Clark age 28
Lee Hsien Loong age 26
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 18
Celâl Bayar age 95
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 36
Lee Myung-bak age 36
Alija Izetbegović age 53
Franjo Tuđman age 56
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 39
Nana Akufo-Addo age 34
Prabowo Subianto age 27
Isaac Herzog age 18
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 23
Tomislav Nikolić age 26
Boris Tadić age 20
José Ramos-Horta age 28
Nelson Rockefeller age 70
Alec Douglas-Home age 75
Gustavo Petro age 18
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 24
John Evans Atta Mills age 34
Reuven Rivlin age 39
Hashim Thaçi age 10
Almazbek Atambaev age 22
Roza Otunbayeva age 28
Haakon VIII of Norway age 5
Magdalena Andersson age 11
Denys Shmyhal age 3
Trương Tấn Sang age 29
Alan García age 29
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 27
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 13
Janet Yellen age 32
Armen Sarkissian age 25
Boyko Borissov age 19
Jovenel Moïse age 10
Katrín Jakobsdóttir age 2
Yair Lapid age 15
Joyce Banda age 28
John Key age 17
Goodluck Jonathan age 21
Victor Chernomyrdin age 40
Ana Brnabić age 3
Halimah Yacob age 24
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 37
Binali Yıldırım age 22
José María Aznar age 25
Andrei Gromyko age 69
Spiro Agnew age 60
Carlos Menem age 48
Robert Kocharyan age 24
Laura Chinchilla age 19
Zoran Milanović age 12
Nikos Anastasiades age 32
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 36
Laurent Gbagbo age 33
Ingrida Šimonytė age 4
Shehbaz Sharif age 27
Macky Sall age 16
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 13
Kenan Evren age 61
Benigno Aquino III age 18
Roman Herzog age 44
Jean Castex age 13
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 11
Sali Berisha age 34
Stjepan Mesić age 43
Alexander Stubb age 10
Katalin Novák age 1
Isaac Shamir age 63
Michel Aoun age 45
Letsie III of Lesotho age 15
Gitanas Nausėda age 14
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 39
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 29
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 33
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 60
Umberto II of Italy age 74
Ivo Josipović age 21
Petr Pavel age 17
Isaias Afwerki age 32
Meles Zenawi age 23
Jan Peter Balkenende age 22
Filip Vujanović age 24
Milo Đukanović age 16
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 27
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 30
Ion Iliescu age 48
Janez Janša age 20
Beata Szydło age 15
Kim Young-sam age 50
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 28
Leopold III of Belgium age 77
Evika Siliņa age 3
Anwar Ibrahim age 31
Gjorge Ivanov age 18
Tabaré Vázquez age 38
Mohammed Omar age 18
Félix Tshisekedi age 15
Jalal Talabani age 45
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 49
Vicente Fox age 36
Yahya Jammeh age 13
Beji Caid Essebsi age 52
Trần Đại Quang age 22
Mateusz Morawiecki age 10
Fidel Ramos age 50
Wallis Simpson age 82
Édouard Philippe age 8
Karl Nehammer age 6
Yves Leterme age 18
Alpha Condé age 40
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 35
Mary McAleese age 27
Ehud Barak age 36
Giuliano Amato age 40
Uhuru Kenyatta age 17
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 11
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 14
Ma Ying-jeou age 28
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 12
Dina Boluarte age 16
Bongbong Marcos age 21
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 58
Bujar Nishani age 12
Abdul Hamid age 34
Hun Sen age 26
Kim Campbell age 31
Andrej Babiš age 24
Lenín Moreno age 25
Mauno Koivisto age 55
Mari Kiviniemi age 10
Giorgos Papandreou age 26
Karolos Papoulias age 49
Rafiq Hariri age 34
Ulf Kristersson age 14
Lai Ching-te age 19
John Magufuli age 19
Pridi Banomyong age 78
Milton Obote age 52
Horacio Cartes age 22
Yun Po-sun age 81
Shigeru Ishiba age 21
Lionel Jospin age 41