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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
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
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Heinz Fischer age 40
Michael D. Higgins age 38
Paolo Gentiloni age 24
Mario Monti age 36
Alberto Fujimori age 40
Roh Moo-hyun age 32
Richard von Weizsäcker age 59
Albert Speer age 74
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 19
Ram Nath Kovind age 33
Enrique Peña Nieto age 12
Nawaz Sharif age 29
François Fillon age 25
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 67
Albert II of Belgium age 44
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 44
José Eduardo dos Santos age 36
Néstor Kirchner age 29
Nikol Pashinyan age 3
John Howard age 39
Idriss Déby age 26
Turgut Özal age 51
Yukio Hatoyama age 32
Georgy Malenkov age 77
Edi Rama age 14
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 58
Joseph Kabila age 7
Mswati III age 11
Sahle-Work Zewde age 29
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 11
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 17
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 59
Michel Temer age 38
Mauricio Macri age 20
Erna Solberg age 18
Traian Băsescu age 27
Yingluck Shinawatra age 11
Mike Pompeo age 15
Rumen Radev age 15
António Costa age 17
Borut Pahor age 15
Tansu Çiller age 32
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 30
Ratko Mladić age 37
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 35
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 33
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 48
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
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 58
Moshe Dayan age 64
Yoshihiko Noda age 21
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 25
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 75
Alberto Fernández age 20
Hamad II of Bahrain age 29
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 20
John Mahama age 20
János Áder age 20
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 49
Abdurrahman Wahid age 38
Alassane Ouattara age 37
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 35
Stefan Löfven age 21
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 24
Johannes Rau age 48
Yasuo Fukuda age 42
Dominique de Villepin age 25
Manuel Valls age 16
Jeremy Corbyn age 29
Malcolm Turnbull age 24
Charles Michel age 3
Pierre Nkurunziza age 14
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 29
Lee Hsien Loong age 27
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 19
Celâl Bayar age 96
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 36
Lee Myung-bak age 37
Alija Izetbegović age 53
Franjo Tuđman age 57
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 40
Nana Akufo-Addo age 35
Prabowo Subianto age 27
Isaac Herzog age 18
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 24
Tomislav Nikolić age 27
Boris Tadić age 21
José Ramos-Horta age 29
François Englert age 46
Alec Douglas-Home age 75
Gustavo Petro age 19
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 25
John Evans Atta Mills age 34
Reuven Rivlin age 39
Hashim Thaçi age 11
Almazbek Atambaev age 22
Roza Otunbayeva age 28
Haakon VIII of Norway age 5
Magdalena Andersson age 12
Denys Shmyhal age 3
Trương Tấn Sang age 30
Alan García age 29
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 27
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 14
Janet Yellen age 32
Anne, Princess Royal age 28
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor age 19
Armen Sarkissian age 25
Boyko Borissov age 19
Jovenel Moïse age 10
Katrín Jakobsdóttir age 3
Yair Lapid age 15
Joyce Banda age 29
Felipe Calderón age 16
John Key age 17
Goodluck Jonathan age 21
Victor Chernomyrdin age 41
Ana Brnabić age 3
Halimah Yacob age 24
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 37
Binali Yıldırım age 23
José María Aznar age 26
Andrei Gromyko age 69
Constantine II of Greece age 38
Robert G. Edwards age 53
Spiro Agnew age 60
Carlos Menem age 48
Robert Kocharyan age 24
Laura Chinchilla age 20
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 17
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 13
Kenan Evren age 61
Benigno Aquino III age 19
Roman Herzog age 45
Jean Castex age 13
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 11
Sali Berisha age 34
Stjepan Mesić age 44
Alexander Stubb age 11
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
Leo Varadkar age 3 months
Katalin Karikó age 24
Ivo Josipović age 21
Petr Pavel age 17
Isaias Afwerki age 33
Meles Zenawi age 24
Jan Peter Balkenende age 23
Filip Vujanović age 24
Milo Đukanović age 17
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 27
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 30
Ion Iliescu age 49
Janez Janša age 20
Beata Szydło age 16
Kim Young-sam age 51
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 29
Leopold III of Belgium age 77
Evika Siliņa age 3
Anwar Ibrahim age 31
Gjorge Ivanov age 19
Tabaré Vázquez age 39
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden age 1
Mohammed Omar age 19
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 51
Wallis Simpson age 82
Édouard Philippe age 8