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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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Yasuo Fukuda age 42
Dominique de Villepin age 25
Manuel Valls age 16
Malcolm Turnbull age 24
Charles Michel age 3
Pierre Nkurunziza age 14
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 37
Omar Bongo age 43
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
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
Armen Sarkissian age 25
Boyko Borissov age 19
Jovenel Moïse age 10
Katrín Jakobsdóttir age 3
Yair Lapid age 15
Joyce Banda age 29
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
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
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
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
Karl Nehammer age 6
Yves Leterme age 18
Alpha Condé age 41
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 36
Mary McAleese age 27
Ehud Barak age 37
Giuliano Amato age 41
Uhuru Kenyatta age 17
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 12
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 35
Hun Sen age 26
Kim Campbell age 32
Andrej Babiš age 24
Lenín Moreno age 26
Mauno Koivisto age 55
Mari Kiviniemi age 10
Giorgos Papandreou age 26
Karolos Papoulias age 49
Rafiq Hariri age 34
Ulf Kristersson age 15
Lai Ching-te age 19
John Magufuli age 19
Pridi Banomyong age 79
Milton Obote age 53
Horacio Cartes age 22
Yun Po-sun age 81
Shigeru Ishiba age 22
Lionel Jospin age 41
Abolhassan Banisadr age 46
Patrice Talon age 21
Blaise Compaoré age 28
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 28
János Kádár age 66
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 60
Bettino Craxi age 45
Valdas Adamkus age 52
Mamnoon Hussain age 38
Andrej Kiska age 16
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 33
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 33
Michael I of Romania age 57
Élisabeth Borne age 18
Thomas Bach age 25
Raúl Alfonsín age 52
Thomas Boni Yayi age 26
Georgi Parvanov age 21
Paul Martin age 40
Mwai Kibaki age 47
Xavier Bettel age 6
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 76
Oleksandr Turchynov age 15
Ollanta Humala age 16
Chun Doo-hwan age 48
Zhao Ziyang age 59
Rex Tillerson age 27
Alexander Schallenberg age 9
Mia Mottley age 13
Elio Di Rupo age 27
Jean Chrétien age 45
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 22
Andrej Plenković age 9
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 39
John Kufuor age 40
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 57
Atifete Jahjaga age 4
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 34
Janez Drnovšek age 28
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 35
Keiko Fujimori age 3
Karl Carstens age 64
Jacques Delors age 53
Mohammad Najibullah age 31
João Lourenço age 25