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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

Nikol Pashinyan age 4
John Howard age 40
Idriss Déby age 27
Turgut Özal age 51
Yukio Hatoyama age 32
Georgy Malenkov age 77
Edi Rama age 15
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 58
Joseph Kabila age 8
Mswati III age 11
Sahle-Work Zewde age 29
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 11
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 18
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 12
Mike Pompeo age 15
Rumen Radev age 16
Borut Pahor age 15
Tansu Çiller age 33
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 30
Ratko Mladić age 37
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 33
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 48
B. J. Habibie age 43
Mary Robinson age 35
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 58
Enrico Letta age 13
Thaksin Shinawatra age 30
Jarosław Kaczyński age 30
Moshe Dayan age 64
Yoshihiko Noda age 22
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 22
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 24
Johannes Rau age 48
Yasuo Fukuda age 43
Dominique de Villepin age 25
Manuel Valls age 17
Malcolm Turnbull age 24
Charles Michel age 3
Pierre Nkurunziza age 14
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 37
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 9
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 23
Frederik X of Denmark age 11
Najib Razak age 26
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 54
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 76
Gustavo Petro age 19
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 25
John Evans Atta Mills age 35
Reuven Rivlin age 39
Hashim Thaçi age 11
Almazbek Atambaev age 22
Roza Otunbayeva age 29
Haakon VIII of Norway age 6
Magdalena Andersson age 12
Denys Shmyhal age 3
Trương Tấn Sang age 30
Alan García age 30
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 27
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 14
Janet Yellen age 33
Armen Sarkissian age 26
Boyko Borissov age 20
Jovenel Moïse age 11
Katrín Jakobsdóttir age 3
Yair Lapid age 15
Joyce Banda age 29
John Key age 18
Goodluck Jonathan age 21
Victor Chernomyrdin age 41
Ana Brnabić age 3
Halimah Yacob age 25
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 37
Binali Yıldırım age 23
José María Aznar age 26
Andrei Gromyko age 70
Spiro Agnew age 60
Carlos Menem age 49
Robert Kocharyan age 24
Laura Chinchilla age 20
Zoran Milanović age 12
Nikos Anastasiades age 32
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 36
Laurent Gbagbo age 34
Ingrida Šimonytė age 4
Shehbaz Sharif age 27
Macky Sall age 17
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 14
Kenan Evren age 62
Benigno Aquino III age 19
Roman Herzog age 45
Jean Castex age 14
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 16
Gitanas Nausėda age 15
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 40
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 30
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 33
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 61
Umberto II of Italy age 74
Leo Varadkar age 7 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 28
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 4
Anwar Ibrahim age 32
Gjorge Ivanov age 19
Tabaré Vázquez age 39
Walter Scheel age 60
Mohammed Omar age 19
Félix Tshisekedi age 16
Jalal Talabani age 45
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 50
Vicente Fox age 37
Yahya Jammeh age 14
Beji Caid Essebsi age 52
Trần Đại Quang age 22
Mateusz Morawiecki age 11
Fidel Ramos age 51
Wallis Simpson age 83
Édouard Philippe age 8
Karl Nehammer age 6
Yves Leterme age 18
Alpha Condé age 41
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 36
Mary McAleese age 28
Ehud Barak age 37
Giuliano Amato age 41
Uhuru Kenyatta age 17
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 12
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 15
Ma Ying-jeou age 29
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 13
Dina Boluarte age 17
Bongbong Marcos age 21
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 59
Bujar Nishani age 12
Abdul Hamid age 35
Hun Sen age 27
Kim Campbell age 32
Andrej Babiš age 24
Lenín Moreno age 26
Mari Kiviniemi age 10
Giorgos Papandreou age 27
Karolos Papoulias age 50
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 23
Yun Po-sun age 82