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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
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20

People

Ali Abdullah Saleh age 32
Antony Blinken age 17
Ahmed Ben Bella age 62
Tony Abbott age 22
Heinz Fischer age 41
Michael D. Higgins age 38
Paolo Gentiloni age 25
Mario Monti age 36
Alberto Fujimori age 41
Roh Moo-hyun age 33
Richard von Weizsäcker age 59
Albert Speer age 74
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 19
Ram Nath Kovind age 34
Enrique Peña Nieto age 13
Nawaz Sharif age 29
François Fillon age 25
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 68
Albert II of Belgium age 45
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 45
Néstor Kirchner age 29
Nikol Pashinyan age 4
John Howard age 40
Idriss Déby age 27
Turgut Özal age 52
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 39
Mauricio Macri age 20
Erna Solberg age 18
Traian Băsescu age 28
Yingluck Shinawatra age 12
Mike Pompeo age 15
Rumen Radev age 16
António Costa age 18
Borut Pahor age 16
Tansu Çiller age 33
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 31
Ratko Mladić age 37
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 35
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 34
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 48
B. J. Habibie age 43
Mary Robinson age 35
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 59
Enrico Letta age 13
Thaksin Shinawatra age 30
Jarosław Kaczyński age 30
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 58
Moshe Dayan age 64
Yoshihiko Noda age 22
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 26
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 75
Alberto Fernández age 20
Hamad II of Bahrain age 29
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 20
John Mahama age 21
János Áder age 20
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 49
Abdurrahman Wahid age 39
Alassane Ouattara age 37
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 36
Stefan Löfven age 22
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 25
Johannes Rau age 48
Yasuo Fukuda age 43
Dominique de Villepin age 26
Manuel Valls age 17
Jeremy Corbyn age 30
Malcolm Turnbull age 25
Charles Michel age 3
Pierre Nkurunziza age 14
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 38
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 10
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 37
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 28
Isaac Herzog age 19
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 24
Tomislav Nikolić age 27
Boris Tadić age 21
José Ramos-Horta age 29
François Englert age 47
Alec Douglas-Home age 76
Gustavo Petro age 19
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 25
John Evans Atta Mills age 35
Reuven Rivlin age 40
Hashim Thaçi age 11
Almazbek Atambaev age 23
Roza Otunbayeva age 29
Haakon VIII of Norway age 6
Magdalena Andersson age 12
Denys Shmyhal age 4
Trương Tấn Sang age 30
Alan García age 30
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 28
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 14
Janet Yellen age 33
Anne, Princess Royal age 29
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor age 19
Armen Sarkissian age 26
Boyko Borissov age 20
Jovenel Moïse age 11
Katrín Jakobsdóttir age 3
Yair Lapid age 16
Joyce Banda age 29
Felipe Calderón age 17
John Key age 18
Goodluck Jonathan age 22
Victor Chernomyrdin age 41
Ana Brnabić age 4
Halimah Yacob age 25
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 38
Binali Yıldırım age 23
José María Aznar age 26
Andrei Gromyko age 70
Constantine II of Greece age 39
Robert G. Edwards age 54
Spiro Agnew age 61
Carlos Menem age 49
Robert Kocharyan age 25
Laura Chinchilla age 20
Zoran Milanović age 13
Nikos Anastasiades age 33
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 37
Laurent Gbagbo age 34
Ingrida Šimonytė age 5
Shehbaz Sharif age 28
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 12
Sali Berisha age 35
Stjepan Mesić age 44
Alexander Stubb age 11
Katalin Novák age 2
Isaac Shamir age 64
Michel Aoun age 46
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 34
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 61
Umberto II of Italy age 75
Leo Varadkar age 10 months
Katalin Karikó age 24
Ivo Josipović age 22
Petr Pavel age 18
Isaias Afwerki age 33
Meles Zenawi age 24
Jan Peter Balkenende age 23
Filip Vujanović age 25
Milo Đukanović age 17
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 28
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 30
Ion Iliescu age 49
Janez Janša age 21
Bülent Ecevit age 54
Beata Szydło age 16
Kim Young-sam age 51
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 29
Leopold III of Belgium age 78
Evika Siliņa age 4
Anwar Ibrahim age 32
Gjorge Ivanov age 19
Tabaré Vázquez age 39
Walter Scheel age 60
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden age 2
Mohammed Omar age 19
Félix Tshisekedi age 16
Jalal Talabani age 46
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 50
Vicente Fox age 37
Olusegun Obasanjo age 42
Yahya Jammeh age 14
Beji Caid Essebsi age 53