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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
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12

People

Marco Rubio age 19
Sebastian Kurz age 4
Norodom Sihamoni age 38
Gabriel Boric age 5
Naftali Bennett age 19
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 38
Alexander Dubček age 69
Wen Jiabao age 48
Andy Burnham age 21
Anthony Albanese age 28
Václav Klaus age 49
Ehud Olmert age 45
Mette Frederiksen age 13
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 35
Leonid Kravchuk age 57
Antony Blinken age 29
Ahmed Ben Bella age 74
Tony Abbott age 33
Heinz Fischer age 52
Michael D. Higgins age 50
Paolo Gentiloni age 36
Mario Monti age 48
Roh Moo-hyun age 44
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 31
Ram Nath Kovind age 45
François Fillon age 37
Albert II of Belgium age 56
Néstor Kirchner age 41
Nikol Pashinyan age 15
John Howard age 51
Yukio Hatoyama age 44
Ahmed al-Sharaa age 8
Edi Rama age 26
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 70
Joseph Kabila age 19
Sahle-Work Zewde age 41
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 23
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 29
Michel Temer age 50
Mauricio Macri age 32
Erna Solberg age 30
Traian Băsescu age 39
Yingluck Shinawatra age 23
Walter Mondale age 63
Mike Pompeo age 27
Rumen Radev age 27
Nayib Bukele age 9
Borut Pahor age 27
Habib Bourguiba age 87
Tansu Çiller age 44
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 42
Ratko Mladić age 49
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 45
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 60
B. J. Habibie age 54
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 70
Enrico Letta age 24
Thaksin Shinawatra age 41
Jarosław Kaczyński age 41
Yoshihiko Noda age 33
Alberto Fernández age 32
Hamad II of Bahrain age 41
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 32
John Mahama age 32
János Áder age 32
Abdurrahman Wahid age 50
Alassane Ouattara age 49
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 47
Stefan Löfven age 33
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 36
Johannes Rau age 60
Yasuo Fukuda age 54
Dominique de Villepin age 37
Manuel Valls age 28
Malcolm Turnbull age 36
Charles Michel age 15
Pierre Nkurunziza age 26
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 49
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 21
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 34
Frederik X of Denmark age 22
Najib Razak age 37
Helen Clark age 41
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani age 10
Lee Hsien Loong age 39
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 31
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 48
Lee Myung-bak age 49
Franjo Tuđman age 69
Jorge Rafael Videla age 65
Nana Akufo-Addo age 47
Prabowo Subianto age 39
Isaac Herzog age 30
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 36
Tomislav Nikolić age 39
Boris Tadić age 33
José Ramos-Horta age 41
Juan Guaidó age 7
Alec Douglas-Home age 87
Gustavo Petro age 31
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 37
John Evans Atta Mills age 46
Reuven Rivlin age 51
Hashim Thaçi age 23
Almazbek Atambaev age 34
Roza Otunbayeva age 40
Haakon VIII of Norway age 17
Magdalena Andersson age 24
Denys Shmyhal age 15
Trương Tấn Sang age 42
Alan García age 41
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 39
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 26
Janet Yellen age 44
Armen Sarkissian age 37
Boyko Borissov age 31
Jovenel Moïse age 22
Katrín Jakobsdóttir age 15
Yair Lapid age 27
Joyce Banda age 41
John Key age 29
Goodluck Jonathan age 33
Victor Chernomyrdin age 53
Ana Brnabić age 15
Halimah Yacob age 36
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 49
Binali Yıldırım age 35
Karol Nawrocki age 8
José María Aznar age 38
Spiro Agnew age 72
Robert Kocharyan age 36
Laura Chinchilla age 32
Zoran Milanović age 24
Nikos Anastasiades age 44
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 48
Laurent Gbagbo age 45
Ingrida Šimonytė age 16
Shehbaz Sharif age 39
Macky Sall age 29
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 25
Kenan Evren age 73
Benigno Aquino III age 31
Roman Herzog age 57
Jean Castex age 25
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 23
Sali Berisha age 46
Stjepan Mesić age 56
Alexander Stubb age 23
Katalin Novák age 13
Michel Aoun age 57
Gitanas Nausėda age 26
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 41
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 45
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 72
Leo Varadkar age 12
Ivo Josipović age 33
Petr Pavel age 29
Isaias Afwerki age 45
Meles Zenawi age 36
Jan Peter Balkenende age 35
Filip Vujanović age 36
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 39
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 42
Janez Janša age 32
Bülent Ecevit age 65
Beata Szydło age 28
Kim Young-sam age 63
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 41
Péter Magyar age 10
Evika Siliņa age 15
Anwar Ibrahim age 43
Gjorge Ivanov age 31
Tabaré Vázquez age 51
Walter Scheel age 71
Mohammed Omar age 31
Félix Tshisekedi age 27
Jalal Talabani age 57
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 61
Vicente Fox age 48
Olusegun Obasanjo age 54
Yahya Jammeh age 25
Beji Caid Essebsi age 64
Trần Đại Quang age 34
Mateusz Morawiecki age 22
Alfredo Stroessner age 78
Fidel Ramos age 63
Édouard Philippe age 20
Hua Guofeng age 70
Karl Nehammer age 18
Yves Leterme age 30
Alpha Condé age 53
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 48
Mary McAleese age 39
Ehud Barak age 49
Giuliano Amato age 53
Uhuru Kenyatta age 29
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 24
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 26
Ma Ying-jeou age 40
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 24