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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

People

Otto von Habsburg age 57
Bujar Nishani age 3
Abdul Hamid age 25
Hun Sen age 17
Kim Campbell age 22
Andrej Babiš age 15
Lenín Moreno age 16
Mari Kiviniemi age 1
Giorgos Papandreou age 17
Karolos Papoulias age 40
Rafiq Hariri age 25
Ulf Kristersson age 5
Lai Ching-te age 10
John Magufuli age 10
Pridi Banomyong age 69
Horacio Cartes age 13
Yun Po-sun age 72
Shigeru Ishiba age 12
Lionel Jospin age 32
Abolhassan Banisadr age 36
Patrice Talon age 11
Blaise Compaoré age 18
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 19
János Kádár age 57
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 51
Bettino Craxi age 35
Valdas Adamkus age 43
Samora Moisés Machel age 36
Mamnoon Hussain age 28
Andrej Kiska age 6
Fahri Korutürk age 66
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 24
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 24
Michael I of Romania age 48
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 56
Élisabeth Borne age 8
Édouard Daladier age 85
Thomas Bach age 15
Manuel Noriega age 35
Raúl Alfonsín age 42
Khaleda Zia age 23
Thomas Boni Yayi age 17
Georgi Parvanov age 12
Paul Martin age 31
Mwai Kibaki age 38
Oleksandr Turchynov age 5
Ollanta Humala age 7
Chun Doo-hwan age 38
Lord Mountbatten age 69
Zhao Ziyang age 50
Rex Tillerson age 17
Alexander Schallenberg age 5 months
Mia Mottley age 4
Elio Di Rupo age 18
Jean Chrétien age 35
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 12
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 30
John Kufuor age 31
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 48
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 24
Janez Drnovšek age 19
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 25
Ivan Konev age 71
Karl Carstens age 55
Jacques Delors age 44
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 39
Mohammad Najibullah age 22
João Lourenço age 15
Werner Faymann age 9
Guy Verhofstadt age 16
Dimitris Christofias age 23
Alar Karis age 11
Giovanni Leone age 61
Ivan Gašparovič age 28
Necmettin Erbakan age 43
Morgan Tsvangirai age 17
Felipe González age 27
George F. Kennan age 65
Itamar Franco age 39
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 38
Jacques Rogge age 27
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi age 3
Bamir Topi age 12
Ilir Meta age 8 months
Luis Arce age 6
Jeanine Áñez age 2
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 32
K. R. Narayanan age 49
Massimo D'Alema age 20
Daniel arap Moi age 45
Dick Schoof age 12
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 20
Peter Mutharika age 29
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 6
Mário Soares age 45
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 17
Zoran Đinđić age 17
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 5
Adama Barrow age 4
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 8
Fernando Lugo age 18
Kgalema Motlanthe age 20
Heinrich Lübke age 75
Shamil Basayev age 4
Zhu Rongji age 41
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 36
Gough Whitlam age 53
Mathieu Kérékou age 36
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 22
Arnold Rüütel age 41
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 64
Nouri al-Maliki age 19
Moshe Katsav age 24
Ibrahim Rugova age 25
Sadyr Japarov age 12 months
Amadou Toumani Touré age 21
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 10
Ram Baran Yadav age 21
Stevo Pendarovski age 6
Desi Bouterse age 24
Xanana Gusmão age 23
Armand Fallières age 128
Pierre Mauroy age 41
Laurent Fabius age 23
Édith Cresson age 35
Michel Barnier age 18
Lê Đức Thọ age 58
Enda Kenny age 18
Queen Sofía of Spain age 31
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh age 5
Omar Bradley age 76
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 29
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 14
Ivo Sanader age 16
Mohamed Naguib age 68
Andrus Ansip age 13
Loukas Papademos age 22
Mátyás Rákosi age 77
László Sólyom age 27
Charan Singh age 66
Valdis Zatlers age 14
Bingu wa Mutharika age 35
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 17
Violeta Chamorro age 40
Bola Tinubu age 17
Egor Gajdar age 13
Göran Persson age 20
Carl Bildt age 20
Prayut Chanocha age 15
Delcy Rodriguez age 6 months
Semyon Budyonny age 86
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 132
Lloyd Austin age 16
John Roberts age 14
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 12
Brian Mulroney age 30
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 17
Matti Vanhanen age 14
R. Venkataraman age 59
Antonio Segni age 78
William Ruto age 2
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 32
Mohamed Agha age 14
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 11
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 12
Nicolae Timofti age 20
Evgeny Primakov age 40
Danilo Türk age 17
Tupou VI of Tonga age 10
Mykola Azarov age 21
Edgar Lungu age 13
Pedro Castillo age 1 month
Lee Jae Myung age 5
Yoshirō Mori age 32
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 46
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 74
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 25
Hjalmar Schacht age 92
Lázaro Cárdenas age 74
Vahagn Khachatryan age 10
Bob Hawke age 40
Sandra Mason age 20
Jadranka Kosor age 16
Guðni Jóhannesson age 1
Gulzarilal Nanda age 71
Raimonds Vējonis age 3
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 30
Joaquim Chissano age 30
Sam Nujoma age 40
Sani Abacha age 26
Jonas Gahr Støre age 9
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 14
Juvénal Habyarimana age 32
Abdoulaye Wade age 43
Iveta Radičová age 13
Chen Shui-bian age 19
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 51
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 42
Bernard Cazeneuve age 6
P. W. Botha age 53