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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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

People

Juan Antonio Samaranch age 50
Anastas Mikoyan age 74
Otto von Habsburg age 57
Bujar Nishani age 3
Abdul Hamid age 26
Hun Sen age 18
Kim Campbell age 23
Andrej Babiš age 16
Lenín Moreno age 17
Mauno Koivisto age 46
Mari Kiviniemi age 1
Giorgos Papandreou age 18
Karolos Papoulias age 41
Rafiq Hariri age 25
Ulf Kristersson age 6
Lai Ching-te age 10
John Magufuli age 10
Pridi Banomyong age 70
Horacio Cartes age 14
Yun Po-sun age 73
Shigeru Ishiba age 13
Lionel Jospin age 33
Abolhassan Banisadr age 37
Patrice Talon age 12
Blaise Compaoré age 19
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 20
János Kádár age 58
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 52
Bettino Craxi age 36
Valdas Adamkus age 43
Samora Moisés Machel age 36
Mamnoon Hussain age 29
Andrej Kiska age 7
Fahri Korutürk age 67
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 25
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 25
Michael I of Romania age 48
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 57
Élisabeth Borne age 9
Édouard Daladier age 86
Thomas Bach age 16
Manuel Noriega age 36
Raúl Alfonsín age 43
Khaleda Zia age 24
Thomas Boni Yayi age 18
Georgi Parvanov age 13
Paul Martin age 32
Mwai Kibaki age 38
Oleksandr Turchynov age 6
Ollanta Humala age 8
Chun Doo-hwan age 39
Lord Mountbatten age 70
Zhao Ziyang age 50
Rex Tillerson age 18
Alexander Schallenberg age 1
Mia Mottley age 4
Elio Di Rupo age 19
Jean Chrétien age 36
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 13
Andrej Plenković age 5 months
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 30
John Kufuor age 31
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 49
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 25
Janez Drnovšek age 20
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 26
Ivan Konev age 72
Karl Carstens age 55
Jacques Delors age 45
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 40
Mohammad Najibullah age 23
João Lourenço age 16
Werner Faymann age 10
Guy Verhofstadt age 17
Dimitris Christofias age 24
Alar Karis age 12
Giovanni Leone age 61
Ivan Gašparovič age 29
Necmettin Erbakan age 43
Morgan Tsvangirai age 18
Felipe González age 28
George F. Kennan age 66
Itamar Franco age 40
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 39
Jacques Rogge age 28
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi age 3
Bamir Topi age 13
Ilir Meta age 1
Luis Arce age 6
Jeanine Áñez age 3
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 33
K. R. Narayanan age 49
Massimo D'Alema age 21
Daniel arap Moi age 46
Dick Schoof age 13
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 21
Saad Harirị age 4 months
Peter Mutharika age 30
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 7
Mário Soares age 45
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 18
Zoran Đinđić age 18
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 6
Adama Barrow age 5
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 9
Fernando Lugo age 19
Kgalema Motlanthe age 21
Heinrich Lübke age 75
Shamil Basayev age 5
Zhu Rongji age 41
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 37
Gough Whitlam age 54
Mathieu Kérékou age 37
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 22
Arnold Rüütel age 42
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 65
Nouri al-Maliki age 20
Moshe Katsav age 24
Ibrahim Rugova age 25
Sadyr Japarov age 1
Amadou Toumani Touré age 21
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 10
Ram Baran Yadav age 22
Stevo Pendarovski age 7
Desi Bouterse age 24
Xanana Gusmão age 24
Armand Fallières age 128
Pierre Mauroy age 42
Laurent Fabius age 24
Édith Cresson age 36
Michel Barnier age 19
Lê Đức Thọ age 58
Enda Kenny age 19
Queen Sofía of Spain age 31
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh age 6
Omar Bradley age 77
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 29
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 14
Ivo Sanader age 17
Mohamed Naguib age 69
Andrus Ansip age 13
Loukas Papademos age 22
Mátyás Rákosi age 78
László Sólyom age 28
Charan Singh age 67
Valdis Zatlers age 15
Bingu wa Mutharika age 36
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 18
Violeta Chamorro age 40
Bola Tinubu age 18
Nikola Gruevski age 0 months
Egor Gajdar age 14
Göran Persson age 21
Carl Bildt age 21
Prayut Chanocha age 16
Delcy Rodriguez age 1
Semyon Budyonny age 87
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 133
Lloyd Austin age 17
John Roberts age 15
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 13
Brian Mulroney age 31
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 18
Matti Vanhanen age 14
R. Venkataraman age 59
Antonio Segni age 79
William Ruto age 3
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 32
Mohamed Agha age 14
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 11
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 13
Nicolae Timofti age 21
Evgeny Primakov age 40
Danilo Türk age 18
Tupou VI of Tonga age 11
Mykola Azarov age 22
Edgar Lungu age 13
Pedro Castillo age 10 months
Lee Jae Myung age 6
Yoshirō Mori age 33
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 47
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 75
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 26
Lázaro Cárdenas age 75
Vahagn Khachatryan age 11
Bob Hawke age 40
Sandra Mason age 21
Jadranka Kosor age 17
Guðni Jóhannesson age 2
Gulzarilal Nanda age 72
Raimonds Vējonis age 4
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 30
Joaquim Chissano age 30
Sam Nujoma age 41
Sani Abacha age 26
Jonas Gahr Støre age 10
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 14
Juvénal Habyarimana age 33
Abdoulaye Wade age 44
Iveta Radičová age 13