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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
Easter Offensive 1972-03-30 - 1972-10-22
Battle of An Lộc 1972-04-13 - 1972-07-20

People

Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 6
Dina Boluarte age 10
Bongbong Marcos age 14
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 51
Anastas Mikoyan age 76
Otto von Habsburg age 59
Bujar Nishani age 5
Abdul Hamid age 28
Hun Sen age 19
Kim Campbell age 25
Andrej Babiš age 17
Lenín Moreno age 19
Mauno Koivisto age 48
Mari Kiviniemi age 3
Giorgos Papandreou age 19
Karolos Papoulias age 43
Rafiq Hariri age 27
Ulf Kristersson age 8
Lai Ching-te age 12
John Magufuli age 12
Pridi Banomyong age 72
Milton Obote age 46
Horacio Cartes age 15
Yun Po-sun age 74
Shigeru Ishiba age 15
Lionel Jospin age 34
Abolhassan Banisadr age 39
Patrice Talon age 14
Blaise Compaoré age 21
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 21
János Kádár age 60
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 53
Bettino Craxi age 38
Valdas Adamkus age 45
Samora Moisés Machel age 38
Mamnoon Hussain age 31
Andrej Kiska age 9
Fahri Korutürk age 68
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 26
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 26
Michael I of Romania age 50
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 59
Élisabeth Borne age 11
Thomas Bach age 18
Manuel Noriega age 38
Raúl Alfonsín age 45
Khaleda Zia age 25
Thomas Boni Yayi age 19
Georgi Parvanov age 14
Paul Martin age 33
Mwai Kibaki age 40
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 69
Oleksandr Turchynov age 8
Ollanta Humala age 9
Chun Doo-hwan age 41
Lord Mountbatten age 72
Zhao Ziyang age 52
Rex Tillerson age 20
Alexander Schallenberg age 2
Mia Mottley age 6
Elio Di Rupo age 20
Jean Chrétien age 38
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 15
Andrej Plenković age 2
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 32
John Kufuor age 33
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 50
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 27
Janez Drnovšek age 22
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 28
Ivan Konev age 74
Karl Carstens age 57
Jacques Delors age 46
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 41
Mohammad Najibullah age 24
João Lourenço age 18
Werner Faymann age 12
Guy Verhofstadt age 19
Dimitris Christofias age 25
Alar Karis age 14
Yahya Khan age 55
Ivan Gašparovič age 31
Necmettin Erbakan age 45
Morgan Tsvangirai age 20
Felipe González age 30
George F. Kennan age 68
Itamar Franco age 41
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 41
Jacques Rogge age 30
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi age 5
Bamir Topi age 15
Ilir Meta age 3
Luis Arce age 8
Jeanine Áñez age 4
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 35
K. R. Narayanan age 51
Massimo D'Alema age 23
Daniel arap Moi age 47
Dick Schoof age 15
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 22
Saad Harirị age 2
Peter Mutharika age 31
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 9
Mário Soares age 47
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 20
Zoran Đinđić age 19
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 7
Adama Barrow age 7
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 11
Fernando Lugo age 21
Kgalema Motlanthe age 22
Shamil Basayev age 7
Zhu Rongji age 43
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 39
Gough Whitlam age 55
Mathieu Kérékou age 38
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 24
Arnold Rüütel age 44
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 67
Nouri al-Maliki age 21
Moshe Katsav age 26
Ibrahim Rugova age 27
Sadyr Japarov age 3
Amadou Toumani Touré age 23
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 12
Ram Baran Yadav age 24
Stevo Pendarovski age 9
Desi Bouterse age 26
Xanana Gusmão age 25
Armand Fallières age 130
Pierre Mauroy age 43
Laurent Fabius age 25
Édith Cresson age 38
Michel Barnier age 21
Lê Đức Thọ age 60
Enda Kenny age 21
Queen Sofía of Spain age 33
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh age 8
Omar Bradley age 79
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 31
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 16
Ivo Sanader age 19
Mohamed Naguib age 71
Andrus Ansip age 15
Loukas Papademos age 24
László Sólyom age 30
Charan Singh age 69
Valdis Zatlers age 17
Bingu wa Mutharika age 38
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 20
Violeta Chamorro age 42
Bola Tinubu age 20
Nikola Gruevski age 1
Egor Gajdar age 16
Göran Persson age 23
Carl Bildt age 22
Prayut Chanocha age 18
Delcy Rodriguez age 3
Semyon Budyonny age 89
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 134
Lloyd Austin age 18
John Roberts age 17
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 15
Brian Mulroney age 33
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 19
Matti Vanhanen age 16
R. Venkataraman age 61
Antonio Segni age 81
William Ruto age 5
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 34
Mohamed Agha age 16
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 13
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 15
Nicolae Timofti age 23
Evgeny Primakov age 42
Danilo Türk age 20
Tupou VI of Tonga age 12
Mykola Azarov age 24
Edgar Lungu age 15
Pedro Castillo age 2
Lee Jae Myung age 8
Yoshirō Mori age 34
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 49
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 76
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 28
Vahagn Khachatryan age 13
Bob Hawke age 42
Sandra Mason age 23
Jadranka Kosor age 18
Guðni Jóhannesson age 3
Gulzarilal Nanda age 73
Raimonds Vējonis age 5
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 32
Joaquim Chissano age 32
Sam Nujoma age 43
Sani Abacha age 28
Jonas Gahr Støre age 11
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 16
Juvénal Habyarimana age 35
Abdoulaye Wade age 46