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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
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
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09

People

Raúl Alfonsín age 46
Thomas Boni Yayi age 20
Georgi Parvanov age 15
Paul Martin age 34
Mwai Kibaki age 41
Xavier Bettel age 2 months
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 70
Oleksandr Turchynov age 9
Ollanta Humala age 10
Chun Doo-hwan age 42
Zhao Ziyang age 53
Rex Tillerson age 21
Alexander Schallenberg age 3
Mia Mottley age 7
Elio Di Rupo age 21
Jean Chrétien age 39
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 16
Andrej Plenković age 3
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 33
John Kufuor age 34
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 51
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 28
Janez Drnovšek age 22
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 29
Ivan Konev age 75
Karl Carstens age 58
Jacques Delors age 47
Mohammad Najibullah age 25
João Lourenço age 19
Werner Faymann age 13
Guy Verhofstadt age 20
Dimitris Christofias age 26
Alar Karis age 15
Yahya Khan age 56
Ivan Gašparovič age 32
Cevdet Sunay age 74
Necmettin Erbakan age 46
Morgan Tsvangirai age 21
Felipe González age 31
George F. Kennan age 69
Itamar Franco age 42
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 41
Jacques Rogge age 31
Bamir Topi age 16
Ilir Meta age 4
Luis Arce age 9
Jeanine Áñez age 5
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 35
K. R. Narayanan age 52
Massimo D'Alema age 24
Daniel arap Moi age 48
Dick Schoof age 16
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 23
Saad Harirị age 3
Peter Mutharika age 32
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 10
Mário Soares age 48
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 21
Zoran Đinđić age 20
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 8
Adama Barrow age 8
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 12
Fernando Lugo age 21
Kgalema Motlanthe age 23
Zhu Rongji age 44
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 39
Mathieu Kérékou age 39
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 25
Arnold Rüütel age 45
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 68
Nouri al-Maliki age 22
Moshe Katsav age 27
Ibrahim Rugova age 28
Sadyr Japarov age 4
Amadou Toumani Touré age 24
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 13
Ram Baran Yadav age 25
Stevo Pendarovski age 10
Desi Bouterse age 27
Xanana Gusmão age 26
Armand Fallières age 131
Pierre Mauroy age 44
Laurent Fabius age 26
Édith Cresson age 39
Michel Barnier age 22
Enda Kenny age 22
Omar Bradley age 80
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 32
Ivo Sanader age 19
Mohamed Naguib age 72
Andrus Ansip age 16
Loukas Papademos age 25
László Sólyom age 31
Charan Singh age 70
Valdis Zatlers age 18
Bingu wa Mutharika age 39
Violeta Chamorro age 43
Bola Tinubu age 21
Nikola Gruevski age 2
Egor Gajdar age 17
Göran Persson age 24
Carl Bildt age 23
Prayut Chanocha age 19
Delcy Rodriguez age 3
Semyon Budyonny age 90
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 135
Lloyd Austin age 19
John Roberts age 18
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 16
Brian Mulroney age 34
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 20
Matti Vanhanen age 17
R. Venkataraman age 62
William Ruto age 6
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 35
Mohamed Agha age 17
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 14
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 16
Nicolae Timofti age 24
Evgeny Primakov age 43
Danilo Türk age 21
Tupou VI of Tonga age 13
Mykola Azarov age 25
Edgar Lungu age 16
Pedro Castillo age 3
Lee Jae Myung age 9
Yoshirō Mori age 35
Vahagn Khachatryan age 14
Bob Hawke age 43
Sandra Mason age 24
Jadranka Kosor age 19
Makarios III age 59
Guðni Jóhannesson age 4
Gulzarilal Nanda age 74
Raimonds Vējonis age 6
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 33
Joaquim Chissano age 33
Sam Nujoma age 44
Sani Abacha age 29
Jonas Gahr Støre age 12
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 17
Juvénal Habyarimana age 36
Abdoulaye Wade age 46
Iveta Radičová age 16
Chen Shui-bian age 22
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 46
Bernard Cazeneuve age 9
P. W. Botha age 57
Gavin Newsom age 5
Lee Teng-hui age 50
Paul Keating age 29
Thomas Klestil age 40
Mokgweetsi Masisi age 11
Petr Fiala age 8
Mauricio Funes age 13
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 17
Jerry Rawlings age 25
Manuel Zelaya age 20
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 11
Pál Schmitt age 31
Zail Singh age 57
Amintore Fanfani age 65
Willem Drees age 86
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 14
Egils Levits age 17
Filipe Nyusi age 14
Saara Kuugongelwa age 5
Sushila Karki age 20
Mahamadou Issoufou age 21
Arif Alvi age 23
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 20
Nicușor Dan age 3
Viktor Zubkov age 31
Vojislav Koštunica age 29
Robert Golob age 6
Ewa Kopacz age 16
Li Qiang age 13
Maithripala Sirisena age 21
Milorad Dodik age 14
Tomiichi Murayama age 49
Nikolai Bulganin age 77
João Goulart age 54
Micheál Martin age 12
Jean Monnet age 84
Li Peng age 44
Ferhat Abbas age 73
Brigitte Bierlein age 23
Bart De Wever age 2
Rosen Plevneliev age 8
José Antonio Kast age 7
Tassos Papadopoulos age 39
Petteri Orpo age 3
Antonis Samaras age 21
João Bernardo Vieira age 34
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 54
Chaim Herzog age 54
Giuseppe Saragat age 74
Lamberto Dini age 42
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 35
Askar Akayev age 28