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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
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11

People

Patrice Talon age 19
Blaise Compaoré age 27
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 27
János Kádár age 65
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 59
Bettino Craxi age 43
Valdas Adamkus age 51
Mamnoon Hussain age 37
Andrej Kiska age 15
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 32
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 32
Michael I of Romania age 56
Élisabeth Borne age 16
Thomas Bach age 24
Raúl Alfonsín age 50
Thomas Boni Yayi age 25
Georgi Parvanov age 20
Paul Martin age 39
Mwai Kibaki age 46
Xavier Bettel age 4
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 75
Oleksandr Turchynov age 13
Ollanta Humala age 15
Chun Doo-hwan age 47
Zhao Ziyang age 58
Rex Tillerson age 25
Alexander Schallenberg age 8
Mia Mottley age 12
Elio Di Rupo age 26
Jean Chrétien age 44
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 20
Andrej Plenković age 7
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 38
John Kufuor age 39
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 56
Atifete Jahjaga age 2
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 33
Janez Drnovšek age 27
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 33
Keiko Fujimori age 2
Karl Carstens age 63
Jacques Delors age 52
Mohammad Najibullah age 30
João Lourenço age 23
Werner Faymann age 17
Guy Verhofstadt age 24
Dimitris Christofias age 31
Alar Karis age 19
V. V. Giri age 83
Igor Dodon age 2
Yahya Khan age 61
Peter Pellegrini age 2
Ivan Gašparovič age 36
Cevdet Sunay age 79
Necmettin Erbakan age 51
Morgan Tsvangirai age 25
Felipe González age 35
George F. Kennan age 74
Itamar Franco age 47
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 46
Jacques Rogge age 35
Bamir Topi age 20
Ilir Meta age 8
Alexander De Croo age 2
Sophie Wilmès age 3
Luis Arce age 14
Jeanine Áñez age 10
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 40
K. R. Narayanan age 57
Massimo D'Alema age 28
Daniel arap Moi age 53
Dick Schoof age 20
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 28
Saad Harirị age 7
Andry Rajoelina age 3
Peter Mutharika age 37
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 14
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 26
Zoran Đinđić age 25
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 13
Adama Barrow age 12
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 16
Fernando Lugo age 26
Kgalema Motlanthe age 28
Zhu Rongji age 49
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 44
Gough Whitlam age 61
Mathieu Kérékou age 44
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 30
Arnold Rüütel age 49
Nouri al-Maliki age 27
Moshe Katsav age 32
Ibrahim Rugova age 33
Sadyr Japarov age 9
Amadou Toumani Touré age 29
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 18
Ram Baran Yadav age 30
Stevo Pendarovski age 14
Desi Bouterse age 32
Xanana Gusmão age 31
Arsenii Yatseniuk age 3
Armand Fallières age 136
Pierre Mauroy age 49
Laurent Fabius age 31
Édith Cresson age 44
Michel Barnier age 27
Enda Kenny age 26
Omar Bradley age 85
Soong Ching-ling age 85
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 37
Ivo Sanader age 24
Mohamed Naguib age 77
Andrus Ansip age 21
Loukas Papademos age 30
László Sólyom age 36
Charan Singh age 75
Edgars Rinkēvičs age 4
Valdis Zatlers age 22
Bingu wa Mutharika age 43
Violeta Chamorro age 48
Bola Tinubu age 25
Nikola Gruevski age 7
Egor Gajdar age 21
Göran Persson age 29
Carl Bildt age 28
Prayut Chanocha age 23
Delcy Rodriguez age 8
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 140
Lloyd Austin age 24
John Roberts age 23
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 20
Brian Mulroney age 38
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 25
Matti Vanhanen age 22
R. Venkataraman age 67
William Ruto age 11
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 40
Mohamed Agha age 22
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 19
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 21
Nicolae Timofti age 29
Evgeny Primakov age 48
Danilo Türk age 25
Tupou VI of Tonga age 18
Mykola Azarov age 30
Edgar Lungu age 21
Pedro Castillo age 8
Lee Jae Myung age 14
Yoshirō Mori age 40
Vahagn Khachatryan age 18
Bob Hawke age 48
Sandra Mason age 29
Iván Duque age 1
Jadranka Kosor age 24
Guðni Jóhannesson age 9
Gulzarilal Nanda age 79
Raimonds Vējonis age 11
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 38
Joaquim Chissano age 38
Sam Nujoma age 48
Sani Abacha age 34
Jonas Gahr Støre age 17
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 22
Abdoulaye Wade age 51
Iveta Radičová age 21
Chen Shui-bian age 27
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 50
Bernard Cazeneuve age 14
P. W. Botha age 62
Gavin Newsom age 10
Lee Teng-hui age 55
Paul Keating age 34
Thomas Klestil age 45
Mokgweetsi Masisi age 16
Petr Fiala age 13
Mauricio Funes age 18
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 21
Jerry Rawlings age 30
Manuel Zelaya age 25
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 16
Pál Schmitt age 35
Zail Singh age 61
Amintore Fanfani age 70
Willem Drees age 91
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 19
Egils Levits age 22
Filipe Nyusi age 19
Saara Kuugongelwa age 10
Sushila Karki age 25
Mahamadou Issoufou age 26
Arif Alvi age 28
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 25
Nicușor Dan age 8
Viktor Zubkov age 36
Vojislav Koštunica age 33
Robert Golob age 11
Ewa Kopacz age 21
Li Qiang age 18
Maithripala Sirisena age 26
Milorad Dodik age 18