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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

Édouard Philippe age 7
Aslan Maskhadov age 26
Karl Nehammer age 5
Yves Leterme age 17
Alpha Condé age 40
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 34
Mary McAleese age 26
Ehud Barak age 36
Giuliano Amato age 39
Uhuru Kenyatta age 16
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 11
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 13
Ma Ying-jeou age 27
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 11
Dina Boluarte age 15
Bongbong Marcos age 20
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 57
Anastas Mikoyan age 82
Otto von Habsburg age 65
Bujar Nishani age 11
Abdul Hamid age 34
Hun Sen age 25
Kim Campbell age 31
Andrej Babiš age 23
Lenín Moreno age 24
Mauno Koivisto age 54
Mari Kiviniemi age 9
Giorgos Papandreou age 25
Karolos Papoulias age 48
Rafiq Hariri age 33
Ulf Kristersson age 14
Lai Ching-te age 18
John Magufuli age 18
Pridi Banomyong age 77
Milton Obote age 52
Horacio Cartes age 21
Yun Po-sun age 80
Shigeru Ishiba age 21
Lionel Jospin age 40
Abolhassan Banisadr age 44
Patrice Talon age 19
Blaise Compaoré age 27
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 27
János Kádár age 65
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 59
Bettino Craxi age 44
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
Manuel Noriega age 44
Raúl Alfonsín age 51
Khaleda Zia age 31
Thomas Boni Yayi age 25
Georgi Parvanov age 20
Paul Martin age 39
Mwai Kibaki age 46
Xavier Bettel age 5
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 75
Oleksandr Turchynov age 13
Ollanta Humala age 15
Chun Doo-hwan age 47
Lord Mountbatten age 77
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
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 47
Mohammad Najibullah age 30
João Lourenço age 24
Werner Faymann age 17
Guy Verhofstadt age 24
Dimitris Christofias age 31
Alar Karis age 19
V. V. Giri age 83
Igor Dodon age 3
Yahya Khan age 61
Peter Pellegrini age 2
Ivan Gašparovič age 36
Cevdet Sunay age 79
Necmettin Erbakan age 51
Morgan Tsvangirai age 26
Felipe González age 36
George F. Kennan age 74
Itamar Franco age 47
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 46
Jacques Rogge age 35
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi age 11
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 21
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 13
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 16
Fernando Lugo age 26
Kgalema Motlanthe age 28
Shamil Basayev age 13
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
Lê Đức Thọ age 66
Enda Kenny age 26
Queen Sofía of Spain age 39
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh age 13
Queen Letizia of Spain age 5
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 44
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 26
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 26
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