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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

Karl Nehammer age 5
Yves Leterme age 18
Alpha Condé age 40
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 35
Mary McAleese age 27
Ehud Barak age 36
Giuliano Amato age 40
Uhuru Kenyatta age 16
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 11
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 14
Ma Ying-jeou age 28
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 12
Dina Boluarte age 16
Bongbong Marcos age 21
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 58
Anastas Mikoyan age 82
Otto von Habsburg age 65
Bujar Nishani age 12
Abdul Hamid age 34
Hun Sen age 26
Kim Campbell age 31
Andrej Babiš age 24
Lenín Moreno age 25
Mauno Koivisto age 54
Mari Kiviniemi age 10
Giorgos Papandreou age 26
Karolos Papoulias age 49
Rafiq Hariri age 33
Ulf Kristersson age 14
Lai Ching-te age 19
John Magufuli age 18
Pridi Banomyong age 78
Milton Obote age 52
Horacio Cartes age 22
Yun Po-sun age 81
Shigeru Ishiba age 21
Lionel Jospin age 41
Abolhassan Banisadr age 45
Patrice Talon age 20
Blaise Compaoré age 27
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 28
János Kádár age 66
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 60
Bettino Craxi age 44
Valdas Adamkus age 51
Mamnoon Hussain age 37
Andrej Kiska age 15
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 33
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 33
Michael I of Romania age 56
Élisabeth Borne age 17
Thomas Bach age 24
Manuel Noriega age 44
Raúl Alfonsín age 51
Khaleda Zia age 32
Thomas Boni Yayi age 26
Georgi Parvanov age 21
Paul Martin age 40
Mwai Kibaki age 46
Xavier Bettel age 5
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 75
Oleksandr Turchynov age 14
Ollanta Humala age 16
Chun Doo-hwan age 47
Lord Mountbatten age 78
Zhao Ziyang age 59
Rex Tillerson age 26
Alexander Schallenberg age 9
Mia Mottley age 13
Elio Di Rupo age 27
Jean Chrétien age 44
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 21
Andrej Plenković age 8
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 38
John Kufuor age 39
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 57
Atifete Jahjaga age 3
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 33
Janez Drnovšek age 28
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 34
Keiko Fujimori age 3
Karl Carstens age 63
Jacques Delors age 53
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 48
Mohammad Najibullah age 31
João Lourenço age 24
Werner Faymann age 18
Guy Verhofstadt age 25
Dimitris Christofias age 32
Alar Karis age 20
V. V. Giri age 84
Giovanni Leone age 69
Igor Dodon age 3
Yahya Khan age 61
Peter Pellegrini age 3
Ivan Gašparovič age 37
Cevdet Sunay age 79
Necmettin Erbakan age 51
Morgan Tsvangirai age 26
Felipe González age 36
George F. Kennan age 74
Itamar Franco age 48
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 47
Jacques Rogge age 36
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi age 11
Bamir Topi age 21
Ilir Meta age 9
Alexander De Croo age 2
Sophie Wilmès age 3
Luis Arce age 15
Jeanine Áñez age 11
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 41
Jüri Ratas age 3 months
K. R. Narayanan age 57
Massimo D'Alema age 29
Dick Schoof age 21
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 29
Saad Harirị age 8
Andry Rajoelina age 4
Peter Mutharika age 38
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 15
Mário Soares age 53
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 26
Zoran Đinđić age 26
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 14
Adama Barrow age 13
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 17
Fernando Lugo age 27
Kgalema Motlanthe age 29
Shamil Basayev age 13
Zhu Rongji age 49
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 45
Gough Whitlam age 62
Mathieu Kérékou age 45
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 30
Arnold Rüütel age 50
Nouri al-Maliki age 28
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 15
Desi Bouterse age 33
Xanana Gusmão age 32
Arsenii Yatseniuk age 4
Armand Fallières age 137
Pierre Mauroy age 50
Laurent Fabius age 32
Édith Cresson age 44
Michel Barnier age 27
Lê Đức Thọ age 67
Enda Kenny age 27
Queen Sofía of Spain age 39
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh age 14
Queen Letizia of Spain age 6
Omar Bradley age 85
Soong Ching-ling age 85
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 38
Ivo Sanader age 25
Mohamed Naguib age 77
Andrus Ansip age 22
Loukas Papademos age 31
László Sólyom age 36
Charan Singh age 75
Edgars Rinkēvičs age 5
Valdis Zatlers age 23
Bingu wa Mutharika age 44
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 26
Violeta Chamorro age 49
Bola Tinubu age 26
Nikola Gruevski age 8
Egor Gajdar age 22
Göran Persson age 29
Carl Bildt age 29
Prayut Chanocha age 24
Delcy Rodriguez age 9
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 141
Lloyd Austin age 25
John Roberts age 23
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 21
Brian Mulroney age 39
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 26
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
Chris Hipkins age 1 month
Evgeny Primakov age 48
Danilo Türk age 26
Tupou VI of Tonga age 19
Mykola Azarov age 30
Edgar Lungu age 21
Pedro Castillo age 8
Lee Jae Myung age 14