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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

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 52
Mamnoon Hussain age 37
Andrej Kiska age 15
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 33
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 33
Michael I of Romania age 57
Élisabeth Borne age 17
Thomas Bach age 24
Raúl Alfonsín age 51
Thomas Boni Yayi age 26
Georgi Parvanov age 21
Paul Martin age 40
Mwai Kibaki age 47
Xavier Bettel age 5
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 75
Oleksandr Turchynov age 14
Ollanta Humala age 16
Chun Doo-hwan age 47
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 39
John Kufuor age 40
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 64
Jacques Delors age 53
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 70
Igor Dodon age 3
Yahya Khan age 61
Peter Pellegrini age 3
Ivan Gašparovič age 37
Cevdet Sunay age 79
Necmettin Erbakan age 52
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
Bamir Topi age 21
Ilir Meta age 9
Alexander De Croo age 3
Sophie Wilmès age 3
Luis Arce age 15
Jeanine Áñez age 11
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 41
Jüri Ratas age 5 months
K. R. Narayanan age 58
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 54
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
Zhu Rongji age 50
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 45
Gough Whitlam age 62
Mathieu Kérékou age 45
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 31
Arnold Rüütel age 50
Nouri al-Maliki age 28
Moshe Katsav age 33
Ibrahim Rugova age 34
Sadyr Japarov age 10
Amadou Toumani Touré age 30
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 19
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
Enda Kenny age 27
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 76
Edgars Rinkēvičs age 5
Valdis Zatlers age 23
Bingu wa Mutharika age 44
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 23
R. Venkataraman age 68
William Ruto age 11
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 41
Mohamed Agha age 23
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 20
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 21
Nicolae Timofti age 29
Chris Hipkins age 3 months
Evgeny Primakov age 49
Danilo Türk age 26
Tupou VI of Tonga age 19
Mykola Azarov age 30
Edgar Lungu age 22
Pedro Castillo age 9
Lee Jae Myung age 15
Yoshirō Mori age 41
Vahagn Khachatryan age 19
Bob Hawke age 49
Sandra Mason age 29
Iván Duque age 2
Jadranka Kosor age 25
Guðni Jóhannesson age 10
Gulzarilal Nanda age 80
Raimonds Vējonis age 12
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 39
Joaquim Chissano age 39
Sam Nujoma age 49
Sani Abacha age 35
Jonas Gahr Støre age 18
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 23
Abdoulaye Wade age 52
Iveta Radičová age 22
Chen Shui-bian age 28
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 51
Bernard Cazeneuve age 15
Gavin Newsom age 11
Lee Teng-hui age 55
Paul Keating age 34
Thomas Klestil age 46
Mokgweetsi Masisi age 17
Petr Fiala age 14
Mauricio Funes age 19
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 22
Jerry Rawlings age 31
Manuel Zelaya age 26
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 17
Pál Schmitt age 36
Zail Singh age 62
Amintore Fanfani age 70
Willem Drees age 92
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 20
Egils Levits age 23
Filipe Nyusi age 19
Saara Kuugongelwa age 11
Sushila Karki age 26
Mahamadou Issoufou age 26
Arif Alvi age 29
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 26
Nicușor Dan age 8
Viktor Zubkov age 37
Vojislav Koštunica age 34