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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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

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 4
Luis Arce age 15
Jeanine Áñez age 11
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 41
Jüri Ratas age 6 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 27
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 45
Michel Barnier age 28
Enda Kenny age 27
Omar Bradley age 85
Soong Ching-ling age 86
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 38
Ivo Sanader age 25
Mohamed Naguib age 77
Andrus Ansip age 22
Loukas Papademos age 31
László Sólyom age 37
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 30
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 12
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 41
Mohamed Agha age 23
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 20
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 22
Nicolae Timofti age 30
Chris Hipkins age 4 months
Evgeny Primakov age 49
Danilo Türk age 26
Tupou VI of Tonga age 19
Mykola Azarov age 31
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 30
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
Lee Teng-hui age 56
Paul Keating age 35
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 27
Arif Alvi age 29
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 26
Nicușor Dan age 9
Viktor Zubkov age 37
Vojislav Koštunica age 34
Robert Golob age 11
Ewa Kopacz age 22
Li Qiang age 19
Maithripala Sirisena age 27
Milorad Dodik age 19
Tomiichi Murayama age 54
Micheál Martin age 18
Jean Monnet age 90
Li Peng age 50
Ferhat Abbas age 79
Brigitte Bierlein age 29
Bart De Wever age 8
Rosen Plevneliev age 14
José Antonio Kast age 13
Tassos Papadopoulos age 45
Petteri Orpo age 9
Antonis Samaras age 27
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 60
Chaim Herzog age 60
Giuseppe Saragat age 80
Lamberto Dini age 47
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 41
Askar Akayev age 34
Valdis Dombrovskis age 7
Algirdas Brazauskas age 46
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 24
José Sócrates age 21
Victor Ponta age 6
Prem Tinsulanonda age 58
Roh Tae-woo age 46
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 29
François Bayrou age 27
Egon Krenz age 41
Fernando Collor de Mello age 29
Robert Mueller age 34
Ramiz Alia age 53
Leopoldo Galtieri age 52
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 34
Festus Mogae age 39
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 25
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 28