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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
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
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Wallis Simpson age 83
Édouard Philippe age 8
Aslan Maskhadov age 27
Karl Nehammer age 6
Yves Leterme age 18
Alpha Condé age 41
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 36
Morarji Desai age 83
Mary McAleese age 28
Ehud Barak age 37
Giuliano Amato age 41
Uhuru Kenyatta age 17
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 12
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 15
Ma Ying-jeou age 29
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 13
Dina Boluarte age 17
Bongbong Marcos age 21
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 59
Otto von Habsburg age 66
Bujar Nishani age 12
Abdul Hamid age 35
Hun Sen age 27
Kim Campbell age 32
Andrej Babiš age 24
Lenín Moreno age 26
Mari Kiviniemi age 10
Giorgos Papandreou age 27
Karolos Papoulias age 50
Rafiq Hariri age 34
Ulf Kristersson age 15
Lai Ching-te age 19
John Magufuli age 19
Pridi Banomyong age 79
Milton Obote age 53
Horacio Cartes age 23
Yun Po-sun age 82
Shigeru Ishiba age 22
Lionel Jospin age 42
Abolhassan Banisadr age 46
Patrice Talon age 21
Blaise Compaoré age 28
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 29
János Kádár age 67
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 60
Bettino Craxi age 45
Valdas Adamkus age 52
Mamnoon Hussain age 38
Andrej Kiska age 16
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 33
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 34
Michael I of Romania age 57
Élisabeth Borne age 18
Thomas Bach age 25
Manuel Noriega age 45
Raúl Alfonsín age 52
Khaleda Zia age 33
Thomas Boni Yayi age 27
Georgi Parvanov age 22
Paul Martin age 41
Mwai Kibaki age 47
Xavier Bettel age 6
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 76
Oleksandr Turchynov age 15
Ollanta Humala age 17
Chun Doo-hwan age 48
Lord Mountbatten age 79
Zhao Ziyang age 59
Rex Tillerson age 27
Alexander Schallenberg age 10
Mia Mottley age 13
Elio Di Rupo age 28
Jean Chrétien age 45
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 22
Andrej Plenković age 9
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 39
John Kufuor age 40
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 58
Atifete Jahjaga age 4
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 34
Janez Drnovšek age 29
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 35
Keiko Fujimori age 4
Jacques Delors age 54
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 49
Mohammad Najibullah age 32
João Lourenço age 25
Werner Faymann age 19
Guy Verhofstadt age 26
Dimitris Christofias age 33
Alar Karis age 21
V. V. Giri age 85
Giovanni Leone age 70
Igor Dodon age 4
Yahya Khan age 62
Peter Pellegrini age 3
Ivan Gašparovič age 38
Cevdet Sunay age 80
Necmettin Erbakan age 52
Morgan Tsvangirai age 27
Felipe González age 37
George F. Kennan age 75
Itamar Franco age 49
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 48
Jacques Rogge age 37
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi age 12
Bamir Topi age 22
Ilir Meta age 10
Alexander De Croo age 3
Sophie Wilmès age 4
Luis Arce age 15
Jeanine Áñez age 12
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 42
Jüri Ratas age 1
K. R. Narayanan age 58
Massimo D'Alema age 30
Dick Schoof age 22
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 30
Saad Harirị age 9
Andry Rajoelina age 5
Peter Mutharika age 39
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 16
Mário Soares age 54
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 27
Zoran Đinđić age 27
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 15
Adama Barrow age 14
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 18
Fernando Lugo age 28
Kgalema Motlanthe age 30
Shamil Basayev age 14
Zhu Rongji age 50
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 46
Gough Whitlam age 63
Mathieu Kérékou age 46
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 31
Arnold Rüütel age 51
Nouri al-Maliki age 29
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 31
Stevo Pendarovski age 16
Desi Bouterse age 33
Xanana Gusmão age 33
Arsenii Yatseniuk age 5
Armand Fallières age 137
Pierre Mauroy age 51
Laurent Fabius age 33
Édith Cresson age 45
Michel Barnier age 28
Lê Đức Thọ age 67
Enda Kenny age 28
Queen Sofía of Spain age 40
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh age 15
Queen Letizia of Spain age 6
Omar Bradley age 86
Soong Ching-ling age 86
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 38
Ivo Sanader age 26
Mohamed Naguib age 78
Andrus Ansip age 22
Loukas Papademos age 31
László Sólyom age 37
Edgars Rinkēvičs age 5
Valdis Zatlers age 24
Bingu wa Mutharika age 45
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 27
Violeta Chamorro age 49
Bola Tinubu age 27
Nikola Gruevski age 8
Egor Gajdar age 23
Göran Persson age 30
Carl Bildt age 30
Prayut Chanocha age 25
Delcy Rodriguez age 10
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 142
Lloyd Austin age 26
John Roberts age 24
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 22
Brian Mulroney age 40
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 27
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 11 months
Evgeny Primakov age 49
Danilo Türk age 27
Tupou VI of Tonga age 20
Mykola Azarov age 31
Edgar Lungu age 22
Pedro Castillo age 9
Lee Jae Myung age 15