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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

Tomiichi Murayama age 53
Micheál Martin age 17
Jean Monnet age 89
Li Peng age 49
Ferhat Abbas age 78
Brigitte Bierlein age 28
Bart De Wever age 7
Rosen Plevneliev age 13
José Antonio Kast age 12
Tassos Papadopoulos age 44
Petteri Orpo age 8
Antonis Samaras age 26
João Bernardo Vieira age 38
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 59
Chaim Herzog age 59
Giuseppe Saragat age 79
Lamberto Dini age 46
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 40
Askar Akayev age 33
Valdis Dombrovskis age 6
Algirdas Brazauskas age 45
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 23
José Sócrates age 20
Victor Ponta age 5
Prem Tinsulanonda age 57
Roh Tae-woo age 45
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 28
François Bayrou age 26
Egon Krenz age 40
Fernando Collor de Mello age 28
Robert Mueller age 33
Ramiz Alia age 52
Leopoldo Galtieri age 51
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 33
Festus Mogae age 38
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 24
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 27
Lennart Meri age 48
Jyrki Katainen age 6
Giorgi Gakharia age 2
Juan Orlando Hernández age 9
Barham Salih age 17
Giovanni Gronchi age 90
Karim Massimov age 12
Wim Kok age 39
Albin Kurti age 2
Charles Taylor age 30
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 40
Robert Abela age 2 months
Agatha Barbara age 54
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 73
Branko Crvenkovski age 15
Emil Boc age 11
Nataša Pirc Musar age 9
Simonetta Sommaruga age 17
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 27
Moncef Marzouki age 32
Kais Saied age 19
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 23
Joseph Estrada age 40
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 22
Jean Casimir-Perier age 130
Alain Juppé age 32
Robert Gates age 34
Bajram Begaj age 10
Mulatu Teshome age 21
Andreas Papandreou age 59
Xiomara Castro age 18
Chandra Shekhar age 50
Fuad Masum age 40
Andrius Kubilius age 21
Hage Geingob age 36
Mikhhail Fradkov age 27
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 38
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 32
Jerzy Buzek age 37
Kakuei Tanaka age 59
Bertie Ahern age 26
Andrew Cuomo age 20
James Baker age 47
Antonin Scalia age 41
Babrak Karmal age 49
Hafizullah Amin age 48
Alfred Moisiu age 48
Zillur Rahman age 48
Iliana Iotova age 13
François Bozizé age 31
Mirek Topolánek age 21
Petr Nečas age 13
Tamás Sulyok age 21
Inder Kumar Gujral age 58
V. P. Singh age 46
Masoud Barzani age 31
Abdulla Yameen age 18
Mohamed Nasheed age 10
Thein Sein age 32
Than Shwe age 45
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 25
Bill English age 16
Zoran Zaev age 3
Alenka Bratušek age 7
Doris Leuthard age 14
Volodymyr Hroisman age 0 months
Luis Lacalle Pou age 4
Hakainde Hichilema age 15
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed age 15
Bakir Izetbegović age 21
Javier Solana age 35
Jim Mattis age 27
James Comey age 17
Alfred Gusenbauer age 18
Ali Asadov age 21
Raman Halowchanka age 4
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 53
Lansana Conté age 43
René Préval age 35
Gordon Bajnai age 9
Ruud Lubbers age 38
Bounnhang Vorachit age 40
Andris Bērziņš age 33
Hilda Heine age 26
Vladimir Voronin age 36
Kiro Gligorov age 60
Thorbjørn Jagland age 27
Jorge Sampaio age 38
George Tupou V of Tonga age 29
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 35
Nobusuke Kishi age 81
Toshiki Kaifu age 47
Kiichi Miyazawa age 58
Tsutomu Hata age 42
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 29
Édouard Balladur age 48
Mike Huckabee age 22
Rick Perry age 27
Greg Abbott age 20
Eduardo Duhalde age 36
Wolfgang Schüssel age 32
Artur Rasizade age 42
John Diefenbaker age 82
José Maria Neves age 17
Ricardo Lagos age 39
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 51
Umaro Sissoco Embaló age 5
Gyula Horn age 45
Fatmir Sejdiu age 26
Fayez al-Sarraj age 17
Khurelsukh Ukhnaa age 9
Luísa Diogo age 19
Mohamed Bazoum age 18
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 24
Viorica Dăncilă age 14
Goh Chok Tong age 36
Chan Santokhi age 19
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 28
Tô Lâm age 20
Michael Sata age 40
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 39
Martín Vizcarra age 14
Diosdado Macapagal age 67
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 40
José Sarney age 47
Brian Cowen age 18
George Shultz age 57
Christian Kern age 12
Kristen Michal age 2
Juha Sipilä age 16
Kostas Karamanlis age 21
Jimmy Morales age 8
Haider Al-Abadi age 25
Catherine Connolly age 22
Emilio Colombo age 57
Choummaly Sayasone age 41
Michel Suleiman age 29
Joseph Muscat age 4
George Abela age 29
Milovan Đilas age 66
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 42
Girija Prasad Koirala age 53
Pedro Passos Coelho age 13
Ernest Bai Koroma age 24
Milan Kučan age 37
Viola Amherd age 15
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 36
Levy Mwanawasa age 29
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 28
Anura Kurankan Dissanayake age 9
Michel Rocard age 47
Paul Wolfowitz age 34
Alain Poher age 68
Abulfaz Elchibey age 39
Zhelyu Zhelev age 42
Hissène Habré age 35
Nicos Christodoulides age 4
Adly Mansour age 32
Nino Burjanadze age 13
Georgios Papadopoulos age 58
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 24
Ferenc Mádl age 47
Árpád Göncz age 56