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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
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

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
Lennart Meri age 49
Jyrki Katainen age 7
Giorgi Gakharia age 3
Juan Orlando Hernández age 10
Barham Salih age 18
Karim Massimov age 13
Wim Kok age 40
Albin Kurti age 3
Charles Taylor age 31
Robert Abela age 1
Agatha Barbara age 55
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 74
Branko Crvenkovski age 16
Emil Boc age 12
Nataša Pirc Musar age 10
Simonetta Sommaruga age 18
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 28
Moncef Marzouki age 33
Kais Saied age 20
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 24
Joseph Estrada age 41
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 23
Jean Casimir-Perier age 131
Alain Juppé age 33
Robert Gates age 35
Bajram Begaj age 11
Mulatu Teshome age 22
Andreas Papandreou age 60
Xiomara Castro age 19
Chandra Shekhar age 51
Fuad Masum age 41
Andrius Kubilius age 22
Hage Geingob age 37
Mikhhail Fradkov age 28
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 39
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 33
Jerzy Buzek age 38
Kakuei Tanaka age 60
Bertie Ahern age 27
Andrew Cuomo age 21
James Baker age 48
Antonin Scalia age 42
Babrak Karmal age 50
Hafizullah Amin age 49
Alfred Moisiu age 49
Zillur Rahman age 49
Iliana Iotova age 14
François Bozizé age 32
Mirek Topolánek age 22
Petr Nečas age 14
Tamás Sulyok age 22
Inder Kumar Gujral age 59
V. P. Singh age 47
Masoud Barzani age 32
Abdulla Yameen age 19
Mohamed Nasheed age 11
Thein Sein age 33
Than Shwe age 46
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 26
Bill English age 17
Zoran Zaev age 4
Alenka Bratušek age 8
Doris Leuthard age 15
Volodymyr Hroisman age 1
Luis Lacalle Pou age 5
Hakainde Hichilema age 16
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed age 16
Bakir Izetbegović age 22
Javier Solana age 36
Jim Mattis age 28
James Comey age 18
Alfred Gusenbauer age 19
Ali Asadov age 22
Raman Halowchanka age 5
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 54
Lansana Conté age 44
René Préval age 36
Gordon Bajnai age 10
Ruud Lubbers age 39
Bounnhang Vorachit age 41
Andris Bērziņš age 34
Hilda Heine age 27
Vladimir Voronin age 37
Kiro Gligorov age 61
Thorbjørn Jagland age 28
Jorge Sampaio age 39
George Tupou V of Tonga age 30
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 36
Nobusuke Kishi age 82
Toshiki Kaifu age 48
Kiichi Miyazawa age 59
Tsutomu Hata age 43
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 30
Édouard Balladur age 49
Mike Huckabee age 23
Rick Perry age 28
Greg Abbott age 21
Eduardo Duhalde age 37
Wolfgang Schüssel age 33
Artur Rasizade age 43
John Diefenbaker age 83
José Maria Neves age 18
Ricardo Lagos age 40
Irakli Kobakhidze age 4 months
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 52
Umaro Sissoco Embaló age 6
Gyula Horn age 46
Fatmir Sejdiu age 27
Fayez al-Sarraj age 18
Khurelsukh Ukhnaa age 10
Luísa Diogo age 20
Mohamed Bazoum age 19
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 25
Viorica Dăncilă age 15
Goh Chok Tong age 37
Chan Santokhi age 20
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 29
Tô Lâm age 21
Michael Sata age 41
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 40
Martín Vizcarra age 15
Diosdado Macapagal age 68
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 41
José Sarney age 48
Brian Cowen age 19
George Shultz age 58
Christian Kern age 13
Kristen Michal age 3
Juha Sipilä age 17
Kostas Karamanlis age 22
Jimmy Morales age 9
Haider Al-Abadi age 26
Catherine Connolly age 23
Emilio Colombo age 58
Choummaly Sayasone age 42
Michel Suleiman age 30
Joseph Muscat age 5
George Abela age 30
Milovan Đilas age 67
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 43
Girija Prasad Koirala age 54
Pedro Passos Coelho age 14
Ernest Bai Koroma age 25
Milan Kučan age 38
Viola Amherd age 16
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 37
Levy Mwanawasa age 30
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 29
Anura Kurankan Dissanayake age 10
Michel Rocard age 48
Paul Wolfowitz age 35
Alain Poher age 69
Abulfaz Elchibey age 40
Zhelyu Zhelev age 43
Nicos Christodoulides age 5
Adly Mansour age 33
Nino Burjanadze age 14
Georgios Papadopoulos age 59
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 25
Ferenc Mádl age 48
Árpád Göncz age 57
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson age 3