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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
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Jyrki Katainen age 7
Giorgi Gakharia age 4
Juan Orlando Hernández age 10
Barham Salih age 18
Karim Massimov age 13
Wim Kok age 40
Albin Kurti age 4
Charles Taylor age 31
Robert Abela age 1
Agatha Barbara age 56
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 74
Branko Crvenkovski age 16
Emil Boc age 12
Nataša Pirc Musar age 11
Simonetta Sommaruga age 18
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 28
Moncef Marzouki age 33
Kais Saied age 21
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 24
Joseph Estrada age 42
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 23
Jean Casimir-Perier age 131
Alain Juppé age 33
Robert Gates age 35
Bajram Begaj age 12
Mulatu Teshome age 22
Andreas Papandreou age 60
Xiomara Castro age 19
Chandra Shekhar age 52
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 61
Bertie Ahern age 27
James Baker age 49
Antonin Scalia age 43
Babrak Karmal age 50
Alfred Moisiu age 49
Zillur Rahman age 50
Iliana Iotova age 14
François Bozizé age 32
Mirek Topolánek age 22
Petr Nečas age 14
Tamás Sulyok age 23
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 34
Than Shwe age 46
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 26
Bill English age 17
Zoran Zaev age 4
Alenka Bratušek age 9
Doris Leuthard age 16
Volodymyr Hroisman age 1
Luis Lacalle Pou age 5
Hakainde Hichilema age 16
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed age 17
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 11
Ruud Lubbers age 40
Bounnhang Vorachit age 41
Andris Bērziņš age 34
Hilda Heine age 28
Vladimir Voronin age 37
Kiro Gligorov age 62
Thorbjørn Jagland age 28
Jorge Sampaio age 39
George Tupou V of Tonga age 31
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 50
Eduardo Duhalde age 37
Wolfgang Schüssel age 33
Artur Rasizade age 44
John Diefenbaker age 83
José Maria Neves age 19
Ricardo Lagos age 41
Irakli Kobakhidze age 7 months
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 52
Umaro Sissoco Embaló age 6
Gyula Horn age 46
Fatmir Sejdiu age 27
Fayez al-Sarraj age 19
Khurelsukh Ukhnaa age 10
Luísa Diogo age 21
Mohamed Bazoum age 19
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 26
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 16
Diosdado Macapagal age 68
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 41
José Sarney age 49
Brian Cowen age 19
George Shultz age 58
Christian Kern age 13
Kristen Michal age 3
Juha Sipilä age 18
Kostas Karamanlis age 22
Jimmy Morales age 10
Haider Al-Abadi age 27
Catherine Connolly age 23
Emilio Colombo age 59
Choummaly Sayasone age 43
Michel Suleiman age 30
Joseph Muscat age 5
George Abela age 31
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 70
Abulfaz Elchibey age 40
Zhelyu Zhelev age 44
Hissène Habré age 36
Nicos Christodoulides age 5
Adly Mansour age 33
Nino Burjanadze age 14
Georgios Papadopoulos age 60
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 25
Ferenc Mádl age 48
Árpád Göncz age 57
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson age 4
Laimdota Straujuma age 28
Joseph Aoun age 15
Min Aung Hlaing age 22
Ivica Dačić age 13
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 22
Lawrence Wong age 6
Ingvar Carlsson age 44
Frederick Chiluba age 36
Juan Carlos Varela age 15
Alejandro Toledo age 34
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 22
Željko Komšić age 15
Noboru Takeshita age 55
Keizō Obuchi age 41
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 31
Jeff Sessions age 32
Hu Yaobang age 63
Clarence Thomas age 30
Iajuddin Ahmed age 48
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 29
Luis Guillermo Solís age 21
Jan Fischer age 28
Danilo Medina age 27
Hailemariam Desalegn age 13
Giorgi Kvirikashvili age 11
Costas Simitis age 42
Ezer Weizman age 54
Thongloun Sisoulith age 33
Krišjānis Kariņš age 14
Émile Lahoud age 43
Samuel Doe age 28
Jacques Santer age 42
Marc Ravalomanana age 29
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 20
Lazarus Chakwera age 24
Luis Echeverría age 57
Natalia Gavrilița age 1
Ram Chandra Poudel age 34
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 32
Luís Montenegro age 6
Ueli Maurer age 28
Benjamin Mkapa age 40
Ricardo Martinelli age 27