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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
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20

People

Pedro Castillo age 10
Lee Jae Myung age 16
Yoshirō Mori age 42
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 56
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 35
Vahagn Khachatryan age 20
Bob Hawke age 50
Sandra Mason age 30
Iván Duque age 3
Jadranka Kosor age 26
Guðni Jóhannesson age 11
Gulzarilal Nanda age 81
Raimonds Vējonis age 13
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 40
Joaquim Chissano age 40
Sam Nujoma age 50
Sani Abacha age 36
Jonas Gahr Støre age 19
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 24
Abdoulaye Wade age 53
Iveta Radičová age 23
Chen Shui-bian age 29
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 52
Bernard Cazeneuve age 16
Ed Miliband age 9
Lazar Kaganovich age 86
Jiang Qing age 65
Queen Sonja of Norway age 42
Gavin Newsom age 12
Lee Teng-hui age 56
Paul Keating age 35
Thomas Klestil age 47
Mokgweetsi Masisi age 18
Petr Fiala age 15
Mauricio Funes age 20
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 23
Jerry Rawlings age 32
Manuel Zelaya age 27
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 18
Pál Schmitt age 37
Zail Singh age 63
Amintore Fanfani age 71
Willem Drees age 93
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 21
Egils Levits age 24
Filipe Nyusi age 20
Saara Kuugongelwa age 12
Sushila Karki age 27
Mahamadou Issoufou age 27
Arif Alvi age 30
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 27
Nicușor Dan age 9
Viktor Zubkov age 38
Vojislav Koštunica age 35
Robert Golob age 12
Ewa Kopacz age 23
Li Qiang age 20
Maithripala Sirisena age 28
Milorad Dodik age 20
Tomiichi Murayama age 55
Micheál Martin age 19
Soong Mei-ling age 81
Sarah Ferguson age 20
Li Peng age 51
Ferhat Abbas age 80
Brigitte Bierlein age 30
Bart De Wever age 8
Rosen Plevneliev age 15
José Antonio Kast age 13
Tassos Papadopoulos age 45
Petteri Orpo age 10
Antonis Samaras age 28
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 61
Chaim Herzog age 61
Giuseppe Saragat age 81
Lamberto Dini age 48
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 42
Askar Akayev age 35
Valdis Dombrovskis age 8
Algirdas Brazauskas age 47
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 25
José Sócrates age 22
Victor Ponta age 7
Prem Tinsulanonda age 59
Roh Tae-woo age 47
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 30
François Bayrou age 28
Egon Krenz age 42
Fernando Collor de Mello age 30
Kim Jong-nam age 8
Robert Mueller age 35
Ramiz Alia age 54
Leopoldo Galtieri age 53
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 34
Festus Mogae age 40
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 26
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 29
Lennart Meri age 50
Jyrki Katainen age 8
Giorgi Gakharia age 4
Juan Orlando Hernández age 11
Barham Salih age 19
Karim Massimov age 14
Wim Kok age 41
Albin Kurti age 4
Charles Taylor age 31
Robert Abela age 1
Agatha Barbara age 56
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 75
Branko Crvenkovski age 17
Emil Boc age 13
Nataša Pirc Musar age 11
Simonetta Sommaruga age 19
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 29
Moncef Marzouki age 34
Kais Saied age 21
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 25
Joseph Estrada age 42
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 24
Jean Casimir-Perier age 132
Alain Juppé age 34
Robert Gates age 36
Sandra Day O'Connor age 49
Bajram Begaj age 12
Mulatu Teshome age 22
Andreas Papandreou age 60
Xiomara Castro age 20
Chandra Shekhar age 52
Fuad Masum age 41
Andrius Kubilius age 23
Hage Geingob age 38
Mikhhail Fradkov age 29
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 39
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 34
Jerzy Buzek age 39
Kakuei Tanaka age 61
Bertie Ahern age 28
Tariq Aziz age 43
Andrew Cuomo age 22
Bob Geldof age 28
James Baker age 49
Antonin Scalia age 43
Babrak Karmal age 50
Alfred Moisiu age 50
Zillur Rahman age 50
Iliana Iotova age 15
François Bozizé age 33
Mirek Topolánek age 23
Petr Nečas age 15
Tamás Sulyok age 23
Inder Kumar Gujral age 60
V. P. Singh age 48
Masoud Barzani age 33
Abdulla Yameen age 20
Mohamed Nasheed age 12
Thein Sein age 34
Than Shwe age 46
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 27
Bill English age 17
Zoran Zaev age 5
Alenka Bratušek age 9
Doris Leuthard age 16
Volodymyr Hroisman age 1
Luis Lacalle Pou age 6
Hakainde Hichilema age 17
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed age 17
Bakir Izetbegović age 23
Javier Solana age 37
Jim Mattis age 29
James Comey age 18
Fernando de la Rúa age 42
Alfred Gusenbauer age 19
Ali Asadov age 23
Raman Halowchanka age 6
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 54
Lansana Conté age 45
René Préval age 36
Gordon Bajnai age 11
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 65
Ruud Lubbers age 40
Bounnhang Vorachit age 42
Andris Bērziņš age 35
Hilda Heine age 28
Vladimir Voronin age 38
Kiro Gligorov age 62
Thorbjørn Jagland age 29
Jorge Sampaio age 40
George Tupou V of Tonga age 31
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 37
Nobusuke Kishi age 83
Toshiki Kaifu age 48
Kiichi Miyazawa age 60
Tsutomu Hata age 44
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 31
Édouard Balladur age 50
David Petraeus age 27
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 34
Igor Girkin age 8
Queen Mary of Denmark age 7
Mike Huckabee age 24