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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21

People

Leonel Fernández age 14
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 24
Antti Rinne age 5
Abdul Rahman Arif age 52
Portia Simpson-Miller age 22
George William Vella age 26
Win Myint age 16
Baron Waqa age 8
Jenny Shipley age 16
Mamadou Tandja age 30
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 20
S. R. Nathan age 44
Didier Burkhalter age 8
Taur Matan Ruak age 11
Fouad Mebazaa age 35
Rupiah Banda age 31
Canaan Banana age 32
Han Duck-soo age 19
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 38
Raymond Barre age 44
Ernesto Geisel age 61
Jim Yong Kim age 8
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 34
John Lewis age 28
Tigran Sargsyan age 8
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 32
Lon Nol age 54
Azali Assoumani age 9
Alfredo Palacio age 29
Mostafa Madbouly age 2
Frank Bainimarama age 14
Rose Francine Rogombe age 25
Otto Pérez Molina age 17
Álvaro Colom age 17
Joseph Michel Martelly age 7
Mohammad Hatta age 66
Mariano Rumor age 53
Ciriaco De Mita age 40
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 25
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 72
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 22
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 15
Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 5
Zdravko Krivokapić age 9
Boris Trajkovski age 12
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 53
Marcelo Caetano age 62
Mikhail Kasianov age 10
Miro Cerar age 4
Srettha Thavisin age 6
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 16
Trần Đức Lương age 31
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 59
Choi Kyu-hah age 49
Željka Cvijanović age 1
Zenkō Suzuki age 57
Leon Panetta age 30
Philip Hammond age 12
Li Xiannian age 59
Liz Cheney age 2
George Wallace age 49
Alexander Haig age 43
Fatos Nano age 15
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 53
Carlos Mesa age 15
Petar Stoyanov age 16
Sergey Stanishev age 2
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 2 months
Patricio Aylwin age 49
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 51
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 13
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 49
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 9
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 20
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 74
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 20
Davíð Oddsson age 20
Giovanni Spadolini age 43
Arnaldo Forlani age 42
Raila A Odinga age 23
Anote Tong age 16
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 27
Anerood Jugnauth age 38
Zinaida Greceanîi age 12
Aziz Akhannouch age 7
Armando Guebuza age 25
Einar Gerhardsen age 71
Farooq Leghari age 28
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 16
Emil Constantinescu age 28
Evaristo Carvalho age 26
Abdulla Aripov age 7
Rómulo Betancourt age 60
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 42
Luis Carrero Blanco age 64
Masayoshi Ōhira age 58
Sōsuke Uno age 46
Pierre Mendès France age 61
Jeremy Hunt age 1
Peng Dehuai age 69
Gennady Yanayev age 31
Chadli Bendjedid age 39
Franz Vranitzky age 30
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 28
Wilfried Martens age 32
Dean Barrow age 17
Louis St. Laurent age 86
Aristides Pereira age 44
Pedro Pires age 34
Sherif Ismail age 13
Geir Haarde age 17
Ephraim Katzir age 52
Giovanni Goria age 25
Asqar Mamin age 2
Rolandas Paksas age 12
Algirdas Butkevičius age 9
Gediminas Kirkilas age 16
Muhyiddin Yassin age 21
Moussa Traoré age 31
Eddie Fenech Adami age 34
Adolfo López Mateos age 58
U Nu age 61
Ibrahim Babangida age 27
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 38
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 38
Julius Maada Bio age 4
Vladimír Mečiar age 26
Ronald Venetiaan age 32
Karin Keller-Sutter age 4
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 12
Rafael Caldera age 52
Hanna Suchocka age 22
Federico Franco age 6
Abdalla Hamdok age 12
Takeo Miki age 61
Georges Bidault age 68
Yang Shangkun age 61
Stephen Breyer age 30
James F. Byrnes age 86
Christian Stocker age 8
Hubert Maga age 52
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 47
Sylvie Kinigi age 15
Jioji Konrote age 20
Paavo Lipponen age 27
Rose Christiane Raponda age 5
Georgios Papandreou age 80
Alejandro Giammattei age 12
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 9
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 21
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 1
Ramush Haradinaj age 1 month
Guntis Ulmanis age 28
Hassan Diab age 9
Abdul Razak Hussein age 46
Lawrence Gonzi age 15
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 11
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 67
Mircea Snegur age 28
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 10
Shaukat Aziz age 19
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 12
Marcel Ciolacu age 8 months
Andrei Belousov age 9
Sergei Stepashin age 16
Guy Parmelin age 8
Paula-Mae Weekes age 9
Najla Bouden age 10
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 45
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 8
Nicanor Duarte age 11
Nikolai Tikhonov age 63
Jânio Quadros age 51
Ash Carter age 13
Ronald McNair age 17
Lawrence Eagleburger age 38
Anthony Kennedy age 32
Cyrus Vance age 51
Arturo Umberto Illia age 68
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 21
Arturo Frondizi age 59
William McMahon age 60
Joe Clark age 29
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 26
Tshombé Moïse age 48
Luis Abinader age 1
Harri Holkeri age 31
Zurab Zhvania age 4
Efraín Ríos Montt age 42
László Kövér age 8
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 55
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 62
Yigal Allon age 49
Henri Konan Bédié age 34
Māris Kučinskis age 6
Gaston Thorn age 39
Duško Marković age 10
Saadeddine Othmani age 12
Htin Kyaw age 22
Shehu Shagari age 43