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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
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

People

Modibo Keïta age 55
Ernesto Zedillo age 18
Khurelsukh Ukhnaa age 2
Luísa Diogo age 12
Mohamed Bazoum age 10
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 17
Viorica Dăncilă age 6
Goh Chok Tong age 29
Chan Santokhi age 11
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 20
Tô Lâm age 13
Michael Sata age 33
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 31
Martín Vizcarra age 7
Diosdado Macapagal age 59
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 83
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 33
José Sarney age 40
Brian Cowen age 10
Stanislav Shushkevich age 35
Empress Masako age 6
George Shultz age 49
Christian Kern age 4
Ziaur Rahman age 34
Juha Sipilä age 9
Kostas Karamanlis age 13
Jimmy Morales age 1
Haider Al-Abadi age 18
Catherine Connolly age 14
Choummaly Sayasone age 34
Michel Suleiman age 21
George Abela age 22
José López Portillo age 50
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 22
Milovan Đilas age 59
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 35
Girija Prasad Koirala age 46
Pedro Passos Coelho age 6
Ernest Bai Koroma age 16
Milan Kučan age 29
Viola Amherd age 8
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 29
Levy Mwanawasa age 21
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 21
Anura Kurankan Dissanayake age 1
Michel Rocard age 40
Paul Wolfowitz age 26
Alain Poher age 61
Empress Michiko age 35
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 36
Abulfaz Elchibey age 32
Zhelyu Zhelev age 35
Hissène Habré age 28
Adly Mansour age 24
Nino Burjanadze age 6
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 17
Ferenc Mádl age 39
Árpád Göncz age 48
Laimdota Straujuma age 19
Joseph Aoun age 6
Min Aung Hlaing age 14
Ivica Dačić age 4
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 13
Ingvar Carlsson age 35
Francisco Guterres age 15
Frederick Chiluba age 27
Juan Carlos Varela age 6
Alejandro Toledo age 25
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 13
Željko Komšić age 6
Noboru Takeshita age 46
Keizō Obuchi age 33
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 22
Jeff Sessions age 23
Gerry Adams age 21
Oswald Mosley age 73
Tim Kaine age 12
Hu Yaobang age 54
Clarence Thomas age 22
Robert Menzies age 75
Iajuddin Ahmed age 39
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 20
Luis Guillermo Solís age 12
Jan Fischer age 19
Danilo Medina age 18
Hailemariam Desalegn age 5
Giorgi Kvirikashvili age 3
Costas Simitis age 34
Ezer Weizman age 46
Isaac Navon age 49
Dries van Agt age 39
Thongloun Sisoulith age 24
Krišjānis Kariņš age 5
Émile Lahoud age 34
Samuel Doe age 19
Jacques Santer age 33
Marc Ravalomanana age 20
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 11
Lazarus Chakwera age 15
Luis Echeverría age 48
Miguel de la Madrid age 35
Ne Win age 59
Ram Chandra Poudel age 25
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 24
Ueli Maurer age 19
Benjamin Mkapa age 31
Ricardo Martinelli age 18
Haris Silajdžić age 24
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 10
C. Rajagopalachari age 91
Takeo Fukuda age 65
Morihiro Hosokawa age 32
João Figueiredo age 52
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 78
Jerry Brown age 32
Alice Paul age 85
Warren Christopher age 44
Rexhep Meidani age 26
Reynaldo Bignone age 42
Ayaz Mutallibov age 32
Quett Masire age 45
John Turner age 41
David Dacko age 40
Catherine Samba-Panza age 16
Leonel Fernández age 16
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 26
Antti Rinne age 7
H. D. Deve Gowda age 37
Abdul Rahman Arif age 54
Portia Simpson-Miller age 24
George William Vella age 28
Win Myint age 18
Baron Waqa age 10
Jenny Shipley age 18
Mamadou Tandja age 32
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 22
S. R. Nathan age 46
Didier Burkhalter age 10
Taur Matan Ruak age 13
Fouad Mebazaa age 37
Rupiah Banda age 33
Canaan Banana age 34
Han Duck-soo age 21
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 40
Raymond Barre age 46
Ernesto Geisel age 63
Jim Yong Kim age 10
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 36
Ingrid of Sweden age 60
John Lewis age 30
Tigran Sargsyan age 10
Azali Assoumani age 11
Alfredo Palacio age 31
Mostafa Madbouly age 4
Siim Kallas age 21
Frank Bainimarama age 16
Rose Francine Rogombe age 27
Otto Pérez Molina age 19
Álvaro Colom age 19
Joseph Michel Martelly age 9
Halla Tómasdóttir age 1
Mohammad Hatta age 68
Mariano Rumor age 55
Ciriaco De Mita age 42
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 27
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 74
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 24
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 17
Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 7
Zdravko Krivokapić age 11
Boris Trajkovski age 14
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 55
Mikhail Kasianov age 12
Miro Cerar age 6
Srettha Thavisin age 8
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 18
Trần Đức Lương age 33
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 61
Choi Kyu-hah age 51
Željka Cvijanović age 3
Zenkō Suzuki age 59
Leon Panetta age 32
Philip Hammond age 14
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan age 4
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 13
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh age 5
Mario Cuomo age 38
Timothy McVeigh age 2
Liz Cheney age 4
George Wallace age 51
Alexander Haig age 45
Fatos Nano age 17
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 55
Carlos Mesa age 17
Petar Stoyanov age 18
Sergey Stanishev age 4
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 2
Patricio Aylwin age 51
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 53
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 15