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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
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
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Bangladesh genocide 1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
Bangladesh War of Independence 1971-03-26 - 1971-12-16

People

Danilo Medina age 19
Hailemariam Desalegn age 6
Giorgi Kvirikashvili age 4
Costas Simitis age 35
Ezer Weizman age 47
Isaac Navon age 50
Dries van Agt age 40
Thongloun Sisoulith age 25
Krišjānis Kariņš age 6
Émile Lahoud age 35
Samuel Doe age 20
Jacques Santer age 34
Marc Ravalomanana age 21
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 12
Lazarus Chakwera age 16
Ne Win age 60
Ram Chandra Poudel age 26
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 25
Ueli Maurer age 20
Benjamin Mkapa age 32
Ricardo Martinelli age 19
Haris Silajdžić age 25
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 11
C. Rajagopalachari age 92
Takeo Fukuda age 66
Morihiro Hosokawa age 33
João Figueiredo age 53
Jerry Brown age 33
Warren Christopher age 45
Rexhep Meidani age 27
Reynaldo Bignone age 43
Ayaz Mutallibov age 33
Quett Masire age 46
John Turner age 42
David Dacko age 41
Catherine Samba-Panza age 17
Leonel Fernández age 17
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 27
Antti Rinne age 8
Abdul Rahman Arif age 55
Portia Simpson-Miller age 25
George William Vella age 29
Win Myint age 19
Baron Waqa age 11
Jenny Shipley age 19
Mamadou Tandja age 33
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 23
S. R. Nathan age 47
Didier Burkhalter age 11
Taur Matan Ruak age 14
Fouad Mebazaa age 38
Rupiah Banda age 34
Canaan Banana age 35
Han Duck-soo age 22
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 41
Raymond Barre age 47
Ernesto Geisel age 64
Jim Yong Kim age 11
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 37
John Lewis age 31
Tigran Sargsyan age 11
Lon Nol age 57
Azali Assoumani age 12
Alfredo Palacio age 32
Mostafa Madbouly age 5
Frank Bainimarama age 17
Rose Francine Rogombe age 28
Otto Pérez Molina age 20
Álvaro Colom age 20
Joseph Michel Martelly age 10
Halla Tómasdóttir age 2
Mohammad Hatta age 69
Mariano Rumor age 56
Ciriaco De Mita age 43
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 28
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 75
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 25
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 18
Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 8
Zdravko Krivokapić age 12
Boris Trajkovski age 15
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 56
Mikhail Kasianov age 13
Miro Cerar age 7
Srettha Thavisin age 9
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 19
Trần Đức Lương age 34
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 62
Choi Kyu-hah age 52
Željka Cvijanović age 4
Zenkō Suzuki age 60
Leon Panetta age 33
Philip Hammond age 15
Mario Cuomo age 39
Liz Cheney age 5
George Wallace age 52
Alexander Haig age 46
Fatos Nano age 18
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 56
Carlos Mesa age 18
Petar Stoyanov age 19
Sergey Stanishev age 5
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 3
Patricio Aylwin age 52
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 54
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 16
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 52
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 12
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 23
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 77
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 23
Davíð Oddsson age 23
Giovanni Spadolini age 46
Arnaldo Forlani age 45
Raila A Odinga age 26
Anote Tong age 19
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 30
Anerood Jugnauth age 41
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 60
Zinaida Greceanîi age 15
Aziz Akhannouch age 10
Armando Guebuza age 28
Einar Gerhardsen age 74
Farooq Leghari age 31
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 19
Emil Constantinescu age 31
Tage Erlander age 70
Evaristo Carvalho age 29
Abdulla Aripov age 10
Rómulo Betancourt age 63
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 45
Luis Carrero Blanco age 67
Masayoshi Ōhira age 61
Sōsuke Uno age 49
Pierre Mendès France age 64
Jeremy Hunt age 4
Michael Gove age 3
Earl Warren age 80
Gennady Yanayev age 34
Chadli Bendjedid age 42
Franz Vranitzky age 33
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 31
Wilfried Martens age 35
Dean Barrow age 20
Louis St. Laurent age 89
Aristides Pereira age 47
Pedro Pires age 37
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 60
Sherif Ismail age 16
Geir Haarde age 20
Ephraim Katzir age 55
Giovanni Goria age 28
Asqar Mamin age 5
Rolandas Paksas age 15
Algirdas Butkevičius age 12
Gediminas Kirkilas age 19
Muhyiddin Yassin age 24
Eddie Fenech Adami age 37
U Nu age 64
Ibrahim Babangida age 30
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 41
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 41
Dacian Cioloș age 2
Julius Maada Bio age 7
Vladimír Mečiar age 29
Ronald Venetiaan age 35
Karin Keller-Sutter age 7
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 15
Hanna Suchocka age 25
Federico Franco age 9
Fernando Belaúnde age 58
Abdalla Hamdok age 15
Takeo Miki age 64
Georges Bidault age 71
George Osborne age 3 months
Yang Shangkun age 64
Stephen Breyer age 33
James F. Byrnes age 89
Christian Stocker age 11
Hubert Maga age 55
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 50
Sylvie Kinigi age 18
Jioji Konrote age 23
Paavo Lipponen age 30
Rose Christiane Raponda age 8
Mikheil Kavelashvili age 1 month
Alejandro Giammattei age 15
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 12
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 24
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 4
Piet de Jong age 56
Ramush Haradinaj age 3
Guntis Ulmanis age 31
Hassan Diab age 12
Lawrence Gonzi age 18
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 14
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 70
Mircea Snegur age 31
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 13
Christopher Luxon age 1