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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
Easter Offensive 1972-03-30 - 1972-10-22
Battle of An Lộc 1972-04-13 - 1972-07-20

People

Fayez al-Sarraj age 12
Modibo Keïta age 57
Ernesto Zedillo age 20
Khurelsukh Ukhnaa age 3
Luísa Diogo age 14
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 46
Mohamed Bazoum age 12
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 19
Viorica Dăncilă age 8
Goh Chok Tong age 31
Chan Santokhi age 13
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 22
Tô Lâm age 14
Michael Sata age 34
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 33
Martín Vizcarra age 9
Diosdado Macapagal age 61
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 84
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 34
José Sarney age 42
Brian Cowen age 12
Stanislav Shushkevich age 37
Empress Masako age 8
George Shultz age 51
Christian Kern age 6
Ziaur Rahman age 36
Juha Sipilä age 11
Kostas Karamanlis age 15
Jimmy Morales age 3
Haider Al-Abadi age 20
Catherine Connolly age 16
Emilio Colombo age 52
Choummaly Sayasone age 36
Michel Suleiman age 23
George Abela age 24
José López Portillo age 51
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 24
Milovan Đilas age 60
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 36
Girija Prasad Koirala age 47
Pedro Passos Coelho age 7
Ernest Bai Koroma age 18
Milan Kučan age 31
Viola Amherd age 9
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 30
Levy Mwanawasa age 23
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 22
Anura Kurankan Dissanayake age 3
Michel Rocard age 41
Paul Wolfowitz age 28
Alain Poher age 63
Empress Michiko age 37
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 37
Abulfaz Elchibey age 33
Zhelyu Zhelev age 37
Hissène Habré age 29
Adly Mansour age 26
Nino Burjanadze age 7
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 18
Ferenc Mádl age 41
Árpád Göncz age 50
Laimdota Straujuma age 21
Joseph Aoun age 8
Min Aung Hlaing age 15
Ivica Dačić age 6
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 15
Ingvar Carlsson age 37
Francisco Guterres age 17
Frederick Chiluba age 29
Juan Carlos Varela age 8
Alejandro Toledo age 27
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 15
Željko Komšić age 8
Noboru Takeshita age 48
Keizō Obuchi age 34
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 24
Jeff Sessions age 25
Gerry Adams age 23
Oswald Mosley age 75
Tim Kaine age 14
Hu Yaobang age 56
Clarence Thomas age 23
Robert Menzies age 77
Iajuddin Ahmed age 41
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 22
Luis Guillermo Solís age 14
Jan Fischer age 21
Danilo Medina age 20
Hailemariam Desalegn age 6
Giorgi Kvirikashvili age 4
Costas Simitis age 35
Ezer Weizman age 47
Isaac Navon age 51
Dries van Agt age 41
Thongloun Sisoulith age 26
Krišjānis Kariņš age 7
Émile Lahoud age 36
Samuel Doe age 21
Jacques Santer age 35
Marc Ravalomanana age 22
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 13
Lazarus Chakwera age 17
Miguel de la Madrid age 37
Ne Win age 61
Ram Chandra Poudel age 27
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 25
Ueli Maurer age 21
Benjamin Mkapa age 33
Ricardo Martinelli age 20
Haris Silajdžić age 26
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 11
C. Rajagopalachari age 93
Takeo Fukuda age 67
Morihiro Hosokawa age 34
João Figueiredo age 54
Priti Patel age 1 month
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 80
Jerry Brown age 34
Alice Paul age 87
Warren Christopher age 46
Rexhep Meidani age 27
Reynaldo Bignone age 44
Ayaz Mutallibov age 34
Quett Masire age 46
John Turner age 42
David Dacko age 42
Catherine Samba-Panza age 17
Bohuslav Sobotka age 7 months
Leonel Fernández age 18
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 27
Antti Rinne age 9
H. D. Deve Gowda age 39
Abdul Rahman Arif age 56
Portia Simpson-Miller age 26
George William Vella age 30
Win Myint age 20
Baron Waqa age 12
Jenny Shipley age 20
Mamadou Tandja age 33
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 24
S. R. Nathan age 47
Didier Burkhalter age 12
Taur Matan Ruak age 15
Fouad Mebazaa age 38
Rupiah Banda age 35
Canaan Banana age 36
Han Duck-soo age 22
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 42
Raymond Barre age 48
Ernesto Geisel age 64
Jim Yong Kim age 12
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 37
Ingrid of Sweden age 62
John Lewis age 32
Tigran Sargsyan age 12
Lon Nol age 58
Azali Assoumani age 13
Alfredo Palacio age 33
Mostafa Madbouly age 6
Siim Kallas age 23
Frank Bainimarama age 18
Rose Francine Rogombe age 29
Otto Pérez Molina age 21
Álvaro Colom age 20
Joseph Michel Martelly age 11
Halla Tómasdóttir age 3
Mohammad Hatta age 69
Mariano Rumor age 56
Ciriaco De Mita age 44
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 28
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 76
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 26
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 19
Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 9
Zdravko Krivokapić age 13
Boris Trajkovski age 15
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 57
Mikhail Kasianov age 14
Miro Cerar age 8
Alain Berset age 1 month
Srettha Thavisin age 10
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 20
Trần Đức Lương age 35
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 63
Choi Kyu-hah age 52
Željka Cvijanović age 5
Zenkō Suzuki age 61
Leon Panetta age 33
Philip Hammond age 16
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan age 6
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 15
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh age 7
Mario Cuomo age 39
Timothy McVeigh age 4
Liz Cheney age 5
George Wallace age 52
Alexander Haig age 47
Fatos Nano age 19
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 57
Carlos Mesa age 18