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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
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
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09

People

Clarence Thomas age 24
Robert Menzies age 78
Iajuddin Ahmed age 42
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 23
Luis Guillermo Solís age 15
Jan Fischer age 22
Danilo Medina age 21
Hailemariam Desalegn age 7
Giorgi Kvirikashvili age 5
Costas Simitis age 36
Ezer Weizman age 48
Isaac Navon age 52
Dries van Agt age 42
Thongloun Sisoulith age 27
Krišjānis Kariņš age 8
Émile Lahoud age 37
Samuel Doe age 22
Jacques Santer age 35
Marc Ravalomanana age 23
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 14
Lazarus Chakwera age 18
Ne Win age 62
Ram Chandra Poudel age 28
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 26
Luís Montenegro age 2 months
Ueli Maurer age 22
Benjamin Mkapa age 34
Ricardo Martinelli age 21
Haris Silajdžić age 27
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 12
Takeo Fukuda age 68
Morihiro Hosokawa age 35
João Figueiredo age 55
Priti Patel age 1
Jerry Brown age 35
Warren Christopher age 47
Rexhep Meidani age 28
Reynaldo Bignone age 45
Ayaz Mutallibov age 35
Quett Masire age 47
John Turner age 43
David Dacko age 43
Catherine Samba-Panza age 18
Bohuslav Sobotka age 1
Leonel Fernández age 19
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 28
Antti Rinne age 10
Abdul Rahman Arif age 57
Portia Simpson-Miller age 27
George William Vella age 31
Win Myint age 21
Baron Waqa age 13
Jenny Shipley age 21
Mamadou Tandja age 34
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 25
S. R. Nathan age 48
Didier Burkhalter age 13
Taur Matan Ruak age 16
Fouad Mebazaa age 39
Rupiah Banda age 36
Canaan Banana age 37
Han Duck-soo age 23
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 43
Raymond Barre age 49
Ernesto Geisel age 65
Jim Yong Kim age 13
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 38
John Lewis age 33
Tigran Sargsyan age 13
Lon Nol age 59
Azali Assoumani age 14
Alfredo Palacio age 34
Mostafa Madbouly age 7
Frank Bainimarama age 19
Rose Francine Rogombe age 30
Otto Pérez Molina age 22
Álvaro Colom age 21
Joseph Michel Martelly age 12
Halla Tómasdóttir age 4
Mohammad Hatta age 70
Mariano Rumor age 57
Ciriaco De Mita age 45
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 29
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 77
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 27
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 20
Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 10
Zdravko Krivokapić age 14
Boris Trajkovski age 16
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 58
Mikhail Kasianov age 15
Miro Cerar age 9
Alain Berset age 1
Srettha Thavisin age 11
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 21
Trần Đức Lương age 36
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 64
Choi Kyu-hah age 53
Željka Cvijanović age 6
Zenkō Suzuki age 62
Leon Panetta age 34
Philip Hammond age 17
Mario Cuomo age 40
Liz Cheney age 6
George Wallace age 53
Alexander Haig age 48
Fatos Nano age 20
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 58
Carlos Mesa age 19
Petar Stoyanov age 20
Sergey Stanishev age 7
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 4
Patricio Aylwin age 54
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 56
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 18
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 54
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 13
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 25
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 25
Davíð Oddsson age 25
Giovanni Spadolini age 47
Arnaldo Forlani age 47
Raila A Odinga age 28
Anote Tong age 20
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 32
Anerood Jugnauth age 43
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 62
Zinaida Greceanîi age 17
Aziz Akhannouch age 11
Armando Guebuza age 30
Einar Gerhardsen age 76
Farooq Leghari age 32
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 21
Emil Constantinescu age 33
Tage Erlander age 71
Evaristo Carvalho age 31
Abdulla Aripov age 11
Rómulo Betancourt age 65
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 47
Luis Carrero Blanco age 69
Masayoshi Ōhira age 63
Sōsuke Uno age 50
Pierre Mendès France age 66
Jeremy Hunt age 6
Michael Gove age 5
Earl Warren age 82
Gennady Yanayev age 35
Chadli Bendjedid age 44
Franz Vranitzky age 35
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 32
Wilfried Martens age 37
Dean Barrow age 22
Louis St. Laurent age 91
Aristides Pereira age 49
Pedro Pires age 39
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 62
Roosevelt Skerrit age 11 months
Sherif Ismail age 17
Geir Haarde age 22
Ephraim Katzir age 57
Giovanni Goria age 29
Asqar Mamin age 7
Rolandas Paksas age 16
Algirdas Butkevičius age 14
Gediminas Kirkilas age 21
Muhyiddin Yassin age 26
Eddie Fenech Adami age 39
U Nu age 66
Ibrahim Babangida age 31
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 43
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 43
Dacian Cioloș age 3
Julius Maada Bio age 8
Vladimír Mečiar age 30
Ronald Venetiaan age 36
Karin Keller-Sutter age 9
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 17
Hanna Suchocka age 27
Federico Franco age 10
Fernando Belaúnde age 60
Abdalla Hamdok age 17
Takeo Miki age 66
William Westmoreland age 59
Georges Bidault age 73
George Osborne age 1
Yang Shangkun age 65
Stephen Breyer age 34
Christian Stocker age 13
Hubert Maga age 56
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 51
Sylvie Kinigi age 20
Jioji Konrote age 25
Paavo Lipponen age 32
Rose Christiane Raponda age 9
Mikheil Kavelashvili age 1
Alejandro Giammattei age 17
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 14
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 26
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 5
Piet de Jong age 58