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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

Keizō Obuchi age 36
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 25
Jeff Sessions age 26
Oswald Mosley age 76
Tim Kaine age 15
Hu Yaobang age 57
Clarence Thomas age 25
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 8
Giorgi Kvirikashvili age 6
Costas Simitis age 37
Ezer Weizman age 49
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 36
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 27
Luís Montenegro age 6 months
Ueli Maurer age 22
Benjamin Mkapa age 34
Ricardo Martinelli age 21
Haris Silajdžić age 27
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 13
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 29
Reynaldo Bignone age 45
Ayaz Mutallibov age 35
Quett Masire age 48
John Turner age 44
David Dacko age 43
Catherine Samba-Panza age 19
Bohuslav Sobotka age 1
Leonel Fernández age 19
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 29
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 35
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 25
S. R. Nathan age 49
Igor Matovič age 3 months
Didier Burkhalter age 13
Taur Matan Ruak age 16
Fouad Mebazaa age 40
Rupiah Banda age 36
Canaan Banana age 37
Han Duck-soo age 24
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 43
Raymond Barre age 49
Ernesto Geisel age 66
Jim Yong Kim age 13
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 39
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 22
Joseph Michel Martelly age 12
Halla Tómasdóttir age 4
Mohammad Hatta age 71
Ciriaco De Mita age 45
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 30
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 17
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 54
Željka Cvijanović age 6
Zenkō Suzuki age 62
Leon Panetta age 35
Philip Hammond age 17
Mario Cuomo age 41
Liz Cheney age 7
George Wallace age 54
Alexander Haig age 48
Fatos Nano age 20
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 58
Carlos Mesa age 20
Petar Stoyanov age 21
Sergey Stanishev age 7
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 5
Patricio Aylwin age 54
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 56
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 18
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 54
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 14
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 25
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 25
Davíð Oddsson age 25
Giovanni Spadolini age 48
Arnaldo Forlani age 47
Raila A Odinga age 28
Anote Tong age 21
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 12
Armando Guebuza age 30
Einar Gerhardsen age 76
Farooq Leghari age 33
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 21
Emil Constantinescu age 33
Tage Erlander age 72
Evaristo Carvalho age 31
Abdulla Aripov age 12
Rómulo Betancourt age 65
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 47
Masayoshi Ōhira age 63
Sōsuke Uno age 51
Pierre Mendès France age 66
Jeremy Hunt age 6
Michael Gove age 5
Earl Warren age 82
Gennady Yanayev age 36
Chadli Bendjedid age 44
Franz Vranitzky age 35
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 33
Wilfried Martens age 37
Dean Barrow age 22
Aristides Pereira age 49
Pedro Pires age 39
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 62
Roosevelt Skerrit age 1
Sherif Ismail age 18
Geir Haarde age 22
Giovanni Goria age 30
Asqar Mamin age 7
Rolandas Paksas age 17
Algirdas Butkevičius age 14
Gediminas Kirkilas age 21
Muhyiddin Yassin age 26
Eddie Fenech Adami age 39
U Nu age 66
Ibrahim Babangida age 32
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 43
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 43
Dacian Cioloș age 4
Julius Maada Bio age 9
Vladimír Mečiar age 31
Ronald Venetiaan age 37
Karin Keller-Sutter age 9
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 17
Hanna Suchocka age 27
Federico Franco age 11
Fernando Belaúnde age 60
Abdalla Hamdok age 17
Takeo Miki age 66
William Westmoreland age 59
Georges Bidault age 73
George Osborne age 2
Yang Shangkun age 66
Stephen Breyer age 35
Christian Stocker age 13
Hubert Maga age 57
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 52
Sylvie Kinigi age 20
Jioji Konrote age 25
Paavo Lipponen age 32
Rose Christiane Raponda age 10
Mikheil Kavelashvili age 2
Alejandro Giammattei age 17
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 14