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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
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence 1963-01-23 - 1974-09-10
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

Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 15
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 51
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 11
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 22
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 76
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 22
Davíð Oddsson age 22
Giovanni Spadolini age 45
Arnaldo Forlani age 44
Raila A Odinga age 25
Anote Tong age 18
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 29
Anerood Jugnauth age 40
Zinaida Greceanîi age 14
Aziz Akhannouch age 9
Armando Guebuza age 27
Einar Gerhardsen age 73
Farooq Leghari age 30
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 18
Emil Constantinescu age 30
Tage Erlander age 69
Evaristo Carvalho age 28
Abdulla Aripov age 9
Rómulo Betancourt age 62
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 44
Luis Carrero Blanco age 66
Masayoshi Ōhira age 60
Sōsuke Uno age 48
Pierre Mendès France age 63
Jeremy Hunt age 3
Michael Gove age 2
Earl Warren age 79
Gennady Yanayev age 33
Chadli Bendjedid age 41
Franz Vranitzky age 32
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 30
Wilfried Martens age 34
Dean Barrow age 19
Louis St. Laurent age 88
Aristides Pereira age 46
Pedro Pires age 36
Sherif Ismail age 15
Geir Haarde age 19
Ephraim Katzir age 54
Giovanni Goria age 27
Asqar Mamin age 4
Rolandas Paksas age 14
Algirdas Butkevičius age 11
Gediminas Kirkilas age 18
Muhyiddin Yassin age 23
Eddie Fenech Adami age 36
U Nu age 63
Ibrahim Babangida age 29
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 40
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 40
Dacian Cioloș age 1
Julius Maada Bio age 6
Vladimír Mečiar age 28
Ronald Venetiaan age 34
Karin Keller-Sutter age 6
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 14
Hanna Suchocka age 24
Federico Franco age 8
Fernando Belaúnde age 57
Abdalla Hamdok age 14
Takeo Miki age 63
Georges Bidault age 70
William Hague age 9
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 21
Marcel Lefebvre age 64
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 23
Craig Venter age 23
Francis Collins age 20
Yang Shangkun age 63
Stephen Breyer age 32
James F. Byrnes age 88
Christian Stocker age 10
Hubert Maga age 54
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 49
Sylvie Kinigi age 17
Jioji Konrote age 22
Paavo Lipponen age 29
Rose Christiane Raponda age 7
Alejandro Giammattei age 14
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 11
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 23
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 3
Ramush Haradinaj age 2
Guntis Ulmanis age 30
Hassan Diab age 11
Abdul Razak Hussein age 48
Lawrence Gonzi age 17
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 13
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 69
Mircea Snegur age 30
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 12
Christopher Luxon age 1 month
Shaukat Aziz age 21
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 14
Marcel Ciolacu age 2
Andrei Belousov age 11
Sergei Stepashin age 18
Guy Parmelin age 10
Paula-Mae Weekes age 11
Najla Bouden age 12
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 47
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 10
Nicanor Duarte age 13
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) age 6 months
Nikolai Tikhonov age 65
Jânio Quadros age 53
Ash Carter age 15
Sajid Javid age 8 months
Michel Aflaq age 60
Ferdinand Schörner age 78
Marsha P. Johnson age 25
Karl von Habsburg age 9
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 57
Mohammad Mokhber age 15
Michael Dukakis age 36
Dobrica Ćosić age 48
Ronald McNair age 19
Lawrence Eagleburger age 40
Anthony Kennedy age 34
Dean Rusk age 61
Cyrus Vance age 53
Arturo Umberto Illia age 70
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 23
Arturo Frondizi age 61
William McMahon age 62
Lotay Tshering age 1
Joe Clark age 31
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 28
Luis Abinader age 3
Harri Holkeri age 33
Zurab Zhvania age 6
Efraín Ríos Montt age 44
László Kövér age 10
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 57
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 64
Yigal Allon age 51
Henri Konan Bédié age 36
Māris Kučinskis age 8
Saulius Skvernelis age 0 months
Gaston Thorn age 41
Duško Marković age 12
Saadeddine Othmani age 14
Htin Kyaw age 24
Marcus Stephen age 10 months
Shehu Shagari age 45
António José Seguro age 8
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 25
Mirko Cvetković age 20
Rudolf Schuster age 36
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 27
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 45
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 50
Michael Somare age 34
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 6
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 87
Fuad II of Egypt age 18
Chuck Hagel age 23
Milka Planinc age 45
Günter Schabowski age 41
Wesley Clark age 25
Kurt Student age 80
Infanta Cristina of Spain age 5
John Kasich age 18
Peter Mandelson age 16
Chris Christie age 7
Elena Kagan age 10
Souphanouvong age 61
John Ashcroft age 28
César Gaviria age 23
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 49
Mart Laar age 10
Péter Medgyessy age 27
Poul Schlüter age 41
Fouad Siniora age 27
Vlad Filat age 1
Ilie Bolojan age 1
James Michel age 26
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 15
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 44
Anutin Charnvirakul age 3
Mesut Yılmaz age 22
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 42
Julio María Sanguinetti age 34
Iolu Abil age 28
Phạm Minh Chính age 11
Marek Belka age 18
Mireya Moscoso age 24
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 35
Tanzan Ishibashi age 85
Michel Debré age 58
Margaret Chan age 23
Claude Auchinleck age 86
Christine Kangaloo age 8
Wilhelm List age 90
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 28