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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
Bangladesh genocide 1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
Bangladesh War of Independence 1971-03-26 - 1971-12-16

People

Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 54
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 16
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 52
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 11
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 23
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 77
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 23
Davíð Oddsson age 23
Giovanni Spadolini age 45
Arnaldo Forlani age 45
Raila A Odinga age 26
Anote Tong age 18
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 9
Armando Guebuza age 28
Einar Gerhardsen age 74
Farooq Leghari age 31
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 19
Emil Constantinescu age 31
Tage Erlander age 69
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 48
Pierre Mendès France age 64
Jeremy Hunt age 4
Michael Gove age 3
Earl Warren age 80
Gennady Yanayev age 33
Chadli Bendjedid age 42
Franz Vranitzky age 33
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 30
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 15
Geir Haarde age 20
Ephraim Katzir age 55
Giovanni Goria age 27
Asqar Mamin age 5
Rolandas Paksas age 14
Algirdas Butkevičius age 12
Gediminas Kirkilas age 19
Muhyiddin Yassin age 24
Eddie Fenech Adami age 37
U Nu age 64
Ibrahim Babangida age 29
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 41
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 41
Dacian Cioloș age 1
Julius Maada Bio age 7
Vladimír Mečiar age 28
Ronald Venetiaan age 34
Karin Keller-Sutter age 7
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 15
Hanna Suchocka age 25
Federico Franco age 8
Fernando Belaúnde age 58
Abdalla Hamdok age 15
Takeo Miki age 64
Georges Bidault age 71
George Osborne born 1971-05-23
William Hague age 10
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 21
Marcel Lefebvre age 65
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 24
Craig Venter age 24
Francis Collins age 21
Yang Shangkun age 63
Stephen Breyer age 32
James F. Byrnes age 89
Christian Stocker age 11
Hubert Maga age 54
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 49
Sylvie Kinigi age 18
Jioji Konrote age 23
Paavo Lipponen age 30
Rose Christiane Raponda age 7
Alejandro Giammattei age 15
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 12
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 24
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 3
Ramush Haradinaj age 2
Guntis Ulmanis age 31
Hassan Diab age 11
Lawrence Gonzi age 17
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 14
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 70
Mircea Snegur age 31
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 12
Christopher Luxon age 10 months
Shaukat Aziz age 22
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 15
Marcel Ciolacu age 3
Andrei Belousov age 12
Sergei Stepashin age 19
Guy Parmelin age 11
Paula-Mae Weekes age 12
Najla Bouden age 12
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 48
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 11
Nicanor Duarte age 14
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) age 1
Nikolai Tikhonov age 66
Jânio Quadros age 54
Ash Carter age 16
Sajid Javid age 1
Michel Aflaq age 61
Ferdinand Schörner age 78
Marsha P. Johnson age 25
Karl von Habsburg age 10
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 57
Mohammad Mokhber age 15
Michael Dukakis age 37
Dobrica Ćosić age 49
Ronald McNair age 20
Lawrence Eagleburger age 40
Anthony Kennedy age 34
Dean Rusk age 62
Cyrus Vance age 54
Arturo Umberto Illia age 70
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 23
Arturo Frondizi age 62
Lotay Tshering age 2
Joe Clark age 31
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 28
Luis Abinader age 3
Harri Holkeri age 34
Zurab Zhvania age 7
Efraín Ríos Montt age 44
László Kövér age 11
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 58
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 65
Yigal Allon age 52
Henri Konan Bédié age 37
Māris Kučinskis age 9
Saulius Skvernelis age 10 months
Gaston Thorn age 42
Duško Marković age 12
Saadeddine Othmani age 15
Htin Kyaw age 24
Marcus Stephen age 1
Shehu Shagari age 46
António José Seguro age 9
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 26
Mirko Cvetković age 20
Rudolf Schuster age 37
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 28
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 46
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 51
Michael Somare age 35
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 6
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 88
Fuad II of Egypt age 19
Chuck Hagel age 24
Milka Planinc age 46
Günter Schabowski age 42
Wesley Clark age 26
Kurt Student age 81
Infanta Cristina of Spain age 5
John Kasich age 19
Peter Mandelson age 17
Chris Christie age 8
Elena Kagan age 11
Souphanouvong age 61
John Ashcroft age 29
John Gorton age 59
César Gaviria age 24
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 49
Mart Laar age 11
Péter Medgyessy age 28
Poul Schlüter age 42
Fouad Siniora age 27
Vlad Filat age 2
Ilie Bolojan age 2
James Michel age 26
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 16
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 45
Anutin Charnvirakul age 4
Mesut Yılmaz age 23
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 43
Julio María Sanguinetti age 35
Iolu Abil age 29
Phạm Minh Chính age 12
Marek Belka age 19
Mireya Moscoso age 24
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 36
Tanzan Ishibashi age 86
Michel Debré age 59
Margaret Chan age 23
Claude Auchinleck age 86