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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

Alexander Haig age 47
Fatos Nano age 19
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 56
Carlos Mesa age 18
Petar Stoyanov age 19
Sergey Stanishev age 5
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 3
Patricio Aylwin age 53
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 55
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 16
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 53
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 12
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 24
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 77
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 24
Davíð Oddsson age 24
Giovanni Spadolini age 46
Arnaldo Forlani age 46
Raila A Odinga age 27
Anote Tong age 19
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 31
Anerood Jugnauth age 41
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 60
Zinaida Greceanîi age 15
Aziz Akhannouch age 10
Armando Guebuza age 29
Einar Gerhardsen age 74
Farooq Leghari age 31
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 20
Emil Constantinescu age 32
Tage Erlander age 70
Evaristo Carvalho age 30
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 49
Pierre Mendès France age 65
Jeremy Hunt age 5
Michael Gove age 4
Earl Warren age 80
Gennady Yanayev age 34
Chadli Bendjedid age 42
Franz Vranitzky age 34
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 31
Wilfried Martens age 35
Dean Barrow age 20
Louis St. Laurent age 90
Aristides Pereira age 48
Pedro Pires age 37
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 61
Sherif Ismail age 16
Geir Haarde age 20
Ephraim Katzir age 55
Giovanni Goria age 28
Asqar Mamin age 6
Rolandas Paksas age 15
Algirdas Butkevičius age 13
Gediminas Kirkilas age 20
Muhyiddin Yassin age 24
Eddie Fenech Adami age 38
U Nu age 64
Ibrahim Babangida age 30
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 42
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 42
Dacian Cioloș age 2
Julius Maada Bio age 7
Vladimír Mečiar age 29
Ronald Venetiaan age 35
Karin Keller-Sutter age 8
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 15
Hanna Suchocka age 25
Federico Franco age 9
Fernando Belaúnde age 59
Abdalla Hamdok age 16
Takeo Miki age 64
Georges Bidault age 72
George Osborne age 8 months
William Hague age 10
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 22
Marcel Lefebvre age 66
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 25
Craig Venter age 25
Francis Collins age 21
Yang Shangkun age 64
Stephen Breyer age 33
James F. Byrnes age 89
Christian Stocker age 11
Hubert Maga age 55
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 50
Sylvie Kinigi age 19
Jioji Konrote age 24
Paavo Lipponen age 30
Rose Christiane Raponda age 8
Mikheil Kavelashvili age 6 months
Alejandro Giammattei age 15
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 13
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 24
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 4
Piet de Jong age 56
Ramush Haradinaj age 3
Guntis Ulmanis age 32
Hassan Diab age 12
Lawrence Gonzi age 18
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 15
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 71
Mircea Snegur age 32
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 13
Christopher Luxon age 1
Shaukat Aziz age 22
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 15
Marcel Ciolacu age 4
Andrei Belousov age 12
Sergei Stepashin age 19
Guy Parmelin age 12
Paula-Mae Weekes age 13
Najla Bouden age 13
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 49
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 12
Nicanor Duarte age 15
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) age 2
Nikolai Tikhonov age 66
Jânio Quadros age 55
Ash Carter age 17
Sajid Javid age 2
Michel Aflaq age 62
Ferdinand Schörner age 79
Marsha P. Johnson age 26
Karl von Habsburg age 11
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 58
Mohammad Mokhber age 16
Michael Dukakis age 38
Dobrica Ćosić age 50
Ronald McNair age 21
Lawrence Eagleburger age 41
Anthony Kennedy age 35
Dean Rusk age 63
Cyrus Vance age 54
Arturo Umberto Illia age 71
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 24
Arturo Frondizi age 63
Lotay Tshering age 2
Joe Clark age 32
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 29
Luis Abinader age 4
Harri Holkeri age 35
Zurab Zhvania age 8
Efraín Ríos Montt age 45
László Kövér age 12
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 59
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 66
Yigal Allon age 53
Henri Konan Bédié age 37
Māris Kučinskis age 10
Saulius Skvernelis age 1
Gaston Thorn age 43
Duško Marković age 13
Saadeddine Othmani age 16
Htin Kyaw age 25
Marcus Stephen age 2
Shehu Shagari age 46
António José Seguro age 9
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 26
Mirko Cvetković age 21
Rudolf Schuster age 38
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 29
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 46
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 52
Michael Somare age 35
Mario Abdo Benítez age 2 months
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 7
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 88
Fuad II of Egypt age 20
Chuck Hagel age 25
Milka Planinc age 47
Günter Schabowski age 43
Wesley Clark age 27
Kurt Student age 81
Infanta Cristina of Spain age 6
John Kasich age 19
Peter Mandelson age 18
Chris Christie age 9
Elena Kagan age 11
Souphanouvong age 62
John Ashcroft age 29
John Gorton age 60
César Gaviria age 24
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 50
Mart Laar age 11
Péter Medgyessy age 29
Poul Schlüter age 42
Fouad Siniora age 28
Vlad Filat age 2
Ilie Bolojan age 2
James Michel age 27
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 17
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 45
Anutin Charnvirakul age 5
Mesut Yılmaz age 24