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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
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
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28

People

Marcelo Caetano age 69
Mikhail Kasianov age 18
Miro Cerar age 12
Alain Berset age 4
Srettha Thavisin age 14
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 24
Trần Đức Lương age 39
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 67
Željka Cvijanović age 9
Zenkō Suzuki age 65
Leon Panetta age 37
Philip Hammond age 20
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan age 10
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 19
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh age 11
Mario Cuomo age 43
Timothy McVeigh age 8
Liz Cheney age 9
George Wallace age 56
Fatos Nano age 23
Carlos Mesa age 22
Petar Stoyanov age 23
Sergey Stanishev age 10
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 7
Patricio Aylwin age 57
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 59
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 21
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 57
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 16
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 28
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 28
Davíð Oddsson age 28
Giovanni Spadolini age 50
Arnaldo Forlani age 50
Raila A Odinga age 31
Anote Tong age 23
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 35
Anerood Jugnauth age 46
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 65
Zinaida Greceanîi age 20
Aziz Akhannouch age 14
Armando Guebuza age 33
Einar Gerhardsen age 79
Farooq Leghari age 35
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 24
Emil Constantinescu age 36
Eduard Heger age 0 months
Tage Erlander age 74
Evaristo Carvalho age 34
Abdulla Aripov age 14
Rómulo Betancourt age 68
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 50
Masayoshi Ōhira age 66
Sōsuke Uno age 53
Pierre Mendès France age 69
Jeremy Hunt age 9
Michael Gove age 8
Gennady Yanayev age 38
Chadli Bendjedid age 47
Franz Vranitzky age 38
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 35
Wilfried Martens age 40
Dean Barrow age 25
Pedro Pires age 42
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 65
Roosevelt Skerrit age 3
Sherif Ismail age 20
Geir Haarde age 25
Giovanni Goria age 32
Asqar Mamin age 10
Rolandas Paksas age 19
Algirdas Butkevičius age 17
Gediminas Kirkilas age 24
Muhyiddin Yassin age 29
Eddie Fenech Adami age 42
U Nu age 69
Ibrahim Babangida age 34
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 46
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 46
Dacian Cioloș age 6
Julius Maada Bio age 11
Vladimír Mečiar age 33
Ronald Venetiaan age 39
Karin Keller-Sutter age 12
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 20
Rafael Caldera age 60
Hanna Suchocka age 30
Federico Franco age 13
Fernando Belaúnde age 63
Abdalla Hamdok age 20
William Westmoreland age 62
Georges Bidault age 76
George Osborne age 4
William Hague age 15
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 26
Marcel Lefebvre age 70
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 29
Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland age 2
Craig Venter age 29
Francis Collins age 26
Yang Shangkun age 68
Stephen Breyer age 37
Christian Stocker age 16
Hubert Maga age 59
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 54
Sylvie Kinigi age 23
Jioji Konrote age 28
Paavo Lipponen age 35
Rose Christiane Raponda age 12
Mikheil Kavelashvili age 4
Alejandro Giammattei age 20
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 17
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 29
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 8
Piet de Jong age 61
Ramush Haradinaj age 7
Guntis Ulmanis age 36
Hassan Diab age 16
Philibert Tsiranana age 63
Lawrence Gonzi age 22
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 19
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 75
Mircea Snegur age 36
Dorin Recean age 2
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 17
Christopher Luxon age 5
Shaukat Aziz age 27
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 20
Marcel Ciolacu age 8
Andrei Belousov age 17
Sergei Stepashin age 24
Guy Parmelin age 16
Paula-Mae Weekes age 17
Najla Bouden age 17
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 16
Nicanor Duarte age 19
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) age 6
Nikolai Tikhonov age 71
Jânio Quadros age 59
Ash Carter age 21
Sajid Javid age 6
Michel Aflaq age 66
Marsha P. Johnson age 30
Karl von Habsburg age 15
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 62
Mohammad Mokhber age 20
Michael Dukakis age 42
Dobrica Ćosić age 54
Ronald McNair age 25
Lawrence Eagleburger age 45
Dean Rusk age 67
Cyrus Vance age 59
Arturo Umberto Illia age 75
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 28
Arturo Frondizi age 67
William McMahon age 68
Lotay Tshering age 7
Joe Clark age 36
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 33
Luis Abinader age 8
Harri Holkeri age 39
Zurab Zhvania age 12
Efraín Ríos Montt age 49
László Kövér age 16
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 63
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 70
Yigal Allon age 57
Henri Konan Bédié age 42
Māris Kučinskis age 14
Saulius Skvernelis age 5
Duško Marković age 17
Saadeddine Othmani age 20
Htin Kyaw age 29
Marcus Stephen age 6
Yakubu Gowon age 41
Shehu Shagari age 51
António José Seguro age 14
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 31
Mirko Cvetković age 25
Rudolf Schuster age 42
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 33
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 51
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 56
Mario Abdo Benítez age 4
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 11
Fuad II of Egypt age 24
Chuck Hagel age 29
Milka Planinc age 51
Günter Schabowski age 47
Wesley Clark age 31
Kurt Student age 86
Infanta Cristina of Spain age 10
John Kasich age 24
Peter Mandelson age 22
Chris Christie age 13
Elena Kagan age 16
John Ashcroft age 34
John Gorton age 64
César Gaviria age 29
José Figueres Ferrer age 69