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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

Frederica of Hanover age 53
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 34
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 33
Ahmad Uyahya age 18
Antoni Martí age 7
Gaston Browne age 3
Leo Tindemans age 48
Tshering Tobgay age 4
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 62
Melchior Ndadaye age 17
Vladimír Špidla age 19
Antoine Gizenga age 44
Eugenia Charles age 51
Nicholas Liverpool age 35
Bharrat Jagdeo age 6
Mario Scelba age 69
Anker Jørgensen age 48
Taneti Maamau age 9
Aigars Kalvītis age 4
William Richard Tolbert age 57
Luc Frieden age 6
Didier Ratsiraka age 33
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih age 6
Abdelilah Benkirane age 16
Sushil Koirala age 31
Kåre Willoch age 41
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 11
Pascal Lissouba age 38
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 26
Nicolae Ciucă age 3
Adrian Năstase age 20
Michal Kováč age 40
Pascal Couchepin age 28
Wellington Koo age 82
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 9
Carlos P. Garcia age 73
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 10
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 117
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 82
Tetsu Katayama age 83
Pierre Messmer age 54
Steven Mnuchin age 7
Sirhan Sirhan age 26
Biljana Plavšić age 40
Karl Rahner age 66
Paul Tibbets age 55
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 49
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 55
Prince Joachim of Denmark age 1
Janet Reno age 32
Pam Bondi age 4
Mohamed Boudiaf age 51
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 45
Arthur Fadden age 76
Quentin Bryce age 27
Salman bin Hamad, Crown Prince of Bahrain age 10 months
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 20
Hugo Banzer age 44
Nuon Chea age 44
Ange-Félix Patassé age 33
Glafcos Clerides age 51
Josefa Iloilo age 49
Esko Aho age 16
Luís Cabral age 39
Sam Hinds age 26
Janet Jagan age 49
Abdul Latif Rashid age 26
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 28
Giuseppe Pella age 68
Joop den Uyl age 51
Behgjet Pacolli age 18
Bakili Muluzi age 27
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 10
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 28
António Ramalho Eanes age 35
António de Spínola age 60
Milan Milutinović age 27
France-Albert René age 34
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 38
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 16
Ruth Dreifuss age 30
Fradique de Menezes age 28
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 33
Samak Sundaravej age 35
George Maxwell Richards age 38
Yurii Yekhanurov age 22
Juan María Bordaberry age 42
Baldwin Lonsdale age 22
Laurentino Cortizo age 17
Maurice Couve de Murville age 63
Pierre Bérégovoy age 44
Mark W. Clark age 74
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 24
Walter Hallstein age 68
Amber Rudd age 7
Margaret Beckett age 27
Paul Hausser age 89
Kiko, Crown Princess of Japan age 3
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 74
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 64
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 38
Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo age 6
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 37
Kathy Hochul age 11
William Rehnquist age 45
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 16
Andranik Margaryan age 19
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 70
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 40
Jigme Thinley age 17
Rosen Zhelyazkov age 2
Pierre Buyoya age 20
Jorge Alessandri age 74
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 16
Ikililou Dhoinine age 8
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 44
Essam Sharaf age 18
Ahmed Nazif age 18
Antonio Saca age 5
José Mário Vaz age 12
David A. Granger age 25
András Baka age 17
Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani age 5 months
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 64
Patrick Hillery age 47
Bisher Al-Khasawneh age 1
Serik Akhmetov age 12
Tammam Salam age 25
Kazimira Prunskienė age 27
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 17
Dom Mintoff age 54
Guido de Marco age 39
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 79
Marian Lupu age 4
Myint Swe age 19
Pedro Santana Lopes age 14
Ludovic Orban age 7
Sergei Kirienko age 8
Ralph Gonsalves age 24
Danny Faure age 8
Ola Ullsten age 39
Moritz Leuenberger age 23
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 18
Oqil Oqilov age 26
Somchai Wongsawat age 22
Yamandú Orsi age 3
Peter O'Neill age 5
Borjana Krišto age 9
Félix Gouin age 85
Ante Marković age 45
James Cleverly age 11 months
James Earl Ray age 42
Bachir Gemayel age 22
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 25
David Paterson age 16
Özlem Türeci age 3
John Connally age 53
Merrick Garland age 17
Nandó dos Santos age 20
Baldwin Spencer age 21
Peter Cosgrove age 23
Tarique Rahman age 1
Freundel Stuart age 19
Syarhiey Sidorski age 16
Syarhei Rumas age 8 months
Nicéphore Soglo age 35
Eduardo Rodríguez age 14
Petar Mladenov age 34
Belisario Betancur age 47
Juhan Parts age 3
Sitiveni Rabuka age 21
Kalevi Sorsa age 39
Óscar Berger age 24
Kumba Ialá age 17
Kaysone Phomvihane age 49
Ivars Godmanis age 18
Amine Gemayel age 28
Joseph Boakai age 25
Christopher Loeak age 17
Mihai Ghimpu age 18
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 15
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 60
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 20
Salam Fayyad age 18
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 13
Wavel Ramkalawan age 9
Devan Nair age 47
Johan Ferrier age 60
Surayud Chulanont age 26
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 27
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 29
Guy Scott age 26
Martín Torrijos age 7
Valentín Paniagua age 33
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 63
Ye Jianying age 73
Robert Zoellick age 17
Jack Straw age 24
Mark Esper age 6
Gotthard Heinrici age 83