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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
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

People

Tanzan Ishibashi age 87
Michel Debré age 60
Margaret Chan age 24
Claude Auchinleck age 87
Christine Kangaloo age 10
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 30
Frederica of Hanover age 54
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 36
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 35
Ahmad Uyahya age 19
Antoni Martí age 8
Gaston Browne age 4
Leo Tindemans age 49
Tshering Tobgay age 6
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 64
Melchior Ndadaye age 19
Vladimír Špidla age 20
Antoine Gizenga age 46
Eugenia Charles age 52
Nicholas Liverpool age 37
Bharrat Jagdeo age 8
Mario Scelba age 70
Anker Jørgensen age 49
Taneti Maamau age 11
Aigars Kalvītis age 5
Luc Frieden age 8
Didier Ratsiraka age 35
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih age 7
Abdelilah Benkirane age 17
Sushil Koirala age 32
Kåre Willoch age 43
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 13
Pascal Lissouba age 40
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 28
Nicolae Ciucă age 4
Adrian Năstase age 21
Michal Kováč age 41
Pascal Couchepin age 29
Wellington Koo age 84
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 10
James Marape age 9 months
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 12
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 119
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 84
Tetsu Katayama age 84
Pierre Messmer age 55
Steven Mnuchin age 9
Sirhan Sirhan age 27
Biljana Plavšić age 41
Karl Rahner age 67
Paul Tibbets age 56
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 50
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 56
Prince Joachim of Denmark age 2
Janet Reno age 33
Pam Bondi age 6
Mohamed Boudiaf age 52
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 47
Arthur Fadden age 77
Quentin Bryce age 29
Salman bin Hamad, Crown Prince of Bahrain age 2
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 21
Nuon Chea age 45
Ange-Félix Patassé age 35
Glafcos Clerides age 52
Josefa Iloilo age 51
Esko Aho age 17
Luís Cabral age 40
Sam Hinds age 28
Janet Jagan age 51
Abdul Latif Rashid age 27
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 30
Giuseppe Pella age 69
Joop den Uyl age 52
Behgjet Pacolli age 20
Bakili Muluzi age 28
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 12
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 29
António Ramalho Eanes age 37
António de Spínola age 61
Milan Milutinović age 29
France-Albert René age 36
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 39
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 18
Ruth Dreifuss age 32
Fradique de Menezes age 29
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 34
Samak Sundaravej age 36
George Maxwell Richards age 40
Yurii Yekhanurov age 23
Juan María Bordaberry age 43
Baldwin Lonsdale age 23
Võ Văn Thưởng age 1
Laurentino Cortizo age 19
Maurice Couve de Murville age 65
Pierre Bérégovoy age 46
Mark W. Clark age 75
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 25
Walter Hallstein age 70
Amber Rudd age 8
Margaret Beckett age 29
Paul Hausser age 91
Kiko, Crown Princess of Japan age 5
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 75
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 65
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 39
Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo age 8
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 38
Kathy Hochul age 13
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 17
Andranik Margaryan age 20
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 71
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 42
Jigme Thinley age 19
Rosen Zhelyazkov age 3
Pierre Buyoya age 22
Jorge Alessandri age 75
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 17
Ikililou Dhoinine age 9
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 45
Essam Sharaf age 20
Ahmed Nazif age 19
Antonio Saca age 6
José Mário Vaz age 14
David A. Granger age 26
András Baka age 19
Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani age 1
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 66
Patrick Hillery age 48
Bisher Al-Khasawneh age 2
Serik Akhmetov age 13
Tammam Salam age 26
Kazimira Prunskienė age 28
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 19
Guido de Marco age 40
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 81
Marian Lupu age 5
Myint Swe age 20
Pedro Santana Lopes age 15
Ludovic Orban age 8
Sergei Kirienko age 9
Ralph Gonsalves age 25
Danny Faure age 9
Ola Ullsten age 40
Moritz Leuenberger age 25
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 19
Oqil Oqilov age 28
Somchai Wongsawat age 24
Yamandú Orsi age 4
Peter O'Neill age 6
Borjana Krišto age 10
Félix Gouin age 87
Ante Marković age 47
James Cleverly age 2
James Earl Ray age 43
Bachir Gemayel age 24
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 26
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway age 4 months
David Paterson age 17
Özlem Türeci age 4
Merrick Garland age 19
Nandó dos Santos age 21
Baldwin Spencer age 23
Peter Cosgrove age 24
Tarique Rahman age 3
Freundel Stuart age 20
Syarhiey Sidorski age 17
Syarhei Rumas age 2
Nicéphore Soglo age 37
Eduardo Rodríguez age 15
Petar Mladenov age 35
Belisario Betancur age 49
Juhan Parts age 5
Sitiveni Rabuka age 23
Kalevi Sorsa age 41
Óscar Berger age 25
Kumba Ialá age 18
Kaysone Phomvihane age 51
Ivars Godmanis age 20
Amine Gemayel age 30
Joseph Boakai age 27
Christopher Loeak age 19
Mihai Ghimpu age 20
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 17
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 61
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 21
Salam Fayyad age 19
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 14
Wavel Ramkalawan age 10
Devan Nair age 48
Johan Ferrier age 61
Surayud Chulanont age 28
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 28
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 30
Guy Scott age 27
Martín Torrijos age 8
Valentín Paniagua age 35
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 65
Ye Jianying age 74
Robert Zoellick age 18