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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
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09

People

Phạm Minh Chính age 13
Marek Belka age 20
Mireya Moscoso age 26
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 37
Tanzan Ishibashi age 88
Michel Debré age 60
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 57
Margaret Chan age 25
Claude Auchinleck age 88
Christine Kangaloo age 10
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 30
Frederica of Hanover age 55
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 37
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 35
Ahmad Uyahya age 20
Antoni Martí age 9
Gaston Browne age 5
Leo Tindemans age 50
Tshering Tobgay age 7
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 65
Melchior Ndadaye age 19
Vladimír Špidla age 21
Antoine Gizenga age 47
Eugenia Charles age 53
Nicholas Liverpool age 38
Bharrat Jagdeo age 8
Mario Scelba age 71
Taneti Maamau age 12
Aigars Kalvītis age 6
Luc Frieden age 9
Didier Ratsiraka age 36
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih age 8
Abdelilah Benkirane age 18
Sushil Koirala age 33
Kåre Willoch age 44
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 13
Pascal Lissouba age 41
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 28
Nicolae Ciucă age 5
Adrian Năstase age 22
Michal Kováč age 42
Pascal Couchepin age 30
Wellington Koo age 84
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 11
James Marape age 1
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 12
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 120
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 85
Tetsu Katayama age 85
Avery Brundage age 85
Steven Mnuchin age 9
Sirhan Sirhan age 28
Biljana Plavšić age 42
Karl Rahner age 68
Paul Tibbets age 57
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 51
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 57
Prince Joachim of Denmark age 3
Janet Reno age 34
Pam Bondi age 7
Mohamed Boudiaf age 53
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 48
Arthur Fadden age 78
Quentin Bryce age 29
Salman bin Hamad, Crown Prince of Bahrain age 3
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 22
Nuon Chea age 46
Ange-Félix Patassé age 35
Glafcos Clerides age 53
Josefa Iloilo age 51
Esko Aho age 18
Luís Cabral age 41
Sam Hinds age 28
Janet Jagan age 52
Abdul Latif Rashid age 28
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 30
Giuseppe Pella age 70
Andrew Holness age 3 months
Joop den Uyl age 53
Behgjet Pacolli age 21
Bakili Muluzi age 29
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 12
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 30
António Ramalho Eanes age 37
António de Spínola age 62
Florin Cîțu age 7 months
Milan Milutinović age 29
France-Albert René age 37
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 40
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 19
Ruth Dreifuss age 32
Fradique de Menezes age 30
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 35
Samak Sundaravej age 37
George Maxwell Richards age 40
Yurii Yekhanurov age 24
Baldwin Lonsdale age 24
Võ Văn Thưởng age 1
Laurentino Cortizo age 19
Maurice Couve de Murville age 65
Pierre Bérégovoy age 46
Mark W. Clark age 76
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 26
Walter Hallstein age 71
Amber Rudd age 9
Margaret Beckett age 29
Paul Hausser age 92
Kiko, Crown Princess of Japan age 6
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 76
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 66
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 40
Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo age 8
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 39
Kathy Hochul age 14
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 18
Andranik Margaryan age 21
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 72
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 42
Jigme Thinley age 20
Rosen Zhelyazkov age 4
Pierre Buyoya age 22
Jorge Alessandri age 76
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 18
Ikililou Dhoinine age 10
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 46
Essam Sharaf age 20
Ahmed Nazif age 20
Antonio Saca age 7
José Mário Vaz age 14
David A. Granger age 27
András Baka age 19
Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani age 2
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 66
Patrick Hillery age 49
Bisher Al-Khasawneh age 3
Serik Akhmetov age 14
Tammam Salam age 27
Kazimira Prunskienė age 29
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 19
Guido de Marco age 41
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 81
Marian Lupu age 6
Myint Swe age 21
Pedro Santana Lopes age 16
Ludovic Orban age 9
Sergei Kirienko age 10
Ralph Gonsalves age 26
Danny Faure age 10
Ola Ullsten age 41
Moritz Leuenberger age 26
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 20
Oqil Oqilov age 28
Somchai Wongsawat age 25
Yamandú Orsi age 5
Peter O'Neill age 7
Borjana Krišto age 11
Félix Gouin age 88
Ante Marković age 48
James Cleverly age 3
James Earl Ray age 44
Bachir Gemayel age 25
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 27
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway age 1
David Paterson age 18
Özlem Türeci age 5
John Connally age 55
Merrick Garland age 20
Nandó dos Santos age 22
Baldwin Spencer age 24
Peter Cosgrove age 25
Tarique Rahman age 3
Freundel Stuart age 21
Syarhiey Sidorski age 18
Syarhei Rumas age 2
Nicéphore Soglo age 37
Eduardo Rodríguez age 16
Petar Mladenov age 36
Belisario Betancur age 49
Juhan Parts age 6
Sitiveni Rabuka age 24
Óscar Berger age 26
Kumba Ialá age 19
Kaysone Phomvihane age 51
Ivars Godmanis age 20
Amine Gemayel age 30
Joseph Boakai age 27
Christopher Loeak age 20
Mihai Ghimpu age 21
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 18
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 22
Salam Fayyad age 20
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 15
Wavel Ramkalawan age 11
Devan Nair age 49
Johan Ferrier age 62
Surayud Chulanont age 29
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 29
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 31
Guy Scott age 28
Martín Torrijos age 9