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

People

Thorbjörn Fälldin age 47
Anutin Charnvirakul age 6
Mesut Yılmaz age 25
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 45
Julio María Sanguinetti age 37
Iolu Abil age 31
Phạm Minh Chính age 14
Marek Belka age 21
Mireya Moscoso age 27
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 38
Michel Debré age 61
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 58
Margaret Chan age 26
Claude Auchinleck age 89
Christine Kangaloo age 11
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 31
Frederica of Hanover age 56
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 37
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 36
Ahmad Uyahya age 21
Antoni Martí age 10
Gaston Browne age 6
Leo Tindemans age 51
Tshering Tobgay age 7
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 65
Melchior Ndadaye age 20
Vladimír Špidla age 22
Antoine Gizenga age 47
Eugenia Charles age 54
Nicholas Liverpool age 38
Bharrat Jagdeo age 9
Mario Scelba age 72
Taneti Maamau age 12
Aigars Kalvītis age 7
Luc Frieden age 9
Didier Ratsiraka age 36
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih age 9
Abdelilah Benkirane age 19
Sushil Koirala age 34
Kåre Willoch age 44
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 14
Pascal Lissouba age 41
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 29
Nicolae Ciucă age 6
Adrian Năstase age 23
Michal Kováč age 43
Pascal Couchepin age 31
Wellington Koo age 85
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 12
James Marape age 2
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 13
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 120
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 85
Tetsu Katayama age 86
Avery Brundage age 85
Steven Mnuchin age 10
Sirhan Sirhan age 29
Biljana Plavšić age 43
Karl Rahner age 69
Paul Tibbets age 58
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 52
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 58
Prince Joachim of Denmark age 4
Janet Reno age 35
Pam Bondi age 7
Mohamed Boudiaf age 54
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 48
Quentin Bryce age 30
Salman bin Hamad, Crown Prince of Bahrain age 3
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 23
Nuon Chea age 47
Ange-Félix Patassé age 36
Glafcos Clerides age 54
Josefa Iloilo age 52
Esko Aho age 19
Luís Cabral age 42
Sam Hinds age 29
Janet Jagan age 52
Abdul Latif Rashid age 29
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 31
Giuseppe Pella age 71
Andrew Holness age 1
Behgjet Pacolli age 21
Bakili Muluzi age 30
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 13
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 31
António Ramalho Eanes age 38
António de Spínola age 63
Florin Cîțu age 1
Milan Milutinović age 30
France-Albert René age 37
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 41
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 19
Ruth Dreifuss age 33
Fradique de Menezes age 31
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 36
Samak Sundaravej age 38
George Maxwell Richards age 41
Yurii Yekhanurov age 25
Baldwin Lonsdale age 25
Võ Văn Thưởng age 2
Laurentino Cortizo age 20
Maurice Couve de Murville age 66
Pierre Bérégovoy age 47
Mark W. Clark age 77
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 27
Walter Hallstein age 71
Amber Rudd age 10
Margaret Beckett age 30
Kiko, Crown Princess of Japan age 6
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 77
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 67
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 41
Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo age 9
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 40
Kathy Hochul age 14
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 19
Andranik Margaryan age 22
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 73
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 43
Jigme Thinley age 20
Rosen Zhelyazkov age 5
Pierre Buyoya age 23
Jorge Alessandri age 77
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 19
Ikililou Dhoinine age 11
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 47
Essam Sharaf age 21
Ahmed Nazif age 21
Antonio Saca age 8
José Mário Vaz age 15
David A. Granger age 28
András Baka age 20
Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani age 3
Patrick Hillery age 50
Bisher Al-Khasawneh age 4
Serik Akhmetov age 15
Älihan Smaiylov age 8 months
Tammam Salam age 28
Kazimira Prunskienė age 30
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 20
Guido de Marco age 42
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 82
Marian Lupu age 7
Myint Swe age 22
Pedro Santana Lopes age 17
Ludovic Orban age 10
Sergei Kirienko age 11
Ralph Gonsalves age 27
Danny Faure age 11
Ola Ullsten age 42
Moritz Leuenberger age 26
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 21
Oqil Oqilov age 29
Somchai Wongsawat age 25
Yamandú Orsi age 6
Peter O'Neill age 8
Borjana Krišto age 12
Félix Gouin age 88
Ante Marković age 48
James Cleverly age 3
James Earl Ray age 45
Bachir Gemayel age 25
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 28
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway age 1
David Paterson age 19
Özlem Türeci age 6
John Connally age 56
Merrick Garland age 20
Nandó dos Santos age 23
Baldwin Spencer age 24
Peter Cosgrove age 26
Tarique Rahman age 4
Freundel Stuart age 22
Syarhiey Sidorski age 19
Syarhei Rumas age 3
Nicéphore Soglo age 38
Eduardo Rodríguez age 17
Petar Mladenov age 37
Belisario Betancur age 50
Juhan Parts age 6
Sitiveni Rabuka age 24
Óscar Berger age 27
Kumba Ialá age 20
Kaysone Phomvihane age 52
Ivars Godmanis age 21
Amine Gemayel age 31
Joseph Boakai age 28
Christopher Loeak age 20
Mihai Ghimpu age 21
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 18
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 23
Salam Fayyad age 21
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 16
Wavel Ramkalawan age 12
Devan Nair age 50
Johan Ferrier age 63
Surayud Chulanont age 30
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 30
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 32