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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
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
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

People

Elizabeth II age 43
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 76
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Richard Nixon age 57
President - United States
Hirohito age 68
Emperor - Japan
Georges Pompidou age 58
President - France
Leonid Brezhnev age 63
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 82
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 77
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 51
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 77
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 50
Shah - Iran
Walter Ulbricht age 76
First Secretary - East Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 39
Monarch - Belgium
Gustav Heinemann age 70
President - Germany
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 55
President - Iraq
Lê Duẩn age 62
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 58
President - Mexico
Osvaldo Dorticós age 50
President - Cuba
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 64
President - Brazil
Tôn Đức Thắng age 81
President of North Vietnam - Vietnam
Nureddin al-Atassi age 41
President - Syria
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 54
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 57
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Pol Pot age 44
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea - Cambodia
U Thant age 60
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 43
Prime Minister - Cuba
Indira Gandhi age 52
Prime Minister - India
Golda Meir age 71
Prime Minister - Israel
Willy Brandt age 56
Chancellor - Germany
Zhou Enlai age 71
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Wilson age 53
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Eisaku Satō age 68
Prime Minister - Japan
Alexei Kosygin age 65
Chairman - Soviet Union
Robert McNamara age 53
President - World Bank
Mariano Rumor age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 54
Prime Minister - France
Avery Brundage age 82
President - International Olympic Committee
B. J. Vorster age 54
Prime Minister - South Africa
Souvanna Phouma age 68
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 63
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 58
Prime Minister - Poland
Jean Rey age 67
President - European Commission
Yen Chia-kan age 64
Premier - Republic of China
Jack Lynch age 52
Taoiseach - Ireland
Manlio Brosio age 72
Secretary General - NATO
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 58
Director-General - World Health Organization
Warren E. Burger age 62
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Saddam Hussein age 32
Vice President - Iraq
Spiro Agnew age 51
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 76
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 83
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Earle Wheeler age 62
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
James Callaghan age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Westmoreland age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Roy Jenkins age 49
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William P. Rogers age 56
Secretary Of State - United States
Melvin Laird age 47
Secretary Of Defense - United States
John N. Mitchell age 56
Attorney General - United States
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 64
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 75
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Edward Heath age 53
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Thurgood Marshall age 61
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 63
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 54
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 52
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 70
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Walter Mondale age 42
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 45
Senate - United States
Margaret Thatcher age 44
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
George H. W. Bush age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Gerald Ford age 56
House of Representatives - United States
Ronald Reagan age 58
Governor of California - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 61
Governor of New York - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 42
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 52
President - Philippines
Francisco Franco age 77
Caudillo - Spain
Paul VI age 72
Pope - Vatican City
Suharto age 48
President - Indonesia
Park Chung-hee age 52
President - South Korea
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 63
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 39
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 76
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 47
President - Tanzania
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 48
President - Central African Republic
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 64
- Saudi Arabia
Hussein I of Jordan age 34
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 66
President - Tunisia
Hastings Banda age 80
President - Malawi
Urho Kekkonen age 69
President - Finland
Éamon de Valera age 87
President - Ireland
Hassan II age 40
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 45
President - Zambia
Olav V of Norway age 66
Monarch - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 57
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 48
President - Guinea
Juliana of the Netherlands age 60
King - Netherlands
Milton Obote age 44
President - Uganda
Frederik IX of Denmark age 70
Monarch - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 87
Monarch - Sweden
V. V. Giri age 75
President - India
Yahya Khan age 52
President - Pakistan
Cevdet Sunay age 70
President - Turkey
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 64
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 46
Prince - Monaco
Houari Boumédiène age 37
President - Algeria
François Duvalier age 62
President - Haiti
Siad Barre age 50
President - Somalia
Makarios III age 56
President - Cyprus
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 46
President - Equatorial Guinea
Giuseppe Saragat age 71
President - Italy
Seretse Khama age 48
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 45
President - Cameroon
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 34
President - Togo
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 44
President - Nicaragua
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 40
King - Bhutan
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 49
Monarch - Luxembourg
Franz Jonas age 70
President - Austria
Sobhuza II age 70
King - Eswatini
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 58
President - Chile
Moussa Traoré age 33
President - Mali
Rafael Caldera age 53
President - Venezuela
Zalman Shazar age 80
President - Israel
Philibert Tsiranana age 57
President - Madagascar
François Tombalbaye age 51
President - Chad
Kristján Eldjárn age 53
President - Iceland
Yakubu Gowon age 35
President - Nigeria
Diori Hamani age 53
President - Niger
William Tubman age 74
President - Liberia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 51
Monarch - Tonga
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 59
President - Peru
Gaafar Nimeiry age 39
President - Sudan
Joaquín Balaguer age 63
President - Dominican Republic
Yusof bin Ishak age 59
President - Singapore
Moktar Ould Daddah age 45
President - Mauritania
Michel Micombero age 29
President - Burundi
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 59
Sultan - Oman
Marien Ngouabi age 31
President - Republic of the Congo
Isa II of Bahrain age 36
Monarch - Bahrain
Juan Carlos Onganía age 55
President - Argentina
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 53
President - Burkina Faso
Américo Tomás age 75
President - Portugal
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 49
President - Uruguay
Haxhi Lleshi age 56
President - Albania
Oswaldo López Arellano age 48
President - Honduras
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 31
King - Lesotho
Grégoire Kayibanda age 45
President - Rwanda
Hammer DeRoburt age 47
President - Nauru
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 51
President - Bolivia
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 61
President - Colombia
Akwasi Afrifa age 33
President - Ghana
Ibrahim Nasir age 43
President - Maldives
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 52
President - El Salvador
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 50
Emir - Qatar
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 56
Emir - Kuwait
Charles Helou age 56
President - Lebanon
Ludwig von Moos age 59
President - Switzerland
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 74
President - Mongolia
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 53
President - Costa Rica
Giancarlo Ghironzi age 38
Captain Regent - San Marino
Alvaro Casali age 74
Captain Regent - San Marino
Jim Fouché age 71
State President - South Africa
Kuan Yew Lee age 46
Prime Minister - Singapore
Olof Palme age 42
Prime Minister - Sweden
Süleyman Demirel age 45
Prime Minister - Turkey
Pierre Trudeau age 50
Prime Minister - Canada
Mauno Koivisto age 46
Prime Minister - Finland
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 66
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Georgios Papadopoulos age 50
Prime Minister - Greece
Lon Nol age 56
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Marcelo Caetano age 63
Prime Minister - Portugal
Piet de Jong age 54
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 45
Prime Minister - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 43
Prime Minister - Kuwait
John Gorton age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 53
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Mehmet Shehu age 57
Prime Minister - Albania
Bjarni Benediktsson age 61
Prime Minister - Iceland
Thanom Kittikachorn age 58
Prime Minister - Thailand
Gaston Eyskens age 64
Prime Minister - Belgium
Pierre Werner age 56
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 67
Prime Minister - Romania
Per Borten age 56
Prime Minister - Norway
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 69
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Chung Il-kwon age 52
Prime Minister - South Korea
Forbes Burnham age 46
Prime Minister - Guyana
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 56
Prime Minister - Ghana
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 49
Prime Minister - Denmark
Josef Klaus age 59
Chancellor - Austria
Jenő Fock age 53
Prime Minister - Hungary
Eric Williams age 58
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Rashid Karami age 48
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Keith Holyoake age 65
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Dudley Senanayake age 58
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Ahmed Laraki age 38
Prime Minister - Morocco
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 42
Prime Minister - Nepal
Errol Barrow age 49
Prime Minister - Barbados
Hugh Shearer age 46
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Eric Gairy age 47
Prime Minister - Grenada
George Borg Olivier age 58
Prime Minister - Malta
Bahi Ladgham age 57
Prime Minister - Tunisia