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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

Elizabeth II age 47
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 79
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Richard Nixon age 60
President - United States
Hirohito age 72
Emperor - Japan
Georges Pompidou age 61
President - France
Leonid Brezhnev age 66
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 85
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 81
President - Yugoslavia
Anwar Sadat age 54
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 80
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 53
Shah - Iran
Erich Honecker age 60
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 42
President - Syria
Baudouin of Belgium age 42
King - Belgium
Gustav Heinemann age 73
President - Germany
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 58
President - Iraq
Luis Echeverría age 51
President - Mexico
Lê Duẩn age 66
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Osvaldo Dorticós age 54
President - Cuba
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 67
President - Brazil
Dong Biwu age 87
Acting Chairman - People's Republic of China
Tôn Đức Thắng age 84
President of North Vietnam - Vietnam
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 54
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 61
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Pol Pot age 48
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Kurt Waldheim age 54
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 46
Prime Minister - Cuba
Indira Gandhi age 55
Prime Minister - India
Golda Meir age 75
Prime Minister - Israel
Willy Brandt age 59
Chancellor - Germany
Zhou Enlai age 75
Premier - People's Republic of China
Giulio Andreotti age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Edward Heath age 56
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Alexei Kosygin age 69
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Robert McNamara age 56
President - World Bank
Kakuei Tanaka age 55
Prime Minister - Japan
Chiang Ching-kuo age 63
Premier - Republic of China
Pierre Messmer age 57
Prime Minister - France
B. J. Vorster age 57
Prime Minister - South Africa
Souvanna Phouma age 71
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 67
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Liam Cosgrave age 53
Taoiseach - Ireland
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 58
President - International Olympic Committee
Joseph Luns age 61
Secretary General - NATO
François-Xavier Ortoli age 48
President - European Commission
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 63
Prime Minister - Poland
Kim Il age 63
Premier - North Korea
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 61
Director-General - World Health Organization
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 41
Prime Minister - Syria
Džemal Bijedić age 56
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Warren E. Burger age 65
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Saddam Hussein age 36
Vice President - Iraq
Spiro Agnew age 54
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 80
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Yen Chia-kan age 67
Vice President - Republic of China
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 44
Vice President - Iraq
Deng Xiaoping age 68
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Li Xiannian age 63
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 74
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 73
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 61
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
George Shultz age 52
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William P. Rogers age 59
Secretary of State - United States
Creighton Abrams age 58
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Elliot Richardson age 52
Secretary of Defense - United States
Robert Carr age 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Anthony Barber age 52
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 57
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Thurgood Marshall age 64
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 48
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 67
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 65
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Davies age 57
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Jeremy Thorpe age 44
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 55
President - African National Congress
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 40
President - Sinn Féin
Robert Bork age 46
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
John Paul Stevens age 53
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 30
Senate - United States
Walter Mondale age 45
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 61
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 48
Senate - United States
Edmund Muskie age 59
Senate - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 52
Senate - United States
William B. Saxbe age 56
Senate - United States
Margaret Thatcher age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 59
House of Representatives - United States
James Callaghan age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roy Jenkins age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Geoffrey Howe age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Cohen age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Kenneth Clarke age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Denis Healey age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Les Aspin age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Norman Lamont age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Reginald Maudling age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Waddington age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Merlyn Rees age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Neil Kinnock age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Smith age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Steel age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Reagan age 62
Governor of California - United States
Jimmy Carter age 48
Governor of Georgia - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 64
Governor of New York - United States
Dale Bumpers age 47
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Otis Bowen age 55
Governor of Indiana - United States
Marvin Mandel age 53
Governor of Maryland - United States
Winfield Dunn age 45
Governor of Tennessee - United States
John J. Gilligan age 52
Governor of Ohio - United States
Dolph Briscoe age 50
Governor of Texas - United States
Francis Sargent age 57
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William T. Cahill age 60
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 45
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 55
President - Philippines
Francisco Franco age 80
Caudillo - Spain
Paul VI age 75
Pope - Vatican City
Salvador Allende age 64
President - Chile
Suharto age 51
President - Indonesia
Idi Amin age 48
President - Uganda
Margrethe II of Denmark age 33
Queen - Denmark
Park Chung-hee age 55
President - South Korea
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 45
President - Pakistan
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 32
Sultan - Oman
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 66
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 42
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 79
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 51
President - Tanzania
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 52
President - Central African Republic
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 67
King - Saudi Arabia
Hussein I of Jordan age 37
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 69
President - Tunisia
Hastings Banda age 83
President - Malawi
Omar Bongo age 37
President - Gabon
Urho Kekkonen age 72
President - Finland
Éamon de Valera age 90
President - Ireland
Hassan II age 43
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 49
President - Zambia
Olav V of Norway age 69
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 60
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 51
President - Guinea
Juliana of the Netherlands age 64
Queen - Netherlands
Fahri Korutürk age 69
President - Turkey
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 90
King - Sweden
V. V. Giri age 78
President - India
Giovanni Leone age 64
President - Italy
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 67
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 49
Prince - Monaco
Houari Boumédiène age 40
President - Algeria
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 17
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 53
President - Somalia
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 55
President - United Arab Emirates
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 49
President - Equatorial Guinea
Seretse Khama age 51
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 48
President - Cameroon
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 37
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 21
President - Haiti
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 52
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Franz Jonas age 73
President - Austria
Sobhuza II age 73
King - Eswatini
Moussa Traoré age 36
President - Mali
Rafael Caldera age 57
President - Venezuela
Zalman Shazar age 83
President - Israel
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 49
President - The Gambia
François Tombalbaye age 54
President - Chad
Kristján Eldjárn age 56
President - Iceland
Yakubu Gowon age 38
President - Nigeria
José Figueres Ferrer age 66
President - Costa Rica
Diori Hamani age 56
President - Niger
William Richard Tolbert age 60
President - Liberia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 54
King - Tonga
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 62
President - Peru
Gaafar Nimeiry age 42
President - Sudan
Hugo Banzer age 47
President - Bolivia
Joaquín Balaguer age 66
President - Dominican Republic
Juan María Bordaberry age 44
President - Uruguay
Moktar Ould Daddah age 48
President - Mauritania
Michel Micombero age 32
President - Burundi
Marien Ngouabi age 34
President - Republic of the Congo
Isa II of Bahrain age 39
Emir - Bahrain
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 40
Emir - Qatar
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 54
President - Argentina
Arthur Chung age 55
President - Guyana
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 57
President - Burkina Faso
Américo Tomás age 78
President - Portugal
Siaka Stevens age 67
President - Sierra Leone
Benjamin Sheares age 65
President - Singapore
Haxhi Lleshi age 59
President - Albania
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 41
President - Ghana
Oswaldo López Arellano age 51
President - Honduras
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 35
King - Lesotho
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 67
President - Madagascar