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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 48
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 80
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Richard Nixon age 61
President - United States
Hirohito age 73
Emperor - Japan
Leonid Brezhnev age 67
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 86
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 82
President - Yugoslavia
Anwar Sadat age 55
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 81
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 54
Shah - Iran
Erich Honecker age 61
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 43
President - Syria
Baudouin of Belgium age 43
King - Belgium
Gustav Heinemann age 74
President - Germany
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 59
President - Iraq
Alain Poher age 65
President - France
Luis Echeverría age 52
President - Mexico
Ernesto Geisel age 66
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 67
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Osvaldo Dorticós age 55
President - Cuba
Dong Biwu age 88
Acting Chairman - People's Republic of China
Tôn Đức Thắng age 85
President of North Vietnam - Vietnam
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 55
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 62
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Pol Pot age 49
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Kurt Waldheim age 55
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 47
Prime Minister - Cuba
Indira Gandhi age 56
Prime Minister - India
Golda Meir age 76
Prime Minister - Israel
Willy Brandt age 60
Chancellor - Germany
Zhou Enlai age 76
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Wilson age 58
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Walter Scheel age 54
Chancellor - Germany
Alexei Kosygin age 70
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Robert McNamara age 57
President - World Bank
Kakuei Tanaka age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Chiang Ching-kuo age 64
Premier - Republic of China
Mariano Rumor age 58
Prime Minister - Italy
Pierre Messmer age 58
Prime Minister - France
B. J. Vorster age 58
Prime Minister - South Africa
Souvanna Phouma age 72
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 68
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Liam Cosgrave age 54
Taoiseach - Ireland
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 59
President - International Olympic Committee
Joseph Luns age 62
Secretary General - NATO
François-Xavier Ortoli age 49
President - European Commission
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 64
Prime Minister - Poland
Kim Il age 64
Premier - North Korea
Halfdan T. Mahler age 51
Director-General - World Health Organization
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 42
Prime Minister - Syria
Warren E. Burger age 66
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Gerald Ford age 60
Vice President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 37
Vice President - Iraq
Soong Ching-ling age 81
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Yen Chia-kan age 68
Vice President - Republic of China
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 45
Vice President - Iraq
Deng Xiaoping age 69
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Li Xiannian age 64
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 75
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 74
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 62
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Henry Kissinger age 50
Secretary of State - United States
George Shultz age 53
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Roy Jenkins age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
James R. Schlesinger age 45
Secretary of Defense - United States
Creighton Abrams age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Denis Healey age 56
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William B. Saxbe age 57
Attorney General - United States
Clarence M. Kelley age 62
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Edward Heath age 57
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Thurgood Marshall age 65
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 49
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 68
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 59
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 66
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester age 60
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Jeremy Thorpe age 45
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 56
President - African National Congress
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 41
President - Sinn Féin
Robert Bork age 47
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
John Paul Stevens age 54
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 31
Senate - United States
Walter Mondale age 46
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 62
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 49
Senate - United States
Edmund Muskie age 60
Senate - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 53
Senate - United States
Margaret Thatcher age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Geoffrey Howe age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Cohen age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Nigel Lawson age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Les Aspin age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Douglas Hurd age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leon Brittan age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Norman Lamont age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Reginald Maudling age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Waddington age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 56
House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Robert Carr age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Barber age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Merlyn Rees age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Neil Kinnock age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Smith age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Steel age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Reagan age 63
Governor of California - United States
Jimmy Carter age 49
Governor of Georgia - United States
Dale Bumpers age 48
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Otis Bowen age 56
Governor of Indiana - United States
Brendan Byrne age 50
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Marvin Mandel age 54
Governor of Maryland - United States
Winfield Dunn age 46
Governor of Tennessee - United States
John J. Gilligan age 53
Governor of Ohio - United States
Malcolm Wilson age 60
Governor of New York - United States
Dolph Briscoe age 51
Governor of Texas - United States
Mills Godwin age 59
Governor of Virginia - United States
Francis Sargent age 58
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 46
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 56
President - Philippines
Francisco Franco age 81
Caudillo - Spain
Paul VI age 76
Pope - Vatican City
Augusto Pinochet age 58
President of the Government Junta - Chile
Suharto age 52
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 56
President - Romania
Idi Amin age 49
President - Uganda
Margrethe II of Denmark age 34
Queen - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 28
King - Sweden
Park Chung-hee age 56
President - South Korea
Juan Perón age 78
President - Argentina
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 33
Sultan - Oman
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 67
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 43
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 80
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 52
President - Tanzania
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 53
President - Central African Republic
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 68
King - Saudi Arabia
Hussein I of Jordan age 38
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 70
President - Tunisia
Hastings Banda age 84
President - Malawi
Omar Bongo age 38
President - Gabon
Urho Kekkonen age 73
President - Finland
Hassan II age 44
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 50
President - Zambia
Olav V of Norway age 70
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 61
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 52
President - Guinea
Juliana of the Netherlands age 65
Queen - Netherlands
Fahri Korutürk age 70
President - Turkey
V. V. Giri age 79
President - India
Giovanni Leone age 65
President - Italy
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 68
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 50
Prince - Monaco
Houari Boumédiène age 41
President - Algeria
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 18
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 54
President - Somalia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 37
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 56
President - United Arab Emirates
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 50
President - Equatorial Guinea
Seretse Khama age 52
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 49
President - Cameroon
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 38
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 22
President - Haiti
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 64
President - Afghanistan
Ne Win age 62
President - Myanmar
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 53
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 74
King - Eswatini
Ephraim Katzir age 58
President - Israel
Moussa Traoré age 37
President - Mali
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 50
President - The Gambia
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 51
President - Venezuela
François Tombalbaye age 55
President - Chad
Kristján Eldjárn age 57
President - Iceland
Yakubu Gowon age 39
President - Nigeria
José Figueres Ferrer age 67
President - Costa Rica
William Richard Tolbert age 61
President - Liberia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 55
King - Tonga
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 63
President - Peru
Gaafar Nimeiry age 43
President - Sudan
Hugo Banzer age 48
President - Bolivia
Joaquín Balaguer age 67
President - Dominican Republic
Luís Cabral age 43
President - Guinea-Bissau
Juan María Bordaberry age 45
President - Uruguay
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 68
President - Ireland
Moktar Ould Daddah age 49
President - Mauritania
Michel Micombero age 33
President - Burundi
Marien Ngouabi age 35
President - Republic of the Congo
Isa II of Bahrain age 40
Emir - Bahrain
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 41
Emir - Qatar
Arthur Chung age 56
President - Guyana
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 58
President - Burkina Faso
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 70
President - Pakistan
Siaka Stevens age 68
President - Sierra Leone
Benjamin Sheares age 66
President - Singapore