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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
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

People

Elizabeth II age 48
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 80
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Gerald Ford 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 87
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 82
President - Yugoslavia
Anwar Sadat age 55
President - Egypt
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 55
Shah - Iran
Erich Honecker age 62
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 44
President - Syria
Walter Scheel age 55
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 44
Monarch - Belgium
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 60
President - Iraq
Luis Echeverría age 52
President - Mexico
Ernesto Geisel age 67
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 86
President of North Vietnam - Vietnam
Kim Il-sung age 62
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 48
President - France
Pol Pot age 49
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Kurt Waldheim age 55
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 48
Prime Minister - Cuba
Indira Gandhi age 57
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Chirac age 42
Prime Minister - France
Yitzhak Rabin age 52
Prime Minister - Israel
Helmut Schmidt age 55
Chancellor - Germany
Zhou Enlai age 76
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Wilson age 58
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Aldo Moro age 58
Prime Minister - Italy
Alexei Kosygin age 70
Chairman - Soviet Union
Robert McNamara age 58
President - World Bank
Kakuei Tanaka age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Chiang Ching-kuo age 64
Premier - Republic of China
B. J. Vorster age 58
Prime Minister - South Africa
Souvanna Phouma age 73
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 68
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Liam Cosgrave age 54
Taoiseach - Ireland
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 60
President - International Olympic Committee
Joseph Luns age 63
Secretary General - NATO
François-Xavier Ortoli age 49
President - European Commission
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 65
Prime Minister - Poland
Kim Il age 64
Premier - North Korea
Halfdan T. Mahler age 51
Director-General - World Health Organization
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 51
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 42
Prime Minister - Syria
Warren E. Burger age 67
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Saddam Hussein age 37
Vice President - Iraq
Soong Ching-ling age 81
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Yen Chia-kan age 69
Vice President - Republic of China
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 46
Vice President - Iraq
George Scratchley Brown age 56
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Henry Kissinger age 51
Secretary Of State - United States
Roy Jenkins age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
James R. Schlesinger age 45
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Denis Healey age 57
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Frederick C. Weyand age 58
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
William B. Saxbe age 58
Attorney General - United States
William E. Simon age 47
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Clarence M. Kelley age 63
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Edward Heath age 58
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Thurgood Marshall age 66
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 50
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 57
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 67
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Jeremy Thorpe age 45
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 57
President - African National Congress
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 42
President - Sinn Féin
Antonin Scalia age 38
Assistant Attorney General - Department of Justice
John Paul Stevens age 54
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 32
Senate - United States
Walter Mondale age 46
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 63
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 50
Senate - United States
Margaret Thatcher age 49
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Reagan age 63
Governor of California - United States
Jimmy Carter age 50
Governor of Georgia - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 47
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 57
President - Philippines
Francisco Franco age 82
Caudillo - Spain
Paul VI age 77
Pope - Vatican City
Augusto Pinochet age 59
President of the Government Junta - Chile
Suharto age 53
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 56
President - Romania
Idi Amin age 49
President - Uganda
Margrethe II of Denmark age 34
Monarch - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 28
Monarch - Sweden
Park Chung-hee age 57
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 34
Sultan - Oman
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 68
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 44
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 81
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
- Saudi Arabia
Hussein I of Jordan age 39
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 71
President - Tunisia
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 43
President - Argentina
Hastings Banda age 84
President - Malawi
Urho Kekkonen age 74
President - Finland
Hassan II age 45
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 50
President - Zambia
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 37
President - Ethiopia
Olav V of Norway age 71
Monarch - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 62
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 52
President - Guinea
Juliana of the Netherlands age 65
King - Netherlands
Fahri Korutürk age 71
President - Turkey
Giovanni Leone age 66
President - Italy
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 69
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 51
Prince - Monaco
Houari Boumédiène age 42
President - Algeria
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 69
President - India
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 19
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 55
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 53
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 50
President - Cameroon
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 38
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 23
President - Haiti
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 65
President - Afghanistan
Ne Win age 63
President - Myanmar
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 53
Monarch - Luxembourg
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 59
President - Austria
Sobhuza II age 75
King - Eswatini
Ephraim Katzir age 58
President - Israel
Moussa Traoré age 38
President - Mali
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 50
President - The Gambia
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 52
President - Venezuela
François Tombalbaye age 56
President - Chad
Kristján Eldjárn age 58
President - Iceland
Yakubu Gowon age 40
President - Nigeria
William Richard Tolbert age 61
President - Liberia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 56
Monarch - Tonga
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 64
President - Peru
Gaafar Nimeiry age 43
President - Sudan
Hugo Banzer age 48
President - Bolivia
Joaquín Balaguer age 68
President - Dominican Republic
Luís Cabral age 43
President - Guinea-Bissau
Juan María Bordaberry age 46
President - Uruguay
Moktar Ould Daddah age 49
President - Mauritania
Michel Micombero age 34
President - Burundi
Marien Ngouabi age 35
President - Republic of the Congo
Isa II of Bahrain age 41
Monarch - Bahrain
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 42
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 69
President - Sierra Leone
Benjamin Sheares age 67
President - Singapore
Alfonso López Michelsen age 61
President - Colombia
Haxhi Lleshi age 61
President - Albania
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 43
President - Ghana
Oswaldo López Arellano age 53
President - Honduras
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 36
King - Lesotho
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 68
President - Madagascar
Hammer DeRoburt age 52
President - Nauru
Phaedon Gizikis age 57
President - Greece
Ibrahim Nasir age 48
President - Maldives
William Gopallawa age 77
President - Sri Lanka
Suleiman Frangieh age 64
President - Lebanon
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 61
Emir - Kuwait
Arturo Armando Molina age 47
President - El Salvador
Mohammad Mohammadullah age 53
President - Bangladesh
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 53
President - Costa Rica
Sergej Kraigher age 60
President - Slovenia
Ernst Brugger age 60
President - Switzerland
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 60
President - Portugal
Enrico Andreoli age 53
Captain Regent - San Marino
Jim Fouché age 76
State President - South Africa
Kuan Yew Lee age 51
Prime Minister - Singapore
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 54
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 46
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Olof Palme age 47
Prime Minister - Sweden
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 58
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Pierre Trudeau age 55
Prime Minister - Canada
Gough Whitlam age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Joaquim Chissano age 35
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Bruno Kreisky age 63
Chancellor - Austria
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 67
Prime Minister - Greece
Abdou Diouf age 39
Prime Minister - Senegal
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 39
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Abdul Razak Hussein age 52
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 48
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Gaston Thorn age 46
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Leo Tindemans age 52
Prime Minister - Belgium
Joop den Uyl age 55
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Dom Mintoff age 58
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 61
Prime Minister - Albania
Kalevi Sorsa age 43
Prime Minister - Finland
Trygve Bratteli age 64
Prime Minister - Norway
Carlos Arias Navarro age 66
Prime Minister - Spain
Michael Manley age 49
Prime Minister - Jamaica
George Cadle Price age 55
Premier - Belize