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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28

People

Elizabeth II age 49
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 82
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Gerald Ford age 62
President - United States
Hirohito age 74
Emperor - Japan
Leonid Brezhnev age 69
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Josip Broz Tito age 83
President - Yugoslavia
Anwar Sadat age 56
President - Egypt
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 56
Shah - Iran
Erich Honecker age 63
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 45
President - Syria
Walter Scheel age 56
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 45
King - Belgium
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 61
President - Iraq
Luis Echeverría age 53
President - Mexico
Ernesto Geisel age 68
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 68
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Osvaldo Dorticós age 56
President - Cuba
Tôn Đức Thắng age 87
President of North Vietnam - Vietnam
Yen Chia-kan age 70
President - Republic of China
Kim Il-sung age 63
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 49
President - France
Pol Pot age 50
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Kurt Waldheim age 57
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 49
Prime Minister - Cuba
Indira Gandhi age 58
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Chirac age 43
Prime Minister - France
Yitzhak Rabin age 53
Prime Minister - Israel
Helmut Schmidt age 56
Chancellor - Germany
Zhou Enlai age 77
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Wilson age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Aldo Moro age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Alexei Kosygin age 71
Chairman - Soviet Union
Robert McNamara age 59
President - World Bank
Chiang Ching-kuo age 65
Premier - Republic of China
Takeo Miki age 68
Prime Minister - Japan
B. J. Vorster age 60
Prime Minister - South Africa
Kaysone Phomvihane age 55
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 69
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Liam Cosgrave age 55
Taoiseach - Ireland
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 61
President - International Olympic Committee
Joseph Luns age 64
Secretary General - NATO
François-Xavier Ortoli age 50
President - European Commission
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 66
Prime Minister - Poland
Kim Il age 65
Premier - North Korea
Halfdan T. Mahler age 52
Director-General - World Health Organization
Mamdouh Salem age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 43
Prime Minister - Syria
Warren E. Burger age 68
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Saddam Hussein age 38
Vice President - Iraq
Nelson Rockefeller age 67
Vice President - United States
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 47
Vice President - Iraq
George Scratchley Brown age 57
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Henry Kissinger age 52
Secretary Of State - United States
Donald Rumsfeld age 43
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Roy Jenkins age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Denis Healey age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Frederick C. Weyand age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
William E. Simon age 48
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Edward H. Levi age 64
Attorney General - United States
Clarence M. Kelley age 64
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Margaret Thatcher age 50
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Thurgood Marshall age 67
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 51
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 69
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 58
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 68
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Jeremy Thorpe age 46
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 58
President - African National Congress
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 43
President - Sinn Féin
Antonin Scalia age 39
Assistant Attorney General - Department of Justice
Anthony Kennedy age 39
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 55
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 33
Senate - United States
Walter Mondale age 47
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 64
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 51
Senate - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 48
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 58
President - Philippines
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 37
King - Spain
Paul VI age 78
Pope - Vatican City
Augusto Pinochet age 60
President of the Government Junta - Chile
Suharto age 54
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 57
President - Romania
Idi Amin age 50
President - Uganda
Margrethe II of Denmark age 35
Queen - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 29
King - Sweden
Park Chung-hee age 58
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 35
Sultan - Oman
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 69
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 45
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 82
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 53
President - Tanzania
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 54
President - Central African Republic
Hussein I of Jordan age 40
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 72
President - Tunisia
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 44
President - Argentina
Hastings Banda age 85
President - Malawi
Urho Kekkonen age 75
President - Finland
Hassan II age 46
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 51
President - Zambia
Olav V of Norway age 72
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 63
President - Paraguay
Agostinho Neto age 53
President - Angola
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 53
President - Guinea
Juliana of the Netherlands age 66
Queen - Netherlands
Samora Moisés Machel age 42
President - Mozambique
Fahri Korutürk age 72
President - Turkey
Giovanni Leone age 67
President - Italy
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 70
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 52
Prince - Monaco
Houari Boumédiène age 43
President - Algeria
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 70
President - India
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 20
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 56
President - Somalia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 38
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 57
President - United Arab Emirates
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 51
President - Equatorial Guinea
Seretse Khama age 54
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 51
President - Cameroon
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 39
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 24
President - Haiti
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 66
President - Afghanistan
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 50
President - Nicaragua
Ne Win age 64
President - Myanmar
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 54
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 60
President - Austria
Sobhuza II age 76
King - Eswatini
Aristides Pereira age 52
President - Cape Verde
Ephraim Katzir age 59
President - Israel
Moussa Traoré age 39
President - Mali
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 51
President - The Gambia
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 53
President - Venezuela
Kristján Eldjárn age 59
President - Iceland
Souphanouvong age 66
President - Laos
William Richard Tolbert age 62
President - Liberia
Didier Ratsiraka age 39
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 57
King - Tonga
Gaafar Nimeiry age 44
President - Sudan
Hugo Banzer age 49
President - Bolivia
Joaquín Balaguer age 69
President - Dominican Republic
Luís Cabral age 44
President - Guinea-Bissau
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 38
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Juan María Bordaberry age 47
President - Uruguay
Moktar Ould Daddah age 50
President - Mauritania
Michel Micombero age 35
President - Burundi
Marien Ngouabi age 36
President - Republic of the Congo
Johan Ferrier age 65
President - Suriname
Isa II of Bahrain age 42
Emir - Bahrain
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 76
President - Greece
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 64
President - Ireland
Murtala Muhammed age 37
President - Nigeria
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 43
Emir - Qatar
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 54
President - Peru
Arthur Chung age 57
President - Guyana
Anthony Mamo age 66
President - Malta
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 59
President - Burkina Faso
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 71
President - Pakistan
Siaka Stevens age 70
President - Sierra Leone
Benjamin Sheares age 68
President - Singapore
Alfonso López Michelsen age 62
President - Colombia
Haxhi Lleshi age 62
President - Albania
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 44
President - Ghana
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 37
King - Lesotho
Hammer DeRoburt age 53
President - Nauru
Ibrahim Nasir age 49
President - Maldives
William Gopallawa age 78
President - Sri Lanka
Tafari Benti age 54
President - Ethiopia
Suleiman Frangieh age 65
President - Lebanon
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 62
Emir - Kuwait
Arturo Armando Molina age 48
President - El Salvador
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem age 59
President - Bangladesh
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 54
President - Costa Rica
Pierre Graber age 67
President - Switzerland
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 57
President - Comoros
Sergej Kraigher age 61
President - Slovenia
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 45
President - Honduras
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 61
President - Portugal
Giovanni Vito Marcucci age 48
Captain Regent - San Marino
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 62
King - Saudi Arabia
Nicolaas Diederichs age 72
State President - South Africa
Lee Kuan Yew age 52
Prime Minister - Singapore
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 47
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Olof Palme age 48
Prime Minister - Sweden
Süleyman Demirel age 51
Prime Minister - Turkey
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 59
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Pierre Trudeau age 56
Prime Minister - Canada
Paul Biya age 42
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Bruno Kreisky age 64
Chancellor - Austria
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 68
Prime Minister - Greece
Malcolm Fraser age 45
Prime Minister - Australia
Abdou Diouf age 40
Prime Minister - Senegal
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 40
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Abdul Razak Hussein age 53
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 49
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Gaston Thorn age 47
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Michael Somare age 39
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Leo Tindemans age 53
Prime Minister - Belgium
Anker Jørgensen age 53
Prime Minister - Denmark
Joop den Uyl age 56
Prime Minister - Netherlands