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 Afanasyev, Viktor Grigoryevich
 Aksyonov, Vladimir
 Ali, Muhammad
 Amalrik, Andrei
 Amin Dada, Idi
 Andreotti, Giulio
 Androsch, Hannes
 Arafat, Yasser
 Arias Navarro, Carlos
 Assad, Hafez Al
 Baader, Andraes
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 Beith, Alan James
 Benn, Anthony Wedgewood
 Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali
 Bongo, Martin
 Bono
 Borg, Bjorn
 Bowie, David
 Brezhnev, Leonoid Ilych
 Britten, Benjamin
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 Bugner, Joe
 Bukovsky, Vladimir
 Burkinshaw, Keith
 Butler, Rick
 Bykovsky, Valery
 Callaghan, James
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 Casson, Hugh
 Castro Ruz, Fidel Alejandro
 Chalawoyo, Sangad
 Charles XVI
 Chimes, Terry
 Ching, Chiang
 Chirac, Jacques
 Clapton, Eric Patrick
 Clarke, Joe
 Clayton, Adam
 Clinton, William Jefferson Bill
 Colby, William Egan
 Connors, Jimmy
 Cook, Paul
 Corbett, Harry "H"
 Corrigan, Mairead
 Crawford, Hasley Joachim
 Craxi, Bettino
 Creme, Lol
 Crosland, Charles Anthony Raven
 Curtis, Ian
 Diggle, Steve
 Eanes, Antonio
 Elizabeth II
 En-Lai, Chou
 Evert Lloyd, Christine
 Fanfani, Amintore
 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner Maria
 Felldin, Thorbjorn
 Foot, Michael
 Ford, Gerald
 Foxton, Bruce
 Frazier, Joseph William
 Fukuda, Takeo
 Gandhi, Indira Nehru
 Giap, Vo Nguyen
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 Goldwater, Barry Morris
 Gonzalez, Adolfo Suarez
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 Guofeng, Hua
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 Heath, Edward Richard George
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 Jairzinho
 James, Brian
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 Juan Carlos I
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 Levine, Keith
 Ligachev, Egor Kuzmich
 Machel, Samora
 MacMillan, Maurice Harold
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 Malloum, Felix
 Manfredini, Mendez
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 Meinhof, Ulrike
 Miki, Takeo
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 Mugabe, Robert Gabriel
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 Neto, Antonio Agostinho
 Ngalamu, Elinana
 Nkomo, Joshua
 Nordli, Odvar
 Onn, Tun Hussein
 Osbourne, John Michael "Ozzy"
 Oshima, Nagisa
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 Owens, James Cleveland "Jesse"
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 Pinochet, Augusto Jos‚ RamĒn
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 Xiaoping, Deng
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   101ers   Strummer, Joe
  3rd April London   The then-unknown band called the Sex Pistols open for The 101'ers at a venue called "The Nashville Rooms"
   10CC   Creme, Lol
     The band suffered a split, when Godley and Creme left to form Godley & Creme, leaving Gouldman and Stewart to continue touring and recording as 10cc
   10CC   Godley, Kevin
     The band suffered a split, when Godley and Creme left to form Godley & Creme, leaving Gouldman and Stewart to continue touring and recording as 10cc
   10CC   Gouldman, Graham
     The band suffered a split, when Godley and Creme left to form Godley & Creme, leaving Gouldman and Stewart to continue touring and recording as 10cc
   10CC   Stewart, Eric
     The band suffered a split, when Godley and Creme left to form Godley & Creme, leaving Gouldman and Stewart to continue touring and recording as 10cc
   Alliance   Qaddafi, Muammar
     Qaddafi provides aid for FROLINAT rebels in Northern Chad & claims 37,000 sqr miles
   Archbishop of Church of Sudan   Ngalamu, Elinana
     Appointed Archbishop of the Church of the Province of the Sudan
   Arrest   Ching, Chiang
  12th Oct   Mao's widow is arrested
   Arrest   Guofeng, Hua
     Has the leaders of the "Cultural Revolution" arrested, including Mao's widow
   Arrest   Baader, Andraes
     Baader is arrested
   Arrest   Tanaka, Kakuei
  27th July Tokyo   Accepted bribes from Lockheed to persuade Nipon Airways to buy their airliners
  27th July Tokyo   Kept in the Tokyo Detention House & then released on bail
   Athletics   Moses, Edwin
   Montreal   Winner of the 400 meters Gold Medal
   Montreal   Winner of the 800 meters Gold Medal
   Attorney   Clinton, William Jefferson Bill
     Appointed State Attorney General
   Band, The   Clapton, Eric Patrick
  26th Nov   Appears at The Band's farewell concert
   Battle of Dead Road   Neto, Antonio Agostinho
  10th Nov   400 years of Portuguese dominion end, Netu becomes the first president of Angola, his Government is officially recognized by the OAS
   Battle of Dead Road   Roberto, Holden Alvaro
  10th Nov   400 years of Portuguese dominion end, Netu becomes the first president of Angola, his Government is officially recognized by the OAS
  10th Nov   The Battle of Quifangondo, battle of Dead Road, the final battle of the Angolan War of Independence (1961-1975)
  10th Nov   The Cubans arrive in the area of Luanda on the eve of the battle, their superior equipment included canons, mortars and the infamous Katyushas, multiple rocket launchers with 48 launchers, giving the MPLA victory
  10th Nov   The MPLA defeats the FNLA in the battle of Dead Road and the FNLA retreated to Zaire
   Beider Meinhof Group   Meinhof, Ulrike
  9th May Stuttgart   An enquiry finds suicide the cause, extremists claim otherwise & make her a martyr
  9th May Stuttgart   Death of Ulrike Meinhof. found dead in her cell
   Black Sabbath   Osbourne, John Michael "Ozzy"
     Black Sabbath release the Album, "Technical Ecstasy"
   Broadcast   MacMillan, Maurice Harold
  20th Oct   Calls for a Government of national unity on television