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Cold War
1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
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
Lebanese Civil War
1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide
1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Islamist uprising in Syria
1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Iranian Revolution
1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
People
Hafez al-Assad
age 44
President
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Syria
Souvanna Phouma
age 73
Prime Minister
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Laos
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 86
President
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Vietnam
Gerald Ford
age 61
President
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United States
Fidel Castro
age 48
President
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Cuba
Jacques Chirac
age 42
Prime Minister
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France
Pol Pot
age 49
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Jimmy Carter
age 50
President
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United States
Hirohito
age 74
Emperor
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Japan
Leonid Brezhnev
age 68
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 65
President
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Republic of China
Lê Duẩn
age 68
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Nelson Rockefeller
age 66
Vice President
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United States
Walter Mondale
age 47
Vice President
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United States
Elizabeth II
age 49
Queen
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United Kingdom
Hua Guofeng
age 54
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Mao Zedong
age 81
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Sun Yun-suan
age 61
Premier
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Republic of China
Kim Il-sung
age 63
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Saddam Hussein
age 37
Vice President
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Iraq
Zhou Enlai
age 77
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Li Xiannian
age 65
Vice Chairman
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Communist Party of China
Daniel Inouye
age 50
Senate
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United States
Hubert Humphrey
age 63
Senate
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United States
Joe Biden
age 32
Senate
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United States
Dick Cheney
age 34
House of Representatives
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United States
Dan Quayle
age 28
House of Representatives
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United States
Al Gore
age 27
House of Representatives
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United States
Henry Kissinger
age 51
Secretary Of State
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United States
James R. Schlesinger
age 46
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Warren E. Burger
age 67
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
George H. W. Bush
age 50
Director of Central Intelligence
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United States
William H. Webster
age 51
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Clarence M. Kelley
age 63
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Margaret Thatcher
age 49
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Byron White
age 57
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens
age 55
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 67
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William Rehnquist
age 50
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 69
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall
age 66
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Deng Xiaoping
age 70
Communist Party of China
Wen Jiabao
age 32
Communist Party of China
Li Peng
age 46
Communist Party of China
Li Keqiang
age 19
Communist Party of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 67
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 59
Communist Party of China
James Baker
age 45
Democratic Party (United States)
Jiang Zemin
age 48
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 59
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
age 55
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
age 67
Communist Party of China
Hu Jintao
age 32
Communist Party of China
Karl Dönitz
age 83
Nazi Party
George Wallace
age 55
Democratic Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 35
Democratic Party (United States)
Condoleezza Rice
age 20
Republican Party (United States)
Colin Powell
age 38
United States Army
Clark Clifford
age 68
Democratic Party (United States)
Liz Cheney
age 8
Republican Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
age 27
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 31
United States Navy
Arthur Goldberg
age 66
Democratic Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 62
Democratic Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 45
Republican Party (United States)
Antonin Scalia
age 39
Assistant Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 51
Kuomintang
Mike Pence
age 15
Republican Party (United States)
Kamala Harris
age 10
Democratic Party (United States)
Lien Chan
age 38
Kuomintang
Rudolf Hess
age 81
Nazi Party
Barack Obama
age 13
Democratic Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
age 28
Democratic Party (United States)
Ronald Reagan
age 64
Republican Party (United States)
David Souter
age 35
Republican Party (United States)
Anthony Kennedy
age 38
US Court Of Appeals
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US Judiciary
Rosa Parks
age 62
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 44
Konstantin Chernenko
age 63
Anthony Eden
age 77
He Yingqin
age 85
Naoki Hoshino
age 83
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 72
Souphanouvong
age 65
Richard Nixon
age 62
Francisco Franco
age 82
Albert Speer
age 70
Donald Trump
age 28
George W. Bush
age 28
Lee Teng-hui
age 52
Yuri Andropov
age 60
George Shultz
age 54
Otto Hofmann
age 79
Clarence Thomas
age 26
Abe Fortas
age 64
Melvin Laird
age 52
Nelson Mandela
age 56
Kim Jong-il
age 34
Narendra Modi
age 24
Nicolas Sarkozy
age 20
François Hollande
age 20
Tim Berners-Lee
age 19
Boris Yeltsin
age 44
Muhammad Ali
age 33
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 29
Jo Ann Robinson
age 63
Thomas Gage
age 257
Charles III
age 26
Robert A. Lovett
age 79
Juan José Arévalo
age 70
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 66
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 59
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 56
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 69
John Roberts
age 20
Spiro Agnew
age 56
Xi Jinping
age 21
Robert McNamara
age 58
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 69
Omar Bradley
age 82
Zeng Qinghong
age 35
Zhu De
age 88
Soong Ching-ling
age 82
Zhu Rongji
age 46
Ronald McNair
age 24
Ellison Onizuka
age 28
John Connally
age 58
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 44
Warren Christopher
age 49
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 53
Ramsey Clark
age 47
Gennady Yanayev
age 37
Yasser Arafat
age 45
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 42
Stephen Breyer
age 36