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Cold War
1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Guatemalan Civil War
1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
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
Fidel Castro
age 51
President
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Cuba
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 67
President
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Republic of China
Hafez al-Assad
age 47
President
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Syria
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 89
President
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Vietnam
Pol Pot
age 52
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Jimmy Carter
age 53
President
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United States
Hirohito
age 76
Emperor
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Japan
Leonid Brezhnev
age 71
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Lê Duẩn
age 70
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Elizabeth II
age 51
Queen
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United Kingdom
Sun Yun-suan
age 64
Premier
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Republic of China
Walter Mondale
age 50
Vice President
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United States
Kim Il-sung
age 65
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Saddam Hussein
age 40
Vice President
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Iraq
Hua Guofeng
age 56
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Hubert Humphrey
age 66
Senate
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United States
Li Xiannian
age 68
Vice Chairman
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Communist Party of China
Daniel Inouye
age 53
Senate
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United States
Joe Biden
age 35
Senate
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United States
Dan Quayle
age 30
House of Representatives
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United States
Al Gore
age 29
House of Representatives
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United States
Dick Cheney
age 36
House of Representatives
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United States
Warren E. Burger
age 70
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
William H. Webster
age 53
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Margaret Thatcher
age 52
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Clarence M. Kelley
age 66
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Byron White
age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall
age 69
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 63
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 71
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 70
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens
age 57
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William Rehnquist
age 53
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Bill Clinton
age 31
Governor of Arkansas
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United States
James Baker
age 47
Democratic Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 65
Democratic Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 47
Republican Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 35
Communist Party of China
Anthony Kennedy
age 41
US Court Of Appeals
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US Judiciary
David Souter
age 38
Republican Party (United States)
Deng Xiaoping
age 73
Communist Party of China
Li Keqiang
age 22
Communist Party of China
Kamala Harris
age 13
Democratic Party (United States)
Wen Jiabao
age 35
Communist Party of China
Mike Pence
age 18
Republican Party (United States)
Lien Chan
age 41
Kuomintang
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 54
Kuomintang
Hu Yaobang
age 62
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
age 58
Communist Party of China
Karl Dönitz
age 86
Nazi Party
Yang Shangkun
age 70
Communist Party of China
George H. W. Bush
age 53
Republican Party (United States)
Ronald Reagan
age 66
Republican Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 58
Democratic Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 37
Democratic Party (United States)
Barack Obama
age 16
Democratic Party (United States)
Condoleezza Rice
age 23
Republican Party (United States)
Colin Powell
age 40
United States Army
Rudolf Hess
age 83
Nazi Party
Jiang Zemin
age 51
Communist Party of China
Li Peng
age 49
Communist Party of China
Henry Kissinger
age 54
Republican Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 48
Republican Party (United States)
Rong Yiren
age 61
Communist Party of China
Clark Clifford
age 71
Democratic Party (United States)
Liz Cheney
age 11
Republican Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
age 30
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 34
Democratic Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 69
Democratic Party (United States)
Wang Zhen (general)
age 69
Communist Party of China
Spiro Agnew
age 59
Xi Jinping
age 24
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 46
Rosa Parks
age 64
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 75
Souphanouvong
age 68
Richard Nixon
age 65
George W. Bush
age 31
Lee Teng-hui
age 55
Yuri Andropov
age 63
Souvanna Phouma
age 76
George Shultz
age 57
He Yingqin
age 87
Otto Hofmann
age 81
Gerald Ford
age 64
Donald Trump
age 31
Albert Speer
age 72
John Roberts
age 22
Naoki Hoshino
age 85
François Hollande
age 23
Tim Berners-Lee
age 22
Boris Yeltsin
age 46
Muhammad Ali
age 35
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 32
Jo Ann Robinson
age 65
Thomas Gage
age 260
Charles III
age 29
Robert A. Lovett
age 82
Juan José Arévalo
age 73
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 69
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 62
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 72
John Major
age 34
Tony Blair
age 24
Gordon Brown
age 26
David Cameron
age 11
Theresa May
age 21
Boris Johnson
age 13
Liz Truss
age 2
Keir Starmer
age 15
Konstantin Chernenko
age 66
Gennady Yanayev
age 40
Narendra Modi
age 27
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 59
Robert McNamara
age 61
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 71
Omar Bradley
age 84
Nelson Rockefeller
age 69
Zeng Qinghong
age 38
Soong Ching-ling
age 85
Zhu Rongji
age 49
Ronald McNair
age 27
Ellison Onizuka
age 31
John Connally
age 60
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 47
Warren Christopher
age 52
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 56
Ramsey Clark
age 50
Yasser Arafat
age 48
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 44
Stephen Breyer
age 39
Clarence Thomas
age 29
Antonin Scalia
age 41
Abe Fortas
age 67
Melvin Laird
age 55
Nelson Mandela
age 59
Kim Jong-il
age 36
Jacques Chirac
age 45
Nicolas Sarkozy
age 22