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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
Islamist uprising in Syria
1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Iran hostage crisis
1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War
1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Iran–Iraq War
1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
People
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 91
President
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Vietnam
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 69
President
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Republic of China
Fidel Castro
age 53
President
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Cuba
Hafez al-Assad
age 49
President
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Syria
Margaret Thatcher
age 54
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Ronald Reagan
age 68
President
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United States
Pol Pot
age 54
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Lê Duẩn
age 72
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Leonid Brezhnev
age 72
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Hirohito
age 78
Emperor
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Japan
Saddam Hussein
age 42
President
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Iraq
Jimmy Carter
age 55
President
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United States
Sun Yun-suan
age 66
Premier
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Republic of China
Hua Guofeng
age 58
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Kim Il-sung
age 67
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 77
Supreme Leader
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Iran
Elizabeth II
age 53
Queen
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United Kingdom
George H. W. Bush
age 55
Vice President
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United States
Walter Mondale
age 51
Vice President
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United States
Li Xiannian
age 70
Vice Chairman
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Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
age 60
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Daniel Inouye
age 55
Senate
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United States
Joe Biden
age 36
Senate
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United States
Dan Quayle
age 32
Senate
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United States
Al Gore
age 31
House of Representatives
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United States
Dick Cheney
age 38
House of Representatives
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United States
Warren E. Burger
age 72
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
William H. Webster
age 55
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Hu Yaobang
age 64
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
Byron White
age 62
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William Rehnquist
age 55
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens
age 59
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 72
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall
age 71
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 64
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 73
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Bill Clinton
age 33
Governor of Arkansas
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United States
Stephen Breyer
age 41
US Court Of Appeals
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US Judiciary
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 46
US Court Of Appeals
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US Judiciary
Lien Chan
age 43
Kuomintang
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 56
Kuomintang
George Wallace
age 60
Democratic Party (United States)
Mike Pence
age 20
Republican Party (United States)
Kamala Harris
age 15
Democratic Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 39
Democratic Party (United States)
Henry Kissinger
age 56
Republican Party (United States)
Condoleezza Rice
age 24
Republican Party (United States)
James Baker
age 49
Democratic Party (United States)
Barack Obama
age 18
Democratic Party (United States)
Colin Powell
age 42
United States Army
Rudolf Hess
age 85
Nazi Party
Li Keqiang
age 24
Communist Party of China
Wen Jiabao
age 37
Communist Party of China
Li Peng
age 51
Communist Party of China
Jiang Zemin
age 53
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 63
Communist Party of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 71
Communist Party of China
Clark Clifford
age 72
Democratic Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 50
Republican Party (United States)
Liz Cheney
age 13
Republican Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
age 32
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 35
Democratic Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 88
Nazi Party
Arthur Goldberg
age 71
Democratic Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 67
Democratic Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 36
Communist Party of China
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 49
Republican Party (United States)
Anthony Kennedy
age 43
US Court Of Appeals
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US Judiciary
David Souter
age 40
Republican Party (United States)
Yang Shangkun
age 72
Communist Party of China
Deng Xiaoping
age 75
Communist Party of China
Otto Hofmann
age 83
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 74
George Shultz
age 58
Yuri Andropov
age 65
Gerald Ford
age 66
Donald Trump
age 33
Albert Speer
age 74
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 63
Lee Teng-hui
age 56
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 71
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 61
He Yingqin
age 89
Narendra Modi
age 29
Rosa Parks
age 66
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 48
Gennady Yanayev
age 42
Konstantin Chernenko
age 68
Keir Starmer
age 17
Rishi Sunak
born 1980-05-12
Liz Truss
age 4
Souphanouvong
age 70
Boris Johnson
age 15
Richard Nixon
age 66
Theresa May
age 23
George W. Bush
age 33
David Cameron
age 13
Gordon Brown
age 28
Tony Blair
age 26
John Major
age 36
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 49
Warren Christopher
age 54
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 34
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 57
Ramsey Clark
age 51
Muhammad Ali
age 37
Yasser Arafat
age 50
Boris Yeltsin
age 48
Clarence Thomas
age 31
Tim Berners-Lee
age 24
Antonin Scalia
age 43
François Hollande
age 25
Nicolas Sarkozy
age 24
Clarence M. Kelley
age 68
Jacques Chirac
age 46
Abe Fortas
age 69
Kim Jong-il
age 38
Nelson Mandela
age 61
Souvanna Phouma
age 78
John Roberts
age 24
Juan José Arévalo
age 75
Robert A. Lovett
age 84
Spiro Agnew
age 61
Xi Jinping
age 26
Charles III
age 30
Thomas Gage
age 261
Jo Ann Robinson
age 67
Robert McNamara
age 63
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 73
Omar Bradley
age 86
Soong Ching-ling
age 86
Zeng Qinghong
age 40
Zhu Rongji
age 51
Ronald McNair
age 29
Ellison Onizuka
age 33
John Connally
age 62
Melvin Laird
age 57