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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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Martial law in Poland 1981-12-13 - 1983-07-22
Falklands War 1982-04-02 - 1982-06-14
Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas 1982-04-24 - 1982-05-24
Sinking of ARA General Belgrano 1982-05-02 - 1982-05-02

People

Ronald Reagan age 71
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 56
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 55
President - Cuba
Saddam Hussein age 45
President - Iraq
Ali Khamenei age 43
President - Iran
Hirohito age 81
Emperor - Japan
Leonid Brezhnev age 75
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hosni Mubarak age 54
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 65
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 79
Supreme Leader - Iran
Erich Honecker age 69
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 51
President - Syria
Baudouin of Belgium age 51
King - Belgium
Karl Carstens age 67
President - Germany
Chiang Ching-kuo age 72
President - Republic of China
José López Portillo age 61
President - Mexico
Hu Yaobang age 66
Chairman - Communist Party of China
João Figueiredo age 64
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 75
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Efraín Ríos Montt age 55
President - Guatemala
Trường Chinh age 75
President - Vietnam
Kim Il-sung age 70
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 62
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 56
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Indira Gandhi age 64
Prime Minister - India
Deng Xiaoping age 77
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Helmut Schmidt age 63
Chancellor - Germany
Menachem Begin age 68
Prime Minister - Israel
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 58
Prime Minister - Poland
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 61
President - International Olympic Committee
Zhao Ziyang age 62
Premier - People's Republic of China
Pierre Mauroy age 53
Prime Minister - France
P. W. Botha age 66
Prime Minister - South Africa
Zenkō Suzuki age 71
Prime Minister - Japan
Giovanni Spadolini age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
Nikolai Tikhonov age 77
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Gaston Thorn age 53
President - European Commission
Kaysone Phomvihane age 61
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 76
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Charles Haughey age 56
Taoiseach - Ireland
Joseph Luns age 70
Secretary General - NATO
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 56
Prime Minister - Egypt
Halfdan T. Mahler age 59
Director-General - World Health Organization
Sun Yun-suan age 68
Premier - Republic of China
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 50
Prime Minister - Syria
Alden W. Clausen age 59
President - World Bank
Warren E. Burger age 74
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
George H. W. Bush age 57
Vice President - United States
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 53
Vice President - Iraq
Hua Guofeng age 61
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian age 72
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
David C. Jones age 60
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Alexander Haig age 57
Secretary Of State - United States
Geoffrey Howe age 55
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Donald Regan age 63
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
William French Smith age 64
Attorney General - United States
Edward C. Meyer age 53
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
William H. Webster age 58
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Thurgood Marshall age 73
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 57
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 62
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 76
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 64
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 74
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 52
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Michael Foot age 68
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
David Steel age 44
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 64
President - African National Congress
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 49
President - Sinn Féin
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 49
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 43
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 45
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 39
Senate - United States
Dan Quayle age 35
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 57
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Dick Cheney age 41
House of Representatives - United States
John Paul II age 61
Pope - Vatican City
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 54
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 64
President - Philippines
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 44
King - Spain
Augusto Pinochet age 66
President - Chile
Suharto age 60
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 64
President - Romania
Margrethe II of Denmark age 42
Queen - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 36
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 44
Queen - Netherlands
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 41
Sultan - Oman
Mobutu Sese Seko age 51
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Julius Nyerere age 60
President - Tanzania
José Eduardo dos Santos age 39
President - Angola
Hussein I of Jordan age 46
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 78
President - Tunisia
Teodoro Obiang age 39
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hastings Banda age 92
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 52
President - Iceland
Hassan II age 52
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 58
President - Zambia
Kenan Evren age 64
President - Turkey
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 57
President - Pakistan
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 44
President - Ethiopia
Sandro Pertini age 85
President - Italy
Olav V of Norway age 78
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 69
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 60
President - Guinea
Mauno Koivisto age 58
President - Finland
Milton Obote age 56
President - Uganda
Samora Moisés Machel age 48
President - Mozambique
Chun Doo-hwan age 51
President - South Korea
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 76
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 57
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 58
Prince - Monaco
Mathieu Kérékou age 48
President - Benin
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 26
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 62
President - Somalia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 45
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 64
President - United Arab Emirates
Jerry Rawlings age 34
President - Ghana
João Bernardo Vieira age 43
President - Guinea-Bissau
Leopoldo Galtieri age 55
President - Argentina
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 57
President - Cameroon
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 69
President - India
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 44
President - Maldives
Agatha Barbara age 59
President - Malta
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 46
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 30
President - Haiti
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 75
President - Greece
Abdou Diouf age 46
President - Senegal
Isaac Navon age 61
President - Israel
Quett Masire age 56
President - Botswana
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 61
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Canaan Banana age 46
President - Zimbabwe
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 67
President - Austria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 65
President - Djibouti
Sobhuza II age 82
King - Eswatini
Chadli Bendjedid age 53
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 58
President - Cape Verde
Moussa Traoré age 45
President - Mali
Fernando Belaúnde age 69
President - Peru
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 58
President - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 55
Emir - Kuwait
Shehu Shagari age 57
President - Nigeria
Souphanouvong age 72
President - Laos
Didier Ratsiraka age 45
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 63
King - Tonga
Gaafar Nimeiry age 51
President - Sudan
António Ramalho Eanes age 47
President - Portugal
France-Albert René age 46
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 44
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Patrick Hillery age 59
President - Ireland
Devan Nair age 58
President - Singapore
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 75
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 48
Emir - Bahrain
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 35
President - Burundi
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 49
Emir - Qatar
André Kolingba age 45
President - Central African Republic
Siaka Stevens age 76
President - Sierra Leone
Ahmed Abdallah age 62
President - Comoros
Haxhi Lleshi age 68
President - Albania
Julio César Turbay age 65
President - Colombia
Spiros Cyprianou age 49
President - Cyprus
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 44
King - Lesotho
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 56
President - Uruguay
Forbes Burnham age 59
President - Guyana
Hammer DeRoburt age 59
President - Nauru
Luis Herrera Campins age 57
President - Venezuela
Marais Viljoen age 66
State President - South Africa
Haruo Remeliik age 48
President - Palau
Saye Zerbo age 49
President - Burkina Faso
Tosiwo Nakayama age 50
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Goukouni Oueddei age 40
President - Chad
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 55
President - Costa Rica
Osvaldo Hurtado age 42
President - Ecuador
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 71
President - Dominican Republic
Elias Sarkis age 57
President - Lebanon
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 55
President - Honduras
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 42
President - Mauritania
Fred Ramdat Misier age 55
President - Suriname
Celso Torrelio age 48
President - Bolivia
Álvaro Magaña age 56
President - El Salvador
Ieremia Tabai age 32
President - Kiribati
San Yu age 64
President - Myanmar
Ellis Clarke age 64
President - Trinidad and Tobago
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 66
President - Bangladesh
Fritz Honegger age 64
President - Switzerland
Ati George Sokomanu age 46
President - Vanuatu
Arístides Royo age 41
President - Panama
Viktor Avbelj age 68
President - Slovenia
Aurelius Marie age 77
President - Dominica
Giuseppe Maiani age 57
Captain Regent - San Marino
Marino Venturini age 38
Captain Regent - San Marino
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 69
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 56
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Robert Mugabe age 58
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Lee Kuan Yew age 58
Prime Minister - Singapore
Pierre Trudeau age 62
Prime Minister - Canada
Paul Biya age 49
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Prem Tinsulanonda age 61
Prime Minister - Thailand
Bruno Kreisky age 71
Chancellor - Austria
Andreas Papandreou age 63
Prime Minister - Greece