✦ History

Explore January 1, 1983 – January 1, 1985

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Salvadoran Civil War 1979-10-15 - 1992-01-16
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Martial law in Poland 1981-12-13 - 1983-07-22
1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia 1983 - 1985
1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut 1983-04-18
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
1983 Upper Voltan coup d'état 1983-08-04
United States invasion of Grenada 1983-10-25 - 1983-12-15
Battle of Tripoli (1983) 1983-11-03 - 1983-12-20
Operation Kheibar 1984-02-14 - 1984-03-19
Operation Blue Star 1984-06-01 - 1984-06-10
Kurdish–Turkish conflict 1984-08-15
Assassination of Indira Gandhi 1984-10-31
Bhopal disaster 1984-12-02 - 1984-12-03
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26

People

Kingsford Dibela age 50
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Tore Lokoloko age 52
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 21
Donald Trump age 36
Michael Jackson age 24
Vladimir Putin age 30
Nelson Mandela age 64
George W. Bush age 36
Bill Gates age 27
Jimmy Wales age 16
Pope Francis age 46
Steve Jobs age 27
Angela Merkel age 28
Neil Armstrong age 52
François Hollande age 28
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 4
Gabriel García Márquez age 55
Mikhail Gorbachev age 51
Elon Musk age 11
Stephen Hawking age 41
Jimmy Carter age 58
Emmanuel Macron age 5
Benedict XVI age 55
Mother Teresa age 72
Hillary Clinton age 35
Kamala Harris age 18
Nicolas Sarkozy age 27
Richard Nixon age 70
Xi Jinping age 29
Naruhito age 22
Hugo Chávez age 28
Simone de Beauvoir age 75
Muammar Gaddafi age 40
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 28
Muhammad Ali age 40
Kofi Annan age 44
Charles III age 34
Osama bin Laden age 25
Kim Jong-un age 11 months
Lech Wałęsa age 39
Gerald Ford age 69
Leo XIV age 27
Diego Maradona age 22
Narendra Modi age 32
Rafael Correa age 19
Aung San Suu Kyi age 37
Benjamin Netanyahu age 33
Dmitry Medvedev age 17
14th Dalai Lama age 47
Mark Zuckerberg born 1984-05-14
Silvio Berlusconi age 46
Shinzo Abe age 28
Tim Berners-Lee age 27
Boris Yeltsin age 51
Jacques Chirac age 50
Guillermo Lasso age 27
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 64
Alexander Lukashenko age 28
Yasser Arafat age 53
David Cameron age 16
Linus Torvalds age 13
Ban Ki-moon age 38
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 35
Boris Johnson age 18
Diana, Princess of Wales age 21
Bashar al-Assad age 17
Benazir Bhutto age 29
Jair Bolsonaro age 27
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 37
Theresa May age 26
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 26
Henry Kissinger age 59
Václav Havel age 46
Rishi Sunak age 2
Justin Trudeau age 11
Nicolás Maduro age 20
Dilma Rousseff age 35
Kim Jong-il age 41
Milton Friedman age 70
Valentina Tereshkova age 45
Pol Pot age 57
Ilham Aliyev age 21
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 44
António Guterres age 33
Akihito age 49
Rosa Parks age 69
Wangari Maathai age 42
Giorgia Meloni age 5
Prince Philip age 61
Olaf Scholz age 24
Keir Starmer age 20
Willy Brandt age 69
Gerhard Schröder age 38
Hassan Rouhani age 34
Hu Jintao age 40
Evo Morales age 23
Joko Widodo age 21
Petro Poroshenko age 17
Mikheil Saakashvili age 15
Liz Truss age 7
Ursula von der Leyen age 24
Mike Pence age 23
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 29
Michelle Bachelet age 31
Ariel Sharon age 54
Felipe VI of Spain age 14
Desmond Tutu age 51
Viktor Yanukovych age 32
Mohamed Morsi age 31
Viktor Orbán age 19
Sergio Mattarella age 41
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 56
Manmohan Singh age 50
Pervez Musharraf age 39
Julia Gillard age 21
Abdullah Gül age 32
Lech Kaczyński age 33
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 27
Jeff Bezos age 18
Buzz Aldrin age 52
Mohammad Khatami age 39
Yitzhak Rabin age 60
Tsai Ing-wen age 26
Mariano Rajoy age 27
Andrei Sakharov age 61
Larry Sanger age 14
Condoleezza Rice age 28
Raúl Castro age 51
Sheikh Hasina age 35
Giorgio Napolitano age 57
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 42
Mark Rutte age 15
Idi Amin age 58
Yulia Tymoshenko age 22
Rodrigo Duterte age 37
JD Vance born 1984-08-02
Abdullah II of Jordan age 20
William, Prince of Wales age 6 months
Helmut Schmidt age 64
Stephen Harper age 23
Donald Tusk age 25
Corazon Aquino age 49
James Watson age 54
John Kerry age 39
Madeleine Albright age 45
Hamid Karzai age 25
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 15
Jacinda Ardern age 2
José Mujica age 47
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 58
Yoshihide Suga age 34
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 14
Andrzej Duda age 10
Thabo Mbeki age 40
Harald V of Norway age 45
Viktor Yushchenko age 28
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 28
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 45
Jens Stoltenberg age 23
Slobodan Milošević age 41
Vajiralongkorn age 30
Enver Hoxha age 74
Kaja Kallas age 5
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 19
Jacob Zuma age 40
Park Geun-hye age 30
Martti Ahtisaari age 45
Zuzana Čaputová age 9
Moon Jae-in age 29
Mitt Romney age 35
Juan Manuel Santos age 31
Matteo Renzi age 7
Pedro Sánchez age 10
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 47
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 51
Jiang Zemin age 56
Friedrich Merz age 27
Sauli Niinistö age 34
Eduard Shevardnadze age 54
Romano Prodi age 43
Giuseppe Conte age 18
Claudia Sheinbaum age 20
Imran Khan age 30
Ebrahim Raisi age 22
Cyril Ramaphosa age 30
Serzh Sargsyan age 28
Pranab Mukherjee age 47
Maia Sandu age 10
Vyacheslav Molotov age 92
Joachim Gauck age 42
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 35
Jean-Claude Juncker age 28
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 25
Francis Crick age 66
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi age 11
Li Keqiang age 27
Harold Macmillan age 88
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 2
Kersti Kaljulaid age 13
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 22