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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
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
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

Elizabeth II age 52
Fidel Castro age 52
Jimmy Carter age 54
Hirohito age 77
Leonid Brezhnev age 72
Josip Broz Tito age 86
Anwar Sadat age 60
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 59
Erich Honecker age 66
Hafez al-Assad age 48
Walter Scheel age 59
Baudouin of Belgium age 48
Hua Guofeng age 57
Chiang Ching-kuo age 68
Ernesto Geisel age 71
Lê Duẩn age 71
Tôn Đức Thắng age 90
Kim Il-sung age 66
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 52
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 64
José López Portillo age 58
Pol Pot age 53
Helmut Schmidt age 60
Menachem Begin age 65
James Callaghan age 66
Alexei Kosygin age 74
P. W. Botha age 63
Raymond Barre age 54
Masayoshi Ōhira age 68
Jack Lynch age 61
Sun Yun-suan age 65
Mustafa Khalil age 58
Morarji Desai age 82
Giulio Andreotti age 60
Kaysone Phomvihane age 58
Muhammad Ali al-Halabi age 42
Phạm Văn Đồng age 72
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 69
Warren E. Burger age 71
Saddam Hussein age 41
Walter Mondale age 51
Li Xiannian age 69
Cyrus Vance age 61
William H. Webster age 54
Thurgood Marshall age 70
William Rehnquist age 54
John Paul Stevens age 58
William J. Brennan Jr. age 72
Potter Stewart age 64
Byron White age 61
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 71
Anthony Kennedy age 42
Joe Biden age 36
Daniel Inouye age 54
Margaret Thatcher age 53
Al Gore age 30
Dick Cheney age 37
Dan Quayle age 31
Bill Clinton age 32
Ferdinand Marcos age 61
Suharto age 57
Souphanouvong age 69
Haxhi Lleshi age 65
Rabah Bitat age 53
Agostinho Neto age 56
Jorge Rafael Videla age 53
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 63
Ziaur Rahman age 43
David Padilla age 51
Seretse Khama age 57
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 63
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 32
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 54
Aristides Pereira age 55
Julio César Turbay age 62
Ahmed Abdallah age 59
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 52
Spiros Cyprianou age 46
Mobutu Sese Seko age 48
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 62
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 67
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 55
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 41
Urho Kekkonen age 78
Fred Akuffo age 41
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 79
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 57
Luís Cabral age 47
Arthur Chung age 61
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 27
Policarpo Paz García age 46
Kristján Eldjárn age 62
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 65
Patrick Hillery age 55
Isaac Navon age 57
Sandro Pertini age 82
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 73
Daniel arap Moi age 54
Elias Sarkis age 54
William Richard Tolbert age 65
Didier Ratsiraka age 42
Hastings Banda age 89
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 41
Moussa Traoré age 42
Anton Buttigieg age 66
Mustafa Ould Salek age 43
Samora Moisés Machel age 45
Ne Win age 67
Hammer DeRoburt age 56
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 53
Olusegun Obasanjo age 41
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 54
António Ramalho Eanes age 44
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 40
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 61
Juvénal Habyarimana age 41
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 72
France-Albert René age 43
Siaka Stevens age 73
Benjamin Sheares age 71
Viktor Avbelj age 64
Sergej Kraigher age 64
Johan Ferrier age 68
Hans Hürlimann age 60
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 41
Julius Nyerere age 56
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 54
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 43
Ellis Clarke age 61
Habib Bourguiba age 75
Fahri Korutürk age 75
Idi Amin age 54
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 60
Aparicio Méndez age 74
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 56
Kenneth Kaunda age 54
Arístides Royo age 38
Alfredo Stroessner age 66
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 57
Siad Barre age 59
Park Chung-hee age 61
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 72
Gaafar Nimeiry age 48
B. J. Vorster age 63
Mehmet Shehu age 66
Malcolm Fraser age 48
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 43
Tom Adams age 47
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 59
George Cadle Price age 60
Joseph Conombo age 61
Paul Biya age 45
Pierre Trudeau age 59
Henri Maïdou age 42
Hissène Habré age 36
Salim Ben Ali age 61
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 49
Patrick John age 41
Maphevu Dlamini age 56
Kamisese Mara age 58
Kalevi Sorsa age 48
Léon Mébiame age 44
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 71
Eric Gairy age 56
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 55
João Bernardo Vieira age 39
Forbes Burnham age 55
György Lázár age 54
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 65
Michael Manley age 54
Mudar Badran age 45
Anker Jørgensen age 56
Dries van Agt age 47
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 48
Salim al-Huss age 49
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi age 39
Gaston Thorn age 50
Hussein Onn age 56
Dom Mintoff age 62
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 78
Momčilo Cemović age 50
Ahmed Osman age 49
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 52
Robert Muldoon age 57
Odvar Nordli age 51
Carlos Mota Pinto age 42
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 46
Manea Mănescu age 62
Paul Southwell age 65
Tufuga Efi age 40
Abdou Diouf age 43
Kuan Yew Lee age 55
Peter Colotka age 54
Peter Kenilorea age 35
Henck Arron age 42
Ola Ullsten age 47
Miguel Trovoada age 42
Edward Sokoine age 40
Kriangsak Chamanan age 61
Lynden Pindling age 48