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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
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Elizabeth II age 53
Fidel Castro age 52
Jimmy Carter age 54
Hirohito age 78
Leonid Brezhnev age 72
Josip Broz Tito age 87
Anwar Sadat age 60
Erich Honecker age 66
Hafez al-Assad age 48
Walter Scheel age 59
Baudouin of Belgium age 48
Hua Guofeng age 58
Chiang Ching-kuo age 69
João Figueiredo age 61
Lê Duẩn age 72
Tôn Đức Thắng age 90
Kim Il-sung age 67
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 53
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 64
José López Portillo age 58
Pol Pot age 54
Kurt Waldheim age 60
Margaret Thatcher age 53
Helmut Schmidt age 60
Menachem Begin age 65
Alexei Kosygin age 75
Robert McNamara age 62
P. W. Botha age 63
Raymond Barre age 55
Masayoshi Ōhira age 69
Roy Jenkins age 58
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 64
Joseph Luns age 67
Jack Lynch age 61
Mustafa Khalil age 58
Halfdan T. Mahler age 56
Sun Yun-suan age 65
Morarji Desai age 83
Giulio Andreotti age 60
Kaysone Phomvihane age 58
Muhammad Ali al-Halabi age 42
Phạm Văn Đồng age 73
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 69
Warren E. Burger age 71
Saddam Hussein age 42
Walter Mondale age 51
Li Xiannian age 69
Cyrus Vance age 62
William H. Webster age 55
Thurgood Marshall age 70
William Rehnquist age 54
John Paul Stevens age 59
William J. Brennan Jr. age 73
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
Al Gore age 31
Dick Cheney age 38
Dan Quayle age 32
Bill Clinton age 32
Ferdinand Marcos age 61
Suharto age 57
Mobutu Sese Seko age 48
Jorge Rafael Videla age 53
Agostinho Neto age 56
Seretse Khama age 57
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 54
Ziaur Rahman age 43
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 64
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 62
Chadli Bendjedid age 50
Aristides Pereira age 55
Souphanouvong age 69
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 32
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 63
Ahmed Abdallah age 59
Haxhi Lleshi age 65
Julio César Turbay age 62
Spiros Cyprianou age 46
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 52
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 68
David Padilla age 51
Lol Mahamat Choua age 39
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 55
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 41
Urho Kekkonen age 78
Fred Akuffo age 42
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 79
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 57
Luís Cabral age 48
Arthur Chung age 61
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 27
Policarpo Paz García age 46
Kristján Eldjárn age 62
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 66
Patrick Hillery age 56
Isaac Navon age 58
Sandro Pertini age 82
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 73
Daniel arap Moi age 54
Elias Sarkis age 54
William Richard Tolbert age 66
Didier Ratsiraka age 42
Hastings Banda age 89
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 41
Moussa Traoré age 42
Anton Buttigieg age 67
Mustafa Ould Salek age 43
Samora Moisés Machel age 45
Ne Win age 68
Hammer DeRoburt age 56
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 53
Olusegun Obasanjo age 42
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 54
António Ramalho Eanes age 44
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 61
Juvénal Habyarimana age 42
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 72
France-Albert René age 43
Siaka Stevens age 73
Benjamin Sheares age 71
Viktor Avbelj age 65
Johan Ferrier age 69
Hans Hürlimann age 61
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 41
Julius Nyerere age 57
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 55
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 43
Ellis Clarke age 61
Habib Bourguiba age 75
Fahri Korutürk age 75
Yusuf Lule age 67
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 61
Aparicio Méndez age 74
Luis Herrera Campins age 54
Kenneth Kaunda age 55
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
Pierre Trudeau age 59
Paul Biya age 46
Hafizullah Amin age 49
Malcolm Fraser age 48
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 43
Wilfried Martens age 43
Mehmet Shehu age 66
George Cadle Price age 60
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 49
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 52
Tom Adams age 47
Joseph Conombo age 62
Patrick John age 41
Shah Azizur Rahman age 53
Henri Maïdou age 43
Salim Ben Ali age 61
Maphevu Dlamini age 57
Kamisese Mara age 59
Léon Mébiame age 44
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 72
Maurice Bishop age 34
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 55
João Bernardo Vieira age 40
Forbes Burnham age 56
György Lázár age 54
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 66
Michael Manley age 54
Mudar Badran age 45
Anker Jørgensen age 56
Dries van Agt age 48
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 49
Salim al-Huss age 49
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 40
Gaston Thorn age 50
Hussein Onn age 57
Dom Mintoff age 62
Ahmed Ould Bouceif age 45
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 78
Momčilo Cemović age 50
Maati Bouabid age 51
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
Ilie Verdeț age 54
Paul Southwell age 65
John Compton age 54
Tufuga Efi age 41
Abdou Diouf age 43
Kuan Yew Lee age 55
Peter Colotka age 54
Peter Kenilorea age 35