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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
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
People
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 78
Supreme Leader
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Iran
Saddam Hussein
age 43
President
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Iraq
Hirohito
age 79
Emperor
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Japan
Kim Il-sung
age 68
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Ronald Reagan
age 70
President
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United States
Elizabeth II
age 54
Queen
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United Kingdom
Lê Duẩn
age 73
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Leonid Brezhnev
age 74
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Hafez al-Assad
age 50
President
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Syria
Hua Guofeng
age 60
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Fidel Castro
age 54
President
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Cuba
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 70
President
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Republic of China
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
age 55
President
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France
Abolhassan Banisadr
age 47
President
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Iran
Anwar Sadat
age 62
President
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Egypt
José López Portillo
age 60
President
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Mexico
Nguyen Huu Tho
age 70
President
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Vietnam
Pol Pot
age 55
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Margaret Thatcher
age 55
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Zhao Ziyang
age 61
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Sun Yun-suan
age 67
Premier
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Republic of China
Helmut Schmidt
age 62
Chancellor
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Germany
Indira Gandhi
age 63
Prime Minister
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India
Menachem Begin
age 67
Prime Minister
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Israel
Arnaldo Forlani
age 55
Prime Minister
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Italy
Kaysone Phomvihane
age 60
Prime Minister
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Laos
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm
age 49
Prime Minister
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Syria
Phạm Văn Đồng
age 75
Prime Minister
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Vietnam
Wojciech Jaruzelski
age 57
Prime Minister
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Poland
Warren E. Burger
age 73
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
George H. W. Bush
age 56
Vice President
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United States
Li Xiannian
age 71
Vice Chairman
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Communist Party of China
Alexander Haig
age 56
Secretary Of State
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United States
William H. Webster
age 57
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
William Rehnquist
age 56
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Hu Yaobang
age 65
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
Byron White
age 63
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens
age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 73
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall
age 72
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 66
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 74
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 47
US Court Of Appeals
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US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer
age 42
US Court Of Appeals
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US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy
age 44
US Court Of Appeals
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US Judiciary
Joe Biden
age 38
Senate
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United States
Dan Quayle
age 34
Senate
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United States
Daniel Inouye
age 56
Senate
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United States
Al Gore
age 32
House of Representatives
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United States
Dick Cheney
age 40
House of Representatives
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United States
Deng Xiaoping
age 76
Communist Party of China
Jimmy Carter
age 56
Democratic Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
age 34
Democratic Party (United States)
Barack Obama
age 19
Democratic Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 86
Nazi Party
Jiang Zemin
age 54
Communist Party of China
Henry Kissinger
age 57
Republican Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 38
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
age 73
Communist Party of China
Walter Mondale
age 53
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 52
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 64
Communist Party of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 72
Communist Party of China
Wen Jiabao
age 38
Communist Party of China
Li Keqiang
age 25
Communist Party of China
James Baker
age 50
Democratic Party (United States)
Kamala Harris
age 16
Democratic Party (United States)
Mike Pence
age 21
Republican Party (United States)
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 57
Kuomintang
Lien Chan
age 44
Kuomintang
David Souter
age 41
Republican Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 50
Republican Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 68
Democratic Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 72
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 37
Democratic Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
age 33
Democratic Party (United States)
Liz Cheney
age 14
Republican Party (United States)
Clark Clifford
age 74
Democratic Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 52
Republican Party (United States)
Condoleezza Rice
age 26
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 41
Democratic Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 61
Democratic Party (United States)
Souphanouvong
age 71
President
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Laos
Colin Powell
age 43
General
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United States Army
Haxhi Lleshi
age 67
President
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Albania
Chadli Bendjedid
age 51
President
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Algeria
José Eduardo dos Santos
age 38
President
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Angola
Jorge Rafael Videla
age 55
President
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Argentina
Rudolf Kirchschläger
age 65
President
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Austria
Ziaur Rahman
age 45
President
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Bangladesh
Mathieu Kérékou
age 47
President
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Benin
Luis García Meza Tejada
age 51
President
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Bolivia
Quett Masire
age 55
President
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Botswana
Saye Zerbo
age 48
President
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Burkina Faso
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza
age 34
President
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Burundi
Ahmadou Ahidjo
age 56
President
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Cameroon
Aristides Pereira
age 57
President
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Cape Verde
David Dacko
age 50
President
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Central African Republic
Goukouni Oueddei
age 39
President
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Chad
Julio César Turbay
age 64
President
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Colombia
Ahmed Abdallah
age 61
President
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Comoros
Rodrigo Carazo Odio
age 54
President
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Costa Rica
Spiros Cyprianou
age 48
President
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Cyprus
Mobutu Sese Seko
age 50
President
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
Hassan Gouled Aptidon
age 64
President
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Djibouti
Antonio Guzmán Fernández
age 70
President
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Dominican Republic
Jaime Roldos Aquilera
age 40
President
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Ecuador
Teodoro Obiang
age 38
President
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Equatorial Guinea
Mengistu Haile Mariam
age 43
President
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Ethiopia
Tosiwo Nakayama
age 49
President
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Federated States of Micronesia
Urho Kekkonen
age 80
President
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Finland
Hilla Limann
age 46
President
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Ghana
Konstantinos Karamanlis
age 73
President
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Greece
Ahmed Sékou Touré
age 59
President
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Guinea
João Bernardo Vieira
age 41
President
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Guinea-Bissau
Forbes Burnham
age 58
President
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Guyana
Jean-Claude Duvalier
age 29
President
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Haiti
Policarpo Paz García
age 48
President
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Honduras
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
age 50
President
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Iceland
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
age 67
President
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India
Suharto
age 59
President
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Indonesia
Patrick Hillery
age 57
President
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Ireland
Isaac Navon
age 59
President
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Israel
Sandro Pertini
age 84
President
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Italy
Félix Houphouët-Boigny
age 75
President
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Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi
age 56
President
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Kenya
Ieremia Tabai
age 31
President
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Kiribati
Elias Sarkis
age 56
President
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Lebanon
Didier Ratsiraka
age 44
President
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Madagascar
Hastings Banda
age 91
President
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Malawi
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
age 43
President
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Maldives
Moussa Traoré
age 44
President
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Mali
Anton Buttigieg
age 69
President
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Malta
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla
age 41
President
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Mauritania
Samora Moisés Machel
age 47
President
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Mozambique
Ne Win
age 69
President
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Myanmar
Hammer DeRoburt
age 58
President
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Nauru
Shehu Shagari
age 56
President
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Nigeria
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
age 56
President
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Pakistan
António Ramalho Eanes
age 46
President
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Portugal
Nicolae Ceaușescu
age 63
President
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Romania
Juvénal Habyarimana
age 43
President
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Rwanda
Abdou Diouf
age 45
President
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Senegal
France-Albert René
age 45
President
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Seychelles
Siaka Stevens
age 75
President
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Sierra Leone
Benjamin Sheares
age 73
President
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Singapore
Viktor Avbelj
age 67
President
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Slovenia
Henk Chin A Sen
age 47
President
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Suriname
Manuel Pinto da Costa
age 43
President
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São Tomé and Príncipe
Julius Nyerere
age 58
President
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Tanzania
Dawda Kairaba Jawara
age 56
President
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The Gambia
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma
age 45
President
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Togo
Ellis Clarke
age 63
President
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Trinidad and Tobago
Habib Bourguiba
age 77
President
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Tunisia
Kenan Evren
age 63
President
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Turkey
Milton Obote
age 55
President
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Uganda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
age 62
President
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United Arab Emirates
Aparicio Méndez
age 76
President
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Uruguay
Ati George Sokomanu
age 45
President
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Vanuatu
Luis Herrera Campins
age 55
President
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Venezuela
Kenneth Kaunda
age 56
President
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Zambia
Canaan Banana
age 44
President
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Zimbabwe
Arístides Royo
age 40
President
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Panama
Alfredo Stroessner
age 68
President
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Paraguay
Fernando Belaúnde
age 68
President
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Peru
Ferdinand Marcos
age 63
Prime Minister
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Philippines
Siad Barre
age 61
President
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Somalia
Chun Doo-hwan
age 50
President
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South Korea
Junius Richard Jayewardene
age 74
President
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Sri Lanka
Gaafar Nimeiry
age 50
President
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Sudan
Aurelius Marie
age 76
President
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Dominica
Babrak Karmal
age 52
Prime Minister
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Afghanistan
Mehmet Shehu
age 68
Prime Minister
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Albania
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani
age 53
Prime Minister
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Algeria
Malcolm Fraser
age 50
Prime Minister
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Australia
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa
age 45
Prime Minister
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Bahrain
Shah Azizur Rahman
age 55
Prime Minister
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Bangladesh
Tom Adams
age 49
Prime Minister
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Barbados
Wilfried Martens
age 44
Prime Minister
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Belgium
George Cadle Price
age 62
Premier
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Belize
Paul Biya
age 48
Prime Minister
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Cameroon
Pierre Trudeau
age 61
Prime Minister
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Canada
Jean-Pierre Lebouder
age 37
Prime Minister
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Central African Republic
Salim Ben Ali
age 63
Prime Minister
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Comoros
Barkat Gourad Hamadou
age 51
Prime Minister
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Djibouti
Eugenia Charles
age 61
Prime Minister
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Dominica
Mabandla Dlamini
age 50
Prime Minister
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Eswatini
Kamisese Mara
age 60
Prime Minister
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Fiji
Mauno Koivisto
age 57
Prime Minister
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Finland
Léon Mébiame
age 46
Prime Minister
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Gabon
Georgios Rallis
age 62
Prime Minister
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Greece
Maurice Bishop
age 36
Prime Minister
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Grenada
Louis Lansana Beavogui
age 57
Prime Minister
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Guinea
György Lázár
age 56
Prime Minister
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Hungary
Gunnar Thoroddsen
age 70
Prime Minister
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Iceland
Edward Seaga
age 50
Prime Minister
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Jamaica
Mudar Badran
age 47
Prime Minister
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Jordan
Anker Jørgensen
age 58
Prime Minister
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Kingdom of Denmark
Dries van Agt
age 50
Prime Minister
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Kingdom of the Netherlands
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah
age 50
Prime Minister
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Kuwait
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