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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

People

Ronald Reagan age 72
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 57
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 56
President - Cuba
Saddam Hussein age 45
President - Iraq
Ali Khamenei age 44
President - Iran
Kim Il-sung age 71
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Hirohito age 82
Emperor - Japan
Hosni Mubarak age 54
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 66
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 80
Supreme Leader - Iran
Yuri Andropov age 68
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Erich Honecker age 70
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 52
President - Syria
Baudouin of Belgium age 52
King - Belgium
Karl Carstens age 68
President - Germany
Chiang Ching-kuo age 73
President - Republic of China
Hu Yaobang age 67
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Miguel de la Madrid age 48
President - Mexico
João Figueiredo age 65
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 76
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Efraín Ríos Montt age 56
President - Guatemala
Trường Chinh age 76
President - Vietnam
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 63
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 57
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Indira Gandhi age 65
Prime Minister - India
Deng Xiaoping age 78
Chairman of the Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Helmut Kohl age 53
Chancellor - Germany
Menachem Begin age 69
Prime Minister - Israel
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 59
Prime Minister - Poland
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 62
President - International Olympic Committee
Zhao Ziyang age 63
Premier - People's Republic of China
Pierre Mauroy age 54
Prime Minister - France
P. W. Botha age 67
Prime Minister - South Africa
Amintore Fanfani age 75
Prime Minister - Italy
Nikolai Tikhonov age 77
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Gaston Thorn age 54
President - European Commission
Milka Planinc age 58
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kaysone Phomvihane age 62
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 77
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Garret FitzGerald age 57
Taoiseach - Ireland
Joseph Luns age 71
Secretary General - NATO
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Halfdan T. Mahler age 60
Director-General - World Health Organization
Sun Yun-suan age 69
Premier - Republic of China
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 51
Prime Minister - Syria
Alden W. Clausen age 60
President - World Bank
Warren E. Burger age 75
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
George H. W. Bush age 58
Vice President - United States
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 40
Vice President - Iraq
Nie Rongzhen age 83
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Bernard W. Rogers age 61
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
John William Vessey Jr. age 60
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
George Shultz age 62
Secretary of State - United States
Geoffrey Howe age 56
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Caspar Weinberger age 65
Secretary of Defense - United States
Donald Regan age 64
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William French Smith age 65
Attorney General - United States
Edward C. Meyer age 54
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
William J. Casey age 70
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
William H. Webster age 59
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor age 53
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Oliver Tambo age 65
President - African National Congress
Thurgood Marshall age 74
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 63
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Michael Foot age 69
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William J. Brennan Jr. age 77
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 65
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Steel age 45
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 75
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield age 66
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Cecil Parkinson age 51
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 50
President - Sinn Féin
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 50
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 47
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 44
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 46
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Jeff Sessions age 36
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Joe Biden age 40
Senate - United States
Dan Quayle age 36
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 58
Senate - United States
William Cohen age 42
Senate - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 62
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 35
House of Representatives - United States
John McCain age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Dick Cheney age 42
House of Representatives - United States
John Major age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leon Panetta age 44
House of Representatives - United States
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roy Jenkins age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jack Straw age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Neil Kinnock age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nigel Lawson age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Smith age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Denis Healey age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Les Aspin age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Douglas Hurd age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leon Brittan age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Norman Lamont age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Waddington age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Merlyn Rees age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 36
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Mario Cuomo age 50
Governor of New York - United States
Michael Dukakis age 49
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Lamar Alexander age 42
Governor of Tennessee - United States
George Deukmejian age 54
Governor of California - United States
Mark White age 43
Governor of Texas - United States
Chuck Robb age 43
Governor of Virginia - United States
Thomas Kean age 48
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Harry Hughes age 56
Governor of Maryland - United States
Dick Celeste age 45
Governor of Ohio - United States
Joe Frank Harris age 47
Governor of Georgia - United States
Robert D. Orr age 65
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Paul II age 62
Pope - Vatican City
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 55
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 65
President - Philippines
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 45
King - Spain
Augusto Pinochet age 67
President - Chile
Suharto age 61
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 65
President - Romania
Margrethe II of Denmark age 43
Queen - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 36
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 45
Queen - Netherlands
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 42
Sultan - Oman
Mobutu Sese Seko age 52
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Julius Nyerere age 61
President - Tanzania
José Eduardo dos Santos age 40
President - Angola
Paul Biya age 50
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 47
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 79
President - Tunisia
Teodoro Obiang age 40
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hastings Banda age 93
President - Malawi
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 62
King - Saudi Arabia
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 53
President - Iceland
Omar Bongo age 47
President - Gabon
Hassan II age 53
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 59
President - Zambia
Kenan Evren age 65
President - Turkey
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 58
President - Pakistan
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 45
President - Ethiopia
Sandro Pertini age 86
President - Italy
Olav V of Norway age 79
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 70
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 61
President - Guinea
Mauno Koivisto age 59
President - Finland
Milton Obote age 57
President - Uganda
Samora Moisés Machel age 49
President - Mozambique
Chun Doo-hwan age 52
President - South Korea
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 77
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 58
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 59
Prince - Monaco
Mathieu Kérékou age 49
President - Benin
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 27
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 63
President - Somalia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 46
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 64
President - United Arab Emirates
Jerry Rawlings age 35
President - Ghana
Zail Singh age 66
President - India
João Bernardo Vieira age 43
President - Guinea-Bissau
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 45
President - Maldives
Agatha Barbara age 60
President - Malta
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 47
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 31
President - Haiti
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 76
President - Greece
Abdou Diouf age 47
President - Senegal
Hissène Habré age 40
President - Chad
Isaac Navon age 62
President - Israel
Reynaldo Bignone age 55
President - Argentina
Quett Masire age 57
President - Botswana
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 62
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Canaan Banana age 47
President - Zimbabwe
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 68
President - Austria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 66
President - Djibouti
Chadli Bendjedid age 54
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 59
President - Cape Verde
Moussa Traoré age 46
President - Mali
Fernando Belaúnde age 70
President - Peru
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 58
President - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 56
Emir - Kuwait
Shehu Shagari age 58
President - Nigeria
Souphanouvong age 73
President - Laos
Didier Ratsiraka age 46
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 64
King - Tonga
Gaafar Nimeiry age 52
President - Sudan
António Ramalho Eanes age 48
President - Portugal
France-Albert René age 47
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 45
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 56
President - Dominican Republic
Patrick Hillery age 59
President - Ireland
Belisario Betancur age 60
President - Colombia