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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
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
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26

People

Ronald Reagan age 74
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 58
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 58
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 54
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Saddam Hussein age 47
President - Iraq
Ali Khamenei age 45
President - Iran
Hirohito age 83
Emperor - Japan
Hosni Mubarak age 56
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 68
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 82
Supreme Leader - Iran
Erich Honecker age 72
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 54
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 65
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 54
King - Belgium
Chiang Ching-kuo age 74
President - Republic of China
José Sarney age 54
President - Brazil
Hu Yaobang age 69
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Lê Duẩn age 78
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Li Xiannian age 75
President - People's Republic of China
Trường Chinh age 78
President - Vietnam
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 54
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 73
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Miguel de la Madrid age 50
President - Mexico
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 65
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Deng Xiaoping age 80
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Helmut Kohl age 55
Chancellor - Germany
Shimon Peres age 61
Prime Minister - Israel
Rajiv Gandhi age 40
Prime Minister - India
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 61
Prime Minister - Poland
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 66
Prime Minister - Japan
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 64
President - International Olympic Committee
Bettino Craxi age 51
Prime Minister - Italy
Zhao Ziyang age 65
Premier - People's Republic of China
Jacques Delors age 59
President - European Commission
Laurent Fabius age 38
Prime Minister - France
Nikolai Tikhonov age 79
Chairman - Soviet Union
Milka Planinc age 60
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kaysone Phomvihane age 64
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 79
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Garret FitzGerald age 59
Taoiseach - Ireland
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 65
Secretary General - NATO
Kamal Hassan Ali age 52
Prime Minister - Egypt
Halfdan T. Mahler age 61
Director-General - World Health Organization
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 53
Prime Minister - Syria
Yu Kuo-hwa age 71
Premier - Republic of China
Alden W. Clausen age 62
President - World Bank
Warren E. Burger age 77
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
George H. W. Bush age 60
Vice President - United States
Lee Teng-hui age 62
Vice President - Republic of China
John William Vessey Jr. age 62
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
James Baker age 54
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
George Shultz age 64
Secretary Of State - United States
Nigel Lawson age 53
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Leon Brittan age 45
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edwin Meese age 53
Attorney General - United States
John A. Wickham Jr. age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
William H. Webster age 61
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Thurgood Marshall age 76
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 64
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 78
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 67
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 77
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 55
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Neil Kinnock age 43
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
David Steel age 47
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 67
President - African National Congress
Gerry Adams age 36
President - Sinn Féin
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 52
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 49
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 46
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 48
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 42
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 37
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 41
Senate - United States
Dan Quayle age 38
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 60
Senate - United States
Dick Cheney age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Bill Clinton age 38
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Paul II age 64
Pope - Vatican City
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 57
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 67
President - Philippines
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 47
King - Spain
Augusto Pinochet age 69
President - Chile
Suharto age 63
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 67
President - Romania
Margrethe II of Denmark age 44
Queen - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 38
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 47
Queen - Netherlands
Thomas Sankara age 35
President - Burkina Faso
Muhammadu Buhari age 42
President - Nigeria
Daniel Ortega age 39
President - Nicaragua
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 44
Sultan - Oman
Mobutu Sese Seko age 54
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Julius Nyerere age 63
President - Tanzania
José Eduardo dos Santos age 42
President - Angola
Paul Biya age 52
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 49
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 81
President - Tunisia
Teodoro Obiang age 42
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hastings Banda age 95
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 54
President - Iceland
Hassan II age 55
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 60
President - Zambia
Kenan Evren age 67
President - Turkey
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 60
President - Pakistan
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 47
President - Ethiopia
Sandro Pertini age 88
President - Italy
Olav V of Norway age 81
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 72
President - Paraguay
Mauno Koivisto age 61
President - Finland
Milton Obote age 59
President - Uganda
Samora Moisés Machel age 51
President - Mozambique
Raúl Alfonsín age 58
President - Argentina
Chun Doo-hwan age 54
President - South Korea
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 79
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 60
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 61
Prince - Monaco
Mathieu Kérékou age 51
President - Benin
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 29
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 65
President - Somalia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 48
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 66
President - United Arab Emirates
P. W. Botha age 69
State President - South Africa
Jerry Rawlings age 37
President - Ghana
Zail Singh age 68
President - India
João Bernardo Vieira age 45
President - Guinea-Bissau
Chaim Herzog age 66
President - Israel
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 47
President - Maldives
Agatha Barbara age 62
President - Malta
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 49
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 33
President - Haiti
Lansana Conté age 50
President - Guinea
Abdou Diouf age 49
President - Senegal
Hissène Habré age 42
President - Chad
Quett Masire age 59
President - Botswana
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 64
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Canaan Banana age 49
President - Zimbabwe
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 70
President - Austria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 68
President - Djibouti
Chadli Bendjedid age 55
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 61
President - Cape Verde
Moussa Traoré age 48
President - Mali
Fernando Belaúnde age 72
President - Peru
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 60
President - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 58
Emir - Kuwait
Souphanouvong age 75
President - Laos
Julio María Sanguinetti age 49
President - Uruguay
Didier Ratsiraka age 48
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 66
King - Tonga
Gaafar Nimeiry age 54
President - Sudan
António Ramalho Eanes age 50
President - Portugal
France-Albert René age 49
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 47
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 55
President - Bangladesh
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 58
President - Dominican Republic
Patrick Hillery age 61
President - Ireland
Belisario Betancur age 62
President - Colombia
Amine Gemayel age 43
President - Lebanon
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 78
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 51
Emir - Bahrain
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 38
President - Burundi
León Febres-Cordero age 54
President - Ecuador
Christos Sartzetakis age 56
President - Greece
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 52
Emir - Qatar
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 43
President - Mauritania
André Kolingba age 48
President - Central African Republic
Siaka Stevens age 79
President - Sierra Leone
Ahmed Abdallah age 65
President - Comoros
Jaime Lusinchi age 60
President - Venezuela
Spiros Cyprianou age 52
President - Cyprus
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 46
King - Lesotho
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 71
President - Bolivia
José Napoleón Duarte age 59
President - El Salvador
Forbes Burnham age 62
President - Guyana
Hammer DeRoburt age 62
President - Nauru
Haruo Remeliik age 51
President - Palau
Tosiwo Nakayama age 53
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 48
President - Sierra Leone
Luis Alberto Monge age 59
President - Costa Rica
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 58
President - Honduras
Fred Ramdat Misier age 58
President - Suriname
Kurt Furgler age 60
President - Switzerland
Ieremia Tabai age 35
President - Kiribati
San Yu age 67
President - Myanmar
Ellis Clarke age 67
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Ati George Sokomanu age 49
President - Vanuatu
Sebastiano Baggio age 71
President - Vatican City
Giuseppe Amici age 46
Captain Regent - San Marino
Branislav Šoškić age 62
President - Montenegro
France Popit age 63
President - Slovenia
Marino Bollini age 52
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 64
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 59
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Robert Mugabe age 61
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Kuan Yew Lee age 61
Prime Minister - Singapore
Hassanal Bolkiah I of Brunei age 38
Prime Minister - Brunei
Olof Palme age 58
Prime Minister - Sweden
Turgut Özal age 57
Prime Minister - Turkey