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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 76
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 61
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 60
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 56
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Saddam Hussein age 50
President - Iraq
Ali Khamenei age 48
President - Iran
Hirohito age 86
Emperor - Japan
Hosni Mubarak age 59
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 70
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 84
Supreme Leader - Iran
Erich Honecker age 74
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 56
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 67
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 56
Monarch - Belgium
Zhao Ziyang age 67
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Chiang Ching-kuo age 77
President - Republic of China
José Sarney age 57
President - Brazil
Li Xiannian age 78
President - People's Republic of China
Vo Chi Cong age 74
President - Vietnam
Vinicio Cerezo age 44
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 75
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Miguel de la Madrid age 52
President - Mexico
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 67
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 61
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Jacques Chirac age 54
Prime Minister - France
Deng Xiaoping age 82
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Helmut Kohl age 57
Chancellor - Germany
Rajiv Gandhi age 42
Prime Minister - India
Isaac Shamir age 71
Prime Minister - Israel
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 69
Prime Minister - Japan
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 67
President - International Olympic Committee
Jacques Delors age 62
President - European Commission
Amintore Fanfani age 79
Prime Minister - Italy
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 57
Chairman - Soviet Union
Kaysone Phomvihane age 66
Prime Minister - Laos
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 68
Secretary General - NATO
Charles Haughey age 61
Taoiseach - Ireland
Pham Hung age 75
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Atef Sedki age 56
Prime Minister - Egypt
Halfdan T. Mahler age 64
Director-General - World Health Organization
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 55
Prime Minister - Syria
Barber Conable age 64
President - World Bank
Yu Kuo-hwa age 73
Premier - Republic of China
William Rehnquist age 62
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
George H. W. Bush age 63
Vice President - United States
Lee Teng-hui age 64
Vice President - Republic of China
William J. Crowe age 62
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
James Baker age 57
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
George Shultz age 66
Secretary Of State - United States
Nigel Lawson age 55
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Douglas Hurd age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edwin Meese age 55
Attorney General - United States
Carl E. Vuono age 52
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Antonin Scalia age 51
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall age 79
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 67
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 81
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 70
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 57
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Neil Kinnock age 45
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
David Steel age 49
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 69
President - African National Congress
Gerry Adams age 38
President - Sinn Féin
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 54
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 48
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 51
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 44
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 39
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 43
Senate - United States
Dan Quayle age 40
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 62
Senate - United States
Dick Cheney age 46
House of Representatives - United States
John Lewis age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Bill Clinton age 40
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Paul II age 67
Pope - Vatican City
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 59
King - Thailand
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 49
Monarch - Spain
Augusto Pinochet age 71
President - Chile
Suharto age 66
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 69
President - Romania
Margrethe II of Denmark age 47
Monarch - Denmark
Corazon Aquino age 54
President - Philippines
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 41
Monarch - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 49
King - Netherlands
Thomas Sankara age 37
President - Burkina Faso
Daniel Ortega age 41
President - Nicaragua
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 46
Sultan - Oman
Kurt Waldheim age 68
President - Austria
Mobutu Sese Seko age 56
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Yoweri Museveni age 42
President - Uganda
Francesco Cossiga age 59
President - Italy
José Eduardo dos Santos age 44
President - Angola
Mswati III age 19
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 54
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 51
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 84
President - Tunisia
Teodoro Obiang age 45
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hastings Banda age 97
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 57
President - Iceland
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 45
President - Costa Rica
Hassan II age 58
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 63
President - Zambia
Alan García age 38
President - Peru
Kenan Evren age 70
President - Turkey
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 62
President - Pakistan
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 50
President - Ethiopia
Olav V of Norway age 84
Monarch - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 74
President - Paraguay
Mauno Koivisto age 63
President - Finland
Raúl Alfonsín age 60
President - Argentina
Chun Doo-hwan age 56
President - South Korea
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 81
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 62
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 64
Prince - Monaco
Mário Soares age 62
President - Portugal
Mathieu Kérékou age 53
President - Benin
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 31
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 67
President - Somalia
Joaquim Chissano age 47
President - Mozambique
Juvénal Habyarimana age 50
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 69
President - United Arab Emirates
P. W. Botha age 71
State President - South Africa
Jerry Rawlings age 40
President - Ghana
Zail Singh age 71
President - India
João Bernardo Vieira age 48
President - Guinea-Bissau
Chaim Herzog age 68
President - Israel
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 49
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 51
President - Togo
Lansana Conté age 52
President - Guinea
Abdou Diouf age 51
President - Senegal
Hissène Habré age 44
President - Chad
Samuel Doe age 36
President - Liberia
Quett Masire age 62
President - Botswana
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 66
Monarch - Luxembourg
Canaan Banana age 51
President - Zimbabwe
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 70
President - Djibouti
Chadli Bendjedid age 58
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 63
President - Cape Verde
Moussa Traoré age 50
President - Mali
Ibrahim Babangida age 45
President - Nigeria
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 63
President - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 61
Emir - Kuwait
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 62
President - Tanzania
Souphanouvong age 78
President - Laos
Julio María Sanguinetti age 51
President - Uruguay
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 79
President - Bolivia
Didier Ratsiraka age 50
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 69
Monarch - Tonga
Joaquín Balaguer age 80
President - Dominican Republic
France-Albert René age 51
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 49
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 57
President - Bangladesh
Patrick Hillery age 64
President - Ireland
Amine Gemayel age 45
President - Lebanon
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 80
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 54
Monarch - Bahrain
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 40
President - Burundi
León Febres-Cordero age 56
President - Ecuador
Wee Kim Wee age 71
President - Singapore
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 65
President - Colombia
Christos Sartzetakis age 58
President - Greece
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 54
Emir - Qatar
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 45
President - Mauritania
André Kolingba age 50
President - Central African Republic
Ahmed Abdallah age 68
President - Comoros
Jaime Lusinchi age 63
President - Venezuela
Spiros Cyprianou age 54
President - Cyprus
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 49
King - Lesotho
José Napoleón Duarte age 61
President - El Salvador
Hammer DeRoburt age 64
President - Nauru
Ivan Stambolić age 50
President - Serbia
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 50
President - Sierra Leone
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 45
President - Sudan
Desmond Hoyte age 58
President - Guyana
Henri Namphy age 54
President - Haiti
José Azcona del Hoyo age 60
President - Honduras
Paul Xuereb age 64
President - Malta
Kazimierz Sabbat age 74
President - Poland
John Haglelgam age 37
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Fred Ramdat Misier age 60
President - Suriname
Eric Arturo Delvalle age 50
President - Panama
Phoumi Vongvichit age 78
President - Laos
Ieremia Tabai age 37
President - Kiribati
San Yu age 69
President - Myanmar
Pierre Aubert age 60
President - Switzerland
Noor Hassanali age 68
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Lazarus Salii age 50
President - Palau
Ati George Sokomanu age 51
President - Vanuatu
Sebastiano Baggio age 74
President - Vatican City
Carlo Franciosi age 52
Captain Regent - San Marino
Renzo Renzi age 31
Captain Regent - San Marino
France Popit age 65
President - Slovenia
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 66
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 62
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Robert Mugabe age 63
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Kuan Yew Lee age 63
Prime Minister - Singapore
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 48
Prime Minister - Norway
Hassanal Bolkiah I of Brunei age 41
Prime Minister - Brunei
Turgut Özal age 59
Prime Minister - Turkey
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 48
Prime Minister - Portugal