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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
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
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
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
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12

People

Ronald Reagan age 77
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 62
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 62
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 57
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Saddam Hussein age 51
President - Iraq
Ali Khamenei age 49
President - Iran
Hirohito age 87
Emperor - Japan
Hosni Mubarak age 60
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 71
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 85
Supreme Leader - Iran
Erich Honecker age 76
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 57
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 68
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 57
King - Belgium
Zhao Ziyang age 68
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Lee Teng-hui age 65
President - Republic of China
José Sarney age 58
President - Brazil
Yang Shangkun age 81
President - People's Republic of China
Vo Chi Cong age 76
President - Vietnam
Vinicio Cerezo age 45
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 76
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Miguel de la Madrid age 53
President - Mexico
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 68
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 62
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Deng Xiaoping age 84
Chairman of the Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Helmut Kohl age 58
Chancellor - Germany
Rajiv Gandhi age 44
Prime Minister - India
Isaac Shamir age 72
Prime Minister - Israel
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 68
President - International Olympic Committee
Jacques Delors age 63
President - European Commission
Li Peng age 59
Premier - People's Republic of China
Michel Rocard age 58
Prime Minister - France
Noboru Takeshita age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 58
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Ciriaco De Mita age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Kaysone Phomvihane age 67
Prime Minister - Laos
Manfred Wörner age 53
Secretary General - NATO
Charles Haughey age 62
Taoiseach - Ireland
Do Muoi age 71
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Atef Sedki age 58
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hiroshi Nakajima age 60
Director-General - World Health Organization
Mahmoud Zuabi age 53
Prime Minister - Syria
Barber Conable age 65
President - World Bank
Yu Kuo-hwa age 74
Premier - Republic of China
Branko Mikulić age 60
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
William Rehnquist age 63
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
George H. W. Bush age 64
Vice President - United States
Wang Zhen (general) age 80
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 46
Vice President - Iraq
Nie Rongzhen age 88
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William J. Crowe age 63
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
James Baker age 58
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Shultz age 67
Secretary of State - United States
Nigel Lawson age 56
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Frank Carlucci age 57
Secretary of Defense - United States
Douglas Hurd age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Carl E. Vuono age 53
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
William S. Sessions age 58
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Antonin Scalia age 52
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall age 80
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 52
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 68
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 82
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 71
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree age 50
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
David Young, Baron Young of Graffham age 56
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Sandra Day O'Connor age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Neil Kinnock age 46
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 70
President - African National Congress
Gerry Adams age 39
President - Sinn Féin
Charles Fried age 53
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 55
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 50
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Jeff Sessions age 41
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Joe Biden age 45
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 40
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 44
Senate - United States
Dan Quayle age 41
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 63
Senate - United States
William Cohen age 47
Senate - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 67
Senate - United States
John McCain age 51
Senate - United States
Tony Blair age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gordon Brown age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Dick Cheney age 47
House of Representatives - United States
John Major age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Leon Panetta age 50
House of Representatives - United States
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jack Straw age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Howard age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Geoffrey Howe age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Denis Healey age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Blunkett age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Les Aspin age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Leon Brittan age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Norman Lamont age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Waddington age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 70
House of Representatives - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Merlyn Rees age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 75
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Smith age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Steel age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 42
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Mario Cuomo age 56
Governor of New York - United States
Michael Dukakis age 54
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George Deukmejian age 60
Governor of California - United States
Bill Clements age 71
Governor of Texas - United States
Thomas Kean age 53
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Gerald Baliles age 48
Governor of Virginia - United States
Dick Celeste age 50
Governor of Ohio - United States
Joe Frank Harris age 52
Governor of Georgia - United States
Ned McWherter age 57
Governor of Tennessee - United States
William Donald Schaefer age 66
Governor of Maryland - United States
Robert D. Orr age 70
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Paul II age 68
Pope - Vatican City
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 60
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 64
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 50
King - Spain
Augusto Pinochet age 72
President - Chile
Suharto age 67
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 70
President - Romania
Margrethe II of Denmark age 48
Queen - Denmark
Corazon Aquino age 55
President - Philippines
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 42
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 50
Queen - Netherlands
Daniel Ortega age 42
President - Nicaragua
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 47
Sultan - Oman
Kurt Waldheim age 69
President - Austria
Mobutu Sese Seko age 57
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Yoweri Museveni age 43
President - Uganda
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 51
President - Tunisia
Francesco Cossiga age 60
President - Italy
José Eduardo dos Santos age 45
President - Angola
Mswati III age 20
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 55
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 52
King - Jordan
Teodoro Obiang age 46
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hastings Banda age 98
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 58
President - Iceland
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 46
President - Costa Rica
Omar Bongo age 52
President - Gabon
Hassan II age 59
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 64
President - Zambia
Alan García age 39
President - Peru
Kenan Evren age 71
President - Turkey
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 64
President - Pakistan
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 51
President - Ethiopia
Olav V of Norway age 85
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 75
President - Paraguay
Mauno Koivisto age 64
President - Finland
Blaise Compaoré age 37
President - Burkina Faso
Raúl Alfonsín age 61
President - Argentina
Mohammad Najibullah age 41
President - Afghanistan
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 82
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 63
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 65
Prince - Monaco
Mário Soares age 63
President - Portugal
Mathieu Kérékou age 54
President - Benin
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 32
King - Bhutan
R. Venkataraman age 77
President - India
Siad Barre age 68
President - Somalia
Joaquim Chissano age 48
President - Mozambique
Juvénal Habyarimana age 51
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 70
President - United Arab Emirates
P. W. Botha age 72
State President - South Africa
Jerry Rawlings age 41
President - Ghana
João Bernardo Vieira age 49
President - Guinea-Bissau
Chaim Herzog age 69
President - Israel
Roh Tae-woo age 55
President - South Korea
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 50
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 52
President - Togo
Lansana Conté age 53
President - Guinea
Abdou Diouf age 52
President - Senegal
Hissène Habré age 46
President - Chad
Samuel Doe age 37
President - Liberia
Quett Masire age 63
President - Botswana
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 67
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 71
President - Djibouti
Chadli Bendjedid age 59
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 64
President - Cape Verde
Moussa Traoré age 51
President - Mali
Ibrahim Babangida age 47
President - Nigeria
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 64
President - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 62
Emir - Kuwait
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 63
President - Tanzania
Souphanouvong age 79
President - Laos
Julio María Sanguinetti age 52
President - Uruguay
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 80
President - Bolivia
Didier Ratsiraka age 51
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 70
King - Tonga
Joaquín Balaguer age 82
President - Dominican Republic