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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
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11

People

Jack Straw age 31
Mark Esper age 13
Milan Babić age 21
Jang Song-thaek age 32
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 41
Prince Michael of Kent age 35
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 39
Martin O'Malley age 15
Deval Patrick age 21
Klaus Tschütscher age 10
Wim Duisenberg age 42
Souvanna Phouma age 76
Ellison Onizuka age 31
Eric Holder age 27
Abd al-Malek Selal age 29
Liamine Zéroual age 36
Karen Karapetyan age 14
Johnny Briceño age 17
Nikolai Denkov age 15
Khieu Samphan age 46
Abel Pacheco age 44
Tihomir Orešković age 12
Giorgos Vasiliou age 46
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 25
Charles Savarin age 34
León Febres-Cordero age 46
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema age 2
Vano Merabishvili age 9
Hilla Limann age 43
Vasiliki Thanou age 27
Moussa Dadis Camara age 13
Carmen Pereira age 41
Roberto Micheletti age 34
József Antall age 45
Ayad Allawi age 33
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro age 5
Marouf al-Bakhit age 30
Jens Otto Krag age 63
Isa Mustafa age 26
Khamtai Siphandone age 54
Omar Karami age 43
Mahmoud Jibril age 25
Artūras Paulauskas age 24
David Kabua age 26
Nangolo Mbumba age 36
Ludwig Scotty age 29
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 24
Hristijan Mickoski age 4 months
Jan P. Syse age 47
Trygve Bratteli age 68
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 24
Miloš Vučević age 3
Wee Kim Wee age 62
Ignazio Cassis age 16
Carlos Vila Nova age 18
Rahmon Nabiyev age 47
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 27
Carlos Arias Navarro age 69
Trường Chinh age 71
Dương Văn Minh age 62
Garret FitzGerald age 52
John Bruton age 30
Henry Paulson age 31
Larry Summers age 23
Michael Howard age 36
Scott Bessent age 15
Timothy Geithner age 16
Kwasi Kwarteng age 2
Mary Lou McDonald age 8
Sayako Kuroda age 8
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 85
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 35
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 33
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 34
Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark age 12
Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece age 10
Peter Phillips age 2 months
Mark Warner age 23
W. Averell Harriman age 86
Eliot Spitzer age 18
Uğur Şahin age 12
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 52
Akhtar Mansour age 10
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 36
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 48
David Thompson age 16
Viačasław Kiebič age 41
Mark Eyskens age 44
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 61
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 47
Rodrigo Paz age 10
Plamen Oresharski age 17
Elisabeth Domitien age 53
Michel Djotodia age 29
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 56
Jiří Rusnok age 17
Stanislav Gross age 8
Ahmed Shafik age 36
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 62
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 32
Christos Sartzetakis age 48
Boniface Alexandre age 41
Nasry Asfura age 19
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 67
Elias Hrawi age 51
Pakalitha Mosisili age 32
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 40
Pravind Jugnauth age 16
Emilio Portes Gil age 87
Jhala Nath Khanal age 27
Enrique Bolaños age 49
Mahamane Ousmane age 28
Vlado Bučkovski age 15
Surangel Whipps Jr. age 9
Radu Vasile age 35
Petre Roman age 31
Édouard Ngirente age 4
Pasteur Bizimungu age 28
Aminata Touré age 15
Mame Madior Boye age 37
Manasseh Sogavare age 23
Thanom Kittikachorn age 66
Lương Cường age 20
Leszek Miller age 31
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 44
Ferruccio Parri age 88
Liam Cosgrave age 57
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 58
Vuk Drašković age 31
William Barr age 27
William J. Burns age 21
Harriet Harman age 27
Mehdi Bazargan age 70
Wang Qishan age 29
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 37
Yves Congar age 73
Empress Nagako age 74
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 76
Princess Benedikte of Denmark age 33
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 47
Adrian Hasler age 13
James R. Schlesinger age 49
Ayman ibn Abd ar-Rahman age 11
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 59
Héctor José Cámpora age 68
Juan Carlos Onganía age 63
Hovik Abrahamyan age 20
Frank Forde age 87
David Hurley age 24
Viktor Klima age 30
Andrei Kobyakow age 17
Gaston Eyskens age 72
Duma Boko age 8
Michel Kafando age 35
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 22
Domitien Ndayizeye age 24
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 33
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 79
Ernesto Samper age 27
Judith Suminwa age 10
Juan Bosch age 68
Gustavo Noboa age 40
Zurab Noghaideli age 13
Keith Mitchell age 31
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 31
Ariel Henry age 28
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson age 15
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 30
Pierre Werner age 64
Albert Zafy age 50
Christian Ntsay age 16
Anthony Mamo age 69
Amata Kabua age 49
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 36
Navin Ramgoolam age 30
Petru Lucinschi age 38
Ion Chicu age 5
Pavel Filip age 11
Momir Bulatović age 21
Abbas El Fassi age 37
Baburam Bhattarai age 23
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 53
David Lange age 35
Radmila Šekerinska age 5
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 27
Johnson Toribiong age 31
Rami Hamdallah age 19
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 63
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 43
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 75
Philip J. Pierre age 23
Su Tseng-chang age 30
Hubert Minnis age 23
Keith Rowley age 28
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 63
Le Duc Anh age 57
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 66
José Raúl Mulino age 18
Ibrahim Abboud age 77
Manfred Wörner age 43