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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
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
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Robert Zoellick age 25
Jack Straw age 32
Mark Esper age 14
Milan Babić age 22
Jang Song-thaek age 33
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 42
Prince Michael of Kent age 36
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 40
Martin O'Malley age 16
Deval Patrick age 22
Klaus Tschütscher age 11
Wim Duisenberg age 43
Souvanna Phouma age 77
Ellison Onizuka age 32
Eric Holder age 28
Abd al-Malek Selal age 30
Liamine Zéroual age 37
Karen Karapetyan age 15
Johnny Briceño age 18
Nikolai Denkov age 16
Khieu Samphan age 47
Abel Pacheco age 45
Tihomir Orešković age 13
Giorgos Vasiliou age 47
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 26
Charles Savarin age 35
León Febres-Cordero age 47
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema age 3
Vano Merabishvili age 10
Hilla Limann age 44
Vasiliki Thanou age 28
Moussa Dadis Camara age 14
Carmen Pereira age 42
Roberto Micheletti age 35
József Antall age 46
Ayad Allawi age 34
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro age 6
Marouf al-Bakhit age 31
Isa Mustafa age 27
Khamtai Siphandone age 54
Omar Karami age 44
Mahmoud Jibril age 26
Artūras Paulauskas age 25
David Kabua age 27
Nangolo Mbumba age 37
Ludwig Scotty age 30
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 25
Hristijan Mickoski age 1
Jan P. Syse age 48
Trygve Bratteli age 69
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 25
Miloš Vučević age 4
Wee Kim Wee age 63
Ignazio Cassis age 17
Carlos Vila Nova age 19
Rahmon Nabiyev age 48
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 28
Carlos Arias Navarro age 70
Trường Chinh age 71
Dương Văn Minh age 62
Garret FitzGerald age 52
John Bruton age 31
Henry Paulson age 32
Larry Summers age 24
Michael Howard age 37
Scott Bessent age 16
Timothy Geithner age 17
Kwasi Kwarteng age 3
Mary Lou McDonald age 9
Sayako Kuroda age 9
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 86
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 36
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 34
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 35
Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark age 13
Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece age 11
Peter Phillips age 1
Mark Warner age 24
W. Averell Harriman age 87
Eliot Spitzer age 19
Uğur Şahin age 13
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 53
Akhtar Mansour age 11
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 37
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 48
David Thompson age 17
Viačasław Kiebič age 42
Mark Eyskens age 45
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 62
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 48
Rodrigo Paz age 11
Plamen Oresharski age 18
Elisabeth Domitien age 54
Michel Djotodia age 30
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 57
Jiří Rusnok age 18
Stanislav Gross age 9
Ahmed Shafik age 37
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 63
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 33
Christos Sartzetakis age 49
Boniface Alexandre age 42
Nasry Asfura age 20
Elias Hrawi age 52
Pakalitha Mosisili age 33
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 41
Pravind Jugnauth age 17
Jhala Nath Khanal age 28
Enrique Bolaños age 50
Mahamane Ousmane age 29
Vlado Bučkovski age 16
Surangel Whipps Jr. age 10
Radu Vasile age 36
Petre Roman age 32
Édouard Ngirente age 5
Pasteur Bizimungu age 29
Aminata Touré age 16
Mame Madior Boye age 38
Manasseh Sogavare age 24
Thanom Kittikachorn age 67
Lương Cường age 21
Leszek Miller age 32
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 45
Ferruccio Parri age 89
Liam Cosgrave age 58
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 59
Vuk Drašković age 32
William Barr age 28
William J. Burns age 22
Harriet Harman age 28
Mehdi Bazargan age 71
Wang Qishan age 30
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 38
Yves Congar age 74
Empress Nagako age 75
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 77
Princess Benedikte of Denmark age 34
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 48
Adrian Hasler age 14
James R. Schlesinger age 49
Ayman ibn Abd ar-Rahman age 12
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 60
Héctor José Cámpora age 69
Juan Carlos Onganía age 64
Hovik Abrahamyan age 20
Frank Forde age 88
David Hurley age 25
Viktor Klima age 31
Andrei Kobyakow age 18
Gaston Eyskens age 73
Duma Boko age 9
Michel Kafando age 36
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 23
Domitien Ndayizeye age 25
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 34
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 80
Ernesto Samper age 28
Judith Suminwa age 11
Juan Bosch age 69
Gustavo Noboa age 41
Zurab Noghaideli age 14
Keith Mitchell age 32
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 32
Ariel Henry age 29
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson age 16
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 31
Pierre Werner age 65
Albert Zafy age 51
Christian Ntsay age 17
Anthony Mamo age 70
Amata Kabua age 50
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 37
Navin Ramgoolam age 31
Petru Lucinschi age 39
Ion Chicu age 6
Pavel Filip age 12
Momir Bulatović age 22
Abbas El Fassi age 38
Baburam Bhattarai age 24
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 54
David Lange age 36
Radmila Šekerinska age 6
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 28
Johnson Toribiong age 32
Rami Hamdallah age 20
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 64
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 44
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 76
Philip J. Pierre age 24
Su Tseng-chang age 31
Hubert Minnis age 24
Keith Rowley age 29
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 64
Le Duc Anh age 58
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 67
José Raúl Mulino age 19
Ibrahim Abboud age 78
Manfred Wörner age 44
Alberto Gonzales age 23
Yvette Cooper age 9