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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
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Epeli Nailatikau age 37
Karl-August Fagerholm age 77
Leslie Manigat age 48
Miklós Németh age 31
Robert Guéï age 38
Bah Ndaw age 28
Dioncounda Traoré age 37
Iurie Leancă age 15
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 37
Cindy Kiro age 20
Patsy Reddy age 24
Lars Korvald age 63
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 75
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 35
Mohammad Shtayyeh age 21
Américo Tomás age 84
Denzil Douglas age 26
James Mancham age 39
Chuan Leekpai age 40
Perry Christie age 35
Mari Alkatiri age 29
Yıldırım Akbulut age 43
Pavlo Lazarenko age 26
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh age 19
Jan Olszewski age 48
José María Balcázar age 36
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 44
Ho Chong age 83
Charles Haughey age 53
William J. Perry age 51
Rachel Reeves age 2 months
Bashkim Fino age 16
John McEwen age 79
Novruz Mammadov age 32
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 52
Yacouba Isaac Zida age 13
Alfonso López Michelsen age 65
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 72
Ivica Račan age 35
Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde Kyenge age 1
Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini age 11
Manny Mori age 30
Wiliame Katonivere age 15
Ahti Karjalainen age 56
Martti Miettunen age 72
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 31
Ricardo Maduro age 33
Mátyás Szűrös age 45
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 50
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 21
Avdullah Hoti age 3
Thongsing Thammavong age 35
Camille Chamoun age 79
Ruth Perry age 39
Driss Jettou age 33
Russ J Kun age 3
Lionel Aingimea age 13
Rosario Murillo age 27
Kim Yong-il age 34
Per Borten age 66
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 41
Crin Antonescu age 19
Jules Wijdenbosch age 37
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 45
Hu'akavameiliku age 9
Anthony Carmona age 26
A. N. R. Robinson age 52
Nabbanja Robinah age 9
Serhii Koretskyi age 1
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 59
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 27
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 30
Jaime Lusinchi age 54
Lê Minh Hưng age 8
Phan Văn Khải age 45
Rashad al-Alimi age 25
Józef Oleksy age 32
Waldemar Pawlak age 19
Lee Hae Chan age 26
Šefik Džaferović age 21
Nebojša Radmanović age 29
Dragan Čović age 22
Giuseppe Bertello age 36
Giovanni Lajolo age 44
Zhang Xueliang age 77
Geoffrey Howe age 52
Maxwell D. Taylor age 77
William Cohen age 38
Loretta Lynch age 19
Christopher Wray age 12
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 24
Rodney Williams age 31
Jaime Paz Zamora age 40
Joseph Ngute age 25
Philémon Yang age 31
Sylvanie Burton age 23
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 43
Lucio Gutiérrez age 22
Hesham Qandil age 16
Ibrahim Mahlab age 30
Grigol Mgaloblishvili age 5
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 47
Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo age 21
Henrique Rosa age 33
Donald Ramotar age 28
Oswaldo López Arellano age 57
Poul Hartling age 64
Barend Biesheuvel age 59
Muhammetkaliy Abulgaziyev age 11
Felix Kulov age 30
Sonexay Siphandone age 13
Nawaf Salam age 25
Tom Thabane age 39
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 73
Kailash Purryag age 31
Vasile Tarlev age 15
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 29
Brigi Rafini age 26
Choe Yong-rim age 48
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani age 19
Victor Khristenko age 21
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 27
Lojze Peterle age 30
Samuel Schmid age 32
Joseph Deiss age 33
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 46
Kassim Majaliwa age 18
Phumtham Wechayachai age 25
Hamadi Jebali age 30
Tito Okello age 64
Vitold Fokin age 46
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 53
Nigmatilla Yuldashev age 16
Tallis Obed Moses age 24
Do Muoi age 62
Chung Il-kwon age 61
Jung Hong-won age 34
Harini Amarasuriya age 9
Raif Dizdarević age 52
Sulejman Tihić age 27
Vo Chi Cong age 66
Jean Rey age 76
Ajay Banga age 19
Dan Caine age 10
Jacqui Smith age 16
Nadhim Zahawi age 11
Lloyd Bentsen age 58
Wang Zhen (general) age 71
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 92
Luis García Meza Tejada age 49
Jorge Quiroga age 18
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 65
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 30
Moussa Faki age 18
Jamil Mahuad age 29
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 27
Hazem Al Beblawi age 42
José Napoleón Duarte age 53
Tiit Vähi age 32
Mart Siimann age 32
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 36
Negasso Gidada age 35
Peter M. Christian age 31
Rafael Paasio age 75
Johannes Virolainen age 65
Georgios Rallis age 60
Nuno Nabiam age 12
Raimundo Pereira age 22
Charles Konan Banny age 36
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 35
Agim Çeku age 18
Moeketsi Majoro age 17
Ali Zeidan age 28
Abd al-Hamid Dbeibeh age 20
Michael Randrianirina age 5
Ċensu Tabone age 66
Prithvirajsing Roopun age 19
Chiril Gaburici age 2
Natalia Gherman age 10
Željko Šturanović age 19
Nahas Angula age 35
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 51
Jim Bolger age 43
Daouda Malam Wanké age 32
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 29
Ernest Shonekan age 42
Talat Xhaferi age 17
Muhammad Junejo age 46
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 37
Vasco Gonçalves age 57
Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu age 10
Mihai Tudose age 12
Bernard Makuza age 16
Kenny Anthony age 28
Ong Teng Cheong age 43
Maria das Neves age 20
Patrice Trovoada age 17
Thanin Kraiwichian age 52
Manuel Merino age 17
Nur Hassan Hussein age 41