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

People

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 33
Ariel Henry age 29
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson age 17
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 32
Pierre Werner age 65
Albert Zafy age 52
Christian Ntsay age 18
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 7
Pavel Filip age 13
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 de Sá Carneiro age 44
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 76
Philip J. Pierre age 24
Su Tseng-chang age 31
Hubert Minnis age 25
Keith Rowley age 29
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 65
Le Duc Anh age 58
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 68
José Raúl Mulino age 19
Ibrahim Abboud age 78
Manfred Wörner age 44
Alberto Gonzales age 23
Yvette Cooper age 10
Vladimir Ivashko age 46
Ann Richards age 45
David Souter age 39
William P. Rogers age 65
Vazgen Sargsyan age 20
Owen Arthur age 29
André Kolingba age 42
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 20
Rodrigo Chaves age 17
Manuel Marrero Cruz age 15
Jiří Paroubek age 26
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 21
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 22
Edgar Savisaar age 28
Taye Atske Selassie age 23
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
Han Zheng age 25
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 35
Per Borten age 66
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 41
Crin Antonescu age 19
Jules Wijdenbosch age 38
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
Maxwell D. Taylor age 77
Loretta Lynch age 19
Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri age 3
Brian Kemp age 15
George Pataki age 33
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