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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
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

Devan Nair age 55
Surayud Chulanont age 35
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 35
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 37
Guy Scott age 34
Martín Torrijos age 15
Valentín Paniagua age 42
Ye Jianying age 82
Robert Zoellick age 25
Mark Esper age 15
Milan Babić age 23
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 48
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 26
Charles Savarin age 35
León Febres-Cordero age 48
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema age 4
Vano Merabishvili age 11
Hilla Limann age 44
Vasiliki Thanou age 28
Moussa Dadis Camara age 14
Carmen Pereira age 42
Roberto Micheletti age 35
József Antall age 47
Ayad Allawi age 34
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro age 7
Marouf al-Bakhit age 32
Isa Mustafa age 28
Khamtai Siphandone age 55
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 26
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 18
Carlos Vila Nova age 19
Rahmon Nabiyev age 48
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 28
Carlos Arias Navarro age 70
Trường Chinh age 72
Dương Văn Minh age 63
Garret FitzGerald age 53
John Bruton age 32
Henry Paulson age 33
Larry Summers age 24
Michael Howard age 37
Scott Bessent age 16
Timothy Geithner age 17
Kwasi Kwarteng age 3
Mary Lou McDonald age 10
Sayako Kuroda age 10
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 86
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 37
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 54
Akhtar Mansour age 11
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 37
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 49
David Thompson age 17
Viačasław Kiebič age 42
Mark Eyskens age 46
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 62
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 48
Rodrigo Paz age 11
Plamen Oresharski age 19
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 50
Boniface Alexandre age 42
Nasry Asfura age 20
Elias Hrawi age 52
Pakalitha Mosisili age 34
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 41
Pravind Jugnauth age 17
Jhala Nath Khanal age 29
Enrique Bolaños age 51
Mahamane Ousmane age 29
Vlado Bučkovski age 16
Surangel Whipps Jr. age 10
Radu Vasile age 36
Petre Roman age 32
Édouard Ngirente age 6
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 46
Ferruccio Parri age 89
Liam Cosgrave age 59
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 59
Vuk Drašković age 32
William Barr age 28
William J. Burns age 23
Harriet Harman age 28
Mehdi Bazargan age 71
Wang Qishan age 30
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 38
Yves Congar age 75
Empress Nagako age 76
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 77
Princess Benedikte of Denmark age 35
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 49
Adrian Hasler age 15
James R. Schlesinger age 50
Ayman ibn Abd ar-Rahman age 12
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 60
Héctor José Cámpora age 70
Juan Carlos Onganía age 65
Hovik Abrahamyan age 21
Frank Forde age 88
David Hurley age 25
Viktor Klima age 31
Andrei Kobyakow age 18
Gaston Eyskens age 74
Duma Boko age 9
Michel Kafando age 36
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 24
Domitien Ndayizeye age 26
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 35
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 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 25
Keith Rowley age 29
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 65