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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
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15

People

Guy Scott age 35
Martín Torrijos age 16
Valentín Paniagua age 43
Ye Jianying age 82
Robert Zoellick age 26
Mark Esper age 15
Milan Babić age 23
Jang Song-thaek age 34
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 43
Prince Michael of Kent age 37
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 41
Martin O'Malley age 17
Deval Patrick age 23
Klaus Tschütscher age 12
Wim Duisenberg age 44
Souvanna Phouma age 78
Ellison Onizuka age 33
Eric Holder age 29
Abd al-Malek Selal age 31
Liamine Zéroual age 38
Karen Karapetyan age 16
Johnny Briceño age 19
Nikolai Denkov age 17
Khieu Samphan age 48
Abel Pacheco age 46
Tihomir Orešković age 14
Giorgos Vasiliou age 48
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 27
Charles Savarin age 36
León Febres-Cordero age 48
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema age 4
Vano Merabishvili age 11
Vasiliki Thanou age 29
Moussa Dadis Camara age 15
Carmen Pereira age 43
Roberto Micheletti age 36
József Antall age 47
Ayad Allawi age 35
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro age 7
Marouf al-Bakhit age 32
Isa Mustafa age 28
Khamtai Siphandone age 55
Omar Karami age 45
Mahmoud Jibril age 27
Artūras Paulauskas age 26
David Kabua age 28
Nangolo Mbumba age 38
Ludwig Scotty age 31
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 26
Hristijan Mickoski age 2
Jan P. Syse age 49
Trygve Bratteli age 70
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 26
Miloš Vučević age 5
Wee Kim Wee age 64
Ignazio Cassis age 18
Carlos Vila Nova age 20
Rahmon Nabiyev age 49
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 29
Carlos Arias Navarro age 71
Trường Chinh age 73
Dương Văn Minh age 63
Garret FitzGerald age 53
John Bruton age 32
Henry Paulson age 33
Larry Summers age 25
Michael Howard age 38
Scott Bessent age 17
Timothy Geithner age 18
Kwasi Kwarteng age 4
Mary Lou McDonald age 10
Sayako Kuroda age 10
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 87
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 37
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 35
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 36
Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark age 14
Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece age 12
Peter Phillips age 2
Mark Warner age 25
W. Averell Harriman age 88
Eliot Spitzer age 20
Uğur Şahin age 14
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 54
Akhtar Mansour age 12
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 38
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 50
David Thompson age 18
Viačasław Kiebič age 43
Mark Eyskens age 46
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 63
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 49
Rodrigo Paz age 12
Plamen Oresharski age 19
Elisabeth Domitien age 55
Michel Djotodia age 31
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 58
Jiří Rusnok age 19
Stanislav Gross age 10
Ahmed Shafik age 38
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 64
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 34
Christos Sartzetakis age 50
Boniface Alexandre age 43
Nasry Asfura age 21
Elias Hrawi age 53
Pakalitha Mosisili age 34
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 42
Pravind Jugnauth age 18
Jhala Nath Khanal age 29
Enrique Bolaños age 51
Mahamane Ousmane age 30
Vlado Bučkovski age 17
Surangel Whipps Jr. age 11
Radu Vasile age 37
Petre Roman age 33
Édouard Ngirente age 6
Pasteur Bizimungu age 30
Aminata Touré age 17
Mame Madior Boye age 39
Manasseh Sogavare age 25
Thanom Kittikachorn age 68
Lương Cường age 22
Leszek Miller age 33
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 46
Ferruccio Parri age 90
Liam Cosgrave age 59
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 60
Vuk Drašković age 33
William Barr age 29
William J. Burns age 23
Harriet Harman age 29
Mehdi Bazargan age 72
Wang Qishan age 31
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 39
Yves Congar age 75
Empress Nagako age 76
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 78
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 13
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 61
Héctor José Cámpora age 70
Juan Carlos Onganía age 65
Hovik Abrahamyan age 22
Frank Forde age 89
David Hurley age 26
Viktor Klima age 32
Andrei Kobyakow age 19
Gaston Eyskens age 74
Duma Boko age 10
Michel Kafando age 37
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 24
Domitien Ndayizeye age 26
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 35
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 81
Ernesto Samper age 29
Judith Suminwa age 12
Juan Bosch age 70
Gustavo Noboa age 42
Zurab Noghaideli age 15
Keith Mitchell age 33
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 33
Ariel Henry age 30
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson age 17
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 32
Albert Zafy age 52
Christian Ntsay age 18
Anthony Mamo age 71
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 38
Navin Ramgoolam age 32
Petru Lucinschi age 40
Ion Chicu age 7
Pavel Filip age 13
Momir Bulatović age 23
Abbas El Fassi age 39
Baburam Bhattarai age 25
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 55
David Lange age 37
Radmila Šekerinska age 7
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 29
Johnson Toribiong age 33
Rami Hamdallah age 21
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 65
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 77
Philip J. Pierre age 25
Su Tseng-chang age 32
Hubert Minnis age 25
Keith Rowley age 30
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 65
Le Duc Anh age 59
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 68
José Raúl Mulino age 20
Ibrahim Abboud age 79
Manfred Wörner age 45
Alberto Gonzales age 24
Yvette Cooper age 10
Vladimir Ivashko age 47