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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
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12

People

Tihomir Orešković age 22
Giorgos Vasiliou age 56
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 35
Charles Savarin age 44
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema age 12
Vano Merabishvili age 19
Hilla Limann age 53
Vasiliki Thanou age 37
Moussa Dadis Camara age 23
Carmen Pereira age 51
Roberto Micheletti age 44
József Antall age 55
Ayad Allawi age 43
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro age 15
Marouf al-Bakhit age 40
Isa Mustafa age 36
Khamtai Siphandone age 64
Omar Karami age 53
Mahmoud Jibril age 35
Artūras Paulauskas age 34
David Kabua age 36
Nangolo Mbumba age 46
Ludwig Scotty age 39
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 34
Hristijan Mickoski age 10
Jan P. Syse age 57
Odvar Nordli age 60
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 34
Tufuga Efi age 50
Miloš Vučević age 13
Ignazio Cassis age 26
Carlos Vila Nova age 28
Rahmon Nabiyev age 57
Phạm Văn Đồng age 82
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 37
Carlos Arias Navarro age 79
Trường Chinh age 81
Dương Văn Minh age 72
Garret FitzGerald age 62
John Bruton age 40
Henry Paulson age 41
Larry Summers age 33
Scott Bessent age 25
Timothy Geithner age 26
Kwasi Kwarteng age 12
Mary Lou McDonald age 18
Sayako Kuroda age 18
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 45
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 43
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 44
Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark age 22
Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece age 20
Peter Phillips age 10
Mark Warner age 33
Eliot Spitzer age 28
Uğur Şahin age 22
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 62
Akhtar Mansour age 20
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 46
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 58
David Thompson age 26
Viačasław Kiebič age 51
Mark Eyskens age 54
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 71
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 57
Rodrigo Paz age 20
Plamen Oresharski age 28
Elisabeth Domitien age 63
Michel Djotodia age 39
Jiří Rusnok age 27
Stanislav Gross age 18
Ahmed Shafik age 46
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 72
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 42
Boniface Alexandre age 51
Nasry Asfura age 29
Elias Hrawi age 61
Pakalitha Mosisili age 42
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 50
Pravind Jugnauth age 26
Jhala Nath Khanal age 37
Enrique Bolaños age 59
Mahamane Ousmane age 38
Vlado Bučkovski age 25
Surangel Whipps Jr. age 19
Radu Vasile age 45
Petre Roman age 41
Édouard Ngirente age 15
Pasteur Bizimungu age 38
Aminata Touré age 25
Mame Madior Boye age 47
Manasseh Sogavare age 33
Thanom Kittikachorn age 76
Lương Cường age 30
Leszek Miller age 41
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 66
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 54
Liam Cosgrave age 67
Vuk Drašković age 41
William Barr age 37
William J. Burns age 31
Mehdi Bazargan age 80
Wang Qishan age 39
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 47
Yves Congar age 83
Empress Nagako age 85
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 86
Princess Benedikte of Denmark age 43
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 57
Adrian Hasler age 24
James R. Schlesinger age 59
Ayman ibn Abd ar-Rahman age 21
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 69
Juan Carlos Onganía age 73
Hovik Abrahamyan age 30
David Hurley age 34
Viktor Klima age 40
Andrei Kobyakow age 27
Duma Boko age 18
Michel Kafando age 45
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 32
Domitien Ndayizeye age 34
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 44
Ernesto Samper age 37
Judith Suminwa age 20
Juan Bosch age 78
Gustavo Noboa age 50
Zurab Noghaideli age 23
Keith Mitchell age 41
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 41
Arthur Chung age 70
Ariel Henry age 38
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson age 25
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 40
Michael Manley age 63
Pierre Werner age 74
Albert Zafy age 60
Christian Ntsay age 26
Anthony Mamo age 79
Navin Ramgoolam age 40
Petru Lucinschi age 48
Ion Chicu age 15
Pavel Filip age 21
Momir Bulatović age 31
Abbas El Fassi age 47
Baburam Bhattarai age 33
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 63
Radmila Šekerinska age 15
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 37
Johnson Toribiong age 41
Rami Hamdallah age 29
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 73
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 85
Philip J. Pierre age 33
Su Tseng-chang age 40
Hubert Minnis age 33
Keith Rowley age 38
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 73
Le Duc Anh age 67
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 76
José Raúl Mulino age 28
Manfred Wörner age 53
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 73
Alberto Gonzales age 32
Yvette Cooper age 18
Vladimir Ivashko age 55
Mark Felt age 74
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 73
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 57
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia age 34
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 53
Margareta of Romania age 38
Princess Michael of Kent age 43
Ari Behn age 15
Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg age 23
Ann Richards age 54
Brigitte Haas age 23
David Souter age 48
William P. Rogers age 74
Vazgen Sargsyan age 28
Owen Arthur age 38
George Cadle Price age 69
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 72
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 29
Rodrigo Chaves age 26
Manuel Marrero Cruz age 24
Jiří Paroubek age 35
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 29
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 31
Edgar Savisaar age 37
Taye Atske Selassie age 32
Epeli Nailatikau age 46
Miklós Németh age 40
Robert Guéï age 46
Andris Kulbergs age 9
Bah Ndaw age 37
Dioncounda Traoré age 46
Iurie Leancă age 24
Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene age 7
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 46