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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
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
Salvadoran Civil War 1979-10-15 - 1992-01-16
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Surinamese Civil War 1986-07-22 - 1992-08-08
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Bougainville conflict 1988-12-01 - 1998-04-20

People

Tihomir Orešković age 23
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 36
Charles Savarin age 45
León Febres-Cordero age 57
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema age 13
Vano Merabishvili age 20
Hilla Limann age 54
Vasiliki Thanou age 38
Moussa Dadis Camara age 24
Carmen Pereira age 52
Roberto Micheletti age 45
József Antall age 56
Ayad Allawi age 44
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro age 16
Marouf al-Bakhit age 41
Isa Mustafa age 37
Khamtai Siphandone age 64
Omar Karami age 54
Mahmoud Jibril age 36
Artūras Paulauskas age 35
David Kabua age 37
Nangolo Mbumba age 47
Ludwig Scotty age 40
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 35
Hristijan Mickoski age 11
Jan P. Syse age 58
Odvar Nordli age 61
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 35
Tufuga Efi age 50
Miloš Vučević age 14
Ignazio Cassis age 27
Carlos Vila Nova age 29
Rahmon Nabiyev age 58
Phạm Văn Đồng age 82
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 38
Carlos Arias Navarro age 80
Dương Văn Minh age 72
Garret FitzGerald age 62
John Bruton age 41
Henry Paulson age 42
Larry Summers age 34
Scott Bessent age 26
Timothy Geithner age 27
Kwasi Kwarteng age 13
Mary Lou McDonald age 19
Sayako Kuroda age 19
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 46
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 44
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 45
Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark age 23
Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece age 21
Peter Phillips age 11
Mark Warner age 34
Eliot Spitzer age 29
Uğur Şahin age 23
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 63
Akhtar Mansour age 21
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 47
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 59
David Thompson age 27
Viačasław Kiebič age 52
Mark Eyskens age 55
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 72
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 58
Rodrigo Paz age 21
Plamen Oresharski age 28
Elisabeth Domitien age 64
Michel Djotodia age 40
Jiří Rusnok age 28
Stanislav Gross age 19
Ahmed Shafik age 47
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 73
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 43
Boniface Alexandre age 52
Nasry Asfura age 30
Elias Hrawi age 62
Pakalitha Mosisili age 43
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 51
Pravind Jugnauth age 27
Jhala Nath Khanal age 38
Enrique Bolaños age 60
Mahamane Ousmane age 39
Vlado Bučkovski age 26
Surangel Whipps Jr. age 20
Radu Vasile age 46
Petre Roman age 42
Édouard Ngirente age 15
Pasteur Bizimungu age 39
Aminata Touré age 26
Mame Madior Boye age 48
Manasseh Sogavare age 34
Thanom Kittikachorn age 77
Lương Cường age 31
Leszek Miller age 42
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 67
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 55
Liam Cosgrave age 68
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 69
Vuk Drašković age 42
William Barr age 38
William J. Burns age 32
Mehdi Bazargan age 81
Wang Qishan age 40
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 48
Yves Congar age 84
Empress Nagako age 85
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 87
Princess Benedikte of Denmark age 44
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 58
Adrian Hasler age 24
James R. Schlesinger age 59
Ayman ibn Abd ar-Rahman age 22
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 70
Juan Carlos Onganía age 74
Hovik Abrahamyan age 31
David Hurley age 35
Viktor Klima age 41
Andrei Kobyakow age 28
Duma Boko age 19
Michel Kafando age 46
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 33
Domitien Ndayizeye age 35
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 44
Ernesto Samper age 38
Judith Suminwa age 21
Juan Bosch age 79
Gustavo Noboa age 51
Zurab Noghaideli age 24
Keith Mitchell age 42
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 42
Arthur Chung age 71
Ariel Henry age 39
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson age 26
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 41
Michael Manley age 64
Pierre Werner age 75
Albert Zafy age 61
Christian Ntsay age 27
Anthony Mamo age 80
Navin Ramgoolam age 41
Petru Lucinschi age 49
Ion Chicu age 16
Pavel Filip age 22
Momir Bulatović age 32
Abbas El Fassi age 48
Baburam Bhattarai age 34
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 64
Radmila Šekerinska age 16
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 38
Johnson Toribiong age 42
Rami Hamdallah age 30
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 74
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 86
Philip J. Pierre age 34
Su Tseng-chang age 41
Hubert Minnis age 34
Keith Rowley age 39
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 74
Le Duc Anh age 68
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 77
José Raúl Mulino age 29
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 74
Alberto Gonzales age 33
Yvette Cooper age 19
Vladimir Ivashko age 56
Mark Felt age 75
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 74
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 58
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia age 35
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 54
Margareta of Romania age 39
Princess Michael of Kent age 44
Ari Behn age 16
Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg age 24
Ann Richards age 55
Brigitte Haas age 24
David Souter age 49
William P. Rogers age 75
Vazgen Sargsyan age 29
Owen Arthur age 39
George Cadle Price age 70
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 73
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 30
Rodrigo Chaves age 27
Manuel Marrero Cruz age 25
Jiří Paroubek age 36
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 30
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 32
Edgar Savisaar age 38
Taye Atske Selassie age 33
Epeli Nailatikau age 47
Leslie Manigat age 58
Robert Guéï age 47
Andris Kulbergs age 10
Bah Ndaw age 38
Dioncounda Traoré age 46
Iurie Leancă age 25
Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene age 8
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 47
Cindy Kiro age 30