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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
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
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
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11

People

Do Muoi age 61
Chung Il-kwon age 60
Jung Hong-won age 33
Harini Amarasuriya age 8
Raif Dizdarević age 51
Sulejman Tihić age 26
Vo Chi Cong age 66
Jean Rey age 76
Ajay Banga age 18
Dan Caine age 9
Jacqui Smith age 15
Nadhim Zahawi age 11
Liam Fox age 16
Ralph Northam age 18
Wang Zhen (general) age 70
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 91
Luis García Meza Tejada age 49
Jorge Quiroga age 18
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 64
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 29
Moussa Faki age 18
Jamil Mahuad age 29
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 26
Hazem Al Beblawi age 41
José Napoleón Duarte age 52
Tiit Vähi age 31
Mart Siimann age 31
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 36
Negasso Gidada age 34
Peter M. Christian age 30
Rafael Paasio age 75
Johannes Virolainen age 64
Georgios Rallis age 59
Nuno Nabiam age 11
Raimundo Pereira age 21
Charles Konan Banny age 35
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 35
Agim Çeku age 17
Moeketsi Majoro age 16
Ali Zeidan age 27
Abd al-Hamid Dbeibeh age 19
Michael Randrianirina age 4
Ċensu Tabone age 65
Prithvirajsing Roopun age 19
Chiril Gaburici age 1
Natalia Gherman age 9
Željko Šturanović age 18
Nahas Angula age 34
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 50
Jim Bolger age 43
Daouda Malam Wanké age 32
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 29
Ernest Shonekan age 42
Talat Xhaferi age 16
Muhammad Junejo age 45
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 37
Vasco Gonçalves age 57
Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu age 9
Mihai Tudose age 11
Bernard Makuza age 15
Kenny Anthony age 27
Ong Teng Cheong age 42
Maria das Neves age 20
Patrice Trovoada age 16
Thanin Kraiwichian age 51
Luis Herrera Campins age 53
Manuel Merino age 16
Nur Hassan Hussein age 40
Goh Kun age 40
Marais Viljoen age 62
Sicco Mansholt age 69
François-Xavier Ortoli age 53
Alistair Darling age 24
Grant Shapps age 9
Jack Lew age 22
Mark Milley age 20
Mike Beebe age 31
Asa Hutchinson age 27
Bill Weld age 33
Jon Corzine age 31
Phil Murphy age 20
George Allen age 26
Charlie Baker age 21
Pandeli Majko age 10
Louise Lake-Tack age 34
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 61
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 58
Pierre Harmel age 67
Said Musa age 34
Norodom Ranariddh age 34
José María Figueres Olsen age 23
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 76
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 37
Kamal Ganzouri age 45
Alfredo Cristiani age 30
Andres Tarand age 38
David W. Panuelo age 14
V. J. Sukselainen age 71
Edward Akufo-Addo age 72
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 65
Michael Stasinopoulos age 75
Alfonso Portillo age 26
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 42
András Hegedüs age 55
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 30
Ahmed Chalabi age 33
Amadou Gon Coulibaly age 19
Patrick Allen age 27
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 58
Jelle Zijlstra age 59
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 37
Gyude Bryant age 29
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 33
Arnoldo Alemán age 32
Wasim Sajjad age 37
Theodor Stolojan age 34
Nureddin al-Atassi age 49
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 66
Hussein Arnous age 25
Yen Chia-kan age 72
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 45
Edward Natapei age 24
Nguyen Huu Tho age 68
Võ Thị Ánh Xuân age 8
Mieczysław Rakowski age 51
Luis González Macchi age 30
Lee Nack-yon age 25
Nikola Špirić age 21
Raffaella Petrini age 9
Ali Saibou age 38
Willy Claes age 39
Martin Dempsey age 26
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 27
George Voinovich age 42
Evan Bayh age 22
Mike DeWine age 31
Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford age 18
Larry Hogan age 22
Ken Starr age 32
John Profumo age 63
Melvin Laird age 55
Thomas Gage age 260
Juan José Arévalo age 73
Ali Kafi age 49
Eduardo Camaño age 32
Michael Jeffery age 40
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 22
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 59
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 60
Galab Donev age 11
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 22
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 70
Armando Calderón Sol age 30
Akwasi Afrifa age 42
Phaedon Gizikis age 61
Patrick Achi age 22
Edward Seaga age 48
Omar Razzaz age 17
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 36
Temir Sariyev age 15
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 24
René Moawad age 53
Amadou Sanogo age 5
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 45
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 54
Mike Moore age 29
Pak Pong-ju age 39
Kim Tok-hun age 17
Oliver Spasovski age 1
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 73
Haruo Remeliik age 45
Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani age 10
Allen Chastanet age 17
Ivan Stambolić age 41
Ľudovít Ódor age 2
Imad Khamis age 17
Wael al-Halqi age 14
Maria do Carmo Silveira age 17
Wu Den-yih age 30
Edward Lowassa age 24
Seni Pramoj age 73
Kukrit Pramoj age 67
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 31
Anand Panyarachun age 46
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 42
Hubert Ingraham age 31
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 37
Mohamed Ennaceur age 44
Apolo Nsibambi age 37
Godfrey Binaisa age 58
Vitalii Masol age 49
Sato Kilman age 20
Ramón José Velásquez age 61
Vo Van Kiet age 55
Mohammed Basindawa age 43
Arnulfo Arias age 77
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 84
Francisco Sagasti age 33
Hassan Ali Khayre age 10
Kim Min-seok age 14