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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

Alberto Gonzales age 23
Yvette Cooper age 9
Vladimir Ivashko age 45
Mark Felt age 65
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 95
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 64
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 48
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia age 24
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 43
Margareta of Romania age 29
Princess Michael of Kent age 33
Ari Behn age 5
Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg age 14
Ann Richards age 45
Brigitte Haas age 13
David Souter age 38
William P. Rogers age 65
Vazgen Sargsyan age 19
Owen Arthur age 28
André Kolingba age 42
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 20
Rodrigo Chaves age 17
Manuel Marrero Cruz age 15
Jiří Paroubek age 26
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 20
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 21
Edgar Savisaar age 28
Taye Atske Selassie age 22
Epeli Nailatikau age 37
Karl-August Fagerholm age 76
Leslie Manigat age 48
Miklós Németh age 30
Robert Guéï age 37
Bah Ndaw age 28
Dioncounda Traoré age 36
Iurie Leancă age 14
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 36
Cindy Kiro age 20
Patsy Reddy age 24
Lars Korvald age 62
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 34
Mohammad Shtayyeh age 20
Américo Tomás age 83
Denzil Douglas age 25
James Mancham age 39
Chuan Leekpai age 40
Perry Christie age 35
Mari Alkatiri age 28
Yıldırım Akbulut age 42
Pavlo Lazarenko age 25
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh age 18
Jan Olszewski age 48
José María Balcázar age 35
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 43
Ho Chong age 82
Charles Haughey age 52
William J. Perry age 50
Juan Almeida Bosque age 51
Han Zheng age 24
Shapour Bakhtiar age 64
Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943–2021) age 34
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 73
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies age 67
Anne of Romania age 54
Lamar Alexander age 38
Ian Wilmut age 34
Bashkim Fino age 15
John McEwen age 78
Novruz Mammadov age 31
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 52
Yacouba Isaac Zida age 12
Alfonso López Michelsen age 65
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 72
Ivica Račan age 34
Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde Kyenge age 1
Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini age 10
Manny Mori age 29
Wiliame Katonivere age 14
Ahti Karjalainen age 55
Martti Miettunen age 71
Maurice Bishop age 34
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 30
Ricardo Maduro age 32
Mátyás Szűrös age 44
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 50
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 20
Avdullah Hoti age 2
Thongsing Thammavong age 34
Camille Chamoun age 78
Ruth Perry age 39
Driss Jettou age 33
Russ J Kun age 2
Lionel Aingimea age 12
Rosario Murillo age 27
Kim Yong-il age 34
Per Borten age 65
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 40
Crin Antonescu age 18
Jules Wijdenbosch age 37
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 45
Hu'akavameiliku age 8
Anthony Carmona age 25
A. N. R. Robinson age 51
Nihat Erim age 66
Nabbanja Robinah age 8
Serhii Koretskyi age 5 months
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 58
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 26
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 29
Jaime Lusinchi age 54
Lê Minh Hưng age 7
Phan Văn Khải age 44
Rashad al-Alimi age 24
Józef Oleksy age 32
Waldemar Pawlak age 18
Lee Hae Chan age 26
Šefik Džaferović age 20
Nebojša Radmanović age 28
Dragan Čović age 22
Giuseppe Bertello age 35
Giovanni Lajolo age 43
Zhang Xueliang age 77
Maxwell D. Taylor age 77
Loretta Lynch age 19
Iain Duncan Smith age 24
Caspar Weinberger age 61
Milan Martić age 23
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu age 44
Pavel Grachev age 30
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 36
Mohsen Rezaee age 23
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa age 55
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman age 66
Georg Friedrich Prinz von Preussen age 2
Princess Marie of Denmark age 2
Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri age 2
Brian Kemp age 14
George Pataki age 33
Leonard Kleinrock age 44
Christopher Wray age 11
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 23
Rodney Williams age 30
Jaime Paz Zamora age 39
Joseph Ngute age 24
Philémon Yang age 31
Sylvanie Burton age 22
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 43
Lucio Gutiérrez age 21
Hesham Qandil age 15
Ibrahim Mahlab age 29
Grigol Mgaloblishvili age 4
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 46
Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo age 20
Henrique Rosa age 32
Donald Ramotar age 27
Oswaldo López Arellano age 57
Poul Hartling age 64
Barend Biesheuvel age 58
Muhammetkaliy Abulgaziyev age 10
Felix Kulov age 29
Sonexay Siphandone age 12
Nawaf Salam age 24
Tom Thabane age 39
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 72
Kailash Purryag age 30
Vasile Tarlev age 14
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 28
Brigi Rafini age 25
Choe Yong-rim age 47
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani age 18
Victor Khristenko age 20
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 27
Lojze Peterle age 30
Samuel Schmid age 31
Joseph Deiss age 32
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 46
Kassim Majaliwa age 17
Phumtham Wechayachai age 24
Hamadi Jebali age 29
Tito Okello age 63
Vitold Fokin age 45
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 52
Nigmatilla Yuldashev age 15
Tallis Obed Moses age 23
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 10
Jacqui Smith age 15
Nadhim Zahawi age 11
Ralph Abernathy age 52
Sylvia Rivera age 27
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 65
Iñaki Urdangarin age 10