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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
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
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11

People

Thanin Kraiwichian age 51
Luis Herrera Campins age 53
Manuel Merino age 17
Nur Hassan Hussein age 40
Goh Kun age 40
Marais Viljoen age 63
Sicco Mansholt age 70
François-Xavier Ortoli age 53
Alistair Darling age 25
Grant Shapps age 10
Jack Lew age 23
Mark Milley age 20
Pandeli Majko age 11
Louise Lake-Tack age 34
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 62
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 77
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 38
Kamal Ganzouri age 45
Alfredo Cristiani age 31
Andres Tarand age 38
David W. Panuelo age 14
V. J. Sukselainen age 72
Edward Akufo-Addo age 72
Michael Stasinopoulos age 75
Alfonso Portillo age 27
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 42
András Hegedüs age 56
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 31
Ahmed Chalabi age 34
Amadou Gon Coulibaly age 19
Patrick Allen age 27
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 58
Jelle Zijlstra age 60
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 35
Nureddin al-Atassi age 49
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 66
Hussein Arnous age 25
Yen Chia-kan age 73
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 46
Edward Natapei age 24
Nguyen Huu Tho age 68
Võ Thị Ánh Xuân age 8
Mieczysław Rakowski age 52
Luis González Macchi age 30
Lee Nack-yon age 25
Nikola Špirić age 22
Raffaella Petrini age 9
Ali Saibou age 38
Willy Claes age 40
Martin Dempsey age 26
Nigel Lawson age 46
Melvin Laird age 56
Thomas Gage age 260
Juan José Arévalo age 74
Ali Kafi age 50
Eduardo Camaño age 32
Michael Jeffery age 41
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 23
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 23
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
Ibrahim Nasir age 52
Amadou Sanogo age 6
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 46
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 54
Mike Moore age 29
Pak Pong-ju age 39
Kim Tok-hun age 17
Oliver Spasovski age 2
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 73
Haruo Remeliik age 45
Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani age 10
Allen Chastanet age 18
Ivan Stambolić age 42
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 25
Seni Pramoj age 73
Kukrit Pramoj age 67
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 32
Anand Panyarachun age 46
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 42
Hubert Ingraham age 31
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 37
Mohamed Ennaceur age 44
Apolo Nsibambi age 38
Godfrey Binaisa age 58
Vitalii Masol age 50
Sato Kilman age 20
Ramón José Velásquez age 62
Vo Van Kiet age 56
Mohammed Basindawa age 43
Arnulfo Arias age 77
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 84
Francisco Sagasti age 34
Hassan Ali Khayre age 10
Kim Min-seok age 14
Momčilo Krajišnik age 33
Mladen Ivanić age 20
Mercedes Aráoz age 17
Andrés Rodríguez age 55
Liu Bocheng age 86
Albert Reynolds age 46
Lee Jong-wook age 33
Kenneth Clarke age 38
Ramsey Clark age 50
Albert Pintat age 35
Carlos Lacoste age 49
Josef Klaus age 68
Ivan Kostov age 28
Saye Zerbo age 46
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 36
Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni age 6
Albert Pahimi Padacké age 12
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 55
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 38
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 55
Josef Tošovský age 28
Adolphe Muzito age 21
Sufi Abu Taleb age 53
Francisco Flores age 19
Tosiwo Nakayama age 47
Lado Gurgenidze age 7
Xenophon Zolotas age 74
Tillman Thomas age 33
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 28
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 35
Gérard Latortue age 44
Jenő Fock age 62
P. J. Patterson age 43
Bruce Golding age 31
Abdullah Ensour age 39
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 28
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 30
Kessai Note age 28
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 40
Sprent Dabwido age 6
Anand Satyanand age 34
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 24
Victor Ciorbea age 24
Constantin Dăscălescu age 55
Mugur Isărescu age 29
Frederick Ballantyne age 42
Abdoul Mbaye age 25
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 41
Andrej Bajuk age 35
Anton Rop age 17
Jeremiah Manele age 10
Riyad Farid Hijab age 12
Qahhor Mahkamov age 46
Mizengo Pinda age 30
Cleopa Msuya age 47
Apisai Ielemia age 23
Anatolii Kinakh age 24
Yevhen Marchuk age 37
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 66
Guillermo Endara age 42
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 50
Kim Hwang-sik age 30
Chung Un-chan age 31
Kim Jong-pil age 52
Chung Sye-kyun age 28
William Gopallawa age 81
D. M. Jayaratne age 47
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 37
Matthew Ridgway age 83
Manlio Brosio age 81
Franco Maria Malfatti age 51
David Malpass age 22
David Blunkett age 31
Amin al-Hafiz age 57
J. Lawton Collins age 82
John W. Snow age 39
John Healey age 18
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 60
Elliot Richardson age 58