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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
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
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Mark Felt age 65
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 96
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 64
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 48
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia age 25
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 44
Margareta of Romania age 30
Princess Michael of Kent age 34
Ari Behn age 6
Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg age 14
Ann Richards age 45
Brigitte Haas age 14
David Souter age 39
William P. Rogers age 65
Vazgen Sargsyan age 20
Owen Arthur age 29
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 21
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 22
Edgar Savisaar age 28
Taye Atske Selassie age 23
Epeli Nailatikau age 37
Karl-August Fagerholm age 77
Leslie Manigat age 48
Miklós Németh age 31
Robert Guéï age 38
Andris Kulbergs age 4 months
Bah Ndaw age 28
Dioncounda Traoré age 37
Iurie Leancă age 15
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 37
Cindy Kiro age 20
Patsy Reddy age 24
Lars Korvald age 63
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 75
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 35
Mohammad Shtayyeh age 21
Américo Tomás age 84
Denzil Douglas age 26
James Mancham age 39
Chuan Leekpai age 40
Perry Christie age 35
Mari Alkatiri age 29
Yıldırım Akbulut age 43
Pavlo Lazarenko age 26
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh age 19
Jan Olszewski age 48
José María Balcázar age 36
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 44
Ho Chong age 83
Charles Haughey age 53
William J. Perry age 51
Rachel Reeves age 2 months
Juan Almeida Bosque age 52
Han Zheng age 25
Shapour Bakhtiar age 65
Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943–2021) age 35
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 74
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies age 68
Anne of Romania age 55
Ian Wilmut age 34
Bashkim Fino age 16
John McEwen age 79
Novruz Mammadov age 32
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 52
Yacouba Isaac Zida age 13
Alfonso López Michelsen age 65
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 72
Ivica Račan age 35
Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde Kyenge age 1
Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini age 11
Manny Mori age 30
Wiliame Katonivere age 15
Ahti Karjalainen age 56
Martti Miettunen age 72
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 31
Ricardo Maduro age 33
Mátyás Szűrös age 45
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 50
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 21
Avdullah Hoti age 3
Thongsing Thammavong age 35
Camille Chamoun age 79
Ruth Perry age 39
Driss Jettou age 33
Russ J Kun age 3
Lionel Aingimea age 13
Rosario Murillo age 27
Kim Yong-il age 35
Per Borten age 66
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 41
Crin Antonescu age 19
Jules Wijdenbosch age 38
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 45
Hu'akavameiliku age 9
Anthony Carmona age 26
A. N. R. Robinson age 52
Nihat Erim age 67
Nabbanja Robinah age 9
Serhii Koretskyi age 1
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 59
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 27
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 30
Jaime Lusinchi age 54
Lê Minh Hưng age 8
Phan Văn Khải age 45
Rashad al-Alimi age 25
Józef Oleksy age 32
Waldemar Pawlak age 19
Lee Hae Chan age 26
Šefik Džaferović age 21
Nebojša Radmanović age 29
Dragan Čović age 22
Giuseppe Bertello age 36
Giovanni Lajolo age 44
Zhang Xueliang age 77
Maxwell D. Taylor age 77
Loretta Lynch age 19
Iain Duncan Smith age 25
Caspar Weinberger age 61
Milan Martić age 24
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu age 45
Pavel Grachev age 31
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 36
Mohsen Rezaee age 24
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa age 55
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman age 66
Georg Friedrich Prinz von Preussen age 2
Princess Marie of Denmark age 3
Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri age 3
Brian Kemp age 15
George Pataki age 33
Leonard Kleinrock age 44
Christopher Wray age 12
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 24
Rodney Williams age 31
Jaime Paz Zamora age 40
Joseph Ngute age 25
Philémon Yang age 31
Sylvanie Burton age 23
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 43
Lucio Gutiérrez age 22
Hesham Qandil age 16
Ibrahim Mahlab age 30
Grigol Mgaloblishvili age 5
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 47
Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo age 21
Henrique Rosa age 33
Donald Ramotar age 28
Oswaldo López Arellano age 57
Poul Hartling age 64
Barend Biesheuvel age 59
Muhammetkaliy Abulgaziyev age 11
Felix Kulov age 30
Sonexay Siphandone age 13
Nawaf Salam age 25
Tom Thabane age 39
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 73
Kailash Purryag age 31
Vasile Tarlev age 15
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 29
Brigi Rafini age 26
Choe Yong-rim age 48
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani age 19
Victor Khristenko age 21
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 27
Lojze Peterle age 30
Samuel Schmid age 32
Joseph Deiss age 33
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 46
Kassim Majaliwa age 18
Phumtham Wechayachai age 25
Hamadi Jebali age 30
Tito Okello age 64
Vitold Fokin age 46
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 53
Nigmatilla Yuldashev age 16
Tallis Obed Moses age 24
Do Muoi age 62
Chung Il-kwon age 61
Jung Hong-won age 34
Harini Amarasuriya age 9
Raif Dizdarević age 52
Sulejman Tihić age 27
Vo Chi Cong age 66
Jean Rey age 76
Ajay Banga age 19
Dan Caine age 10
Jacqui Smith age 16
Nadhim Zahawi age 11
Ralph Abernathy age 53
Sylvia Rivera age 27
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 66
Iñaki Urdangarin age 11
Mark Phillips (born 1948) age 30
Liam Fox age 17