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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
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20

People

Jack Lew age 24
Mark Milley age 21
Pandeli Majko age 12
Louise Lake-Tack age 35
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 59
Pierre Harmel age 68
Said Musa age 35
Norodom Ranariddh age 35
José María Figueres Olsen age 24
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 78
Kamal Ganzouri age 46
Alfredo Cristiani age 32
Andres Tarand age 39
David W. Panuelo age 15
V. J. Sukselainen age 73
Michael Stasinopoulos age 76
Alfonso Portillo age 28
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 43
András Hegedüs age 57
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 32
Ahmed Chalabi age 35
Amadou Gon Coulibaly age 20
Patrick Allen age 28
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 59
Jelle Zijlstra age 61
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 39
Gyude Bryant age 30
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 34
Arnoldo Alemán age 33
Emil Dimitriev age 9 months
Wasim Sajjad age 38
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 40
Theodor Stolojan age 36
Manea Mănescu age 63
Nureddin al-Atassi age 50
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 67
Hussein Arnous age 26
Miguel Trovoada age 42
Yen Chia-kan age 74
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 47
Edward Natapei age 25
Nguyen Huu Tho age 69
Võ Thị Ánh Xuân age 9
Mieczysław Rakowski age 53
Luis González Macchi age 32
Lee Nack-yon age 27
Nikola Špirić age 23
Raffaella Petrini age 10
Ali Saibou age 39
Jack Lynch age 62
Willy Claes age 41
Martin Dempsey age 27
Nigel Lawson age 47
Melvin Laird age 57
Thomas Gage age 261
Juan José Arévalo age 75
Ali Kafi age 51
Eduardo Camaño age 33
Michael Jeffery age 42
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 24
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 60
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 61
Galab Donev age 12
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 23
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 71
Armando Calderón Sol age 31
Phaedon Gizikis age 62
Patrick Achi age 24
Edward Seaga age 49
Omar Razzaz age 18
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 37
Temir Sariyev age 16
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 25
René Moawad age 54
Ibrahim Nasir age 53
Amadou Sanogo age 7
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 47
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 55
Mike Moore age 30
Pak Pong-ju age 40
Kim Tok-hun age 18
Oliver Spasovski age 3
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 74
Haruo Remeliik age 46
Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani age 11
Allen Chastanet age 19
Ivan Stambolić age 43
Ľudovít Ódor age 3
Imad Khamis age 18
Wael al-Halqi age 15
Maria do Carmo Silveira age 18
Wu Den-yih age 31
Edward Lowassa age 26
Seni Pramoj age 74
Kukrit Pramoj age 68
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 33
Anand Panyarachun age 47
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 43
Hubert Ingraham age 32
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 38
Mohamed Ennaceur age 45
Apolo Nsibambi age 39
Vitalii Masol age 51
Sato Kilman age 21
Ramón José Velásquez age 63
Vo Van Kiet age 57
Mohammed Basindawa age 44
Arnulfo Arias age 78
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 85
Francisco Sagasti age 35
Hassan Ali Khayre age 11
Kim Min-seok age 15
Momčilo Krajišnik age 34
Mladen Ivanić age 21
Mercedes Aráoz age 18
Andrés Rodríguez age 56
Liu Bocheng age 87
Albert Reynolds age 47
Lee Jong-wook age 34
Kenneth Clarke age 39
Ramsey Clark age 52
Albert Pintat age 36
Carlos Lacoste age 50
Josef Klaus age 69
Ivan Kostov age 29
Saye Zerbo age 47
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 37
Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni age 7
Albert Pahimi Padacké age 13
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 56
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 39
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 56
Josef Tošovský age 29
Adolphe Muzito age 22
Sufi Abu Taleb age 54
Francisco Flores age 20
Lado Gurgenidze age 9
Xenophon Zolotas age 75
Tillman Thomas age 34
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 30
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 36
Gérard Latortue age 45
Jenő Fock age 63
P. J. Patterson age 44
Bruce Golding age 32
Abdullah Ensour age 40
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 29
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 31
Kessai Note age 29
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 41
Sprent Dabwido age 7
Anand Satyanand age 35
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 25
Victor Ciorbea age 25
Constantin Dăscălescu age 56
Mugur Isărescu age 30
Frederick Ballantyne age 43
Abdoul Mbaye age 26
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 42
Andrej Bajuk age 36
Anton Rop age 18
Jeremiah Manele age 11
Riyad Farid Hijab age 13
Qahhor Mahkamov age 47
Mizengo Pinda age 31
Cleopa Msuya age 48
Apisai Ielemia age 24
Anatolii Kinakh age 25
Yevhen Marchuk age 38
Guillermo Endara age 43
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 51
Kim Hwang-sik age 31
Chung Un-chan age 32
Kim Jong-pil age 53
Chung Sye-kyun age 29
William Gopallawa age 82
D. M. Jayaratne age 48
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 38
Matthew Ridgway age 84
Manlio Brosio age 82
Franco Maria Malfatti age 52
David Malpass age 23
Denis Healey age 62
David Blunkett age 32
Amin al-Hafiz age 58
J. Lawton Collins age 83
John W. Snow age 40
John Healey age 19
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 61
Elliot Richardson age 59
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 34
Lester Bird age 41
Ramón Puerta age 28
Bill Hayden age 46
Sam Mostyn age 14
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 39
Froyla Tzalam age 8
Colville Young age 47
Stefan Janev age 19
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 64