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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
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15

People

Mark Felt age 66
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 96
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 65
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 49
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia age 26
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 45
Margareta of Romania age 30
Princess Michael of Kent age 35
Ari Behn age 7
Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg age 15
Ann Richards age 46
Brigitte Haas age 15
David Souter age 40
William P. Rogers age 66
Vazgen Sargsyan age 20
Owen Arthur age 30
André Kolingba age 43
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 21
Rodrigo Chaves age 18
Manuel Marrero Cruz age 16
Jiří Paroubek age 27
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 21
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 23
Edgar Savisaar age 29
Taye Atske Selassie age 24
Epeli Nailatikau age 38
Karl-August Fagerholm age 78
Leslie Manigat age 49
Miklós Németh age 32
Robert Guéï age 38
Andris Kulbergs age 1
Bah Ndaw age 29
Dioncounda Traoré age 37
Iurie Leancă age 16
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 38
Cindy Kiro age 21
Patsy Reddy age 25
Lars Korvald age 63
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 76
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 36
Mohammad Shtayyeh age 22
Américo Tomás age 85
Denzil Douglas age 27
James Mancham age 40
Chuan Leekpai age 41
Perry Christie age 36
Mari Alkatiri age 30
Yıldırım Akbulut age 44
Pavlo Lazarenko age 27
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh age 20
Jan Olszewski age 49
José María Balcázar age 37
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 45
Ho Chong age 83
William J. Perry age 52
Rachel Reeves age 11 months
Juan Almeida Bosque age 52
Han Zheng age 25
Shapour Bakhtiar age 66
Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943–2021) age 36
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 74
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies age 69
Anne of Romania age 56
Ian Wilmut age 35
Bashkim Fino age 17
John McEwen age 79
Novruz Mammadov age 32
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 53
Yacouba Isaac Zida age 14
Alfonso López Michelsen age 66
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 73
Ivica Račan age 35
Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde Kyenge age 2
Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini age 11
Manny Mori age 31
Wiliame Katonivere age 15
Ahti Karjalainen age 56
Martti Miettunen age 72
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 32
Ricardo Maduro age 33
Mátyás Szűrös age 46
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 51
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 21
Avdullah Hoti age 3
Thongsing Thammavong age 35
Camille Chamoun age 79
Ruth Perry age 40
Driss Jettou age 34
Russ J Kun age 4
Lionel Aingimea age 14
Rosario Murillo age 28
Kim Yong-il age 35
Per Borten age 66
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 42
Crin Antonescu age 20
Jules Wijdenbosch age 38
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 46
Hu'akavameiliku age 9
Anthony Carmona age 26
A. N. R. Robinson age 53
Nihat Erim age 68
Nabbanja Robinah age 10
Serhii Koretskyi age 1
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 59
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 28
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 30
Jaime Lusinchi age 55
Lê Minh Hưng age 9
Phan Văn Khải age 46
Rashad al-Alimi age 26
Józef Oleksy age 33
Waldemar Pawlak age 20
Lee Hae Chan age 27
Šefik Džaferović age 22
Nebojša Radmanović age 30
Dragan Čović age 23
Giuseppe Bertello age 37
Giovanni Lajolo age 45
Zhang Xueliang age 78
Maxwell D. Taylor age 78
Loretta Lynch age 20
Iain Duncan Smith age 25
Caspar Weinberger age 62
Milan Martić age 25
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu age 46
Pavel Grachev age 32
Mohsen Rezaee age 25
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa age 56
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman age 67
Georg Friedrich Prinz von Preussen age 3
Princess Marie of Denmark age 3
Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri age 4
Brian Kemp age 16
George Pataki age 34
Abigail Spanberger age 5 months
Leonard Kleinrock age 45
Christopher Wray age 13
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 25
Rodney Williams age 32
Jaime Paz Zamora age 40
Joseph Ngute age 25
Philémon Yang age 32
Sylvanie Burton age 24
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 44
Lucio Gutiérrez age 22
Hesham Qandil age 17
Ibrahim Mahlab age 30
Grigol Mgaloblishvili age 6
Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo age 21
Henrique Rosa age 34
Donald Ramotar age 29
Oswaldo López Arellano age 58
Poul Hartling age 65
Barend Biesheuvel age 59
Muhammetkaliy Abulgaziyev age 12
Felix Kulov age 31
Sonexay Siphandone age 14
Nawaf Salam age 26
Tom Thabane age 40
Kailash Purryag age 32
Vasile Tarlev age 16
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 29
Brigi Rafini age 26
Choe Yong-rim age 49
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani age 20
Victor Khristenko age 22
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 28
Lojze Peterle age 31
Samuel Schmid age 33
Joseph Deiss age 34
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 47
Kassim Majaliwa age 19
Phumtham Wechayachai age 26
Hamadi Jebali age 31
Tito Okello age 65
Vitold Fokin age 47
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 54
Nigmatilla Yuldashev age 17
Tallis Obed Moses age 25
Do Muoi age 63
Chung Il-kwon age 62
Jung Hong-won age 35
Harini Amarasuriya age 9
Raif Dizdarević age 53
Sulejman Tihić age 28
Vo Chi Cong age 67
Jean Rey age 77
Ajay Banga age 20
Dan Caine age 11
Jacqui Smith age 17
Nadhim Zahawi age 12
Ralph Abernathy age 53
Sylvia Rivera age 28
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 66
Iñaki Urdangarin age 12
Mark Phillips (born 1948) age 31
Liam Fox age 18
Ralph Northam age 20
Wang Zhen (general) age 71
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 93