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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
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980) 1980-09-22 - 1980-11-10

People

Pierre Harmel age 69
Said Musa age 36
Norodom Ranariddh age 36
José María Figueres Olsen age 25
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 78
Kamal Ganzouri age 47
Alfredo Cristiani age 32
Andres Tarand age 40
David W. Panuelo age 16
V. J. Sukselainen age 74
Michael Stasinopoulos age 77
Alfonso Portillo age 29
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 44
András Hegedüs age 58
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 32
Ahmed Chalabi age 35
Amadou Gon Coulibaly age 21
Patrick Allen age 29
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 60
Jelle Zijlstra age 62
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 39
Gyude Bryant age 31
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 35
Arnoldo Alemán age 34
Emil Dimitriev age 1
Wasim Sajjad age 39
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 41
Theodor Stolojan age 37
Manea Mănescu age 64
Nureddin al-Atassi age 51
Hussein Arnous age 27
Miguel Trovoada age 43
Yen Chia-kan age 75
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 48
Edward Natapei age 26
Võ Thị Ánh Xuân age 10
Mieczysław Rakowski age 53
Luis González Macchi age 32
Lee Nack-yon age 27
Nikola Špirić age 24
Raffaella Petrini age 11
Ali Saibou age 40
Jack Lynch age 63
Willy Claes age 41
Martin Dempsey age 28
Nigel Lawson age 48
Melvin Laird age 58
Thomas Gage age 262
Juan José Arévalo age 76
Ali Kafi age 52
Eduardo Camaño age 34
Alen Simonyan age 9 months
Michael Jeffery age 42
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 24
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 61
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 62
Galab Donev age 13
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 24
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 72
Armando Calderón Sol age 32
Phaedon Gizikis age 63
Patrick Achi age 24
Edward Seaga age 50
Omar Razzaz age 19
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 38
Temir Sariyev age 17
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 26
René Moawad age 55
Ibrahim Nasir age 54
Amadou Sanogo age 7
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 47
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 56
Mike Moore age 31
Pak Pong-ju age 41
Kim Tok-hun age 19
Oliver Spasovski age 3
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 75
Haruo Remeliik age 47
Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani age 12
Allen Chastanet age 19
Ivan Stambolić age 43
Ľudovít Ódor age 4
Imad Khamis age 19
Wael al-Halqi age 16
Maria do Carmo Silveira age 19
Wu Den-yih age 32
Edward Lowassa age 27
Seni Pramoj age 75
Kukrit Pramoj age 69
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 34
Anand Panyarachun age 48
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 44
Hubert Ingraham age 33
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 39
Mohamed Ennaceur age 46
Apolo Nsibambi age 40
Godfrey Binaisa age 60
Vitalii Masol age 51
Sato Kilman age 22
Ramón José Velásquez age 63
Vo Van Kiet age 57
Mohammed Basindawa age 45
Arnulfo Arias age 79
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 86
Francisco Sagasti age 36
Hassan Ali Khayre age 12
Kim Min-seok age 16
Momčilo Krajišnik age 35
Mladen Ivanić age 22
Mercedes Aráoz age 19
Andrés Rodríguez age 57
Liu Bocheng age 87
Albert Reynolds age 47
Lee Jong-wook age 35
Kenneth Clarke age 40
Ramsey Clark age 52
Albert Pintat age 37
Carlos Lacoste age 51
Josef Klaus age 70
Ivan Kostov age 30
Saye Zerbo age 48
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 38
Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni age 8
Albert Pahimi Padacké age 13
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 56
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 40
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 56
Josef Tošovský age 30
Adolphe Muzito age 23
Sufi Abu Taleb age 55
Francisco Flores age 21
Lado Gurgenidze age 9
Xenophon Zolotas age 76
Tillman Thomas age 35
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 30
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 37
Gérard Latortue age 46
Jenő Fock age 64
P. J. Patterson age 45
Bruce Golding age 32
Abdullah Ensour age 41
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 30
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 32
Kessai Note age 30
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 42
Sprent Dabwido age 8
Anand Satyanand age 36
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 26
Victor Ciorbea age 25
Constantin Dăscălescu age 57
Mugur Isărescu age 31
Frederick Ballantyne age 44
Abdoul Mbaye age 27
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 43
Andrej Bajuk age 37
Anton Rop age 19
Jeremiah Manele age 12
Riyad Farid Hijab age 14
Qahhor Mahkamov age 48
Mizengo Pinda age 32
Cleopa Msuya age 49
Apisai Ielemia age 25
Anatolii Kinakh age 26
Yevhen Marchuk age 39
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 71
Guillermo Endara age 44
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 52
Kim Hwang-sik age 32
Chung Un-chan age 33
Kim Jong-pil age 54
Chung Sye-kyun age 29
William Gopallawa age 83
D. M. Jayaratne age 49
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 39
Matthew Ridgway age 85
Franco Maria Malfatti age 53
David Malpass age 24
Denis Healey age 63
David Blunkett age 33
Amin al-Hafiz age 58
J. Lawton Collins age 84
John W. Snow age 41
John Healey age 20
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 62
Elliot Richardson age 60
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 34
Lester Bird age 42
Ramón Puerta age 29
Bill Hayden age 47
Sam Mostyn age 15
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 40
Froyla Tzalam age 9
Colville Young age 47
Stefan Janev age 20
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 65
Matata Ponyo Mapon Augustin age 16
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 33
Osvaldo Hurtado age 41
Galo Plaza age 74
Joseph Urusemal age 28