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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–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre 1989-04-15 - 1989-06-04

People

Paul Vanden Boeynants age 70
Galab Donev age 22
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 33
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 81
Armando Calderón Sol age 40
Phaedon Gizikis age 71
Patrick Achi age 33
Edward Seaga age 58
Omar Razzaz age 27
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 47
Temir Sariyev age 25
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 34
René Moawad age 64
Hussein Onn age 67
Ibrahim Nasir age 62
Amadou Sanogo age 16
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 56
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 65
Mike Moore age 40
Pak Pong-ju age 50
Kim Tok-hun age 28
Oliver Spasovski age 12
Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani age 21
Allen Chastanet age 28
Ivan Stambolić age 52
Ľudovít Ódor age 12
Imad Khamis age 27
Wael al-Halqi age 25
Maria do Carmo Silveira age 28
Wu Den-yih age 41
Edward Lowassa age 35
Seni Pramoj age 84
Kukrit Pramoj age 78
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 42
Anand Panyarachun age 56
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 52
Hubert Ingraham age 41
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 48
Mohamed Ennaceur age 55
Apolo Nsibambi age 48
Godfrey Binaisa age 68
Vitalii Masol age 60
Sato Kilman age 31
Ramón José Velásquez age 72
Vo Van Kiet age 66
Mohammed Basindawa age 54
Francisco Sagasti age 44
Hassan Ali Khayre age 21
Kim Min-seok age 24
Momčilo Krajišnik age 44
Mladen Ivanić age 30
Mercedes Aráoz age 27
Albert Reynolds age 56
Lee Jong-wook age 44
Kenneth Clarke age 48
Ramsey Clark age 61
Albert Pintat age 45
Carlos Lacoste age 60
Josef Klaus age 78
Ivan Kostov age 39
Saye Zerbo age 56
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 46
Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni age 17
Albert Pahimi Padacké age 22
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 65
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 49
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 65
Josef Tošovský age 38
Adolphe Muzito age 32
Sufi Abu Taleb age 64
Francisco Flores age 29
Tosiwo Nakayama age 57
Lado Gurgenidze age 18
Xenophon Zolotas age 85
Tillman Thomas age 43
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 39
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 45
Gérard Latortue age 54
Jenő Fock age 73
P. J. Patterson age 54
Bruce Golding age 41
Abdullah Ensour age 50
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 39
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 41
Kessai Note age 38
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 51
Sprent Dabwido age 16
Anand Satyanand age 44
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 35
Victor Ciorbea age 34
Mugur Isărescu age 39
Frederick Ballantyne age 52
Abdoul Mbaye age 36
Andrej Bajuk age 45
Anton Rop age 28
Jeremiah Manele age 21
Riyad Farid Hijab age 23
Qahhor Mahkamov age 57
Mizengo Pinda age 40
Cleopa Msuya age 58
Apisai Ielemia age 33
Anatolii Kinakh age 34
Yevhen Marchuk age 48
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 79
Guillermo Endara age 53
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 60
Kim Hwang-sik age 40
Chung Un-chan age 42
Kim Jong-pil age 63
Chung Sye-kyun age 38
D. M. Jayaratne age 57
Matthew Ridgway age 94
Franco Maria Malfatti age 61
David Malpass age 33
Denis Healey age 71
David Blunkett age 41
Amin al-Hafiz age 67
John W. Snow age 49
John Healey age 29
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 70
Elliot Richardson age 68
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 43
Lester Bird age 51
Ramón Puerta age 37
Sam Mostyn age 23
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 49
Froyla Tzalam age 17
Colville Young age 56
Stefan Janev age 29
Goukouni Oueddei age 47
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 73
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 62
Matata Ponyo Mapon Augustin age 24
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 42
Osvaldo Hurtado age 49
Joseph Urusemal age 37
Teuvo Aura age 76
Ioannis Grivas age 66
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 61
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 58
Henri Namphy age 56
Claudette Werleigh age 42
Péter Boross age 60
Károly Grósz age 58
Geir Hallgrímsson age 63
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 36
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 75
Moses Blah age 42
Litokwa Tomeing age 49
Alexandru Munteanu age 25
Daniel Chapo age 12
David Adeang age 19
Khil Raj Regmi age 39
Salou Djibo age 24
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani age 29
Terrance Drew age 12
Cuthbert Sebastian age 67
Mahammed Dionne age 29
Zoran Živković age 28
Flavio Cotti age 49
Chen Chien-jen age 37
Sanya Dharmasakti age 82
Kriangsak Chamanan age 71
Arthur Foulkes age 61
Marguerite Pindling age 56
Fatafehi Fakafānua, 8th Lord Fakafānua age 4
Elyes Fakhfakh age 17
Ahmed Hachani age 32
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 66
Charlot Salwai age 26
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 82
Julius Chan age 49
Kim Boo-kyum age 31
Zoran Tegeltija age 27
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 33
Denis Zvizdić age 24
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 33
Edem Kodjo age 50
Masayoshi Ito age 75
James Wolfensohn age 55
Eric Shinseki age 46
Frank Carlucci age 58
Les Aspin age 50
Michael Mullen age 42
Lien Chan age 52
William H. Webster age 65
Rabah Bitat age 63
William Deane age 58
Clifford Husbands age 62
Jeffrey Bostic age 28
Reneta Indzhova age 35
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 40
Nikica Valentić age 38
Hipólito Mejía age 48
Atef Ebeid age 57
Jacob Nena age 47
Raymond Ndong Sima age 34
Dickon Mitchell age 10
Ramiro de León Carpio age 47
Jorge Serrano Elías age 44