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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 genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11

People

Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 33
Lester Bird age 40
Ramón Puerta age 27
Bill Hayden age 45
Sam Mostyn age 13
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 38
Froyla Tzalam age 7
Colville Young age 46
Stefan Janev age 18
Goukouni Oueddei age 36
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 63
Matata Ponyo Mapon Augustin age 14
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 31
Osvaldo Hurtado age 39
Galo Plaza age 72
Joseph Urusemal age 26
Teuvo Aura age 65
Keijo Liinamaa age 49
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 84
Ioannis Grivas age 55
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 51
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 48
Vinicio Cerezo age 35
Desmond Hoyte age 49
Henri Namphy age 46
Claudette Werleigh age 32
Péter Boross age 50
Károly Grósz age 48
Geir Hallgrímsson age 53
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 25
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 64
Moses Blah age 31
Litokwa Tomeing age 39
Alexandru Munteanu age 14
Daniel Chapo age 1
David Adeang age 9
Khil Raj Regmi age 29
Salou Djibo age 13
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani age 18
Terrance Drew age 2
Cuthbert Sebastian age 57
Mahammed Dionne age 19
Zoran Živković age 17
Flavio Cotti age 39
Chen Chien-jen age 27
Sanya Dharmasakti age 71
Chatchai Chunhawan age 58
Arthur Foulkes age 50
Marguerite Pindling age 46
Elyes Fakhfakh age 6
Ahmed Hachani age 22
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 55
Charlot Salwai age 15
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 71
Julius Chan age 39
Kim Boo-kyum age 20
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 62
Zoran Tegeltija age 17
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 22
Denis Zvizdić age 14
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 22
Edem Kodjo age 40
Masayoshi Ito age 65
Dirk Stikker age 81
James Wolfensohn age 45
Eric Shinseki age 36
Frank Carlucci age 48
Les Aspin age 40
Rab Butler age 76
Michael Mullen age 32
Lien Chan age 42
Rabah Bitat age 52
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 52
William Deane age 47
Clifford Husbands age 52
Jeffrey Bostic age 18
Reneta Indzhova age 25
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 29
Nikica Valentić age 28
Hipólito Mejía age 37
Atef Ebeid age 46
Jacob Nena age 37
Raymond Ndong Sima age 23
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 75
Dickon Mitchell age 1 month
Ramiro de León Carpio age 36
Jorge Serrano Elías age 33
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 31
Gyula Kállai age 68
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 54
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 67
Hamed Bakayoko age 13
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 28
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 29
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 22
Baqytzhan Saghyntaev age 15
Jan Eduard de Quay age 77
Djoomart Otorbaev age 23
Rashid Karami age 56
Sam Matekane age 20
Zigmantas Balčytis age 25
Modibo Sidibé age 26
Mohamed Ould Bilal age 14
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 25
Aureliu Ciocoi age 10
Abdellatif Filali age 50
René Harris age 31
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 38
Jerry Mateparae age 24
Ali Lamine Zeine age 13
Mohammad Mustafa age 24
Clément Mouamba age 35
Cătălin Predoiu age 10
Ilie Verdeț age 53
Ousmane Sonko age 4
David Vunagi age 28
Cho Jung-tai age 19
Prawit Wongsuwon age 33
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 41
Feleti Sevele age 34
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 27
Ali Laarayedh age 23
Mohamed Mzali age 52
Ruhakana Rugunda age 31
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 45
Serhii Arbuzov age 2
Diosdado Cabello age 15
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 39
Choi Sang-mok age 18
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 63
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 44
Alan Johnson age 28
John J. Sullivan age 19
Robert Rubin age 40
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 52
Nadir al-Arbawi age 29
Hartwig Löger age 13
Edmond Leburton age 63
Jean Van Houtte age 71
Philip Dimitrov age 23
Andrey Lukanov age 40
Dimitar Glavchev age 15
Paul Kaba Thieba age 18
Son Sann age 67
Said Mohamed Djohar age 60
Luis Alberto Monge age 52
Vlatko Pavletić age 48
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 61
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 29
Leo Falcam age 43
Wesley Simina age 17
Laisenia Qarase age 37
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 83
Jean-Max Bellerive age 20
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 35
José Azcona del Hoyo age 51
Ferenc Nagy age 75
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 25
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 31
Akylbek Japarov age 14
Suleiman Frangieh age 68
Amos Sawyer age 33
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 40
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 26
Alfred Sant age 30
Paul Xuereb age 55
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 36
Sükhbaataryn Batbold age 15
Pascoal Mocumbi age 37
Aires Ali age 23
Soe Win age 31
Pak Song-chol age 65
Shujaat Hussain age 38
Kuniwo Nakamura age 35
Tapley Seaton age 28
John Compton age 53
Adolf Ogi age 36
Nazim al-Kudsi age 72
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 34
Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali age 9
Frank Hsieh age 32
Cornelius A. Smith age 41
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 39
Patrick Manning age 32
Habib Essid age 29
Bülent Ulusu age 55
Kausea Natano age 21
Enele Sopoaga age 22
Yusuf Lule age 66
Ham Lini age 27
Kazimierz Sabbat age 65
Michael Ogio age 36
Nicolás Lindley López age 70
Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke age 18
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali age 13
Mohamed Hussein Roble age 15
Denis Bećirović age 3
Richard O'Connor age 89
Charles Q. Brown Jr. age 16
Douglas Hurd age 48