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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

People

Ralph Northam age 19
Wang Zhen (general) age 71
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 92
Luis García Meza Tejada age 49
Jorge Quiroga age 18
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 65
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 30
Moussa Faki age 18
Jamil Mahuad age 29
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 27
Hazem Al Beblawi age 42
José Napoleón Duarte age 53
Tiit Vähi age 32
Mart Siimann age 32
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 36
Negasso Gidada age 35
Peter M. Christian age 31
Rafael Paasio age 75
Johannes Virolainen age 65
Georgios Rallis age 60
Nuno Nabiam age 12
Raimundo Pereira age 22
Charles Konan Banny age 36
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 35
Agim Çeku age 18
Moeketsi Majoro age 17
Ali Zeidan age 28
Abd al-Hamid Dbeibeh age 20
Michael Randrianirina age 5
Ċensu Tabone age 66
Prithvirajsing Roopun age 19
Chiril Gaburici age 2
Natalia Gherman age 10
Željko Šturanović age 19
Nahas Angula age 35
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 51
Jim Bolger age 43
Daouda Malam Wanké age 32
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 29
Ernest Shonekan age 42
Talat Xhaferi age 17
Muhammad Junejo age 46
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 37
Vasco Gonçalves age 57
Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu age 10
Mihai Tudose age 12
Bernard Makuza age 16
Kenny Anthony age 28
Ong Teng Cheong age 43
Maria das Neves age 20
Patrice Trovoada age 17
Thanin Kraiwichian age 52
Philip "Brave" Davis age 27
Manuel Merino age 17
Nur Hassan Hussein age 41
Goh Kun age 41
C. R. Swart age 84
Marais Viljoen age 63
Sicco Mansholt age 70
François-Xavier Ortoli age 54
Alistair Darling age 25
Grant Shapps age 10
Jack Lew age 23
Mark Milley age 20
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 36
Essam Sirius age 53
Jamshid Amouzegar age 55
Borisav Jović age 50
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 40
Boris Gromov age 35
Robert Cailliau age 32
Félicien Kabuga age 46
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester age 32
Louis Alphonse de Bourbon age 4
Mike Beebe age 32
Asa Hutchinson age 28
Bill Weld age 33
Jon Corzine age 32
Phil Murphy age 21
George Allen age 27
Charlie Baker age 22
Daniel Risch age 1
Svetozar Marović age 24
Midge Ure age 25
Pandeli Majko age 11
Louise Lake-Tack age 34
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 77
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 38
Kamal Ganzouri age 46
Alfredo Cristiani age 31
Andres Tarand age 39
David W. Panuelo age 15
V. J. Sukselainen age 72
Edward Akufo-Addo age 72
Michael Stasinopoulos age 75
Alfonso Portillo age 27
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 43
András Hegedüs age 56
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 31
Ahmed Chalabi age 34
Amadou Gon Coulibaly age 20
Patrick Allen age 28
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 59
Jelle Zijlstra age 60
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 38
Gyude Bryant age 30
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 33
Arnoldo Alemán age 33
Emil Dimitriev age 0 months
Wasim Sajjad age 38
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 40
Theodor Stolojan age 35
Manea Mănescu age 62
Nureddin al-Atassi age 50
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 66
Hussein Arnous age 26
Miguel Trovoada age 42
Yen Chia-kan age 73
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 46
Edward Natapei age 24
Nguyen Huu Tho age 68
Võ Thị Ánh Xuân age 9
Mieczysław Rakowski age 52
Luis González Macchi age 31
Lee Nack-yon age 26
Nikola Špirić age 22
Raffaella Petrini age 10
Ali Saibou age 38
Willy Claes age 40
Martin Dempsey age 27
Ramzi Yousef age 10
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 63
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 61
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 42
Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece age 10
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 27
George Voinovich age 42
Evan Bayh age 23
Mike DeWine age 32
Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford age 18
Larry Hogan age 22
Ken Starr age 32
John Profumo age 64
Melvin Laird age 56
Thomas Gage age 261
Juan José Arévalo age 74
Ali Kafi age 50
Eduardo Camaño age 32
Michael Jeffery age 41
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 23
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 59
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 61
Galab Donev age 12
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 22
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 71
Armando Calderón Sol age 30
Akwasi Afrifa age 43
Phaedon Gizikis age 61
Patrick Achi age 23
Edward Seaga age 48
Omar Razzaz age 17
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 37
Temir Sariyev age 15
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 24
René Moawad age 54
Ibrahim Nasir age 52
Amadou Sanogo age 6
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 46
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 55
Mike Moore age 30
Pak Pong-ju age 40
Kim Tok-hun age 18
Oliver Spasovski age 2
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 73
Haruo Remeliik age 45
Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani age 11
Allen Chastanet age 18
Đuro Macut age 15
Ivan Stambolić age 42
Ľudovít Ódor age 2
Imad Khamis age 17
Wael al-Halqi age 15
Maria do Carmo Silveira age 18
Wu Den-yih age 31
Edward Lowassa age 25
Seni Pramoj age 73
Kukrit Pramoj age 68
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 32
Anand Panyarachun age 46
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 42
Hubert Ingraham age 31
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 38
Mohamed Ennaceur age 45
Apolo Nsibambi age 38
Godfrey Binaisa age 58