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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

People

Mitch Daniels age 30
Gray Davis age 36
Ramsey Clark age 51
Albert Pintat age 36
Carlos Lacoste age 50
Josef Klaus age 69
Ivan Kostov age 29
Saye Zerbo age 47
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 37
Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni age 7
Albert Pahimi Padacké age 13
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 56
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 39
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 56
Josef Tošovský age 29
Adolphe Muzito age 22
Sufi Abu Taleb age 54
Francisco Flores age 20
Lado Gurgenidze age 8
Xenophon Zolotas age 75
Tillman Thomas age 34
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 29
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 36
Gérard Latortue age 45
Jenő Fock age 63
P. J. Patterson age 44
Bruce Golding age 32
Abdullah Ensour age 40
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 29
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 31
Kessai Note age 29
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 41
Sprent Dabwido age 7
Anand Satyanand age 35
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 25
Victor Ciorbea age 25
Constantin Dăscălescu age 56
Mugur Isărescu age 30
Frederick Ballantyne age 43
Abdoul Mbaye age 26
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 42
Andrej Bajuk age 36
Anton Rop age 18
Jeremiah Manele age 11
Riyad Farid Hijab age 13
Qahhor Mahkamov age 47
Mizengo Pinda age 31
Cleopa Msuya age 48
Apisai Ielemia age 24
Anatolii Kinakh age 25
Yevhen Marchuk age 38
Guillermo Endara age 43
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 51
Kim Hwang-sik age 31
Chung Un-chan age 32
Kim Jong-pil age 53
Chung Sye-kyun age 29
William Gopallawa age 82
D. M. Jayaratne age 48
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 38
Matthew Ridgway age 84
Manlio Brosio age 82
Franco Maria Malfatti age 52
David Malpass age 23
David Blunkett age 32
Amin al-Hafiz age 58
J. Lawton Collins age 83
John W. Snow age 40
John Healey age 19
Li Yuanchao age 29
Jim Gilmore age 30
Bob McDonnell age 25
Terry McAuliffe age 22
Mike Braun age 25
Bill Lee age 20
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 61
Elliot Richardson age 59
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 34
Lester Bird age 41
Ramón Puerta age 28
Bill Hayden age 46
Sam Mostyn age 14
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 39
Froyla Tzalam age 8
Colville Young age 47
Stefan Janev age 19
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 64
Matata Ponyo Mapon Augustin age 15
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 32
Osvaldo Hurtado age 40
Galo Plaza age 73
Joseph Urusemal age 27
Teuvo Aura age 66
Keijo Liinamaa age 50
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 85
Ioannis Grivas age 56
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 52
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 49
Vinicio Cerezo age 36
Desmond Hoyte age 50
Henri Namphy age 47
Claudette Werleigh age 33
Péter Boross age 51
Károly Grósz age 49
Geir Hallgrímsson age 53
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 26
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 65
Moses Blah age 32
Litokwa Tomeing age 40
Alexandru Munteanu age 15
Daniel Chapo age 2
David Adeang age 10
Khil Raj Regmi age 30
Salou Djibo age 14
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani age 19
Terrance Drew age 3
Cuthbert Sebastian age 58
Mahammed Dionne age 20
Zoran Živković age 18
Flavio Cotti age 40
Chen Chien-jen age 28
Sanya Dharmasakti age 72
Chatchai Chunhawan age 59
Arthur Foulkes age 51
Marguerite Pindling age 47
Elyes Fakhfakh age 7
Ahmed Hachani age 23
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 56
Charlot Salwai age 16
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 72
Julius Chan age 40
Kim Boo-kyum age 21
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 63
Zoran Tegeltija age 18
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 23
Denis Zvizdić age 15
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 23
Edem Kodjo age 41
Masayoshi Ito age 66
Dirk Stikker age 82
James Wolfensohn age 46
Eric Shinseki age 37
Frank Carlucci age 49
Rab Butler age 77
Michael Mullen age 33
Zell Miller age 47
Pete Wilson age 46
Eric Holcomb age 11
Mikie Sherrill age 7
Glenn Youngkin age 12
Lien Chan age 43
Rabah Bitat age 53
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 53
William Deane age 48
Clifford Husbands age 53
Jeffrey Bostic age 19
Reneta Indzhova age 26
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 30
Nikica Valentić age 29
Hipólito Mejía age 38
Atef Ebeid age 47
Jacob Nena age 38
Raymond Ndong Sima age 24
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 76
Dickon Mitchell age 1
Ramiro de León Carpio age 37
Jorge Serrano Elías age 34
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 32
Gyula Kállai age 69
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 68
Hamed Bakayoko age 14
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 29
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 30
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 22
Baqytzhan Saghyntaev age 16
Jan Eduard de Quay age 78
Djoomart Otorbaev age 24
Rashid Karami age 57
Sam Matekane age 21
Zigmantas Balčytis age 26
Modibo Sidibé age 27
Mohamed Ould Bilal age 15
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 26
Aureliu Ciocoi age 11
Abdellatif Filali age 51
René Harris age 32
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 39
Jerry Mateparae age 25
Ali Lamine Zeine age 14
Mohammad Mustafa age 25
Clément Mouamba age 36
Cătălin Predoiu age 11
Ousmane Sonko age 5
David Vunagi age 29
Cho Jung-tai age 20
Prawit Wongsuwon age 34
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 42
Feleti Sevele age 35
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 28
Ali Laarayedh age 24