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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
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
Salvadoran Civil War 1979-10-15 - 1992-01-16
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15

People

Luis García Meza Tejada age 50
Jorge Quiroga age 19
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 65
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 31
Moussa Faki age 19
Jamil Mahuad age 30
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 27
Hazem Al Beblawi age 43
José Napoleón Duarte age 54
Tiit Vähi age 33
Mart Siimann age 33
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 37
Negasso Gidada age 36
Peter M. Christian age 32
Rafael Paasio age 76
Johannes Virolainen age 66
Georgios Rallis age 61
Nuno Nabiam age 13
Raimundo Pereira age 23
Charles Konan Banny age 37
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 36
Agim Çeku age 19
Moeketsi Majoro age 18
Ali Zeidan age 29
Abd al-Hamid Dbeibeh age 20
Michael Randrianirina age 6
Ċensu Tabone age 66
Prithvirajsing Roopun age 20
Chiril Gaburici age 3
Natalia Gherman age 10
Željko Šturanović age 19
Nahas Angula age 36
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 51
Jim Bolger age 44
Daouda Malam Wanké age 33
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 30
Ernest Shonekan age 43
Talat Xhaferi age 17
Muhammad Junejo age 47
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 38
Vasco Gonçalves age 58
Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu age 11
Mihai Tudose age 12
Bernard Makuza age 17
Kenny Anthony age 29
Ong Teng Cheong age 44
Maria das Neves age 21
Patrice Trovoada age 17
Thanin Kraiwichian age 52
Philip "Brave" Davis age 28
Manuel Merino age 18
Nur Hassan Hussein age 41
Goh Kun age 42
C. R. Swart age 85
Sicco Mansholt age 71
François-Xavier Ortoli age 54
Alistair Darling age 26
Grant Shapps age 11
Jack Lew age 24
Mark Milley age 21
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 36
Essam Sirius age 54
Jamshid Amouzegar age 56
Borisav Jović age 51
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 41
Boris Gromov age 36
Robert Cailliau age 32
Félicien Kabuga age 46
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester age 33
Louis Alphonse de Bourbon age 5
Mike Beebe age 33
Asa Hutchinson age 29
Bill Weld age 34
Jon Corzine age 33
Phil Murphy age 22
George Allen age 27
Charlie Baker age 23
Daniel Risch age 1
Svetozar Marović age 24
Midge Ure age 26
Pandeli Majko age 12
Louise Lake-Tack age 35
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 60
Pierre Harmel age 68
Said Musa age 35
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 15
V. J. Sukselainen age 73
Michael Stasinopoulos age 76
Alfonso Portillo age 28
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 44
András Hegedüs age 57
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 32
Ahmed Chalabi age 35
Amadou Gon Coulibaly age 20
Patrick Allen age 28
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 59
Jelle Zijlstra age 61
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 39
Gyude Bryant age 31
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 34
Arnoldo Alemán age 34
Emil Dimitriev age 10 months
Wasim Sajjad age 38
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 41
Theodor Stolojan age 36
Manea Mănescu age 63
Nureddin al-Atassi age 51
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 67
Hussein Arnous age 27
Miguel Trovoada age 43
Yen Chia-kan age 74
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 47
Edward Natapei age 25
Nguyen Huu Tho age 69
Võ Thị Ánh Xuân age 10
Mieczysław Rakowski age 53
Luis González Macchi age 32
Lee Nack-yon age 27
Nikola Špirić age 23
Raffaella Petrini age 11
Ali Saibou age 39
Jack Lynch age 62
Willy Claes age 41
Martin Dempsey age 27
Ramzi Yousef age 11
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 64
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 62
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 43
Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece age 11
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 28
George Voinovich age 43
Evan Bayh age 24
Mike DeWine age 33
Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford age 19
Larry Hogan age 23
Ken Starr age 33
John Profumo age 65
Melvin Laird age 57
Thomas Gage age 262
Juan José Arévalo age 75
Ali Kafi age 51
Eduardo Camaño age 33
Alen Simonyan age 0 months
Michael Jeffery age 42
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 24
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 60
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 61
Galab Donev age 12
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 23
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 71
Armando Calderón Sol age 31
Phaedon Gizikis age 62
Patrick Achi age 24
Edward Seaga age 49
Omar Razzaz age 18
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 38
Temir Sariyev age 16
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 25
René Moawad age 54
Ibrahim Nasir age 53
Amadou Sanogo age 7
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 47
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 55
Mike Moore age 31
Pak Pong-ju age 40
Kim Tok-hun age 19
Oliver Spasovski age 3
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 74
Haruo Remeliik age 46
Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani age 12
Allen Chastanet age 19
Đuro Macut age 16
Ivan Stambolić age 43
Ľudovít Ódor age 3
Imad Khamis age 18
Wael al-Halqi age 15
Maria do Carmo Silveira age 18
Wu Den-yih age 32
Edward Lowassa age 26
Seni Pramoj age 74
Kukrit Pramoj age 68
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 33
Anand Panyarachun age 47
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 43
Hubert Ingraham age 32
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 38
Mohamed Ennaceur age 45
Apolo Nsibambi age 39
Vitalii Masol age 51
Sato Kilman age 22
Ramón José Velásquez age 63
Vo Van Kiet age 57
Mohammed Basindawa age 44
Arnulfo Arias age 78