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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
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000

People

Liam Fox age 18
Ralph Northam age 20
Wang Zhen (general) age 72
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 93
Jorge Quiroga age 20
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 66
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 31
Moussa Faki age 20
Jamil Mahuad age 31
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 28
Hazem Al Beblawi age 43
José Napoleón Duarte age 54
Tiit Vähi age 33
Mart Siimann age 33
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 38
Negasso Gidada age 36
Peter M. Christian age 32
Johannes Virolainen age 66
Nuno Nabiam age 13
Raimundo Pereira age 23
Charles Konan Banny age 37
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 37
Agim Çeku age 19
Moeketsi Majoro age 18
Ali Zeidan age 29
Abd al-Hamid Dbeibeh age 21
Michael Randrianirina age 6
Ċensu Tabone age 67
Prithvirajsing Roopun age 21
Chiril Gaburici age 3
Natalia Gherman age 11
Željko Šturanović age 20
Nahas Angula age 36
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 52
Jim Bolger age 45
Daouda Malam Wanké age 34
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 31
Ernest Shonekan age 44
Talat Xhaferi age 18
Muhammad Junejo age 48
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 39
Vasco Gonçalves age 59
Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu age 11
Mihai Tudose age 13
Bernard Makuza age 17
Kenny Anthony age 29
Ong Teng Cheong age 44
Maria das Neves age 22
Patrice Trovoada age 18
Thanin Kraiwichian age 53
Philip "Brave" Davis age 29
Manuel Merino age 18
Nur Hassan Hussein age 42
Goh Kun age 42
C. R. Swart age 85
Sicco Mansholt age 71
François-Xavier Ortoli age 55
Alistair Darling age 26
Grant Shapps age 11
Jack Lew age 24
Mark Milley age 22
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 37
Essam Sirius age 54
Jamshid Amouzegar age 57
Borisav Jović age 51
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 41
Boris Gromov age 36
Robert Cailliau age 33
Félicien Kabuga age 47
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester age 34
Louis Alphonse de Bourbon age 6
Mike Beebe age 33
Asa Hutchinson age 29
Bill Weld age 35
Jon Corzine age 33
Phil Murphy age 22
George Allen age 28
Charlie Baker age 23
Daniel Risch age 2
Svetozar Marović age 25
Midge Ure age 26
Pandeli Majko age 12
Louise Lake-Tack age 36
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 60
Pierre Harmel age 69
Said Musa age 36
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 16
V. J. Sukselainen age 73
Michael Stasinopoulos age 77
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 21
Patrick Allen age 29
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 60
Jelle Zijlstra age 61
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 39
Gyude Bryant age 31
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 35
Arnoldo Alemán age 34
Emil Dimitriev age 1
Wasim Sajjad age 39
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 41
Theodor Stolojan age 36
Manea Mănescu age 64
Nureddin al-Atassi age 51
Hussein Arnous age 27
Miguel Trovoada age 43
Yen Chia-kan age 74
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 48
Edward Natapei age 26
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 40
Claude Joseph age 4 months
Jack Lynch age 63
Willy Claes age 41
Martin Dempsey age 28
Ramzi Yousef age 12
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 64
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 62
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 44
Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece age 11
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 29
George Voinovich age 44
Evan Bayh age 24
Mike DeWine age 33
Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford age 20
Larry Hogan age 24
Ken Starr age 34
John Profumo age 65
Melvin Laird age 57
Thomas Gage age 262
Juan José Arévalo age 75
Ali Kafi age 51
Eduardo Camaño age 34
Alen Simonyan age 7 months
Michael Jeffery age 42
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 24
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 61
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 62
Galab Donev age 13
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 24
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 72
Armando Calderón Sol age 32
Phaedon Gizikis age 63
Patrick Achi age 24
Edward Seaga age 50
Omar Razzaz age 19
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 38
Temir Sariyev age 17
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 26
René Moawad age 55
Ibrahim Nasir age 53
Amadou Sanogo age 7
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 47
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 56
Mike Moore age 31
Pak Pong-ju age 41
Kim Tok-hun age 19
Oliver Spasovski age 3
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 75
Haruo Remeliik age 47
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 4
Imad Khamis age 19
Wael al-Halqi age 16
Maria do Carmo Silveira age 19
Wu Den-yih age 32
Edward Lowassa age 26
Seni Pramoj age 75
Kukrit Pramoj age 69
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 33
Anand Panyarachun age 48
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 44
Hubert Ingraham age 33
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 39
Mohamed Ennaceur age 46
Apolo Nsibambi age 39
Godfrey Binaisa age 60
Vitalii Masol age 51
Sato Kilman age 22
Ramón José Velásquez age 63
Vo Van Kiet age 57
Mohammed Basindawa age 45