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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
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980) 1980-09-22 - 1980-11-10

People

Teuvo Aura age 67
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 86
Ioannis Grivas age 57
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 53
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 49
Vinicio Cerezo age 37
Desmond Hoyte age 51
Henri Namphy age 47
Claudette Werleigh age 34
Péter Boross age 52
Károly Grósz age 50
Geir Hallgrímsson age 54
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 27
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 66
Salim al-Huss age 50
Moses Blah age 33
Litokwa Tomeing age 41
Alexandru Munteanu age 16
Daniel Chapo age 3
David Adeang age 10
Khil Raj Regmi age 31
Salou Djibo age 15
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani age 20
Terrance Drew age 3
Cuthbert Sebastian age 59
Mahammed Dionne age 21
Zoran Živković age 19
Flavio Cotti age 41
Chen Chien-jen age 29
Sanya Dharmasakti age 73
Kriangsak Chamanan age 62
Chatchai Chunhawan age 60
Arthur Foulkes age 52
Marguerite Pindling age 48
Elyes Fakhfakh age 8
Ahmed Hachani age 24
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 57
Charlot Salwai age 17
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 73
Kim Boo-kyum age 22
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 64
Zoran Tegeltija age 19
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 24
Denis Zvizdić age 16
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 24
Edem Kodjo age 42
Masayoshi Ito age 66
James Wolfensohn age 46
Eric Shinseki age 37
Frank Carlucci age 50
Les Aspin age 42
Rab Butler age 77
Michael Mullen age 34
Lien Chan age 44
Rabah Bitat age 54
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 53
William Deane age 49
Clifford Husbands age 54
Jeffrey Bostic age 19
Reneta Indzhova age 27
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 31
Nikica Valentić age 29
Hipólito Mejía age 39
Atef Ebeid age 48
Jacob Nena age 39
Raymond Ndong Sima age 25
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 77
Dickon Mitchell age 2
Ramiro de León Carpio age 38
Jorge Serrano Elías age 35
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 33
Gyula Kállai age 70
Ágnes Forsthoffer age 6 months
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 56
Hamed Bakayoko age 15
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 30
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 31
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 23
Baqytzhan Saghyntaev age 17
Jan Eduard de Quay age 79
Djoomart Otorbaev age 25
Rashid Karami age 58
Sam Matekane age 22
Zigmantas Balčytis age 26
Modibo Sidibé age 27
Mohamed Ould Bilal age 16
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 27
Aureliu Ciocoi age 12
Abdellatif Filali age 52
René Harris age 32
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 40
Jerry Mateparae age 25
Ali Lamine Zeine age 15
Mohammad Mustafa age 26
Clément Mouamba age 36
Cătălin Predoiu age 12
Ousmane Sonko age 6
David Vunagi age 30
Cho Jung-tai age 21
Prawit Wongsuwon age 35
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 42
Feleti Sevele age 36
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 29
Ali Laarayedh age 25
Ruhakana Rugunda age 32
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 47
Serhii Arbuzov age 4
Diosdado Cabello age 17
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 41
Choi Sang-mok age 20
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 46
Alan Johnson age 30
John J. Sullivan age 20
Robert Rubin age 42
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 54
Nadir al-Arbawi age 31
Hartwig Löger age 15
Edmond Leburton age 65
Jean Van Houtte age 73
Philip Dimitrov age 25
Andrey Lukanov age 42
Dimitar Glavchev age 17
Paul Kaba Thieba age 20
Son Sann age 69
Said Mohamed Djohar age 62
Luis Alberto Monge age 54
Vlatko Pavletić age 49
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 63
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 31
Leo Falcam age 44
Wesley Simina age 19
Laisenia Qarase age 39
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 85
Jean-Max Bellerive age 22
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 36
José Azcona del Hoyo age 53
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 67
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 27
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 32
Akylbek Japarov age 16
Suleiman Frangieh age 70
Amos Sawyer age 35
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 41
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 28
Alfred Sant age 32
Paul Xuereb age 57
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 38
Sükhbaataryn Batbold age 17
Pascoal Mocumbi age 39
Aires Ali age 24
Soe Win age 33
Pak Song-chol age 67
Shujaat Hussain age 40
Kuniwo Nakamura age 36
Tapley Seaton age 30
John Compton age 55
Henck Arron age 44
Adolf Ogi age 38
Nazim al-Kudsi age 74
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 36
Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali age 11
Frank Hsieh age 34
Cornelius A. Smith age 43
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 41
Patrick Manning age 34
Habib Essid age 31
Kausea Natano age 23
Enele Sopoaga age 24
Yusuf Lule age 68
Ham Lini age 28
Kazimierz Sabbat age 67
Michael Ogio age 38
Nicolás Lindley López age 71
Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke age 20
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali age 15
Mohamed Hussein Roble age 17
Denis Bećirović age 4
Richard O'Connor age 91
Charles Q. Brown Jr. age 18
Douglas Hurd age 50
John Shalikashvili age 44
Michael Mukasey age 39
He Yingqin age 90
Abderrahmane Farès age 69
Marc Forné Molné age 33
Vazgen Manukyan age 34
John Kerr age 66
Isa Gambar age 23
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 62
Alexander Turchyn age 5
Manuel Esquivel age 40
Sangay Ngedup age 27
Wálter Guevara age 68
David Padilla age 53
Enrique Hertzog age 82
Guido Vildoso age 43
Andrey Gyurov age 4
Marin Raykov age 19
Luc-Adolphe Tiao age 26
Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla age 22