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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
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26

People

Talat Xhaferi age 23
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 44
Vasco Gonçalves age 64
Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani age 4
Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu age 16
Mihai Tudose age 18
Bernard Makuza age 22
Kenny Anthony age 34
Ong Teng Cheong age 49
Maria das Neves age 27
Patrice Trovoada age 23
Thanin Kraiwichian age 58
Philip "Brave" Davis age 34
Luis Herrera Campins age 60
Manuel Merino age 23
Nur Hassan Hussein age 47
Goh Kun age 47
Marais Viljoen age 69
Sicco Mansholt age 76
François-Xavier Ortoli age 60
Alistair Darling age 31
Grant Shapps age 16
Jack Lew age 29
Mark Milley age 27
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 42
Essam Sirius age 59
Jamshid Amouzegar age 62
Borisav Jović age 56
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 46
Boris Gromov age 41
Robert Cailliau age 38
Félicien Kabuga age 52
Kim Jong Chul age 3
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester age 39
Louis Alphonse de Bourbon age 11
Mike Beebe age 38
Asa Hutchinson age 34
Bill Weld age 40
Jon Corzine age 38
Phil Murphy age 28
George Allen age 33
Charlie Baker age 28
Daniel Risch age 7
Svetozar Marović age 30
Midge Ure age 31
Pandeli Majko age 17
Louise Lake-Tack age 41
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 65
Pierre Harmel age 74
Said Musa age 41
Norodom Ranariddh age 41
José María Figueres Olsen age 30
Kamal Ganzouri age 52
Alfredo Cristiani age 37
Andres Tarand age 45
David W. Panuelo age 21
V. J. Sukselainen age 78
Michael Stasinopoulos age 82
Alfonso Portillo age 33
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 49
András Hegedüs age 62
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 37
Ahmed Chalabi age 40
Amadou Gon Coulibaly age 26
Patrick Allen age 34
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 65
Jelle Zijlstra age 66
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 44
Gyude Bryant age 36
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 40
Arnoldo Alemán age 39
Emil Dimitriev age 6
Wasim Sajjad age 44
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 46
Theodor Stolojan age 41
Manea Mănescu age 69
Nureddin al-Atassi age 56
Hussein Arnous age 32
Miguel Trovoada age 48
Yen Chia-kan age 79
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 53
Edward Natapei age 31
Nguyen Huu Tho age 75
Võ Thị Ánh Xuân age 15
Mieczysław Rakowski age 58
Luis González Macchi age 37
Lee Nack-yon age 32
Nikola Špirić age 28
Raffaella Petrini age 16
Ali Saibou age 45
Claude Joseph age 5
Jack Lynch age 68
Willy Claes age 46
Martin Dempsey age 33
Harold Brown age 57
Ramzi Yousef age 17
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 69
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 67
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 49
Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece age 16
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 34
George Voinovich age 49
Evan Bayh age 29
Mike DeWine age 38
Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford age 25
Larry Hogan age 29
Ken Starr age 39
John Profumo age 70
Melvin Laird age 62
Thomas Gage age 267
Juan José Arévalo age 80
Ali Kafi age 56
Eduardo Camaño age 39
Alen Simonyan age 5
Michael Jeffery age 47
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 29
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 66
Galab Donev age 18
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 29
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 77
Armando Calderón Sol age 37
Phaedon Gizikis age 68
Patrick Achi age 29
Omar Razzaz age 24
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 43
Temir Sariyev age 22
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 31
René Moawad age 60
Hussein Onn age 63
Ibrahim Nasir age 58
Amadou Sanogo age 12
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 52
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 61
Mike Moore age 36
Pak Pong-ju age 46
Kim Tok-hun age 24
Oliver Spasovski age 8
Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani age 17
Allen Chastanet age 24
Đuro Macut age 21
Ivan Stambolić age 48
Ľudovít Ódor age 9
Imad Khamis age 24
Wael al-Halqi age 21
Maria do Carmo Silveira age 24
Wu Den-yih age 37
Edward Lowassa age 31
Seni Pramoj age 80
Kukrit Pramoj age 74
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 38
Anand Panyarachun age 53
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 49
Hubert Ingraham age 38
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 44
Mohamed Ennaceur age 51
Apolo Nsibambi age 44
Godfrey Binaisa age 65
Vitalii Masol age 56
Sato Kilman age 27
Ramón José Velásquez age 68
Vo Van Kiet age 62
Mohammed Basindawa age 50
Arnulfo Arias age 84
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 91
Francisco Sagasti age 40
Hassan Ali Khayre age 17
Kim Min-seok age 21
Momčilo Krajišnik age 40
Mladen Ivanić age 26
Mercedes Aráoz age 24
Andrés Rodríguez age 62
Liu Bocheng age 92
Glubb Pasha age 88
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 54
Albert Reynolds age 52
Lee Jong-wook age 40
Veljko Kadijević age 59
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 71
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 64
Sam Manekshaw age 71
Ko Yong-hui age 33
Nathan Deal age 42
Sonny Perdue age 38
Steve Barclay age 13
Mitch Daniels age 36
Gray Davis age 42
Otmar Hasler age 31
Gaylord Nelson age 69
Ramsey Clark age 57
Albert Pintat age 42
Carlos Lacoste age 56
Josef Klaus age 75
Romuald Wadagni age 9
Ivan Kostov age 35
Saye Zerbo age 52
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 43
Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni age 13
Albert Pahimi Padacké age 18
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 61
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 45