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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
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12

People

Bernard Makuza age 25
Kenny Anthony age 37
Ong Teng Cheong age 52
Maria das Neves age 29
Patrice Trovoada age 26
Thanin Kraiwichian age 61
Philip "Brave" Davis age 36
Luis Herrera Campins age 63
Manuel Merino age 26
Nur Hassan Hussein age 50
Goh Kun age 50
Marais Viljoen age 72
Sicco Mansholt age 79
François-Xavier Ortoli age 63
Grant Shapps age 19
Jack Lew age 32
Mark Milley age 29
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 45
Essam Sirius age 62
Jamshid Amouzegar age 64
Borisav Jović age 59
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 49
Boris Gromov age 44
Robert Cailliau age 41
Félicien Kabuga age 55
Kim Jong Chul age 6
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester age 41
Louis Alphonse de Bourbon age 14
Mike Beebe age 41
Asa Hutchinson age 37
Bill Weld age 42
Jon Corzine age 41
Phil Murphy age 30
George Allen age 36
Charlie Baker age 31
Daniel Risch age 10
Svetozar Marović age 33
Midge Ure age 34
Pandeli Majko age 20
Louise Lake-Tack age 43
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 68
Pierre Harmel age 77
Said Musa age 44
Norodom Ranariddh age 44
José María Figueres Olsen age 33
Kamal Ganzouri age 55
Alfredo Cristiani age 40
Andres Tarand age 48
David W. Panuelo age 24
V. J. Sukselainen age 81
Michael Stasinopoulos age 84
Alfonso Portillo age 36
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 52
András Hegedüs age 65
Ahmed Chalabi age 43
Amadou Gon Coulibaly age 29
Patrick Allen age 37
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 68
Jelle Zijlstra age 69
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 47
Gyude Bryant age 39
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 42
Arnoldo Alemán age 42
Emil Dimitriev age 9
Wasim Sajjad age 47
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 49
Theodor Stolojan age 44
Manea Mănescu age 71
Nureddin al-Atassi age 59
Hussein Arnous age 35
Miguel Trovoada age 51
Yen Chia-kan age 82
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 55
Edward Natapei age 33
Nguyen Huu Tho age 77
Võ Thị Ánh Xuân age 18
Mieczysław Rakowski age 61
Luis González Macchi age 40
Lee Nack-yon age 35
Nikola Špirić age 31
Raffaella Petrini age 19
Claude Joseph age 8
Jack Lynch age 70
Willy Claes age 49
Martin Dempsey age 36
Harold Brown age 60
Ramzi Yousef age 20
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 72
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 70
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 51
Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece age 19
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 36
George Voinovich age 51
Evan Bayh age 32
Mike DeWine age 41
Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford age 27
Larry Hogan age 32
Ken Starr age 41
John Profumo age 73
Melvin Laird age 65
Thomas Gage age 270
Juan José Arévalo age 83
Ali Kafi age 59
Eduardo Camaño age 41
Alen Simonyan age 8
Michael Jeffery age 50
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 32
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 69
Galab Donev age 21
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 32
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 80
Armando Calderón Sol age 39
Phaedon Gizikis age 70
Patrick Achi age 32
Omar Razzaz age 27
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 46
Temir Sariyev age 24
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 33
René Moawad age 63
Hussein Onn age 66
Ibrahim Nasir age 61
Amadou Sanogo age 15
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 55
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 64
Mike Moore age 39
Pak Pong-ju age 49
Kim Tok-hun age 27
Oliver Spasovski age 11
Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani age 20
Allen Chastanet age 27
Đuro Macut age 24
Ivan Stambolić age 51
Ľudovít Ódor age 11
Imad Khamis age 26
Wael al-Halqi age 24
Maria do Carmo Silveira age 27
Wu Den-yih age 40
Edward Lowassa age 34
Seni Pramoj age 83
Kukrit Pramoj age 77
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 41
Anand Panyarachun age 55
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 51
Hubert Ingraham age 40
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 47
Mohamed Ennaceur age 54
Apolo Nsibambi age 47
Godfrey Binaisa age 68
Vitalii Masol age 59
Sato Kilman age 30
Ramón José Velásquez age 71
Vo Van Kiet age 65
Mohammed Basindawa age 53
Arnulfo Arias age 86
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 94
Francisco Sagasti age 43
Hassan Ali Khayre age 20
Kim Min-seok age 23
Momčilo Krajišnik age 43
Mladen Ivanić age 29
Mercedes Aráoz age 26
Andrés Rodríguez age 64
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 57
Albert Reynolds age 55
Lee Jong-wook age 43
Veljko Kadijević age 62
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 74
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 67
Sam Manekshaw age 74
Ko Yong-hui age 35
Nathan Deal age 45
Sonny Perdue age 41
Steve Barclay age 16
Mitch Daniels age 39
Gray Davis age 45
Otmar Hasler age 34
Gaylord Nelson age 72
Ramsey Clark age 60
Albert Pintat age 44
Carlos Lacoste age 59
Josef Klaus age 77
Romuald Wadagni age 11
Ivan Kostov age 38
Saye Zerbo age 55
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 45
Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni age 16
Albert Pahimi Padacké age 21
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 64
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 48
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 64
Josef Tošovský age 37
Adolphe Muzito age 31
Sufi Abu Taleb age 63
Francisco Flores age 28
Tosiwo Nakayama age 56
Lado Gurgenidze age 17
Xenophon Zolotas age 84
Tillman Thomas age 42
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 38
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 44