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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
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

D. M. Jayaratne age 57
Matthew Ridgway age 93
Franco Maria Malfatti age 61
David Malpass age 32
Amin al-Hafiz age 66
John W. Snow age 49
John Healey age 28
Li Yuanchao age 37
Jim Gilmore age 38
Bob McDonnell age 34
Terry McAuliffe age 31
Mike Braun age 34
Bill Lee age 28
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 70
Elliot Richardson age 68
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 42
Lester Bird age 50
Ramón Puerta age 36
Bill Hayden age 55
Sam Mostyn age 22
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 48
Froyla Tzalam age 17
Colville Young age 55
Stefan Janev age 28
Goukouni Oueddei age 46
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 73
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 61
Matata Ponyo Mapon Augustin age 24
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 41
Osvaldo Hurtado age 49
Joseph Urusemal age 36
Teuvo Aura age 75
Ioannis Grivas age 65
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 60
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 57
Claudette Werleigh age 41
Péter Boross age 60
Geir Hallgrímsson age 62
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 35
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 74
Moses Blah age 41
Litokwa Tomeing age 48
Alexandru Munteanu age 24
Daniel Chapo age 11
David Adeang age 18
Khil Raj Regmi age 39
Salou Djibo age 23
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani age 28
Terrance Drew age 11
Cuthbert Sebastian age 66
Mahammed Dionne age 28
Zoran Živković age 27
Flavio Cotti age 48
Chen Chien-jen age 37
Sanya Dharmasakti age 81
Kriangsak Chamanan age 70
Arthur Foulkes age 60
Marguerite Pindling age 56
Fatafehi Fakafānua, 8th Lord Fakafānua age 3
Elyes Fakhfakh age 16
Ahmed Hachani age 31
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 65
Charlot Salwai age 25
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 81
Julius Chan age 49
Kim Boo-kyum age 30
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 72
Zoran Tegeltija age 26
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 32
Denis Zvizdić age 24
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 32
Edem Kodjo age 50
Masayoshi Ito age 74
James Wolfensohn age 54
Eric Shinseki age 45
Michael Mullen age 41
Zell Miller age 56
Pete Wilson age 55
Eric Holcomb age 20
Mikie Sherrill age 16
Glenn Youngkin age 21
Lien Chan age 52
William H. Webster age 64
Rabah Bitat age 62
William Deane age 57
Clifford Husbands age 62
Jeffrey Bostic age 27
Reneta Indzhova age 35
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 39
Nikica Valentić age 37
Hipólito Mejía age 47
Atef Ebeid age 56
Jacob Nena age 46
Raymond Ndong Sima age 33
Dickon Mitchell age 9
Ramiro de León Carpio age 46
Jorge Serrano Elías age 43
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 41
Gyula Kállai age 78
Ágnes Forsthoffer age 8
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 64
Hamed Bakayoko age 23
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 38
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 39
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 31
Baqytzhan Saghyntaev age 24
Djoomart Otorbaev age 33
Sam Matekane age 30
Zigmantas Balčytis age 34
Modibo Sidibé age 35
Mohamed Ould Bilal age 24
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 35
Aureliu Ciocoi age 20
Abdellatif Filali age 60
René Harris age 40
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 48
Jerry Mateparae age 33
Ali Lamine Zeine age 23
Mohammad Mustafa age 34
Clément Mouamba age 44
Cătălin Predoiu age 19
Ilie Verdeț age 63
Ousmane Sonko age 14
David Vunagi age 37
Cho Jung-tai age 29
Prawit Wongsuwon age 43
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 50
Feleti Sevele age 44
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 37
Ali Laarayedh age 33
Mohamed Mzali age 62
Ruhakana Rugunda age 40
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 55
Serhii Arbuzov age 12
Diosdado Cabello age 25
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 49
Choi Sang-mok age 28
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 54
Alan Johnson age 38
John J. Sullivan age 28
Robert Rubin age 50
Bill Haslam age 30
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 62
Nadir al-Arbawi age 38
Hartwig Löger age 23
Edmond Leburton age 73
Jean Van Houtte age 81
Philip Dimitrov age 33
Andrey Lukanov age 49
Dimitar Glavchev age 25
Paul Kaba Thieba age 28
Son Sann age 76
Said Mohamed Djohar age 70
Luis Alberto Monge age 62
Vlatko Pavletić age 57
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 71
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 39
Leo Falcam age 52
Wesley Simina age 26
Laisenia Qarase age 47
Jean-Max Bellerive age 30
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 44
György Lázár age 63
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 35
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 40
Akylbek Japarov age 23
Suleiman Frangieh age 78
Amos Sawyer age 43
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 49
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 36
Alfred Sant age 40
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 46
Sükhbaataryn Batbold age 25
Pascoal Mocumbi age 47
Aires Ali age 32
Soe Win age 41
Pak Song-chol age 75
Shujaat Hussain age 48
Kuniwo Nakamura age 44
Tapley Seaton age 38
Henck Arron age 52
Adolf Ogi age 46
Nazim al-Kudsi age 82
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 44
Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali age 19
Frank Hsieh age 42
Cornelius A. Smith age 51
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 49
Patrick Manning age 42
Habib Essid age 39
Bülent Ulusu age 65
Kausea Natano age 31
Enele Sopoaga age 32
Ham Lini age 36
Michael Ogio age 46
Nicolás Lindley López age 79
Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke age 28
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali age 23
Mohamed Hussein Roble age 24
Denis Bećirović age 12