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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
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
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
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11

People

Godfrey Binaisa age 58
Vitalii Masol age 49
Sato Kilman age 20
Ramón José Velásquez age 61
Vo Van Kiet age 55
Mohammed Basindawa age 43
Arnulfo Arias age 77
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 84
Francisco Sagasti age 33
Hassan Ali Khayre age 10
Kim Min-seok age 14
Momčilo Krajišnik age 33
Mladen Ivanić age 19
Mercedes Aráoz age 17
Andrés Rodríguez age 55
Liu Bocheng age 85
Glubb Pasha age 81
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 47
Albert Reynolds age 45
Lee Jong-wook age 33
Veljko Kadijević age 52
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 64
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 57
Sam Manekshaw age 64
Ko Yong-hui age 26
Nathan Deal age 35
Sonny Perdue age 31
Steve Barclay age 6
Mitch Daniels age 29
Gray Davis age 35
Otmar Hasler age 24
Gaylord Nelson age 62
Ramsey Clark age 50
Albert Pintat age 35
Carlos Lacoste age 49
Josef Klaus age 68
Romuald Wadagni age 2
Ivan Kostov age 28
Saye Zerbo age 45
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 36
Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni age 6
Albert Pahimi Padacké age 11
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 54
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 38
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 54
Josef Tošovský age 27
Adolphe Muzito age 21
Sufi Abu Taleb age 53
Francisco Flores age 18
Tosiwo Nakayama age 46
Lado Gurgenidze age 7
Xenophon Zolotas age 74
Tillman Thomas age 33
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 28
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 34
Gérard Latortue age 44
Jenő Fock age 62
P. J. Patterson age 43
Bruce Golding age 30
Abdullah Ensour age 39
Phankham Viphavanh age 27
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 28
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 30
Kessai Note age 28
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 40
Sprent Dabwido age 5
Anand Satyanand age 34
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 24
Victor Ciorbea age 23
Constantin Dăscălescu age 55
Mugur Isărescu age 29
Frederick Ballantyne age 42
Abdoul Mbaye age 25
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 41
Andrej Bajuk age 34
Anton Rop age 17
Jeremiah Manele age 10
Riyad Farid Hijab age 12
Qahhor Mahkamov age 46
Mizengo Pinda age 29
Cleopa Msuya age 47
Apisai Ielemia age 22
Anatolii Kinakh age 24
Yevhen Marchuk age 37
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 66
Guillermo Endara age 42
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 49
Kim Hwang-sik age 29
Chung Un-chan age 31
Kim Jong-pil age 52
Chung Sye-kyun age 27
William Gopallawa age 80
D. M. Jayaratne age 47
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 36
Matthew Ridgway age 83
Manlio Brosio age 81
Franco Maria Malfatti age 51
David Malpass age 22
David Blunkett age 31
Amin al-Hafiz age 56
J. Lawton Collins age 82
John W. Snow age 39
John Healey age 18
Walid Jumblatt age 29
Li Yuanchao age 27
Issa Pliyev age 74
Masahito, Prince Hitachi age 42
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia age 70
Princess Ileana of Romania age 69
Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland age 66
Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria age 39
David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon age 16
Jim Gilmore age 28
Bob McDonnell age 24
Terry McAuliffe age 21
Mike Braun age 24
Bill Lee age 18
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 60
Elliot Richardson age 58
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 32
Lester Bird age 40
Ramón Puerta age 26
Bill Hayden age 45
Sam Mostyn age 12
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 38
Froyla Tzalam age 7
Colville Young age 45
Stefan Janev age 18
Goukouni Oueddei age 36
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 63
Matata Ponyo Mapon Augustin age 14
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 31
Osvaldo Hurtado age 39
Galo Plaza age 72
Joseph Urusemal age 26
Teuvo Aura age 65
Keijo Liinamaa age 49
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 83
Ioannis Grivas age 55
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 50
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 47
Vinicio Cerezo age 35
Desmond Hoyte age 49
Henri Namphy age 45
Claudette Werleigh age 31
Péter Boross age 49
Károly Grósz age 48
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 25
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 64
Moses Blah age 31
Litokwa Tomeing age 38
Alexandru Munteanu age 14
Daniel Chapo age 1
David Adeang age 8
Khil Raj Regmi age 29
Salou Djibo age 13
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani age 18
Terrance Drew age 1
Cuthbert Sebastian age 56
Mahammed Dionne age 18
Zoran Živković age 17
Flavio Cotti age 38
Chen Chien-jen age 27
Sanya Dharmasakti age 71
Chatchai Chunhawan age 58
Arthur Foulkes age 50
Marguerite Pindling age 46
Elyes Fakhfakh age 6
Ahmed Hachani age 21
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 55
Charlot Salwai age 15
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 71
Julius Chan age 38
Kim Boo-kyum age 20
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 62
Zoran Tegeltija age 16
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 22
Denis Zvizdić age 14
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 22
Edem Kodjo age 40
Masayoshi Ito age 64
Jim Fouché age 80
Dirk Stikker age 81
James Wolfensohn age 44
Eric Shinseki age 35
Frank Carlucci age 47
Rab Butler age 75
Michael Mullen age 31
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 67
Hal Moore age 56
Princess Deokhye age 66
Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914) age 64
Kim Kyong-hui age 32
Ernst August von Hannover (born 1954) age 24
Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark age 8
Timothy Laurence age 28
Christopher O'Neill age 4
Zell Miller age 46
Pete Wilson age 44
Eric Holcomb age 10