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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
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11

People

Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 34
Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali age 9
Frank Hsieh age 32
Cornelius A. Smith age 41
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 39
Patrick Manning age 32
Habib Essid age 29
Bülent Ulusu age 55
Kausea Natano age 21
Enele Sopoaga age 22
Yusuf Lule age 66
Ham Lini age 27
Kazimierz Sabbat age 65
Michael Ogio age 36
Nicolás Lindley López age 70
Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke age 18
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali age 13
Mohamed Hussein Roble age 15
Denis Bećirović age 3
Richard O'Connor age 89
Charles Q. Brown Jr. age 16
John Shalikashvili age 42
Michael Mukasey age 37
He Yingqin age 88
Abderrahmane Farès age 67
Marc Forné Molné age 31
Vazgen Manukyan age 32
John Kerr age 64
Isa Gambar age 21
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 60
Alexander Turchyn age 3
Manuel Esquivel age 38
Sangay Ngedup age 25
Wálter Guevara age 66
Enrique Hertzog age 81
Guido Vildoso age 41
Andrey Gyurov age 2
Marin Raykov age 17
Luc-Adolphe Tiao age 24
Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla age 20
Ephraïm Inoni age 31
Lol Mahamat Choua age 39
Josip Manolić age 58
Fabián Alarcón age 31
John Haglelgam age 29
Naiqama Lalabalavu age 24
Tengiz Sigua age 44
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 59
Mohamed Said Fofana age 26
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana age 24
Aristides Gomes age 24
Ansumane Mané age 38
Moses Nagamootoo age 31
Martial Célestin age 65
Carlos Roberto Flor age 28
Carlos Roberto Reina age 52
Mohammad Natsir age 70
Nizar Amidi age 10
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 53
Bujar Bukoshi age 31
Nexhat Daci age 34
Jakup Krasniqi age 27
Nikolai Tanayev age 33
Sapar Isakov age 1
Igor Chudinov age 17
Indulis Emsis age 26
Irena Degutienė age 29
Jacques Sylla age 32
Moctar Ouane age 23
Norovyn Altankhuyag age 20
Tulsi Giri age 52
Silvia Cartwright age 35
Catherine Tizard age 47
Amadou Cheiffou age 36
Kim Il age 68
Ljubčo Georgievski age 12
Hari Kostov age 19
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 55
Valentine Strasser age 11
Henk Chin A Sen age 44
Kaspar Villiger age 37
Luai al-Atassi age 52
Jorge Bom Jesus age 16
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 46
Basdeo Panday age 45
Youssef Chahed age 3
Maatia Toafa age 24
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 49
Paulo Muwanga age 54
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 31
Bob Loughman age 17
Octavio Lepage age 55
Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed age 1
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 32
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 25
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 26
Hamza Abdi Barre age 6
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 41
Lee Ju-ho age 17
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 42
Ana Jara age 10
Hsiao Bi-khim age 7
Robert Bork age 51
Otto Hofmann age 82
Abdul Kabir age 20
Adil Çarçani age 56
Noureddine Bedoui age 18
Peter Hollingworth age 43
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir age 30
Elmira Minita Gordon age 47
Khandu Wangchuk age 28
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 53
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 32
Gilbert Diendéré age 18
Nicolas Tiangaye age 22
Henri-Marie Dondra age 12
Pascal Yoadimnadji age 28
Zlatko Mateša age 29
Ignacio Milam Tang age 38
Themba Dlamini age 28
Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet age 17
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 80
Spiridon Markezinis age 69
Sékouba Konaté age 14
Carlos Correia age 45
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 51
Jóhann Hafstein age 63
Nader al-Dahabi age 32
Samir Rifai age 12
Teburoro Tito age 25
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah age 23
Omurbek Babanov age 8
Kubatbek Boronov age 13
Boun Oum age 67
Einars Repše age 16
Charles Helou age 65
Abdullah al-Thani age 24
Shukri Ghanem age 36
Justas Paleckis age 79
Charles Rabemananjara age 31
Albert Camille Vital age 26
Imata Kabua age 35
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 38
Chimediin Saikhanbileg age 9
Gombojavyn Zandanshatar age 8
Alberto Vaquina age 17
Saw Maung age 49
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 78
Kim Jae-ryong age 19
Nikola Kljusev age 51
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 61
Anatole Collinet Makosso age 13
Gavril Dejeu age 46
Anastase Murekezi age 26
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 50
Timothy Harris age 14
Susan Dougan age 23
Otto Stich age 51
Arnold Koller age 45
Max Petitpierre age 79
Liu Chao-shiuan age 35
Lin Chuan age 26
Zhang Qun age 89
Rui Maria de Araújo age 14
Sarra Zaafrani age 15
Hichem Mechichi age 4
Ferit Melen age 72
Sir Iakoba Italeli age 28
Amama Mbabazi age 29
Serge Vohor age 23
Pham Hung age 66
Paulias Matane age 47
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 37
Borislav Paravac age 35
Jorge del Castillo age 28
John J. McCloy age 83
Christopher C. Miller age 13
Sally Yates age 18
Peter Pace age 33
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 31
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 63
John N. Mitchell age 65
Òscar Ribas Reig age 42
Paulo Kassoma age 27
França Van-Dúnem age 44
James Carlisle age 41
Vere Bird age 68
Aram Sargsyan age 17
Ninian Stephen age 55
Abdus Sattar age 72
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 36
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 51
Georgi Bliznashki age 22
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 53
Tertius Zongo age 21
Gervais Ndirakobuca age 8
Abel Goumba age 52
Félix Moloua age 21
Emmanuel Nadingar age 27
Saleh Kebzabo age 31