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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
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
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Sato Kilman age 21
Ramón José Velásquez age 62
Vo Van Kiet age 56
Mohammed Basindawa age 44
Arnulfo Arias age 77
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 85
Francisco Sagasti age 34
Hassan Ali Khayre age 11
Kim Min-seok age 14
Momčilo Krajišnik age 34
Mladen Ivanić age 20
Mercedes Aráoz age 17
Andrés Rodríguez age 55
Liu Bocheng age 86
Glubb Pasha age 82
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 48
Albert Reynolds age 46
Lee Jong-wook age 34
Veljko Kadijević age 53
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 65
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 58
Sam Manekshaw age 65
Ko Yong-hui age 26
Nathan Deal age 36
Sonny Perdue age 32
Steve Barclay age 7
Mitch Daniels age 30
Gray Davis age 36
Otmar Hasler age 25
Gaylord Nelson age 62
Ramsey Clark age 51
Albert Pintat age 35
Carlos Lacoste age 50
Josef Klaus age 68
Romuald Wadagni age 2
Ivan Kostov age 29
Saye Zerbo age 46
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 36
Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni age 7
Albert Pahimi Padacké age 12
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 55
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 39
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 55
Josef Tošovský age 28
Adolphe Muzito age 22
Sufi Abu Taleb age 54
Francisco Flores age 19
Tosiwo Nakayama age 47
Lado Gurgenidze age 8
Xenophon Zolotas age 75
Tillman Thomas age 33
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 29
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 35
Gérard Latortue age 44
Jenő Fock age 63
P. J. Patterson age 44
Bruce Golding age 31
Abdullah Ensour age 40
Phankham Viphavanh age 28
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 29
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 31
Kessai Note age 28
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 41
Sprent Dabwido age 6
Anand Satyanand age 34
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 25
Victor Ciorbea age 24
Constantin Dăscălescu age 55
Mugur Isărescu age 29
Frederick Ballantyne age 42
Abdoul Mbaye age 26
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 42
Andrej Bajuk age 35
Anton Rop age 18
Jeremiah Manele age 11
Riyad Farid Hijab age 13
Qahhor Mahkamov age 47
Mizengo Pinda age 30
Cleopa Msuya age 48
Apisai Ielemia age 23
Anatolii Kinakh age 24
Yevhen Marchuk age 38
Guillermo Endara age 43
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 50
Kim Hwang-sik age 30
Chung Un-chan age 32
Kim Jong-pil age 53
Chung Sye-kyun age 28
William Gopallawa age 81
D. M. Jayaratne age 47
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 37
Matthew Ridgway age 84
Manlio Brosio age 81
Franco Maria Malfatti age 51
David Malpass age 23
David Blunkett age 31
Amin al-Hafiz age 57
J. Lawton Collins age 83
John W. Snow age 39
John Healey age 19
Walid Jumblatt age 29
Li Yuanchao age 28
Masahito, Prince Hitachi age 43
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia age 71
Princess Ileana of Romania age 70
Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland age 67
Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria age 40
David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon age 17
Jim Gilmore age 29
Bob McDonnell age 24
Terry McAuliffe age 22
Mike Braun age 25
Bill Lee age 19
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 60
Elliot Richardson age 58
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 33
Lester Bird age 41
Ramón Puerta age 27
Bill Hayden age 46
Sam Mostyn age 13
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 39
Froyla Tzalam age 7
Colville Young age 46
Stefan Janev age 19
Goukouni Oueddei age 37
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 63
Matata Ponyo Mapon Augustin age 14
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 32
Osvaldo Hurtado age 39
Galo Plaza age 73
Joseph Urusemal age 27
Teuvo Aura age 66
Keijo Liinamaa age 50
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 84
Ioannis Grivas age 56
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 51
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 48
Vinicio Cerezo age 36
Desmond Hoyte age 50
Henri Namphy age 46
Claudette Werleigh age 32
Péter Boross age 50
Károly Grósz age 48
Geir Hallgrímsson age 53
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 26
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 65
Moses Blah age 32
Litokwa Tomeing age 39
Alexandru Munteanu age 15
Daniel Chapo age 2
David Adeang age 9
Khil Raj Regmi age 29
Salou Djibo age 14
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani age 19
Terrance Drew age 2
Cuthbert Sebastian age 57
Mahammed Dionne age 19
Zoran Živković age 18
Flavio Cotti age 39
Chen Chien-jen age 27
Sanya Dharmasakti age 72
Chatchai Chunhawan age 59
Arthur Foulkes age 51
Marguerite Pindling age 46
Elyes Fakhfakh age 7
Ahmed Hachani age 22
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 56
Charlot Salwai age 16
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 72
Julius Chan age 39
Kim Boo-kyum age 21
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 63
Zoran Tegeltija age 17
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 23
Denis Zvizdić age 14
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 23
Edem Kodjo age 40
Masayoshi Ito age 65
Jim Fouché age 80
Dirk Stikker age 82
James Wolfensohn age 45
Eric Shinseki age 36
Frank Carlucci age 48
Rab Butler age 76
Michael Mullen age 32
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 68
Hal Moore age 57
Princess Deokhye age 66
Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914) age 65
Kim Kyong-hui age 32
Ernst August von Hannover (born 1954) age 25
Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark age 9
Timothy Laurence age 29
Christopher O'Neill age 4
Zell Miller age 47
Pete Wilson age 45
Eric Holcomb age 11
Mikie Sherrill age 7
Glenn Youngkin age 12
Mitja Ribičič age 60