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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
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
Salvadoran Civil War 1979-10-15 - 1992-01-16
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15

People

Arnulfo Arias age 78
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 86
Francisco Sagasti age 35
Hassan Ali Khayre age 11
Kim Min-seok age 15
Momčilo Krajišnik age 35
Mladen Ivanić age 21
Mercedes Aráoz age 18
Andrés Rodríguez age 56
Liu Bocheng age 87
Glubb Pasha age 82
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 49
Albert Reynolds age 47
Lee Jong-wook age 34
Veljko Kadijević age 54
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 66
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 59
Sam Manekshaw age 65
Ko Yong-hui age 27
Nathan Deal age 37
Sonny Perdue age 33
Steve Barclay age 7
Mitch Daniels age 30
Gray Davis age 37
Otmar Hasler age 26
Gaylord Nelson age 63
Ramsey Clark age 52
Albert Pintat age 36
Carlos Lacoste age 51
Josef Klaus age 69
Romuald Wadagni age 3
Ivan Kostov age 30
Saye Zerbo age 47
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 37
Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni age 7
Albert Pahimi Padacké age 13
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 56
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 40
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 56
Josef Tošovský age 29
Adolphe Muzito age 22
Sufi Abu Taleb age 55
Francisco Flores age 20
Lado Gurgenidze age 9
Xenophon Zolotas age 75
Tillman Thomas age 34
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 30
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 36
Gérard Latortue age 45
Jenő Fock age 63
P. J. Patterson age 44
Bruce Golding age 32
Abdullah Ensour age 41
Phankham Viphavanh age 29
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 29
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 32
Kessai Note age 29
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 42
Sprent Dabwido age 7
Anand Satyanand age 35
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 26
Victor Ciorbea age 25
Constantin Dăscălescu age 56
Mugur Isărescu age 30
Frederick Ballantyne age 43
Abdoul Mbaye age 26
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 43
Andrej Bajuk age 36
Anton Rop age 19
Jeremiah Manele age 11
Riyad Farid Hijab age 14
Qahhor Mahkamov age 47
Mizengo Pinda age 31
Cleopa Msuya age 49
Apisai Ielemia age 24
Anatolii Kinakh age 25
Yevhen Marchuk age 39
Guillermo Endara age 43
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 51
Kim Hwang-sik age 31
Chung Un-chan age 32
Kim Jong-pil age 54
Chung Sye-kyun age 29
William Gopallawa age 82
D. M. Jayaratne age 48
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 38
Matthew Ridgway age 84
Manlio Brosio age 82
Franco Maria Malfatti age 52
David Malpass age 23
David Blunkett age 32
Amin al-Hafiz age 58
J. Lawton Collins age 83
John W. Snow age 40
John Healey age 19
Walid Jumblatt age 30
Li Yuanchao age 29
Masahito, Prince Hitachi age 44
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia age 72
Princess Ileana of Romania age 71
Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland age 67
Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria age 40
David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon age 18
Jim Gilmore age 30
Bob McDonnell age 25
Terry McAuliffe age 22
Mike Braun age 25
Bill Lee age 20
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 61
Elliot Richardson age 59
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 34
Lester Bird age 41
Ramón Puerta age 28
Bill Hayden age 47
Sam Mostyn age 14
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 39
Froyla Tzalam age 8
Colville Young age 47
Stefan Janev age 19
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 64
Matata Ponyo Mapon Augustin age 15
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 32
Osvaldo Hurtado age 40
Galo Plaza age 73
Joseph Urusemal age 27
Teuvo Aura age 67
Keijo Liinamaa age 50
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 85
Ioannis Grivas age 56
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 52
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 49
Vinicio Cerezo age 37
Desmond Hoyte age 50
Henri Namphy age 47
Claudette Werleigh age 33
Péter Boross age 51
Károly Grósz age 49
Geir Hallgrímsson age 54
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 26
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 65
Moses Blah age 32
Litokwa Tomeing age 40
Alexandru Munteanu age 16
Daniel Chapo age 3
David Adeang age 10
Khil Raj Regmi age 30
Salou Djibo age 14
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani age 20
Terrance Drew age 3
Cuthbert Sebastian age 58
Mahammed Dionne age 20
Zoran Živković age 19
Flavio Cotti age 40
Chen Chien-jen age 28
Sanya Dharmasakti age 72
Chatchai Chunhawan age 59
Arthur Foulkes age 51
Marguerite Pindling age 47
Elyes Fakhfakh age 8
Ahmed Hachani age 23
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 56
Charlot Salwai age 16
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 72
Julius Chan age 40
Kim Boo-kyum age 22
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 63
Zoran Tegeltija age 18
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 23
Denis Zvizdić age 15
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 24
Edem Kodjo age 41
Masayoshi Ito age 66
Jim Fouché age 81
James Wolfensohn age 46
Eric Shinseki age 37
Frank Carlucci age 49
Rab Butler age 77
Michael Mullen age 33
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 69
Hal Moore age 57
Princess Deokhye age 67
Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914) age 65
Kim Kyong-hui age 33
Ernst August von Hannover (born 1954) age 25
Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark age 10
Timothy Laurence age 29
Christopher O'Neill age 5
Zell Miller age 47
Pete Wilson age 46
Eric Holcomb age 11
Mikie Sherrill age 8
Glenn Youngkin age 13
Mitja Ribičič age 60
Lien Chan age 43
Rabah Bitat age 54
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 53
William Deane age 49
Clifford Husbands age 53
Jeffrey Bostic age 19
Reneta Indzhova age 26