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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
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
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
Second Battle of al-Faw 1988-04-17 - 1988-04-18

People

Gérard Latortue age 53
Jenő Fock age 71
P. J. Patterson age 53
Bruce Golding age 40
Abdullah Ensour age 49
Phankham Viphavanh age 37
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 38
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 40
Kessai Note age 37
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 50
Sprent Dabwido age 15
Anand Satyanand age 43
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 34
Victor Ciorbea age 33
Mugur Isărescu age 38
Frederick Ballantyne age 51
Abdoul Mbaye age 35
Andrej Bajuk age 44
Anton Rop age 27
Jeremiah Manele age 20
Riyad Farid Hijab age 22
Qahhor Mahkamov age 56
Mizengo Pinda age 39
Cleopa Msuya age 57
Apisai Ielemia age 32
Anatolii Kinakh age 33
Yevhen Marchuk age 47
Aparicio Méndez age 83
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 78
Guillermo Endara age 51
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 59
Kim Hwang-sik age 39
Chung Un-chan age 41
Kim Jong-pil age 62
Chung Sye-kyun age 37
D. M. Jayaratne age 56
Matthew Ridgway age 93
Franco Maria Malfatti age 60
David Malpass age 32
Amin al-Hafiz age 66
John W. Snow age 48
John Healey age 28
Walid Jumblatt age 38
Li Yuanchao age 37
Masahito, Prince Hitachi age 52
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia age 80
Princess Ileana of Romania age 79
Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland age 76
Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria age 49
David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon age 26
Jim Gilmore age 38
Bob McDonnell age 33
Terry McAuliffe age 31
Mike Braun age 34
Bill Lee age 28
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 69
Elliot Richardson age 67
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 47
Froyla Tzalam age 16
Colville Young age 55
Stefan Janev age 28
Goukouni Oueddei age 46
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 72
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 61
Matata Ponyo Mapon Augustin age 23
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 41
Osvaldo Hurtado age 48
Joseph Urusemal age 36
Teuvo Aura age 75
Ioannis Grivas age 65
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 60
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 57
Henri Namphy age 55
Claudette Werleigh age 41
Péter Boross age 59
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 38
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 36
Sanya Dharmasakti age 81
Kriangsak Chamanan age 70
Chatchai Chunhawan age 68
Arthur Foulkes age 59
Marguerite Pindling age 55
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 48
Kim Boo-kyum age 30
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 72
Zoran Tegeltija age 26
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 31
Denis Zvizdić age 23
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 32
Edem Kodjo age 49
Masayoshi Ito age 74
James Wolfensohn age 54
Eric Shinseki age 45
Michael Mullen age 41
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 77
Hal Moore age 66
Princess Deokhye age 75
Kim Kyong-hui age 41
Ernst August von Hannover (born 1954) age 34
Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark age 18
Timothy Laurence age 38
Christopher O'Neill age 13
Zell Miller age 56
Pete Wilson age 54
Eric Holcomb age 19
Mikie Sherrill age 16
Glenn Youngkin age 21
Mitja Ribičič age 68
Lien Chan age 51
William H. Webster age 64
Rabah Bitat age 62
William Deane age 57
Clifford Husbands age 61
Jeffrey Bostic age 27
Reneta Indzhova age 34
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 77
Ágnes Forsthoffer age 8
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 63
Hamed Bakayoko age 23
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 38
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 38
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 31
Baqytzhan Saghyntaev age 24
Djoomart Otorbaev age 32
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 19
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 33
Clément Mouamba age 44
Cătălin Predoiu age 19
Ilie Verdeț age 62
Ousmane Sonko age 13
David Vunagi age 37
Cho Jung-tai age 29
Pote Sarasin age 83
Prawit Wongsuwon age 42
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 50
Feleti Sevele age 43
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 36
Ali Laarayedh age 32
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 37
John J. Sullivan age 28
Robert Rubin age 49
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi age 29
Regina von Habsburg age 63
Infanta Beatriz of Spain age 78
Princess Elena of Romania age 37
Hernando de Soto (economist) age 46