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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

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
Mikie Sherrill age 6
Glenn Youngkin age 11
Mitja Ribičič age 59
Jozef Lenárt age 55
Lien Chan age 41
Rabah Bitat age 52
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 51
William Deane age 47
Clifford Husbands age 52
Jeffrey Bostic age 17
Reneta Indzhova age 25
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 29
Nikica Valentić age 27
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 67
Hipólito Mejía age 37
Atef Ebeid age 46
Jacob Nena age 36
Raymond Ndong Sima age 23
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 75
Ramiro de León Carpio age 36
Jorge Serrano Elías age 33
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 31
Gyula Kállai age 68
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 54
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 67
Hamed Bakayoko age 13
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 28
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 29
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 21
Baqytzhan Saghyntaev age 14
Jan Eduard de Quay age 76
Djoomart Otorbaev age 22
Rashid Karami age 56
Sam Matekane age 20
Zigmantas Balčytis age 24
Modibo Sidibé age 25
Mohamed Ould Bilal age 14
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 25
Aureliu Ciocoi age 10
Abdellatif Filali age 50
René Harris age 30
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 38
Jerry Mateparae age 23
Ali Lamine Zeine age 13
Mohammad Mustafa age 23
Clément Mouamba age 34
Cătălin Predoiu age 9
Ilie Verdeț age 53
Ousmane Sonko age 4
David Vunagi age 27
Cho Jung-tai age 19
Pote Sarasin age 73
Prawit Wongsuwon age 32
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 40
Feleti Sevele age 34
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 27
Ali Laarayedh age 22
Mohamed Mzali age 52
Ruhakana Rugunda age 30
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 45
Serhii Arbuzov age 2
Diosdado Cabello age 15
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 39
Choi Sang-mok age 18
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 62
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 44
Alan Johnson age 28
John J. Sullivan age 18
Robert Rubin age 39
Bayard Rustin age 66
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi age 19
Mostafa Chamran age 45
Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse age 81
Regina von Habsburg age 53
Infanta Beatriz of Spain age 69
Princess Elena of Romania age 27
Hernando de Soto (economist) age 37
Bill Haslam age 19
Petar Stambolić age 66
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 52
Nadir al-Arbawi age 28
Hartwig Löger age 13
Edmond Leburton age 63
Jean Van Houtte age 71
Philip Dimitrov age 23
Andrey Lukanov age 39
Dimitar Glavchev age 14
Paul Kaba Thieba age 18
Son Sann age 66
Said Mohamed Djohar age 59
Luis Alberto Monge age 52
Vlatko Pavletić age 47
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 61
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 29
Leo Falcam age 42
Wesley Simina age 16
Laisenia Qarase age 37
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 82
Jean-Max Bellerive age 20
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 34
José Azcona del Hoyo age 51
Ferenc Nagy age 74
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 65
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 25
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 30
Akylbek Japarov age 13
Suleiman Frangieh age 68
Amos Sawyer age 33
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 39
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 26
Alfred Sant age 30
Paul Xuereb age 55
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 36
Sükhbaataryn Batbold age 15
Pascoal Mocumbi age 37
Aires Ali age 22
Soe Win age 31
Pak Song-chol age 64
Shujaat Hussain age 38
Kuniwo Nakamura age 34
Tapley Seaton age 28
John Compton age 53
Adolf Ogi age 36
Nazim al-Kudsi age 72
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 31
Habib Essid age 29
Bülent Ulusu age 55
Feleti Teo age 15
Kausea Natano age 21
Enele Sopoaga age 22
Yusuf Lule age 66
Ham Lini age 26
Kazimierz Sabbat age 65
Michael Ogio age 36
Nicolás Lindley López age 69
Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke age 18
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali age 13
Mohamed Hussein Roble age 14
Denis Bećirović age 2
Richard O'Connor age 89
Charles Q. Brown Jr. age 16
John Shalikashvili age 42
Michael Mukasey age 37
William Calley age 35
Rasim Delić age 29
Friedrich Hoßbach age 83
Valentin Varennikov age 54
Hisako, Princess Takamado age 25
Natalia Pavlovna Paley age 72
Zakir Hasanov age 19
Princess Sophie of Hohenberg age 77
Kim Song-ae age 53
Sigvard Bernadotte age 71
Carl Johan Bernadotte age 61
Lady Sarah Chatto age 14
Princess Nathalie of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 3
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 43
George Deukmejian age 50
Christine Todd Whitman age 31
Jan Stráský age 37
Marián Čalfa age 32
He Yingqin age 88
Abderrahmane Farès age 67
Marc Forné Molné age 31
Vazgen Manukyan age 32
John Kerr age 63
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
David Padilla age 51
Enrique Hertzog age 80
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 30
Lol Mahamat Choua age 39
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 62
Josip Manolić age 58
Fabián Alarcón age 31
John Haglelgam age 28
Naiqama Lalabalavu age 24
Tengiz Sigua age 43