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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
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
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

Bill Haslam age 29
Petar Stambolić age 75
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 61
Nadir al-Arbawi age 38
Hartwig Löger age 22
Edmond Leburton age 73
Jean Van Houtte age 81
Philip Dimitrov age 33
Andrey Lukanov age 49
Dimitar Glavchev age 24
Paul Kaba Thieba age 27
Son Sann age 76
Said Mohamed Djohar age 69
Luis Alberto Monge age 62
Vlatko Pavletić age 57
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 70
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 39
Leo Falcam age 52
Wesley Simina age 26
Laisenia Qarase age 47
Jean-Max Bellerive age 30
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 44
György Lázár age 63
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 35
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 40
Akylbek Japarov age 23
Suleiman Frangieh age 77
Amos Sawyer age 42
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 49
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 36
Alfred Sant age 40
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 46
Sükhbaataryn Batbold age 24
Pascoal Mocumbi age 47
Aires Ali age 32
Soe Win age 40
Pak Song-chol age 74
Shujaat Hussain age 48
Kuniwo Nakamura age 44
Tapley Seaton age 37
Henck Arron age 52
Adolf Ogi age 45
Nazim al-Kudsi age 82
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 44
Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali age 19
Frank Hsieh age 41
Cornelius A. Smith age 51
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 48
Patrick Manning age 41
Habib Essid age 38
Bülent Ulusu age 64
Feleti Teo age 25
Kausea Natano age 30
Enele Sopoaga age 32
Ham Lini age 36
Michael Ogio age 45
Nicolás Lindley López age 79
Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke age 27
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali age 22
Mohamed Hussein Roble age 24
Denis Bećirović age 12
Charles Q. Brown Jr. age 26
John Shalikashvili age 51
Michael Mukasey age 46
William Calley age 44
Rasim Delić age 39
Valentin Varennikov age 64
Princess Tsuguko of Takamado age 2
Hisako, Princess Takamado age 34
Zakir Hasanov age 28
Princess Sophie of Hohenberg age 86
Kim Song-ae age 63
Sigvard Bernadotte age 80
Carl Johan Bernadotte age 71
Lady Sarah Chatto age 23
Princess Nathalie of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 12
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 53
Sophie Winkleman age 7
Christine Todd Whitman age 41
Abderrahmane Farès age 77
Marc Forné Molné age 41
Vazgen Manukyan age 42
John Kerr age 73
Isa Gambar age 31
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 70
Alexander Turchyn age 12
Sangay Ngedup age 34
Wálter Guevara age 76
David Padilla age 60
Guido Vildoso age 51
Andrey Gyurov age 12
Marin Raykov age 27
Luc-Adolphe Tiao age 33
Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla age 29
Ephraïm Inoni age 40
Lol Mahamat Choua age 48
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 72
Josip Manolić age 68
Fabián Alarcón age 41
Naiqama Lalabalavu age 34
Tengiz Sigua age 53
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 68
Mohamed Said Fofana age 36
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana age 34
Aristides Gomes age 33
Ansumane Mané age 48
Moses Nagamootoo age 40
Carlos Roberto Flor age 38
Carlos Roberto Reina age 62
Mohammad Natsir age 79
Nizar Amidi age 20
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 63
Bujar Bukoshi age 40
Nexhat Daci age 43
Jakup Krasniqi age 37
Nikolai Tanayev age 42
Sapar Isakov age 10
Igor Chudinov age 26
Indulis Emsis age 36
Gediminas Vagnorius age 30
Irena Degutienė age 38
Jacques Sylla age 41
Moctar Ouane age 32
Norovyn Altankhuyag age 30
Bernard Dowiyogo age 42
Tulsi Giri age 61
Silvia Cartwright age 44
Catherine Tizard age 57
Amadou Cheiffou age 45
Ljubčo Georgievski age 22
Hari Kostov age 28
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 64
Valentine Strasser age 20
Henk Chin A Sen age 54
Kaspar Villiger age 47
Luai al-Atassi age 62
Jorge Bom Jesus age 25
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 55
Basdeo Panday age 54
Youssef Chahed age 12
Maatia Toafa age 33
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 59
Paulo Muwanga age 64
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 41
Bob Loughman age 27
Octavio Lepage age 64
Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed age 11
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 42
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 35
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 35
Hamza Abdi Barre age 16
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 50
Lee Ju-ho age 27
Ana Jara age 19
Hsiao Bi-khim age 16
Robert Bork age 61
Eric Chu age 26
Janko Bobetko age 69
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García age 58
Prince Tomohito of Mikasa age 42
Şehzade Mehmed Orhan age 78
Christian de Castries age 85
Pujie age 81
Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este age 73
Kim Yong-ju age 68
Kim Pyong Il age 33
Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia age 58
Pat Brown age 83
George W. Casey Jr. age 39
Dale Bumpers age 62
Wes Moore age 9
Maura Healey age 17
Harry Blackmun age 79
Abdul Kabir age 30
Noureddine Bedoui age 28
Peter Hollingworth age 53
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir age 40
Khandu Wangchuk age 37
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 62
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 42
Gilbert Diendéré age 28
Nicolas Tiangaye age 31
Henri-Marie Dondra age 21
Pascal Yoadimnadji age 38
Zlatko Mateša age 38
Ignacio Milam Tang age 47
Themba Dlamini age 37
Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet age 27
Spiridon Markezinis age 79
Sékouba Konaté age 23
Carlos Correia age 54
Mark Phillips age 26
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 61
Ali Falih Al-Zaidi age 2
Nader al-Dahabi age 41
Samir Rifai age 21
Teburoro Tito age 34
Glauk Konjufca age 6
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah age 32
Omurbek Babanov age 17