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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

John Haglelgam age 28
Naiqama Lalabalavu age 24
Tengiz Sigua age 43
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 58
Mohamed Said Fofana age 26
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana age 24
Aristides Gomes age 23
Ansumane Mané age 38
Moses Nagamootoo age 30
Martial Célestin age 64
Carlos Roberto Flor age 28
Carlos Roberto Reina age 52
Mohammad Natsir age 70
Nizar Amidi age 10
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 53
Bujar Bukoshi age 31
Nexhat Daci age 34
Jakup Krasniqi age 27
Nikolai Tanayev age 32
Sapar Isakov age 1
Igor Chudinov age 16
Indulis Emsis age 26
Gediminas Vagnorius age 21
Irena Degutienė age 29
Jacques Sylla age 32
Moctar Ouane age 22
Norovyn Altankhuyag age 20
Bernard Dowiyogo age 32
Tulsi Giri age 51
Silvia Cartwright age 34
Catherine Tizard age 47
Amadou Cheiffou age 35
Kim Il age 68
Ljubčo Georgievski age 12
Hari Kostov age 18
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 54
Valentine Strasser age 11
Henk Chin A Sen age 44
Kaspar Villiger age 37
Luai al-Atassi age 52
Jorge Bom Jesus age 16
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 46
Basdeo Panday age 45
Youssef Chahed age 2
Maatia Toafa age 24
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 49
Paulo Muwanga age 54
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 31
Bob Loughman age 17
Octavio Lepage age 54
Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed age 1
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 32
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 25
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 25
Hamza Abdi Barre age 6
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 40
Lee Ju-ho age 17
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 42
Ana Jara age 10
Hsiao Bi-khim age 6
Robert Bork age 51
Eric Chu age 17
Khalil al-Wazir age 42
A. Philip Randolph age 89
Janko Bobetko age 59
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García age 48
Dietrich von Saucken age 86
Charles Malik age 72
Prince Tomohito of Mikasa age 32
Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia age 81
Şehzade Mehmed Orhan age 69
Jacob L. Devers age 90
Christian de Castries age 76
Pujie age 71
Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este age 63
Kim Yong-ju age 58
Kim Pyong Il age 23
Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia age 49
Pat Brown age 73
George W. Casey Jr. age 30
Dale Bumpers age 53
Maura Healey age 7
Harry Blackmun age 69
Otto Hofmann age 82
Abdul Kabir age 20
Adil Çarçani age 56
Noureddine Bedoui age 18
Peter Hollingworth age 43
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir age 30
Elmira Minita Gordon age 47
Khandu Wangchuk age 27
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 53
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 32
Gilbert Diendéré age 18
Nicolas Tiangaye age 21
Henri-Marie Dondra age 11
Pascal Yoadimnadji age 28
Zlatko Mateša age 29
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 48
Ignacio Milam Tang age 38
Themba Dlamini age 27
Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet age 17
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 80
Spiridon Markezinis age 69
Sékouba Konaté age 14
Carlos Correia age 44
Mark Phillips age 16
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 51
Jóhann Hafstein age 62
Nader al-Dahabi age 31
Samir Rifai age 12
Teburoro Tito age 24
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah age 22
Omurbek Babanov age 8
Kubatbek Boronov age 13
Boun Oum age 66
Einars Repše age 16
Charles Helou age 64
Abdullah al-Thani age 24
Shukri Ghanem age 35
Justas Paleckis age 79
Charles Rabemananjara age 31
Albert Camille Vital age 26
Imata Kabua age 35
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 38
Chimediin Saikhanbileg age 9
Gombojavyn Zandanshatar age 8
Alberto Vaquina age 17
Saw Maung age 49
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 78
Hama Amadou age 28
Kim Jae-ryong age 19
Nikola Kljusev age 50
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 61
Anatole Collinet Makosso age 13
Gavril Dejeu age 45
Anastase Murekezi age 26
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 50
Timothy Harris age 13
Susan Dougan age 23
Otto Stich age 51
Arnold Koller age 44
Max Petitpierre age 79
Liu Chao-shiuan age 35
Lin Chuan age 26
Zhang Qun age 89
Rui Maria de Araújo age 14
Sarra Zaafrani age 15
Hichem Mechichi age 4
Ferit Melen age 71
Sir Iakoba Italeli age 28
Amama Mbabazi age 29
Serge Vohor age 23
Pham Hung age 66
Paulias Matane age 46
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 37
Borislav Paravac age 35
Jorge del Castillo age 28
John J. McCloy age 83
Christopher C. Miller age 12
Sally Yates age 17
Peter Pace age 32
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 31
Fernando Romeo Lucas García age 54
Zhang Guotao age 80
Dragoljub Ojdanić age 37
Norihito, Prince Takamado age 23
Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia age 81
Raoul Salan age 79
Prince George William of Hanover age 63
Infanta María Cristina of Spain age 66
Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia age 50
Aimone di Savoia Aosta (born 1967) age 10
Maximilian, Margrave of Baden age 45
Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg age 15
James L. Jones age 34
Oldřich Černík age 56
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 62
John N. Mitchell age 64
Òscar Ribas Reig age 41
Paulo Kassoma age 27
França Van-Dúnem age 43
James Carlisle age 41
Vere Bird age 67
Aram Sargsyan age 17
Ninian Stephen age 55
Abdus Sattar age 72
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 35
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 51
Georgi Bliznashki age 21
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 52
Tertius Zongo age 21
Gervais Ndirakobuca age 8
Abel Goumba age 51
Félix Moloua age 21
Emmanuel Nadingar age 27
Saleh Kebzabo age 31
Vladimir Bakarić age 66
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 58
Otto Arosemena age 53