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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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Pedro Carmona age 37
Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher age 26
Tomás Romero Pereira age 92
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 73
Mohamed Osman Jawari age 33
Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe age 23
Lee Wan-koo age 28
Lee Hong-koo age 45
Han Seong-sook age 11
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 68
Zlatko Lagumdžija age 23
Valeria Ciavatta age 20
Maria Luisa Berti age 7
Mariella Mularoni age 16
Grazia Zafferani age 6
Pedro Cateriano age 20
Aníbal Torres age 36
Javier Velásquez age 19
Salvador del Solar age 9
Gilbert Houngbo age 18
Rosalio Lara age 56
C. Douglas Dillon age 69
Todd Blanche age 4
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 73
Pjetër Arbnori age 44
Belaid Abdesselam age 50
Ismail Hamdani age 49
Lopo do Nascimento age 38
Yaqub Mammadov age 38
Surat Huseynov age 20
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 63
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 47
Adrien Houngbédji age 37
Lionel Zinsou age 24
Yeshey Zimba age 28
Lassina Zerbo age 15
François Ngeze age 26
Mahamat Kamoun age 17
Simplice Sarandji age 24
Djimrangar Dadnadji age 25
Kalzeubet Pahimi Deubet age 22
Allamaye Halina former Prime Minister of Chad age 12
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 61
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 43
Ali Sabri age 58
Miguel Abia Biteo age 18
Manuela Roka age 6
Alain Claude Bilie-By-Nze age 11
Jean-Marie Doré age 40
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 28
Domingos Simoes Pereira age 15
Baciro Djá age 6
Prosper Avril age 41
Marc Bazin age 47
Florence Duperval Guillaume age 14
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 76
Kenneth O. Hall age 38
Teatao Teannaki age 43
Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah age 26
Vilis Krištopans age 24
Andris Šķēle age 21
Laurynas Stankevičius age 43
Gilles Andriamahazo age 60
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga age 33
Moussa Mara age 4
Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf age 21
Paul Bérenger age 34
Ion Sturza age 19
Sanjaagiin Bayar age 23
Abdallah Ibrahim age 60
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 67
Bill Rowling age 51
Lazarus Salii age 42
Sorin Cîmpeanu age 11
Faustin Twagiramungu age 33
Stephenson King age 20
Amadou Ba age 18
Sergej Kraigher age 65
Danny Philip age 25
Snyder Rini age 30
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 43
Hans Schaffner age 70
Fritz Honegger age 61
Ludwig von Moos age 69
Leonel Mário d'Alva age 43
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 77
Ivy Dumont age 48
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü age 75
Faimalaga Luka age 39
Vasyl Durdynets age 41
Ati George Sokomanu age 43
John Bani age 37
Donald Kalpokas age 35
Phelekezela Mphoko age 38
Abdi Farah Shirdon age 20
Ali Khalif Galaydh age 37
Chung Won-shik age 50
John Kotelawala age 82
Osman Hussein age 28
Mohamed Tahir Ayala age 28
Luca Beccari age 4
Fausta Morganti age 34
Denise Bronzetti age 6
Antonella Mularoni age 17
Stefano Palmieri age 14
Alberto Otárola age 12
Gustavo Adrianzén age 12
Vicente Zeballos age 16
James Van Fleet age 87
Dick Thornburgh age 46
Richard Myers age 37
Robert B. Anderson age 68
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 43
Marcolino Moco age 25
Armen Darbinyan age 14
Hasan Hasanov age 38
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 42
Hugo Ballivián age 77
Honoré Traoré age 21
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum age 73
Élie Doté age 30
Haroun Kabadi age 30
Youssouf Saleh Abbas age 26
Gabriel París Gordillo age 69
Samy Badibanga age 16
Justin Marie Bomboko age 50
Vernon Shaw age 49
Zakaria Mohieddin age 60
Kamal Hassan Ali age 46
Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas age 86
Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero age 32
Lansana Kouyaté age 28
Mamady Youla age 17
Adiato Djaló Nandigna age 20
Martinho Ndafa Kabi age 21
Horta Inta-A Na Man age 19
Hérard Abraham age 38
Jean-Henry Céant age 22
Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi age 41
Zaid al-Rifai age 42
Ahmad Obeidat age 40
Ali Abu al-Ragheb age 33
Bajram Kosumi age 19
Abdul Majid Kubar age 70
Abdul Qadir al-Badri age 57
Muhammad Osman Said age 54
Fathi Bashagha age 16
Rimantas Šadžius age 18
Adolfas Šleževičius age 31
Roger Kolo age 35
Jurelang Zedkaia age 28
Veerasamy Ringadoo age 58
Dharam Gokhool age 29
Dumitru Braghiș age 21
Mohamed Benhima age 54
Maria Benvinda Levy age 10
Lagumot Harris age 40
Kinza Clodumar age 34
Derog Gioura age 46
Kennan Adeang age 36
Michael Hardie Boys age 47
Seyni Oumarou age 28
Alfonso Oiterong age 54
Alfred Raoul age 40
Nataša Mićić age 13
Jozef Moravčík age 34
Ezekiel Alebua age 32
Willi Ritschard age 60
Willy Spühler age 77
Nello Celio age 65
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen age 80
Enrico Celio age 89
Omar Ibrahim Ghalawanji age 25
Gabriel Costa age 24
Simon Chang age 24
Mao Chi-kuo age 30
Yu Shyi-kun age 31
Arthur Dion Hanna age 51
Estanislau da Silva age 26
Stuart Young age 4
Naim Talu age 59
Tomasi Puapua age 40
Willy Telavi age 25
Alberto Héber Usher age 61
Maxime Carlot Korman age 38
Joe Natuman age 26
Moana Carcasses Kalosil age 16
Khaled Bahah age 14
Raimundo Rolón age 76
Abdullahi Issa age 56
Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein age 68
Hasan Muratović age 39
Marino Riccardi age 20
Alessandro Rossi age 11
Filippo Tamagnini age 7
Francesco Mussoni age 8
Lorella Stefanelli age 20
Beatriz Merino age 31
Fernando Zavala age 8
Sebastiano Baggio age 66