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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
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
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Irena Degutienė age 29
Jacques Sylla age 32
Moctar Ouane age 23
Norovyn Altankhuyag age 21
Bernard Dowiyogo age 33
Tulsi Giri age 52
Silvia Cartwright age 35
Catherine Tizard age 48
Amadou Cheiffou age 36
Kim Il age 69
Ljubčo Georgievski age 13
Hari Kostov age 19
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 55
Valentine Strasser age 12
Henk Chin A Sen age 45
Kaspar Villiger age 38
Luai al-Atassi age 53
Jorge Bom Jesus age 16
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 47
Basdeo Panday age 46
Youssef Chahed age 3
Maatia Toafa age 25
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 50
Paulo Muwanga age 55
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 32
Bob Loughman age 18
Octavio Lepage age 55
Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed age 2
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 33
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 26
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 26
Hamza Abdi Barre age 7
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 41
Lee Ju-ho age 18
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 43
Ana Jara age 11
Hsiao Bi-khim age 7
Robert Bork age 52
Eric Chu age 17
Khalil al-Wazir age 43
Janko Bobetko age 60
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García age 49
Dietrich von Saucken age 87
Charles Malik age 73
Prince Tomohito of Mikasa age 33
Şehzade Mehmed Orhan age 69
Jacob L. Devers age 91
Christian de Castries age 76
Pujie age 72
Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este age 64
Kim Yong-ju age 59
Kim Pyong Il age 24
Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia age 49
Pat Brown age 74
George W. Casey Jr. age 30
Dale Bumpers age 53
Wes Moore age 7 months
Maura Healey age 8
Harry Blackmun age 70
Otto Hofmann age 83
Abdul Kabir age 21
Adil Çarçani age 57
Noureddine Bedoui age 19
Peter Hollingworth age 44
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir age 31
Elmira Minita Gordon age 48
Khandu Wangchuk age 28
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 53
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 33
Gilbert Diendéré age 19
Nicolas Tiangaye age 22
Henri-Marie Dondra age 12
Pascal Yoadimnadji age 29
Zlatko Mateša age 29
Ignacio Milam Tang age 38
Themba Dlamini age 28
Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet age 18
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 80
Spiridon Markezinis age 70
Sékouba Konaté age 14
Carlos Correia age 45
Mark Phillips age 17
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 52
Jóhann Hafstein age 63
Nader al-Dahabi age 32
Samir Rifai age 12
Teburoro Tito age 25
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah age 23
Omurbek Babanov age 9
Kubatbek Boronov age 14
Boun Oum age 67
Einars Repše age 17
Charles Helou age 65
Abdullah al-Thani age 25
Shukri Ghanem age 36
Justas Paleckis age 80
Charles Rabemananjara age 31
Albert Camille Vital age 26
Imata Kabua age 36
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 39
Chimediin Saikhanbileg age 10
Gombojavyn Zandanshatar age 9
Alberto Vaquina age 17
Saw Maung age 50
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 78
Hama Amadou age 29
Kim Jae-ryong age 20
Nikola Kljusev age 51
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 62
Anatole Collinet Makosso age 14
Gavril Dejeu age 46
Anastase Murekezi age 26
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 51
Timothy Harris age 14
Susan Dougan age 24
Otto Stich age 52
Arnold Koller age 45
Max Petitpierre age 80
Liu Chao-shiuan age 36
Lin Chuan age 27
Zhang Qun age 90
Rui Maria de Araújo age 15
Sarra Zaafrani age 16
Hichem Mechichi age 5
Ferit Melen age 72
Sir Iakoba Italeli age 29
Amama Mbabazi age 30
Serge Vohor age 24
Pham Hung age 66
Paulias Matane age 47
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 38
Borislav Paravac age 36
Jorge del Castillo age 28
John J. McCloy age 84
Christopher C. Miller age 13
Sally Yates age 18
Peter Pace age 33
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 32
Fernando Romeo Lucas García age 54
Zhang Guotao age 81
Dragoljub Ojdanić age 37
Norihito, Prince Takamado age 24
Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia age 82
Raoul Salan age 79
Prince George William of Hanover age 64
Infanta María Cristina of Spain age 67
Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia age 51
Aimone di Savoia Aosta (born 1967) age 11
Maximilian, Margrave of Baden age 45
Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg age 16
James L. Jones age 35
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 63
John N. Mitchell age 65
Òscar Ribas Reig age 42
Paulo Kassoma age 27
França Van-Dúnem age 44
James Carlisle age 41
Vere Bird age 68
Aram Sargsyan age 18
Ninian Stephen age 55
Abdus Sattar age 73
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 36
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 51
Georgi Bliznashki age 22
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 53
Tertius Zongo age 22
Gervais Ndirakobuca age 9
Abel Goumba age 52
Félix Moloua age 21
Emmanuel Nadingar age 28
Saleh Kebzabo age 32
Vladimir Bakarić age 67
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 59
Otto Arosemena age 53
Arturo Armando Molina age 51
Vicente Ehate Tomi age 11
Themba Nhlanganiso Masuku age 28
Cleopas Dlamini age 27
Edeupa Yerimin age 5
Bailey Olter age 47
Julien Nkoghe Békale age 20
Giorgi Baramidze age 11
Ioannis Sarmas age 22
Rui Duarte de Barros age 19
Jocelerme Privert age 26
Emil Jónsson age 76
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 84
Robert Beugré Mambé age 27
Seydou Diarra age 45
Hani al-Mulki age 27
Bajram Rexhepi age 24
Ahmed Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah age 23
Talant Mamytov age 3
Zhantoro Satybaldiyev age 23
Adylbek Kasymaliev age 18
Māris Gailis age 27
Ali Tarhouni age 28
Mustafa Ben Halim age 58
Bronislovas Lubys age 40
Aleksandras Abišala age 23