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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
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20

People

Tulsi Giri age 53
Silvia Cartwright age 36
Catherine Tizard age 48
Amadou Cheiffou age 37
Kim Il age 69
Ljubčo Georgievski age 13
Hari Kostov age 20
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 56
Valentine Strasser age 12
Henk Chin A Sen age 45
Kaspar Villiger age 38
Luai al-Atassi age 53
Jorge Bom Jesus age 17
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 47
Basdeo Panday age 46
Youssef Chahed age 4
Maatia Toafa age 25
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 50
Paulo Muwanga age 55
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 32
Bob Loughman age 18
Octavio Lepage age 56
Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed age 2
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 33
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 26
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 27
Hamza Abdi Barre age 7
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 42
Lee Ju-ho age 18
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 43
Ana Jara age 11
Hsiao Bi-khim age 8
Robert Bork age 52
Eric Chu age 18
Khalil al-Wazir age 44
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 70
Christian de Castries age 77
Pujie age 72
Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este age 64
Kim Yong-ju age 59
Kim Pyong Il age 25
Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia age 50
Pat Brown age 74
George W. Casey Jr. age 31
Dale Bumpers age 54
Wes Moore age 1
Maura Healey age 8
Harry Blackmun age 71
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 29
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 54
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 33
Gilbert Diendéré age 19
Nicolas Tiangaye age 23
Henri-Marie Dondra age 13
Pascal Yoadimnadji age 29
Zlatko Mateša age 30
Ignacio Milam Tang age 39
Themba Dlamini age 29
Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet age 18
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 81
Spiridon Markezinis age 70
Sékouba Konaté age 15
Carlos Correia age 46
Mark Phillips age 18
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 52
Jóhann Hafstein age 64
Nader al-Dahabi age 33
Samir Rifai age 13
Teburoro Tito age 26
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah age 24
Omurbek Babanov age 9
Kubatbek Boronov age 14
Boun Oum age 68
Einars Repše age 17
Charles Helou age 66
Abdullah al-Thani age 25
Shukri Ghanem age 37
Justas Paleckis age 80
Charles Rabemananjara age 32
Albert Camille Vital age 27
Imata Kabua age 36
Chimediin Saikhanbileg age 10
Gombojavyn Zandanshatar age 9
Alberto Vaquina age 18
Saw Maung age 50
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 79
Hama Amadou age 29
Kim Jae-ryong age 20
Nikola Kljusev age 52
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 62
Anatole Collinet Makosso age 14
Gavril Dejeu age 47
Anastase Murekezi age 27
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 51
Timothy Harris age 14
Susan Dougan age 24
Otto Stich age 52
Arnold Koller age 46
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 73
Sir Iakoba Italeli age 29
Amama Mbabazi age 30
Serge Vohor age 24
Pham Hung age 67
Paulias Matane age 48
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 38
Borislav Paravac age 36
Jorge del Castillo age 29
John J. McCloy age 84
Christopher C. Miller age 14
W. Michael Blumenthal age 53
Sally Yates age 19
Peter Pace age 34
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 32
Fernando Romeo Lucas García age 55
Zhang Guotao age 82
Dragoljub Ojdanić age 38
Norihito, Prince Takamado age 24
Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia age 82
Raoul Salan age 80
Prince George William of Hanover age 64
Infanta María Cristina of Spain age 68
Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia age 51
Aimone di Savoia Aosta (born 1967) age 12
Maximilian, Margrave of Baden age 46
Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg age 16
James L. Jones age 35
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 64
John N. Mitchell age 66
Òscar Ribas Reig age 43
Paulo Kassoma age 28
França Van-Dúnem age 45
James Carlisle age 42
Vere Bird age 69
Aram Sargsyan age 18
Ninian Stephen age 56
Abdus Sattar age 73
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 37
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 52
Georgi Bliznashki age 23
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 54
Tertius Zongo age 22
Gervais Ndirakobuca age 9
Abel Goumba age 53
Félix Moloua age 22
Emmanuel Nadingar age 28
Saleh Kebzabo age 32
Vladimir Bakarić age 67
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 60
Otto Arosemena age 54
Arturo Armando Molina age 52
Vicente Ehate Tomi age 11
Themba Nhlanganiso Masuku age 29
Cleopas Dlamini age 27
Edeupa Yerimin age 6
Bailey Olter age 47
Julien Nkoghe Békale age 21
Giorgi Baramidze age 11
Ioannis Sarmas age 22
Rui Duarte de Barros age 19
Jocelerme Privert age 26
Emil Jónsson age 77
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 85
Robert Beugré Mambé age 27
Seydou Diarra age 46
Hani al-Mulki age 28
Bajram Rexhepi age 25
Ahmed Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah age 23
Talant Mamytov age 3
Zhantoro Satybaldiyev age 23
Adylbek Kasymaliev age 19
Māris Gailis age 28
Ali Tarhouni age 28
Mustafa Ben Halim age 58
Bronislovas Lubys age 41
Aleksandras Abišala age 23
Cécile Manorohanta age 29
Modibo Keita age 37
Choguel Kokalla Maïga age 21
Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga age 25
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 46
Valeriu Muravschi age 30