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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

Hédi Baccouche age 49
Mehdi Jomaa age 17
Sadi Irmak age 75
Filoimea Telito age 34
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 40
Bob Dadae age 18
Abdirizak Haji Hussein age 55
Babiker Awadalla age 62
César Villanueva age 33
Rosario Fernández age 24
Luis Galarreta age 8
Komi Klassou age 19
Xu Xiangqian age 78
Donald Regan age 61
Lyman Lemnitzer age 80
Raymond T. Odierno age 25
Nicholas F. Brady age 49
Jargaltulgyn Erdenebat age 6
Patrick McLoughlin age 22
Zeng Qinghong age 40
Rong Yiren age 63
Nicholas Katzenbach age 57
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 71
Redha Malek age 48
Abdelmalek Benhabyles age 58
Lúcio Lara age 50
Mohammad Mohammadullah age 58
Elliott Belgrave age 48
Mikhail Chyhir age 31
Syarhei Linh age 42
Celso Torrelio age 46
Alberto Natusch age 46
Lyuben Berov age 54
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 58
Franjo Gregurić age 40
Hrvoje Šarinić age 44
Carlos Manuel Piedra age 85
Joseph Iléo age 58
Eliud Williams age 31
Antonio Imbert Barrera age 59
Atef Sedki age 49
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 44
Álvaro Magaña age 54
Mahendra Chaudhry age 37
Nii Amaa Ollennu age 73
Konstantinos Kollias age 79
Eric Gairy age 57
Kabiné Komara age 29
Cellou Dalein Diallo age 27
Evans Paul age 24
Jean-Jacques Honorat age 48
Jack Guy Lafontant age 18
Sa'dun Hammadi age 49
Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio age 28
Howard Cooke age 64
Zeid bin Shaker age 45
Jafar Hassan age 11
Ishenbai Kadyrbekov age 30
Daniar Usenov age 19
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 51
Valdis Birkavs age 37
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi age 40
George Borg Olivier age 68
Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar age 22
Valeriu Streleț age 9
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 60
Ahmed Osman age 49
Khin Nyunt age 40
San Yu age 61
Geoffrey Palmer age 37
Ngiratkel Etpison age 54
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 74
Edmund Lawrence age 47
Nikola Šainović age 31
Dragan Tomić age 44
Rudolf Gnägi age 62
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 66
Pierre Aubert age 52
Georges-André Chevallaz age 64
Pierre Graber age 71
Ahmad al-Khatib age 46
Sean Chen age 30
Jiang Yi-huah age 19
Chang Chun-hsiung age 41
Cynthia A. Pratt age 34
Noor Hassanali age 61
Bahi Ladgham age 66
Hamed Karoui age 51
Ali Bozer age 54
Saufatu Sopoanga age 27
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 32
Pedro Carmona age 38
Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher age 27
Tomás Romero Pereira age 93
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 74
Mohamed Osman Jawari age 34
Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe age 23
Lee Wan-koo age 29
Lee Hong-koo age 45
Han Seong-sook age 12
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 69
Zlatko Lagumdžija age 23
Valeria Ciavatta age 20
Maria Luisa Berti age 8
Mariella Mularoni age 17
Grazia Zafferani age 6
Pedro Cateriano age 21
Aníbal Torres age 36
Javier Velásquez age 19
Salvador del Solar age 9
Gilbert Houngbo age 18
Rosalio Lara age 57
C. Douglas Dillon age 70
Todd Blanche age 5
David Lidington age 23
Mark White age 39
John W. Bricker age 86
Bob Ehrlich age 22
Anne-Marie Trevelyan age 10
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 73
Pjetër Arbnori age 44
Belaid Abdesselam age 51
Ismail Hamdani age 49
Lopo do Nascimento age 39
Yaqub Mammadov age 38
Surat Huseynov age 20
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 64
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 48
Adrien Houngbédji age 37
Lionel Zinsou age 25
Yeshey Zimba age 29
Lassina Zerbo age 16
François Ngeze age 26
Mahamat Kamoun age 18
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 59
Miguel Abia Biteo age 18
Manuela Roka age 6
Alain Claude Bilie-By-Nze age 12
Jean-Marie Doré age 41
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 28
Domingos Simoes Pereira age 16
Baciro Djá age 6
Prosper Avril age 42
Marc Bazin age 47
Florence Duperval Guillaume age 15
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 76
Kenneth O. Hall age 38
Teatao Teannaki age 43
Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah age 27
Vilis Krištopans age 25
Andris Šķēle age 21
Laurynas Stankevičius age 44
Gilles Andriamahazo age 60
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga age 34
Moussa Mara age 4
Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf age 22
Paul Bérenger age 34
Ion Sturza age 19
Sanjaagiin Bayar age 23
Abdallah Ibrahim age 61
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 68
Bill Rowling age 52
Lazarus Salii age 43
Sorin Cîmpeanu age 11
Faustin Twagiramungu age 34
Stephenson King age 21
Amadou Ba age 18
Sergej Kraigher age 65
Danny Philip age 26
Snyder Rini age 31
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 43
Hans Schaffner age 71
Fritz Honegger age 62
Ludwig von Moos age 69
Leonel Mário d'Alva age 44
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 78
Ivy Dumont age 49
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü age 76
Faimalaga Luka age 39
Vasyl Durdynets age 42
Ati George Sokomanu age 43
John Bani age 38
Donald Kalpokas age 36
Phelekezela Mphoko age 39
Abdi Farah Shirdon age 21
Ali Khalif Galaydh age 38
Chung Won-shik age 51
John Kotelawala age 82
Osman Hussein age 28
Mohamed Tahir Ayala age 28
Luca Beccari age 5
Fausta Morganti age 35
Denise Bronzetti age 7
Antonella Mularoni age 18