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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
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980) 1980-09-22 - 1980-11-10
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20

People

Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 57
Valentine Strasser age 13
Kaspar Villiger age 39
Luai al-Atassi age 54
Jorge Bom Jesus age 18
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 48
Basdeo Panday age 47
Youssef Chahed age 5
Maatia Toafa age 26
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 51
Paulo Muwanga age 56
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 33
Bob Loughman age 19
Octavio Lepage age 56
Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed age 3
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 34
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 27
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 28
Hamza Abdi Barre age 8
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 43
Lee Ju-ho age 19
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 44
Ana Jara age 12
Hsiao Bi-khim age 9
Robert Bork age 53
Eric Chu age 19
Khalil al-Wazir age 45
Janko Bobetko age 61
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García age 50
Charles Malik age 74
Prince Tomohito of Mikasa age 34
Şehzade Mehmed Orhan age 71
Christian de Castries age 78
Pujie age 73
Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este age 65
Kim Yong-ju age 60
Kim Pyong Il age 26
Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia age 51
Pat Brown age 75
George W. Casey Jr. age 32
Dale Bumpers age 55
Wes Moore age 2
Maura Healey age 9
Harry Blackmun age 71
Otto Hofmann age 84
Abdul Kabir age 22
Adil Çarçani age 58
Noureddine Bedoui age 20
Peter Hollingworth age 45
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir age 32
Elmira Minita Gordon age 49
Khandu Wangchuk age 29
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 55
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 34
Gilbert Diendéré age 20
Nicolas Tiangaye age 24
Henri-Marie Dondra age 14
Pascal Yoadimnadji age 30
Zlatko Mateša age 31
Ignacio Milam Tang age 40
Themba Dlamini age 29
Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet age 19
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 82
Spiridon Markezinis age 71
Sékouba Konaté age 16
Carlos Correia age 46
Mark Phillips age 19
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 53
Nader al-Dahabi age 34
Samir Rifai age 14
Teburoro Tito age 27
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah age 25
Omurbek Babanov age 10
Kubatbek Boronov age 15
Einars Repše age 18
Charles Helou age 67
Abdullah al-Thani age 26
Shukri Ghanem age 38
Charles Rabemananjara age 33
Albert Camille Vital age 28
Imata Kabua age 37
Chimediin Saikhanbileg age 11
Gombojavyn Zandanshatar age 10
Alberto Vaquina age 19
Saw Maung age 51
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 80
Hama Amadou age 30
Kim Jae-ryong age 21
Nikola Kljusev age 53
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 63
Anatole Collinet Makosso age 15
Gavril Dejeu age 48
Anastase Murekezi age 28
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 52
Timothy Harris age 15
Susan Dougan age 25
Otto Stich age 53
Arnold Koller age 47
Max Petitpierre age 81
Liu Chao-shiuan age 37
Lin Chuan age 28
Zhang Qun age 91
Rui Maria de Araújo age 16
Sarra Zaafrani age 17
Hichem Mechichi age 6
Hedi Amara Nouira age 69
Ferit Melen age 74
Sir Iakoba Italeli age 30
Amama Mbabazi age 31
Serge Vohor age 25
Pham Hung age 68
Paulias Matane age 49
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 39
Borislav Paravac age 37
Jorge del Castillo age 30
John J. McCloy age 85
Christopher C. Miller age 15
W. Michael Blumenthal age 54
Sally Yates age 20
Peter Pace age 34
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 33
Fernando Romeo Lucas García age 56
Dragoljub Ojdanić age 39
Norihito, Prince Takamado age 25
Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia age 83
Raoul Salan age 81
Prince George William of Hanover age 65
Infanta María Cristina of Spain age 68
Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia age 52
Aimone di Savoia Aosta (born 1967) age 13
Maximilian, Margrave of Baden age 47
Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg age 17
James L. Jones age 36
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 64
John N. Mitchell age 67
Òscar Ribas Reig age 44
Paulo Kassoma age 29
França Van-Dúnem age 46
James Carlisle age 43
Vere Bird age 69
Aram Sargsyan age 19
Ninian Stephen age 57
Abdus Sattar age 74
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 38
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 53
Georgi Bliznashki age 24
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 55
Tertius Zongo age 23
Gervais Ndirakobuca age 10
Abel Goumba age 54
Félix Moloua age 23
Emmanuel Nadingar age 29
Saleh Kebzabo age 33
Vladimir Bakarić age 68
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 61
Otto Arosemena age 55
Arturo Armando Molina age 53
Vicente Ehate Tomi age 12
Themba Nhlanganiso Masuku age 30
Cleopas Dlamini age 28
Edeupa Yerimin age 6
Bailey Olter age 48
Julien Nkoghe Békale age 22
Giorgi Baramidze age 12
Ioannis Sarmas age 23
Rui Duarte de Barros age 20
Jocelerme Privert age 27
Emil Jónsson age 78
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 86
Robert Beugré Mambé age 28
Seydou Diarra age 46
Hani al-Mulki age 29
Bajram Rexhepi age 26
Ahmed Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah age 24
Talant Mamytov age 4
Zhantoro Satybaldiyev age 24
Adylbek Kasymaliev age 19
Māris Gailis age 29
Ali Tarhouni age 29
Mustafa Ben Halim age 59
Bronislovas Lubys age 42
Aleksandras Abišala age 24
Cécile Manorohanta age 30
Modibo Keita age 38
Choguel Kokalla Maïga age 22
Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga age 26
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 47
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly age 37
Valeriu Muravschi age 31
Ion Ciubuc age 37
Azzeddine Laraki age 51
Ahmed Laraki age 49
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 53
Man Mohan Adhikari age 60
Thomas Remengesau age 48
Carlos Mota Pinto age 44
Dominique Mbonyumutwa age 59
Habib Thiam age 47
Mamadou Dia age 70
Patrick Herminie age 17