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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
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

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
Hiroshi Nakajima age 51
Frank Underwood age 19
Edwin Meese age 47
Frederick C. Weyand age 62
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 53
G. William Miller age 54
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 71
William B. Saxbe age 62
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 73
Kastriot Islami age 26
Benyoucef Benkhedda age 59
Sifi Ghrieb age 8
Sabri Boukadoum age 20
Josep Pintat-Solans age 54
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury age 50
Pascal Koupaki age 28
Youssouf Ouédraogo age 26
Albert Ouédraogo age 10
Pen Sovan age 43
Simon Achidi Achu age 44
André Nzapayeké age 27
Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde age 45
Zlatko Tomčić age 33
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 53
Manuel Osa Nsue Nsua age 2
Daniel Ona Ondo age 33
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 44
Bessarion Gugushvili age 34
Ioannis Paraskevopoulos age 78
Nicholas Brathwaite age 53
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León age 64
Eugène Camara age 37
Mohamed Béavogui age 25
Victor Saúde Maria age 40
Mamadu Ture Kuruma age 32
Enex Jean-Charles age 18
Rosny Smarth age 38
Tahir Yahya age 63
Rachid Solh age 52
Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush age 45
Gerard Batliner age 50
Monja Roindefo age 14
Django Sissoko age 31
Mandé Sidibé age 39
Moctar Ould Djay age 5
Yahya Ould Hademine age 25
Ba Mamadou Mbaré age 33
Cassam Uteem age 38
Kenos Aroi age 37
Ruben Kun age 37
Mihai Fifor age 9
Pierre Habumuremyi age 18
Milton Cato age 63
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 48
Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye age 20
Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré age 27
Predrag Marković age 23
Nathaniel Waena age 33
Rick Hou age 20
Roger Bonvin age 71
Ernst Brugger age 65
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 38
Joaquim Rafael Branco age 25
Vincent Siew age 40
ʻAisake Eke age 18
Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō age 27
Kamuta Latasi age 42
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas age 40
Abd al-Aziz ibn Habtour age 23
Hassan Abshir Farah age 33
Umar Arteh Ghalib age 49
Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed age 20
Hussein Farrah Aidid age 16
Mimma Zavoli age 16
Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini age 24
Mirko Šarović age 22
Ivo Miro Jović age 28
Yehude Simon age 31
Walter Martos age 22
Mirtha Vásquez age 4
Paik Sun-yup age 58
Xue Yue age 82
Thomas A. Shannon Jr. age 21
Archibald Cox age 67
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 75
Skënder Gjinushi age 29
Qasdi Mirbah age 41
Sayyid Ahmed Ghazali age 42
Ahmed ibn Bitour age 32
Mulud Hamroush age 36
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad age 39
Pié Masumbuko age 47
Sadou Hayatou age 37
Peter Mafany Musonge age 36
Martin Ziguélé age 22
Alexandre-Ferdinand Nguendet age 6
Hamada Madi age 14
Koyagialo Ngbase te Gerengo Louis Alphonse age 32
Ahmed Dini Ahmed age 49
Pierre Charles age 24
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 38
Jona Senilagakali age 49
Tevita Momoedonu age 33
Stilianos Mavromichalis age 80
Faustino Imbali age 23
Franck Lavaud age 76
Franck Sylvain age 69
Yvon Neptune age 32
Smarck Michel age 42
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 48
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 68
Burhanuddin Harahap age 62
Naji Talib age 61
Ezzedine Salim age 36
David D. Kpormakpor age 43
Abuzed Omar Dorda age 35
Ahmed Miitig age 7
Khalifa al-Ghawi age 16
Mohieddin Fikini age 54
Walter Kieber age 48
Eugenijus Gentvilas age 19
Casten Nemra age 7
Ismail Ould Bedde Ould Cheikh Sidiya age 18
Barlen Vyapoory age 34
Karl Offmann age 38
Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa age 21
Veselin Đuranović age 54
Ahmed Balafrej age 71
Maung Maung age 54
Win Maung age 63
Elijah Ngurare age 8
Ljupčo Jordanovski age 26
Henri Lopès age 41
Kennedy Simmonds age 43
Moustapha Niasse age 39
Fernando Pereira age 16
Sēmisi Sika age 11
İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil age 71
Ionatana Ionatana age 40
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 23
Mekere Morauta age 32
Cesar Virata age 48
Wijeyananda Dahanayake age 76
Bakri Hassan Saleh age 30
Gianfranco Terenzi age 38
Juan Jiménez Mayor age 14
José Antonio Chang age 21
Salomón Lerner Ghitis age 33
Oscar Valdés age 30
Carlos Ferrero age 38
Yawovi Agboyibo age 35
Du Yuming age 74
Su Yu age 71
William E. Simon age 51
Nathan F. Twining age 81
Richard Kleindienst age 55
Matthew Whitaker age 9
Abe Fortas age 68
Paul Hasluck age 74
Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo age 25
Chan Sy age 47
In Tam age 56
Caabi El-Yachroutu Mohamed age 29
Abdallah Mohamed Kamil age 43
Jean-Hilaire Aubame age 66
Herbert Blaize age 61
Diarra Traoré age 44
Alamara Nhassé age 21
Francisco Fadul age 25
Manuel Saturnino da Costa age 36
Edward Luckhoo age 67
Émile Jonassaint age 66
Adnan Pachachi age 56
Faisal al-Fayez age 26
Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh age 40
Apas Jumagulov age 44
Wilton G. S. Sankawulo age 41
Wanis al-Qaddafi age 54
Hussein Maziq age 60
Imbarek Shamekh age 27
Alfred Hilbe age 50
Tantely Andrianarivo age 24