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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
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre 1989-04-15 - 1989-06-04

People

Bob Dadae age 28
Abdirizak Haji Hussein age 64
Babiker Awadalla age 72
César Villanueva age 42
Rosario Fernández age 33
Luis Galarreta age 18
Komi Klassou age 29
Xu Xiangqian age 87
Donald Regan age 70
Raymond T. Odierno age 34
Nebojša Pavković age 43
Saad el-Shazly age 67
Gholam Ali Rasheed age 35
Takako Shimazu age 50
Princess Akiko of Mikasa age 7
Princess Yōko of Mikasa age 5
Dündar Ali Osman age 58
Chiang Wei-kuo age 72
Franz Wilhelm Prinz von Preussen age 45
Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria age 71
Archduke Felix of Austria age 73
Song Hye-rim age 50
Kim Ok age 24
Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse age 62
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood age 66
Marianne Bernadotte age 64
Lady Gabriella Kingston age 8
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia age 8
Jargaltulgyn Erdenebat age 15
Patrick McLoughlin age 31
Branko Mikulić age 60
Zeng Qinghong age 49
Rong Yiren age 73
Nicholas Katzenbach age 67
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 80
Redha Malek age 57
Abdelmalek Benhabyles age 68
Lúcio Lara age 60
Mohammad Mohammadullah age 67
Elliott Belgrave age 58
Mikhail Chyhir age 41
Syarhei Linh age 52
Celso Torrelio age 56
Alberto Natusch age 56
Lyuben Berov age 63
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 67
Franjo Gregurić age 49
Hrvoje Šarinić age 54
Joseph Iléo age 67
Eliud Williams age 40
Antonio Imbert Barrera age 68
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 53
Álvaro Magaña age 63
Mahendra Chaudhry age 47
Konstantinos Kollias age 88
Eric Gairy age 67
Kabiné Komara age 39
Cellou Dalein Diallo age 37
Evans Paul age 33
Jean-Jacques Honorat age 58
Jack Guy Lafontant age 28
Sa'dun Hammadi age 58
Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio age 38
Howard Cooke age 73
Jafar Hassan age 21
Ishenbai Kadyrbekov age 39
Daniar Usenov age 29
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 61
Valdis Birkavs age 46
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi age 49
Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar age 31
Valeriu Streleț age 19
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 70
Maati Bouabid age 61
Ahmed Osman age 59
Khin Nyunt age 49
San Yu age 71
Geoffrey Palmer age 47
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 84
Edmund Lawrence age 57
Nikola Šainović age 40
Dragan Tomić age 53
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 75
Pierre Aubert age 62
Georges-André Chevallaz age 74
Pierre Graber age 80
Sean Chen age 39
Jiang Yi-huah age 28
Chang Chun-hsiung age 51
Cynthia A. Pratt age 43
Ellis Clarke age 71
Bahi Ladgham age 76
Hamed Karoui age 61
Ali Bozer age 63
Toaripi Lauti age 60
Saufatu Sopoanga age 37
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 42
Pedro Carmona age 47
Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher age 36
Mohamed Osman Jawari age 43
Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe age 33
Lee Wan-koo age 38
Lee Hong-koo age 55
Han Seong-sook age 21
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 78
Zlatko Lagumdžija age 33
Valeria Ciavatta age 30
Maria Luisa Berti age 17
Mariella Mularoni age 26
Grazia Zafferani age 16
Pedro Cateriano age 30
Aníbal Torres age 46
Javier Velásquez age 29
Salvador del Solar age 19
Gilbert Houngbo age 28
Rosalio Lara age 66
C. Douglas Dillon age 79
Todd Blanche age 14
Mustafa Tlass age 57
Sefer Halilović age 37
Gojko Šušak age 44
Mile Mrkšić age 41
Jacques Massu age 81
Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu age 77
Princess Tomohito of Mikasa age 34
Bayezid Osman age 64
Nilufer Hanımsultan age 73
Chiang Fang-liang age 73
Prince Wolfgang of Hesse age 92
Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919–2010) age 69
Kim Sol-song age 14
Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma age 65
Princess Margarita of Baden age 56
Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern age 56
Philip, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia age 7
Katherine Karađorđević age 45
David Lidington age 32
Mark White age 49
Bob Ehrlich age 31
Anne-Marie Trevelyan age 20
Zoran Lilić age 35
James G. Stavridis age 34
Philip M. Breedlove age 33
Pjetër Arbnori age 54
Belaid Abdesselam age 60
Ismail Hamdani age 59
Lopo do Nascimento age 48
Yaqub Mammadov age 48
Surat Huseynov age 30
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 73
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 57
Adrien Houngbédji age 47
Lionel Zinsou age 34
Yeshey Zimba age 38
Lassina Zerbo age 25
François Ngeze age 36
Mahamat Kamoun age 27
Simplice Sarandji age 34
Djimrangar Dadnadji age 35
Kalzeubet Pahimi Deubet age 32
Allamaye Halina age 22
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 71
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 53
Ali Sabri age 68
Miguel Abia Biteo age 28
Manuela Roka age 16
Alain Claude Bilie-By-Nze age 21
Jean-Marie Doré age 50
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 38
Bernard Goumou age 8
Domingos Simoes Pereira age 25
Baciro Djá age 16
Marc Bazin age 57
Florence Duperval Guillaume age 24
Kenneth O. Hall age 48
Teatao Teannaki age 53
Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah age 36
Artyom Novikov age 2
Vilis Krištopans age 34
Andris Šķēle age 31
Laurynas Stankevičius age 53
Gilles Andriamahazo age 70
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga age 43
Moussa Mara age 14
Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf age 31
Paul Bérenger age 44
Ion Sturza age 29
Sanjaagiin Bayar age 33
Abdallah Ibrahim age 70
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 77
Bill Rowling age 61
Sorin Cîmpeanu age 21
Faustin Twagiramungu age 43
Stephenson King age 30
Amadou Ba age 28
Sergej Kraigher age 75
Danny Philip age 35
Snyder Rini age 40
Hans Schaffner age 80
Hans Hürlimann age 71