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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
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
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
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11

People

Cellou Dalein Diallo age 26
Evans Paul age 23
Jean-Jacques Honorat age 47
Jack Guy Lafontant age 17
Sa'dun Hammadi age 48
Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio age 27
Howard Cooke age 63
Zeid bin Shaker age 44
Jafar Hassan age 10
Ieremia Tabai age 28
Ishenbai Kadyrbekov age 29
Daniar Usenov age 18
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 50
Valdis Birkavs age 36
George Borg Olivier age 67
Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar age 21
Valeriu Streleț age 8
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 59
Maati Bouabid age 51
Khin Nyunt age 39
San Yu age 60
Geoffrey Palmer age 36
Ngiratkel Etpison age 53
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 73
Edmund Lawrence age 46
Nikola Šainović age 30
Dragan Tomić age 43
Rudolf Gnägi age 61
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 65
Pierre Aubert age 51
Georges-André Chevallaz age 63
Pierre Graber age 70
Ahmad al-Khatib age 45
Sean Chen age 29
Jiang Yi-huah age 18
Chang Chun-hsiung age 40
Cynthia A. Pratt age 33
Noor Hassanali age 60
Bahi Ladgham age 65
Hamed Karoui age 50
Ali Bozer age 53
Saufatu Sopoanga age 26
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 31
Pedro Carmona age 37
Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher age 26
Tomás Romero Pereira age 92
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 73
Mohamed Osman Jawari age 33
Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe age 22
Lee Wan-koo age 28
Lee Hong-koo age 44
Han Seong-sook age 11
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 68
Zlatko Lagumdžija age 22
Valeria Ciavatta age 19
Maria Luisa Berti age 7
Mariella Mularoni age 16
Grazia Zafferani age 5
Pedro Cateriano age 20
Aníbal Torres age 35
Javier Velásquez age 18
Salvador del Solar age 8
Gilbert Houngbo age 17
Rosalio Lara age 56
C. Douglas Dillon age 69
Todd Blanche age 4
Asaka Yasuhiko age 91
Mustafa Tlass age 46
Sefer Halilović age 26
Gojko Šušak age 33
Mile Mrkšić age 31
Jacques Massu age 70
Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu age 66
Princess Tomohito of Mikasa age 23
Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia age 88
Bayezid Osman age 54
Nilufer Hanımsultan age 62
Chiang Fang-liang age 62
Prince Wolfgang of Hesse age 82
Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919–2010) age 59
Kim Sol-song age 3
Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma age 54
Princess Margarita of Baden age 46
Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern age 46
Katherine Karađorđević age 35
David Lidington age 22
Mark White age 38
John W. Bricker age 85
Bob Ehrlich age 21
Anne-Marie Trevelyan age 9
Zoran Lilić age 25
James G. Stavridis age 23
Philip M. Breedlove age 23
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 72
Pjetër Arbnori age 43
Belaid Abdesselam age 50
Ismail Hamdani age 48
Yaqub Mammadov age 37
Surat Huseynov age 19
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 63
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 47
Adrien Houngbédji age 36
Lionel Zinsou age 24
Yeshey Zimba age 28
Lassina Zerbo age 15
François Ngeze age 25
Mahamat Kamoun age 17
Simplice Sarandji age 23
Djimrangar Dadnadji age 24
Kalzeubet Pahimi Deubet age 21
Allamaye Halina age 11
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 60
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 42
Ali Sabri age 58
Miguel Abia Biteo age 17
Manuela Roka age 5
Alain Claude Bilie-By-Nze age 11
Jean-Marie Doré age 40
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 27
Domingos Simoes Pereira age 15
Baciro Djá age 5
Prosper Avril age 41
Marc Bazin age 46
Florence Duperval Guillaume age 14
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 75
Kenneth O. Hall age 37
Teatao Teannaki age 42
Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah age 26
Vilis Krištopans age 24
Andris Šķēle age 20
Laurynas Stankevičius age 43
Gilles Andriamahazo age 59
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga age 33
Moussa Mara age 3
Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf age 20
Paul Bérenger age 33
Ion Sturza age 18
Sanjaagiin Bayar age 22
Abdallah Ibrahim age 60
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 66
Bill Rowling age 51
Lazarus Salii age 42
Sorin Cîmpeanu age 10
Faustin Twagiramungu age 33
Stephenson King age 20
Amadou Ba age 17
Danny Philip age 25
Snyder Rini age 30
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 42
Hans Schaffner age 70
Hans Hürlimann age 60
Fritz Honegger age 61
Ludwig von Moos age 68
Leonel Mário d'Alva age 43
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 77
Ivy Dumont age 48
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü age 75
Faimalaga Luka age 38
Vasyl Durdynets age 41
Ati George Sokomanu age 42
John Bani age 37
Donald Kalpokas age 35
Phelekezela Mphoko age 38
Abdi Farah Shirdon age 20
Ali Khalif Galaydh age 37
Chung Won-shik age 50
John Kotelawala age 81
Osman Hussein age 27
Mohamed Tahir Ayala age 27
Luca Beccari age 4
Fausta Morganti age 34
Denise Bronzetti age 5
Antonella Mularoni age 17
Stefano Palmieri age 14
Alberto Otárola age 11
Gustavo Adrianzén age 12
Vicente Zeballos age 15
Văn Tiến Dũng age 61
James Van Fleet age 86
Dick Thornburgh age 46
Richard Myers age 36
Robert B. Anderson age 68
Ahmed Jibril age 40
Vladimir Stoychev age 86
Radislav Krstić age 30
Avraham Adan age 52
Atsuko Ikeda age 47
Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia age 72
Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia age 80
Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia age 71
Prince Nicholas Romanov age 56
Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg age 66
Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria (1918–2007) age 60
Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (1922–1993) age 56
Archduchess Charlotte of Austria age 57
Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 60
James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife age 49
Andreas Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha age 35
Lady Davina Windsor age 1
Friedrich Wilhelm Prinz von Hohenzollern age 54