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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

People

Sa'dun Hammadi age 48
Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio age 28
Howard Cooke age 63
Zeid bin Shaker age 44
Jafar Hassan age 11
Ieremia Tabai age 29
Ishenbai Kadyrbekov age 29
Daniar Usenov age 19
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 51
Valdis Birkavs age 36
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi age 39
George Borg Olivier age 67
Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar age 21
Valeriu Streleț age 9
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 60
Ahmed Osman age 49
Khin Nyunt age 39
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 30
Dragan Tomić age 43
Rudolf Gnägi age 61
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 65
Pierre Aubert age 52
Georges-André Chevallaz age 64
Pierre Graber age 70
Ahmad al-Khatib age 46
Sean Chen age 29
Jiang Yi-huah age 18
Chang Chun-hsiung age 41
Cynthia A. Pratt age 33
Noor Hassanali age 60
Bahi Ladgham age 66
Hamed Karoui age 51
Ali Bozer age 53
Saufatu Sopoanga age 27
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 32
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 23
Lee Wan-koo age 28
Lee Hong-koo age 45
Han Seong-sook age 11
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 68
Zlatko Lagumdžija age 23
Valeria Ciavatta age 20
Maria Luisa Berti age 7
Mariella Mularoni age 16
Grazia Zafferani age 6
Pedro Cateriano age 20
Aníbal Torres age 36
Javier Velásquez age 19
Salvador del Solar age 9
Gilbert Houngbo age 18
Rosalio Lara age 56
C. Douglas Dillon age 69
Todd Blanche age 4
Asaka Yasuhiko age 91
Mustafa Tlass age 47
Sefer Halilović age 27
Gojko Šušak age 34
Mile Mrkšić age 31
Jacques Massu age 71
Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu age 67
Princess Tomohito of Mikasa age 24
Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia age 89
Bayezid Osman age 54
Nilufer Hanımsultan age 63
Chiang Fang-liang age 63
Prince Wolfgang of Hesse age 82
Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919–2010) age 59
Kim Sol-song age 4
Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma age 55
Princess Margarita of Baden age 46
Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern age 46
Katherine Karađorđević age 35
David Lidington age 22
Mark White age 39
John W. Bricker age 85
Bob Ehrlich age 21
Anne-Marie Trevelyan age 10
Zoran Lilić age 25
James G. Stavridis age 24
Philip M. Breedlove age 23
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 73
Pjetër Arbnori age 44
Belaid Abdesselam age 50
Ismail Hamdani age 49
Lopo do Nascimento age 38
Yaqub Mammadov age 38
Surat Huseynov age 20
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 63
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 47
Adrien Houngbédji age 37
Lionel Zinsou age 24
Yeshey Zimba age 28
Lassina Zerbo age 15
François Ngeze age 26
Mahamat Kamoun age 17
Simplice Sarandji age 24
Djimrangar Dadnadji age 25
Kalzeubet Pahimi Deubet age 22
Allamaye Halina age 12
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 61
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 43
Ali Sabri age 58
Miguel Abia Biteo age 18
Manuela Roka age 6
Alain Claude Bilie-By-Nze age 11
Jean-Marie Doré age 40
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 28
Domingos Simoes Pereira age 15
Baciro Djá age 6
Prosper Avril age 41
Marc Bazin age 47
Florence Duperval Guillaume age 14
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 76
Kenneth O. Hall age 38
Teatao Teannaki age 43
Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah age 26
Vilis Krištopans age 24
Andris Šķēle age 21
Laurynas Stankevičius age 43
Gilles Andriamahazo age 60
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga age 33
Moussa Mara age 4
Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf age 21
Paul Bérenger age 34
Ion Sturza age 19
Sanjaagiin Bayar age 23
Abdallah Ibrahim age 60
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 67
Bill Rowling age 51
Lazarus Salii age 42
Sorin Cîmpeanu age 11
Faustin Twagiramungu age 33
Stephenson King age 20
Amadou Ba age 18
Sergej Kraigher age 65
Danny Philip age 25
Snyder Rini age 30
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 43
Hans Schaffner age 70
Fritz Honegger age 61
Ludwig von Moos age 69
Leonel Mário d'Alva age 43
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 77
Ivy Dumont age 48
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü age 75
Faimalaga Luka age 39
Vasyl Durdynets age 41
Ati George Sokomanu age 43
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 82
Osman Hussein age 28
Mohamed Tahir Ayala age 28
Luca Beccari age 4
Fausta Morganti age 34
Denise Bronzetti age 6
Antonella Mularoni age 17
Stefano Palmieri age 14
Alberto Otárola age 12
Gustavo Adrianzén age 12
Vicente Zeballos age 16
Văn Tiến Dũng age 62
James Van Fleet age 87
Dick Thornburgh age 46
Richard Myers age 37
Robert B. Anderson age 68
Ahmed Jibril age 41
Vladimir Stoychev age 87
Radislav Krstić age 31
Avraham Adan age 52
Atsuko Ikeda age 48
Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia age 73
Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia age 81
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 61
Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (1922–1993) age 56
Archduchess Charlotte of Austria age 58
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 36
Lady Davina Windsor age 1
Friedrich Wilhelm Prinz von Hohenzollern age 55
Gustav, 7th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 10
John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness age 24