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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

Pak Choong-hoon age 60
Gian Carlo Venturini age 17
Rosa Zafferani age 18
Assunta Meloni age 28
Alberto Selva age 14
Luca Boschi age 6
Nicola Selva age 17
Javier Valle Riestra age 47
Ernesto Álvarez Miranda age 18
Alden W. Clausen age 56
Peter de la Billière age 45
Edward H. Levi age 68
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 79
Claire Underwood age 14
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 66
Anthony Barber age 59
Bernard W. Rogers age 58
Peter Thorneycroft age 70
William J. Crowe age 54
Roj Shaweis age 31
Frank D. White age 46
Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde age 19
J. Lindsay Almond age 81
Dick Celeste age 41
Mills Godwin age 64
Sid McMath age 67
Carl Sanders age 54
Donald DiFrancesco age 34
Joe Kernan age 33
Joe Frank Harris age 43
Clarence M. Kelley age 67
Mohammad Yusuf age 62
Fazal khaliq age 45
John Montague Stow age 67
Lhendup Dorji age 43
André Muhirwa age 59
Ek Yi Oun age 69
Sak Sutsakhan age 51
Luc Ayang age 32
Édouard Frank age 45
Jean-Paul Ngoupandé age 21
Timothée Malendoma age 44
Said Atthoumani age 29
Abbas Djoussouf age 37
Nourdine Bourhane age 29
Rosie Douglas age 37
Artur Sanhá age 14
Naji Shawkat age 86
Edward Zacca age 48
Kassim al-Rimawi age 61
Aaly Karashev age 10
Nazem Akkari age 77
Guy Razanamasy age 50
Younoussi Touré age 38
Vitalie Pîrlog age 4
Mircea Druc age 38
Mamane Oumarou age 34
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki age 27
Ksente Bogoev age 59
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 25
Vaughan Lewis age 39
Michael Pilgrim age 32
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 57
Qadriddin Aslonov age 32
Mainza Chona age 49
John Guise age 64
Kingsford Dibela age 47
Sam Abal age 21
Roberto Giorgetti age 16
Antonio Carattoni age 33
Gabriele Gatti age 26
Glauco Sansovini age 41
Giovanni Francesco Ugolini age 26
Massimo Cenci age 12
Denis Amici age 7
Beriz Belkić age 32
Efraín Goldenberg age 49
Luis Alva Castro age 37
Víctor Joy Way age 34
George David Woods age 78
David Norquist age 12
Daniel Bennett Smith age 23
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 73
David E. Jeremiah age 45
Kenneth Rush age 69
Endicott Peabody age 59
Liam Byrne age 8
John William Brown age 65
Colgate Darden age 82
Ned McWherter age 48
Ernest Vandiver age 61
Joe Purcell age 56
Theodore Olson age 38
Adrien Sibomana age 25
Édouard Nzambimana age 33
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 67
Charles Assalé age 67
Adoum Younousmi age 16
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido age 32
Ali Mroudjaé age 39
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 70
Jorge García Montes age 82
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 55
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 56
Sishayi Nxumalo age 43
Vincent Mhlanga age 29
Mikael Imru age 49
François Lonseny Fall age 30
Mário Pires age 30
Nureddin Mahmud age 80
Kubanychbek Jumaliyev age 23
Omar al-Hasi age 30
Janlavyn Narantsatsralt age 22
Dragan Kujović age 31
Vidoje Žarković age 52
Mahn Win Khaing Than age 27
Ange Édouard Poungui age 37
Sylvestre Nsanzimana age 43
Pretaap Radhakishun age 44
Hassan al-Hakim age 93
Bashir al-Azma age 68
Norberto Costa Alegre age 28
Armindo Vaz d'Almeida age 26
Wang Yun-wu age 91
Roland Theodore Symonette age 80
Paul Adderley age 50
Henry Milton Taylor age 75
Tekin Arıburun age 73
Muhammad Said al-Attar age 52
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 41
Hasan al-Lawzi age 27
Nalumino Mundia age 51
Jeffrey Nape age 15
Wiwa Korowi age 31
Jure Pelivan age 50
Dragan Mikerević age 24
Gian Carlo Capicchioni age 23
Teodoro Lonfernini age 3
Antonello Bacciocchi age 21
Ernesto Benedettini age 31
Loris Francini age 16
Federico Pedini Amati age 2
Maria Domenica Michelotti age 26
Jozo Križanović age 34
Armando Villanueva age 63
Federico Salas age 28
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 56
Alberto Bustamante Belaunde age 28
Sandro Mariátegui age 57
Luis Arroyo Sánchez age 22
Kwassi Klutse age 33
Aurelius Marie age 74
Frank G. Wisner age 41
George Decker age 77
Carl E. Vuono age 44
Christopher W. Grady age 16
Dennis Reimer age 40
Harold Keith Johnson age 67
John William Vessey Jr. age 57
Chiang Pin-kung age 46
Francis Sargent age 64
Robert F. Bradford age 76
William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill age 32
Michael DiSalle age 71
Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman age 37
William M. Tuck age 82
Richard J. Hughes age 69
William Donald Schaefer age 57
Parris Glendening age 37
Albertis Harrison age 72
Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon age 23
Robert D. Orr age 61
William Ruckelshaus age 47
Lawrence Walsh age 67
Stuart Leslie age 15
Gabriel Koyambounou age 32
Said Ali Kemal age 41
Mohamed Abdou Madi age 23
Abdallah Mohamed age 29
Bianrifi Tarmidi age 21
Ibrahim Halidi age 24
Kamal el-Din Hussein age 58
Imru Haile Selassie age 86
Herbert Duffus age 70
Hussein ibn Nasser age 76
Almanbet Matubraimov age 26
Iskenderbek Aidaraliyev age 23
Mohamed Lemine Ould Guig age 20
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 23
Angidi Chettiar age 51
Ba Swe age 63
Sebastián Uriza age 118
Orlando Montenegro Medrano age 59
Souley Abdoulaye age 23
Dismas Nsengiyaremye age 34
George Charles age 63
Ahmadou Al Aminou Lo age 13
Miha Marinko age 78
Errol Alibux age 30
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 47