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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
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
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27

People

Thorbjörn Fälldin age 54
Prime Minister - Sweden
Eugenia Charles age 61
Prime Minister - Dominica
Anker Jørgensen age 58
Prime Minister - Denmark
Dom Mintoff age 64
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 67
Prime Minister - Albania
Odvar Nordli age 53
Prime Minister - Norway
Tufuga Efi age 42
Prime Minister - Samoa
Pierre Werner age 66
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
George Cadle Price age 61
Premier - Belize
Maurice Bishop age 36
Prime Minister - Grenada
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 50
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Kamisese Mara age 60
Prime Minister - Fiji
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 80
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Georgios Rallis age 61
Prime Minister - Greece
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 39
Prime Minister - Portugal
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 56
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Edward Seaga age 50
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Hussein Onn age 58
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Cleopa Msuya age 49
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 68
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Eric Williams age 69
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Julius Chan age 41
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 56
Prime Minister - Guinea
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 69
Prime Minister - Iceland
Ilie Verdeț age 55
Prime Minister - Romania
Lynden Pindling age 50
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Mohamed Mzali age 54
Prime Minister - Tunisia
György Lázár age 56
Prime Minister - Hungary
Bülent Ulusu age 57
Prime Minister - Turkey
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 50
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Robert Muldoon age 59
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Walter Lini age 38
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Mudar Badran age 46
Prime Minister - Jordan
Maati Bouabid age 53
Prime Minister - Morocco
Toaripi Lauti age 52
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 53
Prime Minister - Algeria
Peter Kenilorea age 37
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Tom Adams age 49
Prime Minister - Barbados
Léon Mébiame age 46
Prime Minister - Gabon
Milton Cato age 65
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Kennedy Simmonds age 44
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Shah Azizur Rahman age 55
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 41
Prime Minister - Libya
Allan Louisy age 64
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Mabandla Dlamini age 50
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Tu'i Pelehake age 58
Prime Minister - Tonga
Shafik Wazzan age 55
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Peter Colotka age 55
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Daniel Lisulo age 50
Prime Minister - Zambia
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 58
Prime Minister - Peru
Jean-Pierre Lebouder age 36
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Salim Ben Ali age 62
Prime Minister - Comoros
Momčilo Cemović age 52
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Adolfo Suárez age 48
Prime Minister - Spain
Zelman Cowen age 61
Governor-General - Australia
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 69
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Florizel Glasspole age 71
Governor-General - Jamaica
David Beattie age 56
Governor-General - New Zealand
Gerald Cash age 63
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Tore Lokoloko age 50
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 19
Donald Trump age 34
Michael Jackson age 22
Vladimir Putin age 28
Ronald Reagan age 69
Nelson Mandela age 62
George W. Bush age 34
Bill Gates age 25
Pope Francis age 44
Steve Jobs age 25
Angela Merkel age 26
Neil Armstrong age 50
François Hollande age 26
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 2
Gabriel García Márquez age 53
Mikhail Gorbachev age 49
Elon Musk age 9
Stephen Hawking age 38
Emmanuel Macron age 2
Benedict XVI age 53
Mother Teresa age 70
Hillary Clinton age 33
George H. W. Bush age 56
Kamala Harris age 16
Nicolas Sarkozy age 25
Richard Nixon age 67
Xi Jinping age 27
Naruhito age 20
Hugo Chávez age 26
Simone de Beauvoir age 72
Muammar Gaddafi age 38
John Lennon age 40
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 26
Muhammad Ali age 38
Kofi Annan age 42
Charles III age 32
Osama bin Laden age 23
Lech Wałęsa age 37
Gerald Ford age 67
Leo XIV age 25
Diego Maradona age 20
Narendra Modi age 30
Rafael Correa age 17
Aung San Suu Kyi age 35
Benjamin Netanyahu age 31
Dmitry Medvedev age 15
14th Dalai Lama age 45
Silvio Berlusconi age 44
Shinzo Abe age 26
Bob Marley age 35
Tim Berners-Lee age 25
Mahathir Mohamad age 55
Boris Yeltsin age 49
Ali Khamenei age 41
Jacques Chirac age 48
Guillermo Lasso age 25
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 62
Alexander Lukashenko age 26
Tony Blair age 27
Yasser Arafat age 51
David Cameron age 14
Linus Torvalds age 10
Ban Ki-moon age 36
Boris Johnson age 16
Diana, Princess of Wales age 19
Bashar al-Assad age 15
Benazir Bhutto age 27
Jair Bolsonaro age 25
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 35
Theresa May age 24
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 24
Henry Kissinger age 57
Václav Havel age 44
Rishi Sunak age 7 months
Justin Trudeau age 8
Nicolás Maduro age 18
Hosni Mubarak age 52
Dilma Rousseff age 33
Deng Xiaoping age 76
François Mitterrand age 64
Milton Friedman age 68
Valentina Tereshkova age 43
Ilham Aliyev age 18
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 42
António Guterres age 31
Akihito age 46
Helmut Kohl age 50
Rosa Parks age 67
Gordon Brown age 29
Shimon Peres age 57
Giorgia Meloni age 3
Olaf Scholz age 22
Keir Starmer age 18
Willy Brandt age 67
Gerhard Schröder age 36
Hassan Rouhani age 32
Hu Jintao age 37
Evo Morales age 21
Joko Widodo age 19
Petro Poroshenko age 15
Mikheil Saakashvili age 12
Liz Truss age 5
Ursula von der Leyen age 22
Mike Pence age 21
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 27
Michelle Bachelet age 29
Ariel Sharon age 52
Felipe VI of Spain age 12
Desmond Tutu age 49
Viktor Yanukovych age 30
Mohamed Morsi age 29
Viktor Orbán age 17
Sergio Mattarella age 39
Manmohan Singh age 48
Pervez Musharraf age 37
Yuri Andropov age 66
Julia Gillard age 19
Abdullah Gül age 30
Lech Kaczyński age 31
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 24
Jeff Bezos age 16
Buzz Aldrin age 50
Mohammad Khatami age 37
Yitzhak Rabin age 58
Tsai Ing-wen age 24
Mariano Rajoy age 25
Andrei Sakharov age 59
Condoleezza Rice age 26
Raúl Castro age 49
Sheikh Hasina age 33
Giorgio Napolitano age 55
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 40
Mark Rutte age 13
Idi Amin age 55
Yulia Tymoshenko age 20
Rodrigo Duterte age 35
Abdullah II of Jordan age 18
Stephen Harper age 21
Donald Tusk age 23
Corazon Aquino age 47