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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
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27

People

Haxhi Lleshi age 67
President - Albania
Julio César Turbay age 64
President - Colombia
Spiros Cyprianou age 48
President - Cyprus
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 42
King - Lesotho
Luis García Meza Tejada age 51
President - Bolivia
Forbes Burnham age 58
President - Guyana
Hammer DeRoburt age 58
President - Nauru
Luis Herrera Campins age 55
President - Venezuela
Marais Viljoen age 65
State President - South Africa
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 40
President - Ecuador
Haruo Remeliik age 47
President - Palau
Saye Zerbo age 48
President - Burkina Faso
Tosiwo Nakayama age 49
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Aparicio Méndez age 76
President - Uruguay
Goukouni Oueddei age 39
President - Chad
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 54
President - Costa Rica
Anton Buttigieg age 69
President - Malta
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 70
President - Dominican Republic
Elias Sarkis age 56
President - Lebanon
Henk Chin A Sen age 47
President - Suriname
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 41
President - Mauritania
Ieremia Tabai age 31
President - Kiribati
Ellis Clarke age 63
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Ati George Sokomanu age 45
President - Vanuatu
Arístides Royo age 40
President - Panama
Policarpo Paz García age 48
President - Honduras
Viktor Avbelj age 67
President - Slovenia
Aurelius Marie age 76
President - Dominica
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 68
King - Saudi Arabia
Robert Mugabe age 57
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Lee Kuan Yew age 57
Prime Minister - Singapore
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 41
Prime Minister - Norway
Pierre Trudeau age 61
Prime Minister - Canada
Paul Biya age 48
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Mauno Koivisto age 57
Prime Minister - Finland
Prem Tinsulanonda age 60
Prime Minister - Thailand
Bruno Kreisky age 70
Chancellor - Austria
Babrak Karmal age 52
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Malcolm Fraser age 50
Prime Minister - Australia
Dries van Agt age 50
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 45
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 54
Prime Minister - Spain
Wilfried Martens age 44
Prime Minister - Belgium
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 68
Prime Minister - Albania
Tufuga Efi age 43
Prime Minister - Samoa
Pierre Werner age 67
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
George Cadle Price age 62
Premier - Belize
Maurice Bishop age 36
Prime Minister - Grenada
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 50
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 43
Prime Minister - Portugal
Kamisese Mara age 60
Prime Minister - Fiji
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 80
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Georgios Rallis age 62
Prime Minister - Greece
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 56
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Edward Seaga age 50
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Hussein Onn age 59
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Cleopa Msuya age 50
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 57
Prime Minister - Guinea
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 70
Prime Minister - Iceland
Ilie Verdeț age 55
Prime Minister - Romania
Lynden Pindling age 50
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Mohamed Mzali age 55
Prime Minister - Tunisia
György Lázár age 56
Prime Minister - Hungary
Bülent Ulusu age 57
Prime Minister - Turkey
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 51
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Robert Muldoon age 59
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Habib Thiam age 48
Prime Minister - Senegal
Walter Lini age 39
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Mudar Badran age 47
Prime Minister - Jordan
Maati Bouabid age 53
Prime Minister - Morocco
Toaripi Lauti age 52
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 54
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 42
Prime Minister - Libya
Allan Louisy age 64
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Mabandla Dlamini age 50
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Tu'i Pelehake age 59
Prime Minister - Tonga
Shafik Wazzan age 56
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Peter Colotka age 56
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Nalumino Mundia age 53
Prime Minister - Zambia
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 58
Prime Minister - Peru
Jean-Pierre Lebouder age 37
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Sid Ahmed Ould Bneijara age 34
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Salim Ben Ali age 63
Prime Minister - Comoros
Momčilo Cemović age 52
Prime Minister - Montenegro
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 57
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
Nelson Mandela age 62
George W. Bush age 34
Bill Gates age 25
Pope Francis age 44
Steve Jobs age 26
Bill Clinton age 34
Angela Merkel age 26
Neil Armstrong age 50
François Hollande age 26
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 3
Gabriel García Márquez age 54
Mikhail Gorbachev age 50
Elon Musk age 9
Stephen Hawking age 39
Jimmy Carter age 56
Emmanuel Macron age 3
Benedict XVI age 53
Mother Teresa age 70
Hillary Clinton age 33
Kamala Harris age 16
Nicolas Sarkozy age 26
Richard Nixon age 68
Xi Jinping age 27
Naruhito age 21
Hugo Chávez age 26
Simone de Beauvoir age 73
Muammar Gaddafi age 38
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 27
Muhammad Ali age 39
Kofi Annan age 42
Charles III age 32
Osama bin Laden age 24
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 36
Tim Berners-Lee age 25
Mahathir Mohamad age 55
Boris Yeltsin age 50
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 11
Ban Ki-moon age 36
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 33
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 10 months
Justin Trudeau age 9
Nicolás Maduro age 18
Hosni Mubarak age 52
Dilma Rousseff age 33
François Mitterrand age 64
Milton Friedman age 68
Valentina Tereshkova age 44
Ilham Aliyev age 19
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 42
António Guterres age 31
Akihito age 47
Helmut Kohl age 50
Rosa Parks age 68
Gordon Brown age 30
Shimon Peres age 57
Giorgia Meloni age 4
Olaf Scholz age 22
Keir Starmer age 18
Willy Brandt age 67
Gerhard Schröder age 36
Hassan Rouhani age 32
Hu Jintao age 38
Evo Morales age 21