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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
Operation Tariq al-Quds 1981-11-29 - 1981-12-07

People

Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 43
King - Lesotho
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 56
President - Uruguay
Forbes Burnham age 58
President - Guyana
Hammer DeRoburt age 59
President - Nauru
Luis Herrera Campins age 56
President - Venezuela
Marais Viljoen age 66
State President - South Africa
Haruo Remeliik age 48
President - Palau
Saye Zerbo age 49
President - Burkina Faso
Tosiwo Nakayama age 50
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Goukouni Oueddei age 39
President - Chad
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 54
President - Costa Rica
Osvaldo Hurtado age 42
President - Ecuador
Anton Buttigieg age 69
President - Malta
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 70
President - Dominican Republic
Elias Sarkis age 57
President - Lebanon
Henk Chin A Sen age 47
President - Suriname
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 41
President - Mauritania
Abdus Sattar age 75
President - Bangladesh
Celso Torrelio age 48
President - Bolivia
Ieremia Tabai age 31
President - Kiribati
San Yu age 63
President - Myanmar
Ellis Clarke age 63
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Ati George Sokomanu age 45
President - Vanuatu
Arístides Royo age 41
President - Panama
Policarpo Paz García age 49
President - Honduras
Viktor Avbelj age 67
President - Slovenia
Aurelius Marie age 77
President - Dominica
Horacio Liendo age 57
President - Argentina
Ubaldo Biordi age 43
Captain Regent - San Marino
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 68
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 56
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Robert Mugabe age 57
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Lee Kuan Yew age 58
Prime Minister - Singapore
Pierre Trudeau age 62
Prime Minister - Canada
Paul Biya age 48
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Mauno Koivisto age 58
Prime Minister - Finland
Prem Tinsulanonda age 61
Prime Minister - Thailand
Bruno Kreisky age 70
Chancellor - Austria
Andreas Papandreou age 62
Prime Minister - Greece
Malcolm Fraser age 51
Prime Minister - Australia
Dries van Agt age 50
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 46
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 55
Prime Minister - Spain
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 55
Prime Minister - Sweden
Eugenia Charles age 62
Prime Minister - Dominica
Anker Jørgensen age 59
Prime Minister - Denmark
Kåre Willoch age 53
Prime Minister - Norway
Dom Mintoff age 65
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 68
Prime Minister - Albania
Tufuga Efi age 43
Prime Minister - Samoa
Mark Eyskens age 48
Prime Minister - Belgium
Pierre Werner age 67
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 40
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Maurice Bishop age 37
Prime Minister - Grenada
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 51
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 44
Prime Minister - Portugal
Kamisese Mara age 61
Prime Minister - Fiji
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 81
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 57
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Edward Seaga age 51
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Cleopa Msuya age 50
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 69
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Julius Chan age 42
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 57
Prime Minister - Guinea
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 70
Prime Minister - Iceland
Ilie Verdeț age 56
Prime Minister - Romania
Lynden Pindling age 51
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Mohamed Mzali age 55
Prime Minister - Tunisia
György Lázár age 57
Prime Minister - Hungary
Bülent Ulusu age 58
Prime Minister - Turkey
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 51
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Robert Muldoon age 60
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Vere Bird age 71
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Habib Thiam age 48
Prime Minister - Senegal
Walter Lini age 39
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Mudar Badran age 47
Prime Minister - Jordan
Maati Bouabid age 54
Prime Minister - Morocco
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 54
Prime Minister - Algeria
Tomasi Puapua age 43
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Tom Adams age 50
Prime Minister - Barbados
Pen Sovan age 45
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Léon Mébiame age 47
Prime Minister - Gabon
Milton Cato age 66
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Kennedy Simmonds age 45
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Cesar Virata age 51
Prime Minister - Philippines
Shah Azizur Rahman age 56
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 42
Prime Minister - Libya
Solomon Mamaloni age 38
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Mabandla Dlamini age 51
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Tu'i Pelehake age 59
Prime Minister - Tonga
Shafik Wazzan age 56
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Winston Cenac age 56
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Peter Colotka age 56
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Nalumino Mundia age 54
Prime Minister - Zambia
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 59
Prime Minister - Peru
Salim Ben Ali age 63
Prime Minister - Comoros
Momčilo Cemović age 53
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Elmira Minita Gordon age 50
Governor-General - Belize
Zelman Cowen age 62
Governor-General - Australia
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 70
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Florizel Glasspole age 72
Governor-General - Jamaica
David Beattie age 57
Governor-General - New Zealand
Gerald Cash age 64
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Tore Lokoloko age 51
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 20
Donald Trump age 35
Michael Jackson age 23
Vladimir Putin age 29
Nelson Mandela age 63
George W. Bush age 35
Bill Gates age 26
Pope Francis age 44
Steve Jobs age 26
Bill Clinton age 35
Angela Merkel age 27
Neil Armstrong age 51
François Hollande age 27
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 3
Gabriel García Márquez age 54
Mikhail Gorbachev age 50
Elon Musk age 10
Stephen Hawking age 39
Jimmy Carter age 57
Emmanuel Macron age 3
Benedict XVI age 54
Mother Teresa age 71
Hillary Clinton age 34
Kamala Harris age 17
Nicolas Sarkozy age 26
Richard Nixon age 68
Xi Jinping age 28
Naruhito age 21
Hugo Chávez age 27
Simone de Beauvoir age 73
Muammar Gaddafi age 39
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 27
Muhammad Ali age 39
Kofi Annan age 43
Charles III age 33
Osama bin Laden age 24
Lech Wałęsa age 38
Gerald Ford age 68
Leo XIV age 26
Diego Maradona age 21
Narendra Modi age 31
Rafael Correa age 18
Aung San Suu Kyi age 36
Benjamin Netanyahu age 32
Dmitry Medvedev age 16
14th Dalai Lama age 46
Silvio Berlusconi age 45
Shinzo Abe age 27
Tim Berners-Lee age 26
Boris Yeltsin age 50
Jacques Chirac age 49
Guillermo Lasso age 26
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 63
Alexander Lukashenko age 27
Tony Blair age 28
Yasser Arafat age 52
David Cameron age 15
Linus Torvalds age 11
Ban Ki-moon age 37
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 34
Boris Johnson age 17
Diana, Princess of Wales age 20
Bashar al-Assad age 16
Benazir Bhutto age 28
Jair Bolsonaro age 26
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 36
Theresa May age 25
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 25
Henry Kissinger age 58
Václav Havel age 45
Rishi Sunak age 1
Justin Trudeau age 9
Nicolás Maduro age 19
Dilma Rousseff age 33
Milton Friedman age 69
Valentina Tereshkova age 44
Ilham Aliyev age 19
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 43
António Guterres age 32
Akihito age 47
Helmut Kohl age 51
Rosa Parks age 68
Gordon Brown age 30
Shimon Peres age 58
Giorgia Meloni age 4
Olaf Scholz age 23
Keir Starmer age 19
Willy Brandt age 68
Gerhard Schröder age 37
Hassan Rouhani age 33
Hu Jintao age 38
Evo Morales age 22
Joko Widodo age 20
Petro Poroshenko age 16
Mikheil Saakashvili age 13
Liz Truss age 6