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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
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
Martial law in Poland 1981-12-13 - 1983-07-22

People

Spiros Cyprianou age 49
President - Cyprus
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 43
King - Lesotho
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 56
President - Uruguay
Forbes Burnham age 59
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 40
President - Chad
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 55
President - Costa Rica
Osvaldo Hurtado age 42
President - Ecuador
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 71
President - Dominican Republic
Elias Sarkis age 57
President - Lebanon
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 55
President - Honduras
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 42
President - Mauritania
Abdus Sattar age 76
President - Bangladesh
Fred Ramdat Misier age 55
President - Suriname
Celso Torrelio age 48
President - Bolivia
Ieremia Tabai age 32
President - Kiribati
San Yu age 64
President - Myanmar
Ellis Clarke age 64
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Fritz Honegger age 64
President - Switzerland
Ati George Sokomanu age 46
President - Vanuatu
Arístides Royo age 41
President - Panama
Viktor Avbelj age 68
President - Slovenia
Aurelius Marie age 77
President - Dominica
Ubaldo Biordi age 44
Captain Regent - San Marino
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 69
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 56
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Robert Mugabe age 58
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Lee Kuan Yew age 58
Prime Minister - Singapore
Pierre Trudeau age 62
Prime Minister - Canada
Paul Biya age 49
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Prem Tinsulanonda age 61
Prime Minister - Thailand
Bruno Kreisky age 71
Chancellor - Austria
Andreas Papandreou age 63
Prime Minister - Greece
Malcolm Fraser age 51
Prime Minister - Australia
Dries van Agt age 51
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 46
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 55
Prime Minister - Spain
Wilfried Martens age 45
Prime Minister - Belgium
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
Kalevi Sorsa age 51
Prime Minister - Finland
Tufuga Efi age 44
Prime Minister - Samoa
Pierre Werner age 68
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 51
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 58
Prime Minister - Guinea
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 71
Prime Minister - Iceland
Ilie Verdeț age 56
Prime Minister - Romania
Lynden Pindling age 52
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Mohamed Mzali age 56
Prime Minister - Tunisia
György Lázár age 57
Prime Minister - Hungary
Bülent Ulusu age 58
Prime Minister - Turkey
Adil Çarçani age 59
Prime Minister - Albania
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 52
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Robert Muldoon age 60
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Òscar Ribas Reig age 45
Prime Minister - Andorra
Vere Bird age 71
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Habib Thiam age 49
Prime Minister - Senegal
Walter Lini age 40
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Mudar Badran age 48
Prime Minister - Jordan
Maati Bouabid age 54
Prime Minister - Morocco
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 55
Prime Minister - Algeria
Tomasi Puapua age 43
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Tom Adams age 50
Prime Minister - Barbados
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
Chan Sy age 50
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 43
Prime Minister - Libya
Solomon Mamaloni age 39
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Mabandla Dlamini age 51
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Tu'i Pelehake age 60
Prime Minister - Tonga
Shafik Wazzan age 57
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Peter Colotka age 57
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Michael Pilgrim age 35
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Ali Mroudjaé age 42
Prime Minister - Comoros
Nalumino Mundia age 54
Prime Minister - Zambia
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 59
Prime Minister - Peru
Momčilo Cemović age 53
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Elmira Minita Gordon age 51
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 58
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 45
Steve Jobs age 27
Bill Clinton age 35
Angela Merkel age 27
Neil Armstrong age 51
François Hollande age 27
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 4
Gabriel García Márquez age 55
Mikhail Gorbachev age 51
Elon Musk age 10
Stephen Hawking age 40
Jimmy Carter age 57
Emmanuel Macron age 4
Benedict XVI age 54
Mother Teresa age 71
Hillary Clinton age 34
Kamala Harris age 17
Nicolas Sarkozy age 27
Richard Nixon age 69
Xi Jinping age 28
Naruhito age 22
Hugo Chávez age 27
Simone de Beauvoir age 74
Muammar Gaddafi age 39
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 28
Muhammad Ali age 40
Kofi Annan age 43
Charles III age 33
Osama bin Laden age 25
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 51
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 12
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 27
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 10
Nicolás Maduro age 19
Dilma Rousseff age 34
Milton Friedman age 69
Valentina Tereshkova age 45
Pol Pot age 56
Ilham Aliyev age 20
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 43
António Guterres age 32
Akihito age 48
Helmut Kohl age 51
Rosa Parks age 69
Gordon Brown age 31
Shimon Peres age 58
Giorgia Meloni age 5
Olaf Scholz age 23
Keir Starmer age 19
Willy Brandt age 68
Gerhard Schröder age 37
Hassan Rouhani age 33
Hu Jintao age 39
Evo Morales age 22
Joko Widodo age 20
Petro Poroshenko age 16