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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

Amata Kabua age 53
President - Marshall Islands
André Kolingba age 45
President - Central African Republic
Siaka Stevens age 76
President - Sierra Leone
Ahmed Abdallah age 63
President - Comoros
Haxhi Lleshi age 68
President - Albania
Julio César Turbay age 66
President - Colombia
Spiros Cyprianou age 49
President - Cyprus
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 44
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 57
President - Venezuela
Marais Viljoen age 66
State President - South Africa
Haruo Remeliik age 49
President - Palau
Saye Zerbo age 49
President - Burkina Faso
Tosiwo Nakayama age 50
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Osvaldo Hurtado age 43
President - Ecuador
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 55
President - Argentina
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 71
President - Dominican Republic
Luis Alberto Monge age 56
President - Costa Rica
Elias Sarkis age 57
President - Lebanon
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 55
President - Honduras
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 42
President - Mauritania
Fred Ramdat Misier age 55
President - Suriname
Celso Torrelio age 49
President - Bolivia
Álvaro Magaña age 56
President - El Salvador
Ieremia Tabai age 32
President - Kiribati
San Yu age 64
President - Myanmar
Ellis Clarke age 64
President - Trinidad and Tobago
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 67
President - Bangladesh
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
Giuseppe Maiani age 57
Captain Regent - San Marino
Joseph James Tombura age 52
President - South Sudan
Marino Venturini age 38
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 61
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 57
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 52
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 56
Prime Minister - Spain
Wilfried Martens age 46
Prime Minister - Belgium
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 56
Prime Minister - Sweden
Eugenia Charles age 63
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
Pierre Werner age 68
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 40
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Maurice Bishop age 38
Prime Minister - Grenada
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 52
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 44
Prime Minister - Portugal
Kamisese Mara age 62
Prime Minister - Fiji
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 81
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 58
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Edward Seaga age 52
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Constantin Dăscălescu age 59
Prime Minister - Romania
Cleopa Msuya age 51
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 70
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
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 59
Prime Minister - Turkey
Adil Çarçani age 60
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
Victor Saúde Maria age 43
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Milton Cato age 67
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Kennedy Simmonds age 46
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Cesar Virata age 51
Prime Minister - Philippines
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
Ali Mroudjaé age 42
Prime Minister - Comoros
Nalumino Mundia age 54
Prime Minister - Zambia
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 59
Prime Minister - Peru
Radivoje Brajović age 47
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Henry Neijhorst age 42
Prime Minister - Suriname
Hans Brunhart age 37
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
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 65
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Tore Lokoloko age 51
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 20
Donald Trump age 36
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 11
Stephen Hawking age 40
Jimmy Carter age 57
Emmanuel Macron age 4
Benedict XVI age 55
Mother Teresa age 71
Hillary Clinton age 34
Kamala Harris age 17
Nicolas Sarkozy age 27
Richard Nixon age 69
Xi Jinping age 29
Naruhito age 22
Hugo Chávez age 27
Simone de Beauvoir age 74
Muammar Gaddafi age 40
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 28
Muhammad Ali age 40
Kofi Annan age 44
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 19
Aung San Suu Kyi age 37
Benjamin Netanyahu age 32
Dmitry Medvedev age 16
14th Dalai Lama age 47
Silvio Berlusconi age 45
Shinzo Abe age 27
Tim Berners-Lee age 27
Boris Yeltsin age 51
Jacques Chirac age 49
Guillermo Lasso age 26
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 63
Alexander Lukashenko age 27
Tony Blair age 29
Yasser Arafat age 52
David Cameron age 15
Linus Torvalds age 12
Ban Ki-moon age 38
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 34
Boris Johnson age 18
Diana, Princess of Wales age 21
Bashar al-Assad age 16
Benazir Bhutto age 29
Jair Bolsonaro age 27
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 36
Theresa May age 25
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 25
Henry Kissinger age 59
Václav Havel age 45
Rishi Sunak age 2
Justin Trudeau age 10
Nicolás Maduro age 19
Dilma Rousseff age 34
Milton Friedman age 69
Valentina Tereshkova age 45
Pol Pot age 57
Ilham Aliyev age 20
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 43
António Guterres age 33
Akihito age 48
Helmut Kohl age 52
Rosa Parks age 69
Gordon Brown age 31
Shimon Peres age 58
Giorgia Meloni age 5