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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
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
1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia 1983 - 1985

People

Junius Richard Jayewardene age 76
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 49
Emir - Bahrain
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 36
President - Burundi
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 50
Emir - Qatar
Amata Kabua age 54
President - Marshall Islands
André Kolingba age 46
President - Central African Republic
Siaka Stevens age 77
President - Sierra Leone
Ahmed Abdallah age 63
President - Comoros
Spiros Cyprianou age 50
President - Cyprus
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 44
King - Lesotho
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 57
President - Uruguay
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 69
President - Bolivia
Forbes Burnham age 60
President - Guyana
Hammer DeRoburt age 60
President - Nauru
Luis Herrera Campins age 57
President - Venezuela
Marais Viljoen age 67
State President - South Africa
Haruo Remeliik age 49
President - Palau
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 40
President - Burkina Faso
Tosiwo Nakayama age 51
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Osvaldo Hurtado age 43
President - Ecuador
Luis Alberto Monge age 57
President - Costa Rica
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 56
President - Honduras
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 43
President - Mauritania
Fred Ramdat Misier age 56
President - Suriname
Álvaro Magaña age 57
President - El Salvador
Ieremia Tabai age 33
President - Kiribati
San Yu age 65
President - Myanmar
Pierre Aubert age 56
President - Switzerland
Ellis Clarke age 65
President - Trinidad and Tobago
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 67
President - Bangladesh
Ati George Sokomanu age 47
President - Vanuatu
Viktor Avbelj age 69
President - Slovenia
Aurelius Marie age 78
President - Dominica
Joseph James Tombura age 53
President - South Sudan
Libero Barulli age 35
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 62
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 57
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Robert Mugabe age 59
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Lee Kuan Yew age 59
Prime Minister - Singapore
Thomas Sankara age 33
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Olof Palme age 56
Prime Minister - Sweden
Pierre Trudeau age 63
Prime Minister - Canada
Felipe González age 41
Prime Minister - Spain
Prem Tinsulanonda age 62
Prime Minister - Thailand
Bruno Kreisky age 72
Chancellor - Austria
Andreas Papandreou age 64
Prime Minister - Greece
Ruud Lubbers age 43
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Malcolm Fraser age 52
Prime Minister - Australia
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 47
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Anerood Jugnauth age 52
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Wilfried Martens age 46
Prime Minister - Belgium
Michael Somare age 46
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Poul Schlüter age 53
Prime Minister - Denmark
Eugenia Charles age 63
Prime Minister - Dominica
Kåre Willoch age 54
Prime Minister - Norway
Dom Mintoff age 66
Prime Minister - Malta
Kalevi Sorsa age 52
Prime Minister - Finland
Pierre Werner age 69
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 41
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 45
Prime Minister - Portugal
Kamisese Mara age 62
Prime Minister - Fiji
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 58
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Edward Seaga age 52
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Constantin Dăscălescu age 59
Prime Minister - Romania
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 70
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 59
Prime Minister - Guinea
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 72
Prime Minister - Iceland
Lynden Pindling age 52
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Mohamed Mzali age 57
Prime Minister - Tunisia
György Lázár age 58
Prime Minister - Hungary
John Compton age 57
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Bülent Ulusu age 59
Prime Minister - Turkey
Adil Çarçani age 60
Prime Minister - Albania
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 53
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Robert Muldoon age 61
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Òscar Ribas Reig age 46
Prime Minister - Andorra
Vere Bird age 72
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Habib Thiam age 50
Prime Minister - Senegal
Walter Lini age 41
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Mudar Badran age 49
Prime Minister - Jordan
Maati Bouabid age 55
Prime Minister - Morocco
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 56
Prime Minister - Algeria
Tomasi Puapua age 44
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Tom Adams age 51
Prime Minister - Barbados
Léon Mébiame age 48
Prime Minister - Gabon
Victor Saúde Maria age 43
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Milton Cato age 67
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 42
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Kennedy Simmonds age 46
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Cesar Virata age 52
Prime Minister - Philippines
Chan Sy age 51
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 44
Prime Minister - Libya
Solomon Mamaloni age 40
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Edward Sokoine age 44
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Mabandla Dlamini age 52
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Tu'i Pelehake age 61
Prime Minister - Tonga
Bello Bouba Maigari age 36
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Shafik Wazzan age 58
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Peter Colotka age 58
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Mamane Oumarou age 38
Prime Minister - Niger
Ali Mroudjaé age 43
Prime Minister - Comoros
Nalumino Mundia age 55
Prime Minister - Zambia
Errol Alibux age 34
Prime Minister - Suriname
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 66
Prime Minister - Peru
Radivoje Brajović age 48
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hans Brunhart age 37
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Elmira Minita Gordon age 52
Governor-General - Belize
Ninian Stephen age 59
Governor-General - Australia
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 71
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Florizel Glasspole age 73
Governor-General - Jamaica
David Beattie age 59
Governor-General - New Zealand
Gerald Cash age 65
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Kingsford Dibela age 51
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 21
Donald Trump age 36
Michael Jackson age 24
Vladimir Putin age 30
Nelson Mandela age 64
George W. Bush age 36
Bill Gates age 27
Pope Francis age 46
Steve Jobs age 28
Angela Merkel age 28
Neil Armstrong age 52
François Hollande age 28
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 5
Gabriel García Márquez age 56
Mikhail Gorbachev age 52
Elon Musk age 11
Stephen Hawking age 41
Jimmy Carter age 58
Emmanuel Macron age 5
Benedict XVI age 55
Mother Teresa age 72
Hillary Clinton age 35
Kamala Harris age 18
Nicolas Sarkozy age 28
Richard Nixon age 70
Xi Jinping age 29
Naruhito age 23
Hugo Chávez age 28
Simone de Beauvoir age 75
Muammar Gaddafi age 40
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 29
Muhammad Ali age 41
Kofi Annan age 44
Charles III age 34
Osama bin Laden age 26
Lech Wałęsa age 39
Gerald Ford age 69
Leo XIV age 27
Diego Maradona age 22
Narendra Modi age 32
Rafael Correa age 19
Aung San Suu Kyi age 37
Benjamin Netanyahu age 33
Dmitry Medvedev age 17
14th Dalai Lama age 47
Silvio Berlusconi age 46
Shinzo Abe age 28
Tim Berners-Lee age 27
Boris Yeltsin age 52
Jacques Chirac age 50
Guillermo Lasso age 27
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 64
Alexander Lukashenko age 28
Tony Blair age 29
Yasser Arafat age 53
David Cameron age 16
Linus Torvalds age 13
Ban Ki-moon age 38
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 35
Boris Johnson age 18
Diana, Princess of Wales age 21
Bashar al-Assad age 17
Benazir Bhutto age 29
Jair Bolsonaro age 27
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 37
Theresa May age 26
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 26
Henry Kissinger age 59
Václav Havel age 46
Rishi Sunak age 2
Justin Trudeau age 11
Nicolás Maduro age 20
Dilma Rousseff age 35
Milton Friedman age 70
Valentina Tereshkova age 46
Pol Pot age 57
Ilham Aliyev age 21
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 44
António Guterres age 33
Akihito age 49
Rosa Parks age 70
Gordon Brown age 32
Shimon Peres age 59
Giorgia Meloni age 6
Olaf Scholz age 24