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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
1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia 1983 - 1985
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18

People

Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 54
President - Bangladesh
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 58
President - Dominican Republic
Patrick Hillery age 61
President - Ireland
Belisario Betancur age 61
President - Colombia
Amine Gemayel age 42
President - Lebanon
Devan Nair age 61
President - Singapore
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 77
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 51
Emir - Bahrain
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 38
President - Burundi
León Febres-Cordero age 53
President - Ecuador
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 51
Emir - Qatar
Amata Kabua age 55
President - Marshall Islands
André Kolingba age 48
President - Central African Republic
Siaka Stevens age 79
President - Sierra Leone
Ahmed Abdallah age 65
President - Comoros
Jaime Lusinchi age 60
President - Venezuela
Spiros Cyprianou age 51
President - Cyprus
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 46
King - Lesotho
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 58
President - Uruguay
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 70
President - Bolivia
José Napoleón Duarte age 58
President - El Salvador
Forbes Burnham age 61
President - Guyana
Hammer DeRoburt age 61
President - Nauru
Marais Viljoen age 68
State President - South Africa
Haruo Remeliik age 51
President - Palau
Tosiwo Nakayama age 52
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Luis Alberto Monge age 58
President - Costa Rica
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 57
President - Honduras
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 44
President - Mauritania
Fred Ramdat Misier age 57
President - Suriname
Leon Schlumpf age 59
President - Switzerland
Ieremia Tabai age 34
President - Kiribati
San Yu age 66
President - Myanmar
Ellis Clarke age 66
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Ati George Sokomanu age 48
President - Vanuatu
Sebastiano Baggio age 71
President - Vatican City
Nyamyn Jagvaral age 65
President - Mongolia
Gloriana Ranocchini age 27
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giorgio Crescentini age 34
Captain Regent - San Marino
France Popit age 63
President - Slovenia
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 63
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 59
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Robert Mugabe age 60
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Lee Kuan Yew age 60
Prime Minister - Singapore
Hassanal Bolkiah age 38
Prime Minister - Brunei
Olof Palme age 57
Prime Minister - Sweden
Turgut Özal age 56
Prime Minister - Turkey
Felipe González age 42
Prime Minister - Spain
Mário Soares age 59
Prime Minister - Portugal
Bob Hawke age 54
Prime Minister - Australia
Prem Tinsulanonda age 64
Prime Minister - Thailand
Andreas Papandreou age 65
Prime Minister - Greece
Ruud Lubbers age 45
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Jacques Santer age 47
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
John Turner age 55
Prime Minister - Canada
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 48
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Anerood Jugnauth age 54
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Wilfried Martens age 48
Prime Minister - Belgium
Michael Somare age 48
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Poul Schlüter age 55
Prime Minister - Denmark
Eugenia Charles age 65
Prime Minister - Dominica
Kåre Willoch age 55
Prime Minister - Norway
Dom Mintoff age 68
Prime Minister - Malta
Kalevi Sorsa age 53
Prime Minister - Finland
David Lange age 42
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 56
Prime Minister - Iceland
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 54
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Kamisese Mara age 64
Prime Minister - Fiji
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 60
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Edward Seaga age 54
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Constantin Dăscălescu age 61
Prime Minister - Romania
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 72
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Desmond Hoyte age 55
Prime Minister - Guyana
Rashid Karami age 62
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 44
Prime Minister - Nepal
Lynden Pindling age 54
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Mohamed Mzali age 58
Prime Minister - Tunisia
György Lázár age 59
Prime Minister - Hungary
John Compton age 59
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Adil Çarçani age 62
Prime Minister - Albania
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 54
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Vere Bird age 73
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Salim Ahmed Salim age 42
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Walter Lini age 42
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 65
Prime Minister - Morocco
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 48
Prime Minister - Algeria
Ahmad Obeidat age 45
Prime Minister - Jordan
Tomasi Puapua age 45
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Josep Pintat-Solans age 59
Prime Minister - Andorra
Tom Adams age 52
Prime Minister - Barbados
Léon Mébiame age 50
Prime Minister - Gabon
Nicholas Brathwaite age 59
Prime Minister - Grenada
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 53
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 44
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Kennedy Simmonds age 48
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Cesar Virata age 53
Prime Minister - Philippines
Chan Sy age 52
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Diarra Traoré age 49
Prime Minister - Guinea
Solomon Mamaloni age 41
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Tu'i Pelehake age 62
Prime Minister - Tonga
Hamid Algabid age 43
Prime Minister - Niger
Peter Colotka age 59
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Ali Mroudjaé age 45
Prime Minister - Comoros
Ange Édouard Poungui age 42
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Nalumino Mundia age 56
Prime Minister - Zambia
Sandro Mariátegui age 62
Prime Minister - Peru
Radivoje Brajović age 49
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Wim Udenhout age 46
Prime Minister - Suriname
Hans Brunhart age 39
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Elmira Minita Gordon age 53
Governor-General - Belize
Ninian Stephen age 61
Governor-General - Australia
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 73
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Florizel Glasspole age 74
Governor-General - Jamaica
David Beattie age 60
Governor-General - New Zealand
Gerald Cash age 67
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Kingsford Dibela age 52
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 23
Donald Trump age 38
Michael Jackson age 26
Vladimir Putin age 31
Nelson Mandela age 66
George W. Bush age 38
Bill Gates age 28
Pope Francis age 47
Steve Jobs age 29
Angela Merkel age 30
Neil Armstrong age 54
François Hollande age 30
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 6
Gabriel García Márquez age 57
Mikhail Gorbachev age 53
Elon Musk age 13
Stephen Hawking age 42
Jimmy Carter age 59
Emmanuel Macron age 6
Benedict XVI age 57
Mother Teresa age 74
Hillary Clinton age 36
Kamala Harris age 19
Nicolas Sarkozy age 29
Richard Nixon age 71
Xi Jinping age 31
Naruhito age 24
Hugo Chávez age 30
Simone de Beauvoir age 76
Muammar Gaddafi age 42
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 30
Muhammad Ali age 42
Kofi Annan age 46
Charles III age 35
Osama bin Laden age 27
Lech Wałęsa age 40
Gerald Ford age 71
Leo XIV age 28
Diego Maradona age 23
Narendra Modi age 33
Rafael Correa age 21
Aung San Suu Kyi age 39
Benjamin Netanyahu age 34
Dmitry Medvedev age 18
14th Dalai Lama age 49
Mark Zuckerberg age 3 months
Silvio Berlusconi age 47
Shinzo Abe age 29
Tim Berners-Lee age 29
Boris Yeltsin age 53
Jacques Chirac age 51
Guillermo Lasso age 28
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 65
Alexander Lukashenko age 30
Yasser Arafat age 55
David Cameron age 17
Linus Torvalds age 14
Ban Ki-moon age 40
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 37
Boris Johnson age 20
Diana, Princess of Wales age 23
Bashar al-Assad age 18
Benazir Bhutto age 31
Jair Bolsonaro age 29
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 38
Theresa May age 27
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 27
Henry Kissinger age 61
Václav Havel age 47
Rishi Sunak age 4
Justin Trudeau age 12
Nicolás Maduro age 21
Dilma Rousseff age 36
Milton Friedman age 72
Valentina Tereshkova age 47
Pol Pot age 59
Ilham Aliyev age 22
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 45
António Guterres age 35
Akihito age 50
Rosa Parks age 71
Shimon Peres age 61
Giorgia Meloni age 7
Olaf Scholz age 26