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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
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26

People

Amata Kabua age 56
President - Marshall Islands
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 43
President - Mauritania
André Kolingba age 48
President - Central African Republic
Siaka Stevens age 79
President - Sierra Leone
Ahmed Abdallah age 66
President - Comoros
Jaime Lusinchi age 61
President - Venezuela
Spiros Cyprianou age 52
President - Cyprus
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 47
King - Lesotho
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 71
President - Bolivia
José Napoleón Duarte age 59
President - El Salvador
Forbes Burnham age 62
President - Guyana
Hammer DeRoburt age 62
President - Nauru
Haruo Remeliik age 52
President - Palau
Tosiwo Nakayama age 53
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 48
President - Sierra Leone
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 51
President - Sudan
Luis Alberto Monge age 59
President - Costa Rica
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 58
President - Honduras
Fred Ramdat Misier age 58
President - Suriname
Kurt Furgler age 61
President - Switzerland
Ieremia Tabai age 35
President - Kiribati
San Yu age 67
President - Myanmar
Ellis Clarke age 67
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Ati George Sokomanu age 49
President - Vanuatu
Sebastiano Baggio age 72
President - Vatican City
Yeoh Ghim Seng age 67
President - Singapore
Enzo Colombini age 27
Captain Regent - San Marino
Branislav Šoškić age 62
President - Montenegro
France Popit age 63
President - Slovenia
Severiano Tura age 32
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 64
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 59
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Robert Mugabe age 61
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Lee Kuan Yew age 61
Prime Minister - Singapore
Hassanal Bolkiah age 38
Prime Minister - Brunei
Olof Palme age 58
Prime Minister - Sweden
Turgut Özal age 57
Prime Minister - Turkey
Hun Sen age 32
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Felipe González age 43
Prime Minister - Spain
Mário Soares age 60
Prime Minister - Portugal
Brian Mulroney age 46
Prime Minister - Canada
Bob Hawke age 55
Prime Minister - Australia
Prem Tinsulanonda age 64
Prime Minister - Thailand
Andreas Papandreou age 66
Prime Minister - Greece
Ruud Lubbers age 46
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Jacques Santer age 48
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 49
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Anerood Jugnauth age 55
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Wilfried Martens age 49
Prime Minister - Belgium
Michael Somare age 49
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Poul Schlüter age 56
Prime Minister - Denmark
Eugenia Charles age 66
Prime Minister - Dominica
Kåre Willoch age 56
Prime Minister - Norway
Kalevi Sorsa age 54
Prime Minister - Finland
David Lange age 42
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 57
Prime Minister - Iceland
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 55
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Kamisese Mara age 65
Prime Minister - Fiji
Muhammad Junejo age 52
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 61
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Edward Seaga age 55
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Constantin Dăscălescu age 62
Prime Minister - Romania
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 73
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Desmond Hoyte age 56
Prime Minister - Guyana
Rashid Karami age 63
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 45
Prime Minister - Nepal
Lynden Pindling age 55
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Mohamed Mzali age 59
Prime Minister - Tunisia
György Lázár age 60
Prime Minister - Hungary
John Compton age 60
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Manuel Esquivel age 45
Prime Minister - Belize
Adil Çarçani age 63
Prime Minister - Albania
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 55
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Vere Bird age 74
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 51
Prime Minister - Malta
Salim Ahmed Salim age 43
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Walter Lini age 43
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 66
Prime Minister - Morocco
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 49
Prime Minister - Algeria
Zaid al-Rifai age 48
Prime Minister - Jordan
Peter Kenilorea age 42
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Tomasi Puapua age 46
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Josep Pintat-Solans age 60
Prime Minister - Andorra
Léon Mébiame age 50
Prime Minister - Gabon
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 54
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 45
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Kennedy Simmonds age 49
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Cesar Virata age 54
Prime Minister - Philippines
Herbert Blaize age 67
Prime Minister - Grenada
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 51
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Tu'i Pelehake age 63
Prime Minister - Tonga
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 84
Prime Minister - Peru
Hamid Algabid age 44
Prime Minister - Niger
Peter Colotka age 60
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Kebby Musokotwane age 39
Prime Minister - Zambia
Ange Édouard Poungui age 43
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Radivoje Brajović age 50
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Wim Udenhout age 47
Prime Minister - Suriname
Luis Pércovich Roca age 53
Prime Minister - Peru
Elmira Minita Gordon age 54
Governor-General - Belize
Ninian Stephen age 62
Governor-General - Australia
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 73
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Florizel Glasspole age 75
Governor-General - Jamaica
David Beattie age 61
Governor-General - New Zealand
Gerald Cash age 68
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Kingsford Dibela age 53
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 23
Donald Trump age 39
Michael Jackson age 26
Vladimir Putin age 32
Nelson Mandela age 66
George W. Bush age 38
Bill Gates age 29
Pope Francis age 48
Steve Jobs age 30
Angela Merkel age 30
Neil Armstrong age 54
François Hollande age 30
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 7
Gabriel García Márquez age 58
Elon Musk age 13
Stephen Hawking age 43
Jimmy Carter age 60
Emmanuel Macron age 7
Benedict XVI age 58
Mother Teresa age 74
Hillary Clinton age 37
Kamala Harris age 20
Nicolas Sarkozy age 30
Richard Nixon age 72
Xi Jinping age 32
Naruhito age 25
Hugo Chávez age 30
Simone de Beauvoir age 77
Muammar Gaddafi age 43
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 31
Muhammad Ali age 43
Kofi Annan age 47
Charles III age 36
Osama bin Laden age 28
Lech Wałęsa age 41
Gerald Ford age 71
Leo XIV age 29
Diego Maradona age 24
Narendra Modi age 34
Rafael Correa age 22
Aung San Suu Kyi age 40
Benjamin Netanyahu age 35
Dmitry Medvedev age 19
14th Dalai Lama age 49
Mark Zuckerberg age 1
Silvio Berlusconi age 48
Shinzo Abe age 30
Tim Berners-Lee age 30
Boris Yeltsin age 54
Jacques Chirac age 52
Guillermo Lasso age 29
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 66
Alexander Lukashenko age 30
Yasser Arafat age 55
David Cameron age 18
Linus Torvalds age 15
Ban Ki-moon age 41
Boris Johnson age 21
Diana, Princess of Wales age 23
Bashar al-Assad age 19
Benazir Bhutto age 32
Jair Bolsonaro age 30
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 39
Theresa May age 28
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 28
Henry Kissinger age 62
Václav Havel age 48
Rishi Sunak age 5
Justin Trudeau age 13
Nicolás Maduro age 22
Dilma Rousseff age 37
Milton Friedman age 72
Valentina Tereshkova age 48
Pol Pot age 60
Ilham Aliyev age 23
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 46
António Guterres age 36
Akihito age 51
Rosa Parks age 72
Giorgia Meloni age 8
Olaf Scholz age 27
Keir Starmer age 22
Willy Brandt age 71
Gerhard Schröder age 41
Hassan Rouhani age 36
Hu Jintao age 42
Evo Morales age 25
Joko Widodo age 24
Petro Poroshenko age 19
Mikheil Saakashvili age 17
Liz Truss age 9
Ursula von der Leyen age 26
Mike Pence age 26
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 32