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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

Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 56
President - Bangladesh
Patrick Hillery age 63
President - Ireland
Amine Gemayel age 44
President - Lebanon
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 80
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 53
Emir - Bahrain
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 40
President - Burundi
León Febres-Cordero age 55
President - Ecuador
Wee Kim Wee age 71
President - Singapore
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 65
President - Colombia
Christos Sartzetakis age 57
President - Greece
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 54
Emir - Qatar
Amata Kabua age 58
President - Marshall Islands
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 45
President - Mauritania
André Kolingba age 50
President - Central African Republic
Ahmed Abdallah age 67
President - Comoros
Jaime Lusinchi age 62
President - Venezuela
Spiros Cyprianou age 54
President - Cyprus
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 48
King - Lesotho
José Napoleón Duarte age 61
President - El Salvador
Hammer DeRoburt age 64
President - Nauru
Ivan Stambolić age 50
President - Serbia
Tosiwo Nakayama age 55
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 49
President - Sierra Leone
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 45
President - Sudan
Desmond Hoyte age 57
President - Guyana
Henri Namphy age 54
President - Haiti
José Azcona del Hoyo age 59
President - Honduras
Kazimierz Sabbat age 73
President - Poland
Fred Ramdat Misier age 60
President - Suriname
Eric Arturo Delvalle age 49
President - Panama
Phoumi Vongvichit age 77
President - Laos
Alphons Egli age 62
President - Switzerland
Ieremia Tabai age 37
President - Kiribati
San Yu age 68
President - Myanmar
Ellis Clarke age 69
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Lazarus Salii age 50
President - Palau
Ati George Sokomanu age 50
President - Vanuatu
Kennan Adeang age 44
President - Nauru
Sebastiano Baggio age 73
President - Vatican City
Giuseppe Arzilli age 45
Captain Regent - San Marino
France Popit age 65
President - Slovenia
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 65
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 61
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Robert Mugabe age 62
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Lee Kuan Yew age 63
Prime Minister - Singapore
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 47
Prime Minister - Norway
Hassanal Bolkiah age 40
Prime Minister - Brunei
Turgut Özal age 59
Prime Minister - Turkey
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 47
Prime Minister - Portugal
Hun Sen age 34
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Felipe González age 44
Prime Minister - Spain
Brian Mulroney age 47
Prime Minister - Canada
Bob Hawke age 57
Prime Minister - Australia
Prem Tinsulanonda age 66
Prime Minister - Thailand
Andreas Papandreou age 67
Prime Minister - Greece
Ruud Lubbers age 47
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Ingvar Carlsson age 52
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacques Santer age 49
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 51
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Anerood Jugnauth age 56
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Franz Vranitzky age 49
Chancellor - Austria
Wilfried Martens age 50
Prime Minister - Belgium
Poul Schlüter age 57
Prime Minister - Denmark
Eugenia Charles age 67
Prime Minister - Dominica
Kalevi Sorsa age 56
Prime Minister - Finland
David Lange age 44
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 58
Prime Minister - Iceland
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 56
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Kamisese Mara age 66
Prime Minister - Fiji
Muhammad Junejo age 54
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 62
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Edward Seaga age 56
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Constantin Dăscălescu age 63
Prime Minister - Romania
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 74
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Rashid Karami age 64
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Lynden Pindling age 56
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
György Lázár age 62
Prime Minister - Hungary
John Compton age 61
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Manuel Esquivel age 46
Prime Minister - Belize
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 51
Prime Minister - Sudan
Adil Çarçani age 64
Prime Minister - Albania
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 56
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Vere Bird age 76
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 53
Prime Minister - Malta
Azzeddine Laraki age 57
Prime Minister - Morocco
Rachid Sfar age 53
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Walter Lini age 44
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Errol Barrow age 66
Prime Minister - Barbados
Mário da Graça Machungo age 46
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 50
Prime Minister - Algeria
Zaid al-Rifai age 50
Prime Minister - Jordan
Ezekiel Alebua age 39
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Tomasi Puapua age 48
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Josep Pintat-Solans age 61
Prime Minister - Andorra
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury age 58
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Léon Mébiame age 52
Prime Minister - Gabon
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 55
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 46
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Kennedy Simmonds age 50
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Herbert Blaize age 68
Prime Minister - Grenada
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 47
Prime Minister - Libya
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 53
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Tu'i Pelehake age 64
Prime Minister - Tonga
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 86
Prime Minister - Peru
Hamid Algabid age 45
Prime Minister - Niger
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 46
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Mamadou Dembelé age 52
Prime Minister - Mali
Peter Colotka age 61
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Kebby Musokotwane age 40
Prime Minister - Zambia
Luis Alva Castro age 44
Prime Minister - Peru
Ange Édouard Poungui age 44
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Pretaap Radhakishun age 52
Prime Minister - Suriname
Vuko Vukadinović age 49
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Elmira Minita Gordon age 55
Governor-General - Belize
Ninian Stephen age 63
Governor-General - Australia
Tupua Leupena age 64
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Florizel Glasspole age 77
Governor-General - Jamaica
Gerald Cash age 69
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Kingsford Dibela age 54
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 25
Donald Trump age 40
Michael Jackson age 28
Vladimir Putin age 34
Nelson Mandela age 68
George W. Bush age 40
Bill Gates age 31
Pope Francis age 50
Steve Jobs age 31
Angela Merkel age 32
Neil Armstrong age 56
François Hollande age 32
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 8
Gabriel García Márquez age 59
Elon Musk age 15
Stephen Hawking age 44
Jimmy Carter age 62
Emmanuel Macron age 8
Benedict XVI age 59
Mother Teresa age 76
Hillary Clinton age 39
Kamala Harris age 22
Nicolas Sarkozy age 31
Richard Nixon age 73
Xi Jinping age 33
Naruhito age 26
Hugo Chávez age 32
Muammar Gaddafi age 44
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 32
Muhammad Ali age 44
Kofi Annan age 48
Charles III age 38
Osama bin Laden age 29
Lech Wałęsa age 43
Gerald Ford age 73
Leo XIV age 31
Diego Maradona age 26
Narendra Modi age 36
Rafael Correa age 23
Aung San Suu Kyi age 41
Benjamin Netanyahu age 37
Dmitry Medvedev age 21
14th Dalai Lama age 51
Mark Zuckerberg age 2
Silvio Berlusconi age 50
Shinzo Abe age 32
Tim Berners-Lee age 31
Boris Yeltsin age 55
Guillermo Lasso age 31
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 68
Alexander Lukashenko age 32
Yasser Arafat age 57
David Cameron age 20
Linus Torvalds age 16
Ban Ki-moon age 42
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 39
Boris Johnson age 22
Diana, Princess of Wales age 25
Bashar al-Assad age 21
Benazir Bhutto age 33
Jair Bolsonaro age 31
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 41
Theresa May age 30
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 30
Henry Kissinger age 63
Václav Havel age 50
Rishi Sunak age 6
Justin Trudeau age 14
Nicolás Maduro age 24
Dilma Rousseff age 39
Ferdinand Marcos age 69
Milton Friedman age 74
Valentina Tereshkova age 49
Pol Pot age 61
Ilham Aliyev age 24
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 48
António Guterres age 37
Akihito age 53
Rosa Parks age 73
Shimon Peres age 63
Giorgia Meloni age 9