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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
Operation Magistral 1987-11-19 - 1988-01-10
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13

People

Manuel Pinto da Costa age 50
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 57
President - Bangladesh
Pierre Buyoya age 38
President - Burundi
Patrick Hillery age 64
President - Ireland
Amine Gemayel age 45
President - Lebanon
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 81
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 54
Emir - Bahrain
León Febres-Cordero age 56
President - Ecuador
Wee Kim Wee age 72
President - Singapore
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 66
President - Colombia
Christos Sartzetakis age 58
President - Greece
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 55
Emir - Qatar
Amata Kabua age 59
President - Marshall Islands
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 46
President - Mauritania
André Kolingba age 51
President - Central African Republic
Ahmed Abdallah age 68
President - Comoros
Jaime Lusinchi age 63
President - Venezuela
Spiros Cyprianou age 55
President - Cyprus
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 49
King - Lesotho
José Napoleón Duarte age 62
President - El Salvador
Hammer DeRoburt age 65
President - Nauru
Ali Saibou age 47
President - Niger
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 50
President - Sierra Leone
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 46
President - Sudan
Desmond Hoyte age 58
President - Guyana
Henri Namphy age 55
President - Haiti
José Azcona del Hoyo age 60
President - Honduras
Paul Xuereb age 64
President - Malta
Kazimierz Sabbat age 74
President - Poland
John Haglelgam age 38
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Fred Ramdat Misier age 61
President - Suriname
Eric Arturo Delvalle age 50
President - Panama
Penaia Ganilau age 69
President - Fiji
Phoumi Vongvichit age 78
President - Laos
Ieremia Tabai age 38
President - Kiribati
San Yu age 69
President - Myanmar
Pierre Aubert age 60
President - Switzerland
Noor Hassanali age 69
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Lazarus Salii age 51
President - Palau
Ati George Sokomanu age 51
President - Vanuatu
Sebastiano Baggio age 74
President - Vatican City
Gianfranco Terenzi age 46
Captain Regent - San Marino
France Popit age 66
President - Slovenia
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 66
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 62
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Robert Mugabe age 63
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Lee Kuan Yew age 64
Prime Minister - Singapore
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 48
Prime Minister - Norway
Hassanal Bolkiah age 41
Prime Minister - Brunei
Turgut Özal age 60
Prime Minister - Turkey
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 48
Prime Minister - Portugal
Hun Sen age 35
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Felipe González age 45
Prime Minister - Spain
Brian Mulroney age 48
Prime Minister - Canada
Bob Hawke age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Prem Tinsulanonda age 67
Prime Minister - Thailand
Andreas Papandreou age 68
Prime Minister - Greece
Ruud Lubbers age 48
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Ingvar Carlsson age 53
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacques Santer age 50
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 52
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Anerood Jugnauth age 57
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Franz Vranitzky age 50
Chancellor - Austria
Wilfried Martens age 51
Prime Minister - Belgium
Eddie Fenech Adami age 53
Prime Minister - Malta
Harri Holkeri age 50
Prime Minister - Finland
Poul Schlüter age 58
Prime Minister - Denmark
Eugenia Charles age 68
Prime Minister - Dominica
David Lange age 45
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 57
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Jules Wijdenbosch age 46
Prime Minister - Suriname
A. N. R. Robinson age 61
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Kamisese Mara age 67
Prime Minister - Fiji
Muhammad Junejo age 55
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 63
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 40
Prime Minister - Iceland
Edward Seaga age 57
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Constantin Dăscălescu age 64
Prime Minister - Romania
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 75
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Károly Grósz age 57
Prime Minister - Hungary
Salim al-Huss age 58
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Lynden Pindling age 57
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
John Compton age 62
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Manuel Esquivel age 47
Prime Minister - Belize
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 52
Prime Minister - Sudan
Adil Çarçani age 65
Prime Minister - Albania
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 58
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Vere Bird age 77
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Azzeddine Laraki age 58
Prime Minister - Morocco
Walter Lini age 45
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Mário da Graça Machungo age 47
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Hédi Baccouche age 57
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 51
Prime Minister - Algeria
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 50
Prime Minister - Barbados
Zaid al-Rifai age 51
Prime Minister - Jordan
Ezekiel Alebua age 40
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Tomasi Puapua age 49
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Josep Pintat-Solans age 62
Prime Minister - Andorra
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury age 59
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Léon Mébiame age 53
Prime Minister - Gabon
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 56
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 47
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Kennedy Simmonds age 51
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Herbert Blaize age 69
Prime Minister - Grenada
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 54
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 57
Prime Minister - Somalia
Tu'i Pelehake age 65
Prime Minister - Tonga
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 87
Prime Minister - Peru
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 42
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Hamid Algabid age 46
Prime Minister - Niger
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 47
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Mamadou Dembelé age 53
Prime Minister - Mali
Peter Colotka age 62
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Kebby Musokotwane age 41
Prime Minister - Zambia
Ange Édouard Poungui age 45
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Guillermo Larco Cox age 55
Prime Minister - Peru
Vuko Vukadinović age 50
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hans Brunhart age 42
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Elmira Minita Gordon age 57
Governor-General - Belize
Ninian Stephen age 64
Governor-General - Australia
Tupua Leupena age 65
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Florizel Glasspole age 78
Governor-General - Jamaica
Gerald Cash age 70
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Kingsford Dibela age 55
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 26
Donald Trump age 41
Michael Jackson age 29
Vladimir Putin age 35
Nelson Mandela age 69
George W. Bush age 41
Bill Gates age 32
Pope Francis age 51
Steve Jobs age 32
Angela Merkel age 33
Neil Armstrong age 57
François Hollande age 33
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 9
Gabriel García Márquez age 60
Elon Musk age 16
Stephen Hawking age 45
Jimmy Carter age 63
Emmanuel Macron age 10
Benedict XVI age 60
Mother Teresa age 77
Hillary Clinton age 40
Kamala Harris age 23
Nicolas Sarkozy age 32
Richard Nixon age 74
Xi Jinping age 34
Naruhito age 27
Hugo Chávez age 33
Muammar Gaddafi age 45
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 33
Muhammad Ali age 45
Kofi Annan age 49
Charles III age 39
Osama bin Laden age 30
Lech Wałęsa age 44
Gerald Ford age 74
Leo XIV age 32
Diego Maradona age 27
Narendra Modi age 37
Rafael Correa age 24
Aung San Suu Kyi age 42
Benjamin Netanyahu age 38
Dmitry Medvedev age 22
14th Dalai Lama age 52
Mark Zuckerberg age 3
Silvio Berlusconi age 51
Shinzo Abe age 33
Tim Berners-Lee age 32
Boris Yeltsin age 56
Guillermo Lasso age 32
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 69
Alexander Lukashenko age 33
Yasser Arafat age 58
David Cameron age 21
Linus Torvalds age 17
Ban Ki-moon age 43
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 40
Boris Johnson age 23
Diana, Princess of Wales age 26
Bashar al-Assad age 22
Benazir Bhutto age 34
Jair Bolsonaro age 32
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 42
Theresa May age 31
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 31
Henry Kissinger age 64
Václav Havel age 51
Rishi Sunak age 7
Justin Trudeau age 15
Nicolás Maduro age 25
Dilma Rousseff age 40
Ferdinand Marcos age 70
Milton Friedman age 75
Valentina Tereshkova age 50
Pol Pot age 62
Ilham Aliyev age 26
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 49