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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
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12

People

Pierre Buyoya age 38
President - Burundi
Patrick Hillery age 65
President - Ireland
Amine Gemayel age 46
President - Lebanon
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 81
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 54
Emir - Bahrain
Giorgos Vasiliou age 56
President - Cyprus
León Febres-Cordero age 57
President - Ecuador
Wee Kim Wee age 72
President - Singapore
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 66
President - Colombia
Christos Sartzetakis age 59
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
Leslie Manigat age 57
President - Haiti
Ahmed Abdallah age 68
President - Comoros
Jaime Lusinchi age 63
President - Venezuela
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 50
King - Lesotho
Raif Dizdarević age 61
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
José Napoleón Duarte age 62
President - El Salvador
Hammer DeRoburt age 65
President - Nauru
Ali Saibou age 47
President - Niger
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 51
President - Sierra Leone
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 46
President - Sudan
Desmond Hoyte age 59
President - Guyana
José Azcona del Hoyo age 61
President - Honduras
Paul Xuereb age 64
President - Malta
Kazimierz Sabbat age 75
President - Poland
John Haglelgam age 38
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Otto Stich age 61
President - Switzerland
Ramsewak Shankar age 50
President - Suriname
Penaia Ganilau age 69
President - Fiji
Phoumi Vongvichit age 79
President - Laos
Ieremia Tabai age 38
President - Kiribati
San Yu age 70
President - Myanmar
Noor Hassanali age 69
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Lazarus Salii age 51
President - Palau
Ati George Sokomanu age 52
President - Vanuatu
Sebastiano Baggio age 75
President - Vatican City
Janez Stanovnik age 65
President - Slovenia
Umberto Barulli age 67
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 67
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 62
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Lee Kuan Yew age 64
Prime Minister - Singapore
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 49
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 46
Prime Minister - Spain
Brian Mulroney age 49
Prime Minister - Canada
Bob Hawke age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Prem Tinsulanonda age 67
Prime Minister - Thailand
Andreas Papandreou age 69
Prime Minister - Greece
Ruud Lubbers age 49
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 58
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Franz Vranitzky age 50
Chancellor - Austria
Wilfried Martens age 52
Prime Minister - Belgium
Eddie Fenech Adami age 54
Prime Minister - Malta
Harri Holkeri age 51
Prime Minister - Finland
Poul Schlüter age 59
Prime Minister - Denmark
Eugenia Charles age 69
Prime Minister - Dominica
David Lange age 45
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 58
Prime Minister - Kuwait
A. N. R. Robinson age 61
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Kamisese Mara age 68
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 58
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
John Compton age 63
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Manuel Esquivel age 48
Prime Minister - Belize
Martial Célestin age 74
Prime Minister - Haiti
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 52
Prime Minister - Sudan
Adil Çarçani age 66
Prime Minister - Albania
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 58
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Vere Bird age 77
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Azzeddine Laraki age 59
Prime Minister - Morocco
Walter Lini age 46
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Moudud Ahmed age 47
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Mário da Graça Machungo age 47
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Hédi Baccouche age 58
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 52
Prime Minister - Algeria
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 51
Prime Minister - Barbados
Zaid al-Rifai age 51
Prime Minister - Jordan
Ezekiel Alebua age 41
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Tomasi Puapua age 49
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Josep Pintat-Solans age 63
Prime Minister - Andorra
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 52
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Herbert Blaize age 70
Prime Minister - Grenada
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 54
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 57
Prime Minister - Somalia
Tu'i Pelehake age 66
Prime Minister - Tonga
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 87
Prime Minister - Peru
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 42
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Hamid Algabid age 47
Prime Minister - Niger
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 63
Prime Minister - Samoa
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 47
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Mamadou Dembelé age 54
Prime Minister - Mali
Peter Colotka age 63
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Kebby Musokotwane age 42
Prime Minister - Zambia
Ange Édouard Poungui age 46
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Guillermo Larco Cox age 56
Prime Minister - Peru
Vuko Vukadinović age 50
Prime Minister - Montenegro
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 56
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 33
Angela Merkel age 33
Neil Armstrong age 57
François Hollande age 33
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 10
Gabriel García Márquez age 61
Elon Musk age 16
Stephen Hawking age 46
Jimmy Carter age 63
Emmanuel Macron age 10
Benedict XVI age 61
Mother Teresa age 77
Hillary Clinton age 40
Kamala Harris age 23
Nicolas Sarkozy age 33
Richard Nixon age 75
Xi Jinping age 34
Naruhito age 28
Hugo Chávez age 33
Muammar Gaddafi age 45
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 34
Muhammad Ali age 46
Kofi Annan age 50
Charles III age 39
Osama bin Laden age 31
Lech Wałęsa age 44
Gerald Ford age 74
Leo XIV age 32
Diego Maradona age 27
Narendra Modi age 37
Rafael Correa age 25
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 57
Guillermo Lasso age 32
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 69
Alexander Lukashenko age 33
Yasser Arafat age 58
David Cameron age 21
Linus Torvalds age 18
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 33
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 16
Nicolás Maduro age 25
Dilma Rousseff age 40
Ferdinand Marcos age 70
Milton Friedman age 75
Valentina Tereshkova age 51
Pol Pot age 62
Ilham Aliyev age 26
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 49
António Guterres age 39
Akihito age 54
Rosa Parks age 75