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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
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

Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 81
President - Bolivia
Didier Ratsiraka age 52
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 70
King - Tonga
Joaquín Balaguer age 82
President - Dominican Republic
France-Albert René age 53
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 51
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 58
President - Bangladesh
Pierre Buyoya age 39
President - Burundi
Patrick Hillery age 65
President - Ireland
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 82
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 55
Emir - Bahrain
Giorgos Vasiliou age 57
President - Cyprus
Wee Kim Wee age 73
President - Singapore
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 67
President - Colombia
Christos Sartzetakis age 59
President - Greece
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 56
Emir - Qatar
Amata Kabua age 60
President - Marshall Islands
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 47
President - Mauritania
André Kolingba age 52
President - Central African Republic
Ahmed Abdallah age 69
President - Comoros
Jaime Lusinchi age 64
President - Venezuela
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 53
President - Ecuador
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 50
King - Lesotho
Raif Dizdarević age 62
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
José Napoleón Duarte age 63
President - El Salvador
Hammer DeRoburt age 66
President - Nauru
Ali Saibou age 48
President - Niger
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 51
President - Sierra Leone
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 47
President - Sudan
Desmond Hoyte age 59
President - Guyana
José Azcona del Hoyo age 61
President - Honduras
Paul Xuereb age 65
President - Malta
Kazimierz Sabbat age 75
President - Poland
John Haglelgam age 39
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Otto Stich age 61
President - Switzerland
Thomas Remengesau age 57
President - Palau
Ramsewak Shankar age 51
President - Suriname
Penaia Ganilau age 70
President - Fiji
Phoumi Vongvichit age 79
President - Laos
Ieremia Tabai age 39
President - Kiribati
Noor Hassanali age 70
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Prosper Avril age 51
President - Haiti
Ati George Sokomanu age 52
President - Vanuatu
Sebastiano Baggio age 75
President - Vatican City
Janez Stanovnik age 66
President - Slovenia
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 67
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 63
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Benazir Bhutto age 35
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Lee Kuan Yew age 65
Prime Minister - Singapore
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 49
Prime Minister - Norway
Hassanal Bolkiah age 42
Prime Minister - Brunei
Turgut Özal age 61
Prime Minister - Turkey
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 49
Prime Minister - Portugal
Hun Sen age 36
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Felipe González age 46
Prime Minister - Spain
Brian Mulroney age 49
Prime Minister - Canada
Bob Hawke age 59
Prime Minister - Australia
Andreas Papandreou age 69
Prime Minister - Greece
Ruud Lubbers age 49
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Ingvar Carlsson age 54
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacques Santer age 51
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 53
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Anerood Jugnauth age 58
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Franz Vranitzky age 51
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 46
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Miklós Németh age 40
Prime Minister - Hungary
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 60
Prime Minister - Iceland
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 58
Prime Minister - Kuwait
A. N. R. Robinson age 62
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Kamisese Mara age 68
Prime Minister - Fiji
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 64
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Edward Seaga age 58
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Constantin Dăscălescu age 65
Prime Minister - Romania
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 76
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Salim al-Huss age 59
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Chatchai Chunhawan age 68
Prime Minister - Thailand
Lynden Pindling age 58
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
John Compton age 63
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Manuel Esquivel age 48
Prime Minister - Belize
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 53
Prime Minister - Sudan
Adil Çarçani age 66
Prime Minister - Albania
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 59
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Saw Maung age 60
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Vere Bird age 78
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Azzeddine Laraki age 59
Prime Minister - Morocco
Walter Lini age 46
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Moudud Ahmed age 48
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Mário da Graça Machungo age 48
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Hédi Baccouche age 58
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 51
Prime Minister - Barbados
Zaid al-Rifai age 52
Prime Minister - Jordan
Ezekiel Alebua age 41
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Tomasi Puapua age 50
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Josep Pintat-Solans age 63
Prime Minister - Andorra
Léon Mébiame age 54
Prime Minister - Gabon
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 57
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Qasdi Mirbah age 50
Prime Minister - Algeria
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 48
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Kennedy Simmonds age 52
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Herbert Blaize age 70
Prime Minister - Grenada
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 55
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 58
Prime Minister - Somalia
Tu'i Pelehake age 66
Prime Minister - Tonga
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 88
Prime Minister - Peru
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 43
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 64
Prime Minister - Samoa
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 48
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Kebby Musokotwane age 42
Prime Minister - Zambia
Mamane Oumarou age 43
Prime Minister - Niger
Adrien Sibomana age 35
Prime Minister - Burundi
Ange Édouard Poungui age 46
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Armando Villanueva age 73
Prime Minister - Peru
Vuko Vukadinović age 51
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hans Brunhart age 43
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Elmira Minita Gordon age 58
Governor-General - Belize
Ninian Stephen age 65
Governor-General - Australia
Tupua Leupena age 66
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Florizel Glasspole age 79
Governor-General - Jamaica
Kingsford Dibela age 56
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 27
Donald Trump age 42
Michael Jackson age 30
Vladimir Putin age 36
Nelson Mandela age 70
George W. Bush age 42
Bill Gates age 33
Pope Francis age 52
Steve Jobs age 33
Angela Merkel age 34
Neil Armstrong age 58
François Hollande age 34
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 10
Gabriel García Márquez age 61
Elon Musk age 17
Stephen Hawking age 46
Jimmy Carter age 64
Emmanuel Macron age 11
Benedict XVI age 61
Mother Teresa age 78
Hillary Clinton age 41
Kamala Harris age 24
Nicolas Sarkozy age 33
Richard Nixon age 75
Xi Jinping age 35
Naruhito age 28
Hugo Chávez age 34
Muammar Gaddafi age 46
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 34
Muhammad Ali age 46
Kofi Annan age 50
Charles III age 40
Osama bin Laden age 31
Lech Wałęsa age 45
Gerald Ford age 75
Leo XIV age 33
Diego Maradona age 28
Narendra Modi age 38
Rafael Correa age 25
Aung San Suu Kyi age 43
Benjamin Netanyahu age 39
Dmitry Medvedev age 23
14th Dalai Lama age 53
Mark Zuckerberg age 4
Silvio Berlusconi age 52
Shinzo Abe age 34
Tim Berners-Lee age 33
Boris Yeltsin age 57
Jacques Chirac age 56
Guillermo Lasso age 33
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 70
Alexander Lukashenko age 34
Yasser Arafat age 59
David Cameron age 22
Linus Torvalds age 18
Ban Ki-moon age 44
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 41
Boris Johnson age 24
Diana, Princess of Wales age 27
Bashar al-Assad age 23
Jair Bolsonaro age 33
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 43
Theresa May age 32
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 32
Henry Kissinger age 65
Václav Havel age 52
Rishi Sunak age 8
Justin Trudeau age 16
Nicolás Maduro age 26
Dilma Rousseff age 41
Ferdinand Marcos age 71
Milton Friedman age 76
Valentina Tereshkova age 51
Pol Pot age 63
Ilham Aliyev age 27
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 50