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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
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
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06

People

France-Albert René age 53
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 52
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 59
President - Bangladesh
Pierre Buyoya age 39
President - Burundi
Patrick Hillery age 66
President - Ireland
Isa II of Bahrain age 56
Emir - Bahrain
Giorgos Vasiliou age 58
President - Cyprus
Wee Kim Wee age 73
President - Singapore
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 67
President - Colombia
Christos Sartzetakis age 60
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 53
President - Central African Republic
Ahmed Abdallah age 70
President - Comoros
Jaime Paz Zamora age 50
President - Bolivia
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 54
President - Ecuador
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 51
King - Lesotho
Ċensu Tabone age 76
President - Malta
Hammer DeRoburt age 66
President - Nauru
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 65
President - Sri Lanka
Alfredo Cristiani age 41
President - El Salvador
Ali Saibou age 49
President - Niger
Andrés Rodríguez age 66
President - Paraguay
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 52
President - Sierra Leone
Desmond Hoyte age 60
President - Guyana
José Azcona del Hoyo age 62
President - Honduras
John Haglelgam age 40
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Ramsewak Shankar age 51
President - Suriname
Penaia Ganilau age 71
President - Fiji
Phoumi Vongvichit age 80
President - Laos
Ieremia Tabai age 39
President - Kiribati
Ngiratkel Etpison age 64
President - Palau
Noor Hassanali age 71
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Prosper Avril age 51
President - Haiti
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 53
President - Switzerland
Sebastiano Baggio age 76
President - Vatican City
Janez Stanovnik age 67
President - Slovenia
Mauro Fiorini age 33
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 68
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 64
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Benazir Bhutto age 36
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Lee Kuan Yew age 65
Prime Minister - Singapore
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 50
Prime Minister - Norway
Hassanal Bolkiah age 43
Prime Minister - Brunei
Turgut Özal age 61
Prime Minister - Turkey
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 50
Prime Minister - Portugal
Hun Sen age 37
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Felipe González age 47
Prime Minister - Spain
Brian Mulroney age 50
Prime Minister - Canada
Bob Hawke age 59
Prime Minister - Australia
Ruud Lubbers age 50
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Ingvar Carlsson age 54
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacques Santer age 52
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 53
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Anerood Jugnauth age 59
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Franz Vranitzky age 51
Chancellor - Austria
Wilfried Martens age 53
Prime Minister - Belgium
Eddie Fenech Adami age 55
Prime Minister - Malta
Harri Holkeri age 52
Prime Minister - Finland
Poul Schlüter age 60
Prime Minister - Denmark
Eugenia Charles age 70
Prime Minister - Dominica
Miklós Németh age 41
Prime Minister - Hungary
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 61
Prime Minister - Iceland
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 59
Prime Minister - Kuwait
A. N. R. Robinson age 62
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Kamisese Mara age 69
Prime Minister - Fiji
Constantin Dăscălescu age 66
Prime Minister - Romania
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 77
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 61
Prime Minister - Greece
Salim al-Huss age 59
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Chatchai Chunhawan age 69
Prime Minister - Thailand
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 73
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Lynden Pindling age 59
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
John Compton age 64
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Manuel Esquivel age 49
Prime Minister - Belize
Adil Çarçani age 67
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 60
Prime Minister - Morocco
Walter Lini age 47
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Mário da Graça Machungo age 48
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Hédi Baccouche age 59
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Zeid bin Shaker age 54
Prime Minister - Jordan
Geoffrey Palmer age 47
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 52
Prime Minister - Barbados
Tomasi Puapua age 50
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Josep Pintat-Solans age 64
Prime Minister - Andorra
Léon Mébiame age 54
Prime Minister - Gabon
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 58
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Qasdi Mirbah age 51
Prime Minister - Algeria
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 49
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Kennedy Simmonds age 53
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Herbert Blaize age 71
Prime Minister - Grenada
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 56
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Solomon Mamaloni age 46
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 58
Prime Minister - Somalia
Obed Dlamini age 52
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 48
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Tu'i Pelehake age 67
Prime Minister - Tonga
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 88
Prime Minister - Peru
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 44
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 65
Prime Minister - Samoa
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 48
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Radoje Kontić age 52
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Malimba Masheke age 48
Prime Minister - Zambia
Mamane Oumarou age 44
Prime Minister - Niger
Adrien Sibomana age 35
Prime Minister - Burundi
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 50
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Bill Hayden age 56
Governor-General - Australia
Elmira Minita Gordon age 58
Governor-General - Belize
Tupua Leupena age 67
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Florizel Glasspole age 79
Governor-General - Jamaica
Ignatius Kilage age 48
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 28
Donald Trump age 43
Michael Jackson age 30
Vladimir Putin age 36
Ronald Reagan age 78
Nelson Mandela age 71
George W. Bush age 43
Bill Gates age 33
Pope Francis age 52
Steve Jobs age 34
Angela Merkel age 35
Neil Armstrong age 59
François Hollande age 35
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 11
Gabriel García Márquez age 62
Elon Musk age 18
Stephen Hawking age 47
Jimmy Carter age 64
Emmanuel Macron age 11
Benedict XVI age 62
Mother Teresa age 79
Hillary Clinton age 41
Kamala Harris age 24
Nicolas Sarkozy age 34
Richard Nixon age 76
Xi Jinping age 36
Naruhito age 29
Hugo Chávez age 35
Muammar Gaddafi age 47
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 35
Muhammad Ali age 47
Kofi Annan age 51
Charles III age 40
Osama bin Laden age 32
Lech Wałęsa age 45
Gerald Ford age 76
Leo XIV age 33
Diego Maradona age 28
Narendra Modi age 38
Rafael Correa age 26
Aung San Suu Kyi age 44
Benjamin Netanyahu age 39
Dmitry Medvedev age 23
14th Dalai Lama age 54
Mark Zuckerberg age 5
Silvio Berlusconi age 52
Shinzo Abe age 34
Tim Berners-Lee age 34
Boris Yeltsin age 58
Jacques Chirac age 56
Guillermo Lasso age 33
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 70
Alexander Lukashenko age 34
Yasser Arafat age 60
David Cameron age 22
Linus Torvalds age 19
Ban Ki-moon age 45
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 42
Boris Johnson age 25
Diana, Princess of Wales age 28
Bashar al-Assad age 23
Jair Bolsonaro age 34
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 43
Theresa May age 32
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 32
Henry Kissinger age 66
Václav Havel age 52
Rishi Sunak age 9
Justin Trudeau age 17
Nicolás Maduro age 26
Dilma Rousseff age 41
Ferdinand Marcos age 71
Milton Friedman age 77
Valentina Tereshkova age 52
Pol Pot age 64
Ilham Aliyev age 27
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 50
António Guterres age 40
Rosa Parks age 76
Shimon Peres age 66
Giorgia Meloni age 12
Olaf Scholz age 31
Keir Starmer age 26
Willy Brandt age 75
Gerhard Schröder age 45