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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
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
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

Didier Ratsiraka age 53
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 71
King - Tonga
Joaquín Balaguer age 83
President - Dominican Republic
France-Albert René age 54
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 52
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 60
President - Bangladesh
Pierre Buyoya age 40
President - Burundi
Patrick Hillery age 67
President - Ireland
Petar Mladenov age 53
President - Bulgaria
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 48
President - Uruguay
Isa II of Bahrain age 56
Emir - Bahrain
Giorgos Vasiliou age 58
President - Cyprus
Wee Kim Wee age 74
President - Singapore
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 68
President - Colombia
Christos Sartzetakis age 61
President - Greece
Elias Hrawi age 63
President - Lebanon
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 57
Emir - Qatar
Amata Kabua age 61
President - Marshall Islands
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 48
President - Mauritania
André Kolingba age 53
President - Central African Republic
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 48
President - Mongolia
Mátyás Szűrös age 56
President - Hungary
Jaime Paz Zamora age 51
President - Bolivia
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 54
President - Ecuador
Ċensu Tabone age 77
President - Malta
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 65
President - Sri Lanka
Alfredo Cristiani age 42
President - El Salvador
Ali Saibou age 49
President - Niger
Andrés Rodríguez age 66
President - Paraguay
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 46
President - Haiti
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 53
President - Sierra Leone
Guillermo Endara age 53
President - Panama
Desmond Hoyte age 61
President - Guyana
Said Mohamed Djohar age 71
President - Comoros
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 46
President - Honduras
John Haglelgam age 40
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Bernard Dowiyogo age 44
President - Nauru
Arnold Koller age 56
President - Switzerland
Ramsewak Shankar age 52
President - Suriname
Penaia Ganilau age 71
President - Fiji
Phoumi Vongvichit age 81
President - Laos
Mamohato of Lesotho age 49
Regent - Lesotho
Ieremia Tabai age 40
President - Kiribati
Ngiratkel Etpison age 65
President - Palau
Noor Hassanali age 71
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Sebastiano Baggio age 76
President - Vatican City
Ottaviano Rossi age 38
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 69
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 64
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Benazir Bhutto age 36
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Lee Kuan Yew age 66
Prime Minister - Singapore
Hassanal Bolkiah age 43
Prime Minister - Brunei
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 50
Prime Minister - Portugal
Hun Sen age 37
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Felipe González age 48
Prime Minister - Spain
Brian Mulroney age 51
Prime Minister - Canada
Bob Hawke age 60
Prime Minister - Australia
Hage Geingob age 48
Prime Minister - Namibia
Ruud Lubbers age 50
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Ingvar Carlsson age 55
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacques Santer age 52
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 54
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 71
Prime Minister - Greece
Anerood Jugnauth age 60
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Franz Vranitzky age 52
Chancellor - Austria
Wilfried Martens age 54
Prime Minister - Belgium
Eddie Fenech Adami age 56
Prime Minister - Malta
Harri Holkeri age 53
Prime Minister - Finland
Poul Schlüter age 61
Prime Minister - Denmark
Eugenia Charles age 70
Prime Minister - Dominica
Kazimira Prunskienė age 47
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Nicéphore Soglo age 55
Prime Minister - Benin
Jan P. Syse age 59
Prime Minister - Norway
Petre Roman age 43
Prime Minister - Romania
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 65
Prime Minister - Nepal
George Cadle Price age 71
Prime Minister - Belize
Miklós Németh age 42
Prime Minister - Hungary
Yıldırım Akbulut age 54
Prime Minister - Turkey
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 61
Prime Minister - Iceland
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 59
Prime Minister - Kuwait
A. N. R. Robinson age 63
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Kamisese Mara age 70
Prime Minister - Fiji
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 77
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Salim al-Huss age 60
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Chatchai Chunhawan age 70
Prime Minister - Thailand
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 74
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Lynden Pindling age 60
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Andrey Lukanov age 51
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
John Compton age 65
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Adil Çarçani age 67
Prime Minister - Albania
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 60
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Saw Maung age 61
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Òscar Ribas Reig age 53
Prime Minister - Andorra
Vere Bird age 79
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Azzeddine Laraki age 61
Prime Minister - Morocco
Walter Lini age 48
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Mudar Badran age 56
Prime Minister - Jordan
Mário da Graça Machungo age 49
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Geoffrey Palmer age 48
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Hamed Karoui age 62
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 53
Prime Minister - Barbados
Léon Mébiame age 55
Prime Minister - Gabon
Nicholas Brathwaite age 64
Prime Minister - Grenada
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 58
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Mulud Hamroush age 47
Prime Minister - Algeria
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 49
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Kennedy Simmonds age 54
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 33
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Solomon Mamaloni age 47
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 59
Prime Minister - Somalia
Obed Dlamini age 53
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 49
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Milan Čič age 58
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Tu'i Pelehake age 68
Prime Minister - Tonga
Aliou Mahamidou age 42
Prime Minister - Niger
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 65
Prime Minister - Samoa
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 49
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Radoje Kontić age 52
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Malimba Masheke age 48
Prime Minister - Zambia
Adrien Sibomana age 36
Prime Minister - Burundi
Guillermo Larco Cox age 58
Prime Minister - Peru
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 51
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Hailu Yimenu age 55
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Hans Brunhart age 45
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Bill Hayden age 57
Governor-General - Australia
Elmira Minita Gordon age 59
Governor-General - Belize
Tupua Leupena age 67
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Florizel Glasspole age 80
Governor-General - Jamaica
Vincent Eri age 53
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 28
Donald Trump age 43
Michael Jackson age 31
Vladimir Putin age 37
Ronald Reagan age 79
Nelson Mandela age 71
George W. Bush age 43
Bill Gates age 34
Pope Francis age 53
Steve Jobs age 35
Angela Merkel age 35
Neil Armstrong age 59
François Hollande age 35
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 12
Gabriel García Márquez age 63
Elon Musk age 18
Stephen Hawking age 48
Jimmy Carter age 65
Emmanuel Macron age 12
Benedict XVI age 63
Mother Teresa age 79
Hillary Clinton age 42
Kamala Harris age 25
Nicolas Sarkozy age 35
Richard Nixon age 77
Xi Jinping age 36
Naruhito age 30
Hugo Chávez age 35
Muammar Gaddafi age 47
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 36
Muhammad Ali age 48
Kofi Annan age 52
Charles III age 41
Osama bin Laden age 33
Lech Wałęsa age 46
Gerald Ford age 76
Leo XIV age 34
Diego Maradona age 29
Narendra Modi age 39
Rafael Correa age 27
Aung San Suu Kyi age 44
Benjamin Netanyahu age 40
Dmitry Medvedev age 24
14th Dalai Lama age 54
Mark Zuckerberg age 5
Silvio Berlusconi age 53
Shinzo Abe age 35
Tim Berners-Lee age 34
Boris Yeltsin age 59
Jacques Chirac age 57
Guillermo Lasso age 34
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 71
Alexander Lukashenko age 35
Yasser Arafat age 60
David Cameron age 23
Linus Torvalds age 20
Ban Ki-moon age 45
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 42
Boris Johnson age 25
Diana, Princess of Wales age 28
Bashar al-Assad age 24
Jair Bolsonaro age 35
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 44
Theresa May age 33
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 33
Henry Kissinger age 66
Václav Havel age 53
Rishi Sunak age 9
Justin Trudeau age 18
Nicolás Maduro age 27
Dilma Rousseff age 42