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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
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Fernando de la Rúa age 41
Khaleda Zia age 32
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 40
Herman Van Rompuy age 31
Romuald Wadagni age 2
Waldo Bernal Pereira age 48
Óscar Pammo Rodríguez age 45
Saïd Ali Mohamed age 33
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 62
Siim Kallas age 30
Andreas Fakudze age 33
Hailu Yimenu age 44
Sidya Touré age 34
Constantino Teixeira age 45
Mark Phillips age 17
Fritz Jean age 23
András Baka age 26
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 54
H. D. Deve Gowda age 45
Taher Masri age 37
Ata Teaotai age 26
Phankham Viphavanh age 28
Andris Kulbergs age 0 months
David Nimley age 34
Gediminas Vagnorius age 21
Jean-Jacques Rasolondraibe age 32
Felipe Calderón age 16
Claudia Sheinbaum age 16
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 25
Miguel de la Madrid age 44
Enrique Peña Nieto age 12
Ernesto Zedillo age 27
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 30
Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan age 24
Jargaltulga Erdenebat age 6
Mijuško Šibalić age 64
Fatmi Benslimane age 81
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 26
Julián Irías Sandres age 99
Hama Amadou age 29
Imran Khan age 26
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 64
José Manuel Barroso age 22
António Costa age 17
Pasteur Bizimungu age 29
Đuro Macut age 15
France Popit age 57
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 65
Vajiralongkorn age 26
Pote Sarasin age 73
Philip "Brave" Davis age 27
Francisco Guterres age 24
Nihat Erim age 67
Samuelu Teo age 22
Feleti Teo age 16
Saulo Musoke age 59
Yoweri Hunter Wacha-Olwol age 56
Polycarp Nyamuchoncho age 49
Alfred Maseng age 30
Shaya al-Zindani age 25
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 28
Mario Abdo Benítez age 7
Giovanni Vito Marcucci age 51
Primo Marani age 56
Giovanni Zaccaria Savoretti age 59
Marino Bollini age 46
Severiano Tura age 26
Gastone Pasolini age 47
Ferruccio Piva age 55
Libero Barulli age 31
Pier Paolo Gasperoni age 28
Pietro Giancecchi age 57
Giordano Bruno Reffi age 58
Dante Rossi age 48
Emilio Della Balda age 42
Enrico Andreoli age 57
Mauro Fiorini age 22
Alberto Cecchetti age 35
Antonio Lazzaro Volpinari age 35
Germano De Biagi age 39
Gino Giovagnoli age 27
Giovanni Giannoni age 31
Giuseppe Maria Morganti age 23
Luigi Mazza age 18
Marino Zanotti age 27
Mauro Chiaruzzi age 26
Ottaviano Rossi age 27
Paride Andreoli age 23
Pier Marino Menicucci age 20
Pier Marino Mularoni age 16
Pietro Berti age 12
Pietro Bugli age 24
Pietro Reffi age 51
Tito Masi age 30
Giancarlo Ghironzi age 47
Domenico Bernardini age 22
Vincenzo Pedini age 58
Vincenzo Mularoni age 79
Massimo Roberto Rossini age 34
Clelio Galassi age 28
Claudio Podeschi age 22
Roberto Bucci age 29
Renzo Ghiotti age 27
Luciano Ciavatta age 23
Miguel Mujica Gallo age 68
Daniel Becerra de la Flor age 73
Alfonso de los Heros age 40
Joseph Kokou Koffigoh age 31
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 57
Lord Mountbatten age 78
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) age 9
Glubb Pasha age 81
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon age 78
Prince Philip age 57
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 55
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 48
Dương Văn Minh age 62
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 67
Lê Đức Thọ age 67
Văn Tiến Dũng age 61
C. R. Swart age 84
Jim Fouché age 80
Wangari Maathai age 38
William Hague age 17
Iain Duncan Smith age 24
George Brown age 64
Harriet Harman age 28
Ed Miliband age 9
Jeremy Corbyn age 29
Wu Po-hsiung age 39
Eric Chu age 17
Hung Hsiu-chu age 30
Johnny Chiang age 6
Cheng Li-wun age 9
James Moroka age 87
Tomás Mac Giolla age 55
Gerry Adams age 30
Mary Lou McDonald age 9
William Calley age 35
Ernest Medina age 42
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 35
James Earl Ray age 50
Sirhan Sirhan age 34
U. S. Grant Sharp, Jr. age 72
Roy L. Johnson age 72
Phoumi Nosavan age 59
Michel Aflaq age 69
Munif Razzaz age 59
Essam Sirius age 53
Ziad al-Hariri age 49
Jassem Alwan age 50
Haydar al-Kuzbari age 59
Sultan al-Atrash age 87
Miles Copeland, Jr. age 62
Yang Dezhi age 68
Xu Shiyou age 73
William Kelly Harrison, Jr. age 83
James Bevel age 42
Bayard Rustin age 66
Pepe San Román age 49
Juan Almeida Bosque age 51
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez age 46
Gholam Hossein Sadighi age 73
Nematollah Nassiri age 67
Jamshid Amouzegar age 55
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 68
Mehdi Bazargan age 71
Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha age 34
James B. Vaught age 52
Flora MacDonald age 52
Asaka Yasuhiko age 91
Stanislav Shushkevich age 44
Caspar Weinberger age 61
Joseph Metcalf, III age 51
Liu Yuzhang age 75
Ye Fei age 64
Chiang Chung-ling age 56
Wu Shih-wen age 44
Liu Huaqing age 63
Zhang Zhen age 64
Adnan Uqla age 29
Mustafa Tlass age 46
Hikmat al-Shihabi age 47
Günter Schabowski age 50
Chang Fa-kwei age 83
Arthur Dewey Struble age 84
Bachir Gemayel age 31
Walid Jumblatt age 29
Emmanuel Erskine age 42
William O'Callaghan age 57
Said al-Muragha age 52
Ahmed Jibril age 41
Khalil al-Wazir age 43
Gerhard von Schwerin age 79
Fred Gray age 48
James L. Farmer, Jr. age 59
Gordon Carey age 47
Diane Nash age 40
A. Philip Randolph age 89
Fred Shuttlesworth age 56