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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
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Mahdi Mohammed Gulaid age 5
Hong Nam-ki age 18
Yoo Il-ho age 24
Motazz Moussa age 12
Gian Nicola Berti age 18
Oscar Mina age 20
Krešimir Zubak age 32
Eduardo Arana age 13
Antero Flores Aráoz age 37
Kwesi Ahoomey-Zunu age 20
Charles Clarke age 28
Duncan Sandys age 71
Henry H. Fowler age 70
Hugh Shelton age 37
William French Smith age 61
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 67
Peter Schoomaker age 33
James C. McConville age 20
Cheng Li-wun age 9
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez age 47
Chang Fa-kwei age 83
Jotham Napat age 6
Yury Drozdov age 53
Petar Stipetić age 41
Ra'ad al-Hamdani age 28
Stuart Peach, Baron Peach age 23
Paul Aussaresses age 60
Irina Paley age 75
Nevvare Hanım age 78
Muhammad Abdel Moneim age 80
Dov Joseph age 80
Yi Bangja age 77
Yi Hae-won age 60
Yi Ku age 47
Michael Prinz von Preussen age 39
Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen age 12
Lord Ivar Mountbatten age 16
Sylvana Tomaselli age 22
Pat McFadden age 14
John A. Volpe age 70
Marvin Mandel age 59
Winfield Dunn age 52
Charles Poletti age 76
Roy Barnes age 31
William S. Sessions age 49
Louis Freeh age 29
Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani age 27
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 40
Nita Barrow age 62
Pascal Nyabenda age 13
Yem Sambaur age 66
Ung Huot age 34
Chhean Vam age 63
Sim Var age 73
Nhiek Tioulong age 70
Nagoum Yamassoum age 25
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 51
Léonard Mulamba age 51
Osborne Riviere age 47
Andrés F. Córdova age 87
Antonio Pons age 81
Mamdouh Salem age 61
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 33
Obed Dlamini age 42
Mabandla Dlamini age 48
George Brizan age 36
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 67
Sidya Touré age 34
Daniel Fignolé age 65
Jean-Michel Lapin age 29
Robert Malval age 36
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 58
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 76
Pascal Affi N'Guessan age 26
Clifford Campbell age 87
Jumabek Ibraimov age 35
Nasirdin Isanov age 35
Abdallah El-Yafi age 77
Amin al-Hafez age 53
Hae Phoofolo age 32
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 40
Ruben Zackhras age 31
Zeine Ould Zeidane age 12
Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef age 19
Serafim Urechean age 29
Rinchinnyamyn Amarjargal age 18
Jack Marshall age 67
Lorenzo Guerrero age 78
Boukary Adji age 40
Bernard Kolélas age 46
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 38
Arnhim Eustace age 34
Mamadou Lamine Loum age 27
Žarko Korać age 32
Milan Čič age 47
John Lapli age 24
Francis Billy Hilly age 31
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 39
Gordon Darcy Lilo age 13
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 65
Damião Vaz d'Almeida age 28
Manuel Quintas de Almeida age 22
Lee Huan age 61
Tang Fei age 47
Akbarsho Iskandrov age 27
Suriya Jungrungreangkit age 24
Baron Vaea age 58
Tahar Ben Ammar age 89
Washington Beltrán age 65
Josias Moli age 24
Jean-Marie Léyé age 47
Ahmed al-Rahawi age 29
Muhammad Abdi Yusuf age 38
Choo Kyung-ho age 18
Kamil Idris age 24
Italo Righi age 20
Anna Maria Muccioli age 14
Manuel Ciavatta age 2
Mirko Tomassoni age 10
Marco Nicolini age 8
Guerrino Zanotti age 16
Živko Radišić age 41
Pedro Angulo age 19
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 78
Komlan Mally age 18
Kodjo Agbéyomé age 24
Abdessalam Jalloud age 34
Henri Navarre age 81
Jeffrey A. Rosen age 21
Manny Shinwell age 94
John A. Wickham Jr. age 51
George Brown age 64
Hung Hsiu-chu age 31
Flora MacDonald age 53
James T. Conway age 31
Vu Van Mau age 65
Maher Abd al-Rashid age 37
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda age 70
Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff age 29
Prince Andrew Romanoff age 56
Gevheri Sultan age 74
Karim Valiyev age 18
Tadeusz Pełczyński age 87
Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia age 66
Infante Álvaro, Duke of Galliera age 69
Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 44
Marion Stein age 52
James Ogilvy age 15
David Carnegie, 4th Duke of Fife age 18
Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen age 27
Prince Radu of Romania age 19
Claire Booth age 1
John J. Gilligan age 58
Alan Milburn age 21
Malcolm Wilson age 65
Frank Lausche age 83
Peter Kyle age 8
George Brown, Baron George-Brown age 64
Lauris Norstad age 72
Bantz J. Craddock age 29
Khosrov Harutyunyan age 31
Bill McKell age 87
Fuad Guliyev age 38
Firuz Mustafayev age 45
Chérif Sy age 19
Nestor Ntahontuye age 1
Bello Bouba Maigari age 32
Célestin Gaombalet age 37
Mohamed Ahmed age 62
Ahmed Abdou age 43
Mahmoud Fawzi age 78
Aziz Sedki age 59
Cándido Muatetema Rivas age 19
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 34
Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge age 33
Maya Tskitishvili age 5
Ben Jones age 54
Artur Silva age 23
Jean Marie Chérestal age 32
Wilopo age 69
Gilbert Aké age 23
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti age 29
Abdelhamid Sharaf age 40
Taher Masri age 37
Tursunbek Chyngyshev age 36
Andrei Iordan age 44
Shafik Wazzan age 54
Takieddin el-Solh age 71
Mohamed Ahmed Mangush age 11
Olivier Mahafaly Solonandrasana age 15
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 48
Sghair Ould M'Bareck age 25
Dashiin Byambasüren age 37
David Beattie age 55
Aliou Mahamidou age 32
Hamid Algabid age 38
Mahamadou Danda age 28
Winston Cenac age 53
Monica Dacon age 45
Stanley John age 28