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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
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre 1989-04-15 - 1989-06-04

People

Hamid Algabid age 48
Mahamadou Danda age 37
Winston Cenac age 63
Monica Dacon age 54
Stanley John age 37
Dragan Maršićanin age 39
Vojislav Mihailović age 37
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 62
Tomé Vera Cruz age 36
Yahyo Azimov age 41
Gerald Cash age 71
Kamel Madouri age 15
Tulaga Manuella age 52
Barak Sopé age 34
Salem Saleh bin Braik age 24
Vincent Eri age 52
Osman Jama Ali age 48
Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle age 48
Hyun Soong-jong age 70
Matteo Fiorini age 11
Michele Muratori age 5
Massimo Andrea Ugolini age 10
Roberto Venturini age 28
Fabio Berardi age 29
Andrea Belluzzi age 21
Héctor Valer age 30
René Cornejo age 27
Denisse Miralles age 12
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 54
Koffi Sama age 45
Shlomo Shamir age 73
Lewis Thompson Preston age 62
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 83
Dana Boente age 35
Gordon R. Sullivan age 51
Robert Carr age 72
Randy George age 24
Wu Po-hsiung age 49
James L. Farmer, Jr. age 69
Diane Nash age 50
Fred Shuttlesworth age 67
Song Shilun age 81
Agim Ramadani age 24
Yeshayahu Gavish age 63
Enrique Tarrio age 7
Yasuko Konoe age 45
Paul Ilyinsky age 61
Mihrimah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ziyaeddin) age 66
Mukarram Jah age 55
Prince Abbas Hilmi age 47
Fazile Hanımsultan age 47
Swaran Singh age 81
Princess Antonia, Duchess of Wellington age 33
Gerald David Lascelles age 64
Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine age 51
David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood age 38
Lady Rose Gilman age 9
Alfonso de Orléans-Borbón, Duke of Galliera age 21
Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 18
Carmen Martínez-Bordiú age 38
Bernhard, Margrave of Baden age 18
Carina Axelsson age 20
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth age 68
Hilary Armstrong age 43
Jonathan Reynolds age 8
Roy Mason age 65
Foster Furcolo age 77
Dolph Briscoe age 66
Edgar Whitcomb age 71
Cecil Parkinson age 57
Lester Maddox age 73
James Florio age 51
Darren Jones age 2
Lisa Monaco age 21
Sakızlı Ahmed Esat Pasha
Joseph Ralston age 45
Tod D. Wolters age 28
Alexus Grynkewich age 17
Mokdad Sifi age 49
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 79
Fazlul Haque age 50
Pascal-Firmin Ndimira age 33
Huy Kanthoul age 80
Anicet-Georges Dologuélé age 32
Combo Ayouba age 36
Edison James age 45
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 68
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 70
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 50
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 71
Lamine Sidimé age 45
Caetano N'Tchama age 34
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum age 62
Mohsen Abdel Hamid age 52
Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai age 47
Ahmad Lawzi age 64
Amangeldy Muraliyev age 41
Alexander Frick age 79
Hyppolite Ramaroson age 37
Mamadou Dembelé age 55
Mohamed Salem Ould Béchir age 26
Eugen Osmochescu age 16
Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan age 34
Puntsagiin Jasrai age 55
Ali Badjo Gamatié age 32
Amadou Cissé age 40
Charles David Ganao age 61
Justin Nsengiyumva age 17
Charles Antrobus age 55
Laʻauli Leuatea Schmidt age 23
Peter Colotka age 64
Américo Ramos age 22
Raul Bragança Neto age 50
Tomu Sione age 47
Alfred Maseng age 40
Roger Abiut age 17
Philip Boedoro age 30
Seoule Simeon age 18
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 56
Daniel Lisulo age 58
Kebby Musokotwane age 42
Silas Atopare age 38
Muhammad Hawadle Madar age 50
Abdiwahid Elmi Gonjeh age 39
Yoon Jeung-hyun age 42
Ro Jai-bong age 53
Pak Choong-hoon age 70
Gian Carlo Venturini age 27
Rosa Zafferani age 28
Assunta Meloni age 38
Andrea Zafferani age 6
Alberto Selva age 24
Luca Boschi age 16
Nicola Selva age 26
Enrico Carattoni age 3
Matteo Rossi age 2
Javier Valle Riestra age 57
Ernesto Álvarez Miranda age 27
Alden W. Clausen age 66
Peter de la Billière age 55
Edward H. Levi age 77
Claire Underwood age 24
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 76
Anthony Barber age 68
Bernard W. Rogers age 67
David C. Jones age 67
Peter Thorneycroft age 79
Roj Shaweis age 41
Johnny Chiang age 17
Ernest Medina age 52
Yang Dezhi age 78
Gholam Hossein Sadighi age 83
Nguyễn Hữu An age 62
Salah Aboud Mahmoud age 47
Rex Hunt age 62
Shimon Avidan age 78
Shahnawaz Tanai age 39
Masako Sen age 37
Princess Kira of Prussia age 45
Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg age 32
Vincenz Liechtenstein age 38
Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma age 41
Tord Magnuson age 48
John Ambler age 64
Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg age 20
Carlos Zurita, Duke of Soria age 45
Prince Christian of Hanover age 3
Inaara Aga Khan age 26
Frank D. White age 55
Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde age 29
Mills Godwin age 74
Sid McMath age 76
Carl Sanders age 63
Donald DiFrancesco age 44
Joe Kernan age 43
Laz Ahmed Pasha
İbrahim Sarim Pasha
Clarence M. Kelley age 77
Mohammad Yusuf age 72
Fazal khaliq age 55
John Montague Stow age 77
Lhendup Dorji age 53
André Muhirwa age 69
Ek Yi Oun age 79
Sak Sutsakhan age 61
Luc Ayang age 42
Édouard Frank age 55
Jean-Paul Ngoupandé age 31
Timothée Malendoma age 54
Said Atthoumani age 39
Abbas Djoussouf age 47
Nourdine Bourhane age 39
Rosie Douglas age 47
Artur Sanhá age 24
Edward Zacca age 57
Ata Teaotai age 36
Aaly Karashev age 20
Guy Razanamasy age 60
Younoussi Touré age 48
Vitalie Pîrlog age 14