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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
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
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
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11

People

Sandra Day O'Connor age 47
Kim Jong-il age 36
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 73
Fernando de la Rúa age 40
Khaleda Zia age 31
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 39
Herman Van Rompuy age 30
Romuald Wadagni age 1
Waldo Bernal Pereira age 47
Óscar Pammo Rodríguez age 44
Saïd Ali Mohamed age 32
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 61
Siim Kallas age 29
Andreas Fakudze age 32
Hailu Yimenu age 43
Sidya Touré age 33
Constantino Teixeira age 44
Mark Phillips age 16
Fritz Jean age 22
András Baka age 25
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 53
H. D. Deve Gowda age 44
Taher Masri age 36
Ata Teaotai age 25
Phankham Viphavanh age 27
David Nimley age 33
Gediminas Vagnorius age 20
Jean-Jacques Rasolondraibe age 31
Felipe Calderón age 15
Claudia Sheinbaum age 15
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 24
Miguel de la Madrid age 43
Enrique Peña Nieto age 11
Ernesto Zedillo age 26
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 29
Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan age 23
Jargaltulga Erdenebat age 5
Mijuško Šibalić age 63
Fatmi Benslimane age 80
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 25
Julián Irías Sandres age 98
Hama Amadou age 28
Imran Khan age 25
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 63
José Manuel Barroso age 21
António Costa age 16
Pasteur Bizimungu age 28
Đuro Macut age 14
France Popit age 56
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 64
Muhammad Ali al-Halabi age 41
Vajiralongkorn age 25
Pote Sarasin age 72
Philip "Brave" Davis age 26
Francisco Guterres age 23
Nihat Erim age 66
Samuelu Teo age 21
Feleti Teo age 15
Saulo Musoke age 58
Yoweri Hunter Wacha-Olwol age 55
Polycarp Nyamuchoncho age 48
Alfred Maseng age 29
Shaya al-Zindani age 24
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 27
Mario Abdo Benítez age 6
Giovanni Vito Marcucci age 50
Primo Marani age 55
Giovanni Zaccaria Savoretti age 58
Marino Bollini age 45
Severiano Tura age 25
Gastone Pasolini age 46
Ferruccio Piva age 54
Libero Barulli age 30
Pier Paolo Gasperoni age 27
Pietro Giancecchi age 56
Dante Rossi age 47
Emilio Della Balda age 41
Enrico Andreoli age 56
Mauro Fiorini age 21
Alberto Cecchetti age 34
Antonio Lazzaro Volpinari age 34
Germano De Biagi age 38
Gino Giovagnoli age 26
Giovanni Giannoni age 30
Giuseppe Maria Morganti age 22
Luigi Mazza age 17
Marino Zanotti age 26
Mauro Chiaruzzi age 25
Ottaviano Rossi age 26
Paride Andreoli age 22
Pier Marino Menicucci age 19
Pier Marino Mularoni age 15
Pietro Berti age 11
Pietro Bugli age 23
Pietro Reffi age 50
Giancarlo Ghironzi age 46
Domenico Bernardini age 21
Vincenzo Pedini age 57
Vincenzo Mularoni age 78
Massimo Roberto Rossini age 33
Clelio Galassi age 27
Claudio Podeschi age 21
Roberto Bucci age 28
Renzo Ghiotti age 26
Luciano Ciavatta age 22
Miguel Mujica Gallo age 67
Daniel Becerra de la Flor age 72
Alfonso de los Heros age 39
Joseph Kokou Koffigoh age 30
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 56
Lord Mountbatten age 77
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) age 8
Glubb Pasha age 80
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon age 77
Prince Philip age 56
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 54
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 47
Dương Văn Minh age 62
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 66
Lê Đức Thọ age 66
Văn Tiến Dũng age 60
C. R. Swart age 83
Jim Fouché age 79
Wangari Maathai age 37
William Hague age 16
Iain Duncan Smith age 23
George Brown age 63
Harriet Harman age 27
Ed Miliband age 8
Jeremy Corbyn age 28
Wu Po-hsiung age 38
Eric Chu age 16
Hung Hsiu-chu age 29
Johnny Chiang age 5
Cheng Li-wun age 8
James Moroka age 86
Tomás Mac Giolla age 54
Gerry Adams age 29
Mary Lou McDonald age 8
William Calley age 34
Ernest Medina age 41
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 34
James Earl Ray age 49
Sirhan Sirhan age 33
U. S. Grant Sharp, Jr. age 71
Roy L. Johnson age 71
Sisavang Vatthana age 70
Phoumi Nosavan age 58
Michel Aflaq age 68
Munif Razzaz age 58
Essam Sirius age 52
Ziad al-Hariri age 48
Jassem Alwan age 49
Haydar al-Kuzbari age 58
Sultan al-Atrash age 86
Miles Copeland, Jr. age 61
Yang Dezhi age 67
Xu Shiyou age 72
Anastas Mikoyan age 82
William Kelly Harrison, Jr. age 82
James Bevel age 41
Bayard Rustin age 65
Pepe San Román age 48
Juan Almeida Bosque age 50
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez age 45
Gholam Hossein Sadighi age 72
Nematollah Nassiri age 66
Jamshid Amouzegar age 54
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 67
Mehdi Bazargan age 70
Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha age 33
James B. Vaught age 51
Flora MacDonald age 51
Asaka Yasuhiko age 90
Stanislav Shushkevich age 43
Caspar Weinberger age 60
Joseph Metcalf, III age 50
Liu Yuzhang age 74
Ye Fei age 63
Chiang Chung-ling age 55
Wu Shih-wen age 43
Liu Huaqing age 62
Zhang Zhen age 63
Adnan Uqla age 28
Mustafa Tlass age 45
Hikmat al-Shihabi age 46
Günter Schabowski age 49
Chang Fa-kwei age 82
Arthur Dewey Struble age 83
Bachir Gemayel age 30
Walid Jumblatt age 28
Emmanuel Erskine age 41
William O'Callaghan age 56
Said al-Muragha age 51
Ahmed Jibril age 40
Khalil al-Wazir age 42
Gerhard von Schwerin age 78
Fred Gray age 47
James L. Farmer, Jr. age 58
Gordon Carey age 46