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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
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Dashiin Byambasüren age 36
David Beattie age 54
Aliou Mahamidou age 31
Hamid Algabid age 38
Mahamadou Danda age 27
Winston Cenac age 53
Monica Dacon age 44
Stanley John age 27
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 54
Dragan Maršićanin age 29
Vojislav Mihailović age 27
Janez Stanovnik age 56
Mahmoud Zuabi age 44
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 52
Tomé Vera Cruz age 26
Yahyo Azimov age 31
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 38
Kamel Madouri age 5
Tulaga Manuella age 42
Barak Sopé age 24
Salem Saleh bin Braik age 13
Vincent Eri age 42
Osman Jama Ali age 38
Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle age 38
Hyun Soong-jong age 60
Matteo Fiorini age 11 months
Massimo Andrea Ugolini age 6 months
Roberto Venturini age 18
Fabio Berardi age 19
Andrea Belluzzi age 10
Héctor Valer age 19
René Cornejo age 17
Denisse Miralles age 2
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 44
Koffi Sama age 35
Shlomo Shamir age 63
Edward Almond age 86
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 67
Lewis Thompson Preston age 52
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 73
Dana Boente age 24
Christopher Soames age 58
Gordon R. Sullivan age 41
John Wesley Snyder age 83
Robert Carr age 62
Randy George age 14
Wu Po-hsiung age 39
James L. Farmer, Jr. age 59
Diane Nash age 40
Fred Shuttlesworth age 56
Izzat Darwaza age 90
Song Shilun age 71
Agim Ramadani age 14
Yeshayahu Gavish age 53
Yasuko Konoe age 34
Paul Ilyinsky age 51
Mihrimah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ziyaeddin) age 56
Mukarram Jah age 45
Prince Abbas Hilmi age 37
Fazile Hanımsultan age 37
Swaran Singh age 71
Alfred Schlemm age 84
Princess Antonia, Duchess of Wellington age 23
Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 66
Gerald David Lascelles age 54
Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine age 41
David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood age 28
Alfonso de Orléans-Borbón, Duke of Galliera age 11
Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 8
Carmen Martínez-Bordiú age 27
Bernhard, Margrave of Baden age 8
Carina Axelsson age 10
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth age 58
Hilary Armstrong age 33
Allan Shivers age 71
Roy Mason age 54
Gerald Baliles age 38
Leverett Saltonstall age 86
Foster Furcolo age 67
Dolph Briscoe age 55
Edgar Whitcomb age 61
Cecil Parkinson age 47
Lester Maddox age 63
James Florio age 41
Lisa Monaco age 10
Sakızlı Ahmed Esat Pasha
Joseph Ralston age 35
Tod D. Wolters age 18
Alexus Grynkewich age 7
Mokdad Sifi age 38
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 69
Fazlul Haque age 40
Pascal-Firmin Ndimira age 22
Huy Kanthoul age 70
Anicet-Georges Dologuélé age 21
Combo Ayouba age 26
Gonzalo Güell age 83
Edison James age 35
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 57
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 83
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 60
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 40
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 61
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 84
Lamine Sidimé age 35
Caetano N'Tchama age 24
Constantino Teixeira age 45
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum age 52
Muzahim Pachachi age 88
Mohsen Abdel Hamid age 42
Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai age 37
Kenneth Blackburne age 71
Abdelmunim al-Rifai age 61
Ahmad Toukan age 75
Ahmad Lawzi age 54
Amangeldy Muraliyev age 31
Alexander Frick age 68
Hyppolite Ramaroson age 27
Mamadou Dembelé age 45
Mohamed Salem Ould Béchir age 16
Eugen Osmochescu age 6
Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan age 24
Puntsagiin Jasrai age 45
Radoje Kontić age 41
Ali Badjo Gamatié age 22
Amadou Cissé age 30
Charles David Ganao age 51
Justin Nsengiyumva age 7
Charles Antrobus age 45
Laʻauli Leuatea Schmidt age 12
Américo Ramos age 12
Raul Bragança Neto age 39
Yu Kuo-hwa age 65
Tomu Sione age 37
Alfred Maseng age 30
Roger Abiut age 7
Philip Boedoro age 20
Seoule Simeon age 8
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 46
Malimba Masheke age 37
Kebby Musokotwane age 32
Ignatius Kilage age 37
Silas Atopare age 28
Muhammad Hawadle Madar age 40
Abdiwahid Elmi Gonjeh age 29
Yoon Jeung-hyun age 32
Ro Jai-bong age 42
Pak Choong-hoon age 60
Gian Carlo Venturini age 16
Rosa Zafferani age 18
Assunta Meloni age 27
Alberto Selva age 14
Luca Boschi age 6
Nicola Selva age 16
Javier Valle Riestra age 47
Ernesto Álvarez Miranda age 17
Alden W. Clausen age 55
Peter de la Billière age 44
Edward H. Levi age 67
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 79
Claire Underwood age 14
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 65
Anthony Barber age 58
Peter Thorneycroft age 69
William J. Crowe age 54
Roj Shaweis age 31
Johnny Chiang age 6
James Moroka age 87
Ernest Medina age 42
Yang Dezhi age 68
Gholam Hossein Sadighi age 73
Nguyễn Hữu An age 52
Salah Aboud Mahmoud age 37
Rex Hunt age 52
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri age 70
Shimon Avidan age 68
Shahnawaz Tanai age 29
Masako Sen age 27
Prince Nayef bin Abdullah age 64
Princess Kira of Prussia age 35
Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg age 22
Vincenz Liechtenstein age 28
Lady Iris Mountbatten age 59
Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma age 31
Tord Magnuson age 37
John Ambler age 54
Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg age 10
Carlos Zurita, Duke of Soria age 35
Inaara Aga Khan age 15
Frank D. White age 45
Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde age 18
J. Lindsay Almond age 80
Dick Celeste age 41
Mills Godwin age 64
Sid McMath age 66
Carl Sanders age 53
Donald DiFrancesco age 34
Joe Kernan age 32
Joe Frank Harris age 42
Laz Ahmed Pasha