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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
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980) 1980-09-22 - 1980-11-10
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27

People

Lewis Thompson Preston age 54
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 74
Dana Boente age 26
Christopher Soames age 60
Gordon R. Sullivan age 43
John Wesley Snyder age 85
Robert Carr age 64
Randy George age 16
Wu Po-hsiung age 41
James L. Farmer, Jr. age 60
Diane Nash age 42
Fred Shuttlesworth age 58
Izzat Darwaza age 92
Song Shilun age 73
Agim Ramadani age 16
Yeshayahu Gavish age 55
Yasuko Konoe age 36
Paul Ilyinsky age 52
Mihrimah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ziyaeddin) age 58
Mukarram Jah age 47
Prince Abbas Hilmi age 39
Fazile Hanımsultan age 39
Swaran Singh age 73
Alfred Schlemm age 85
Princess Antonia, Duchess of Wellington age 25
Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 68
Gerald David Lascelles age 56
Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine age 43
David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood age 30
Lady Rose Gilman age 8 months
Alfonso de Orléans-Borbón, Duke of Galliera age 12
Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 9
Carmen Martínez-Bordiú age 29
Bernhard, Margrave of Baden age 10
Carina Axelsson age 12
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth age 59
Hilary Armstrong age 34
Jonathan Reynolds age 2 months
Allan Shivers age 73
Roy Mason age 56
Gerald Baliles age 40
Foster Furcolo age 69
Dolph Briscoe age 57
Edgar Whitcomb age 63
Cecil Parkinson age 49
Lester Maddox age 65
James Florio age 43
Lisa Monaco age 12
Sakızlı Ahmed Esat Pasha
Joseph Ralston age 37
Tod D. Wolters age 20
Alexus Grynkewich age 9
Mokdad Sifi age 40
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 71
Fazlul Haque age 42
Pascal-Firmin Ndimira age 24
Huy Kanthoul age 71
Anicet-Georges Dologuélé age 23
Combo Ayouba age 27
Gonzalo Güell age 85
Edison James age 37
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 59
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 84
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 61
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 41
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 63
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 86
Lamine Sidimé age 36
Caetano N'Tchama age 25
Constantino Teixeira age 47
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum age 53
Muzahim Pachachi age 90
Mohsen Abdel Hamid age 43
Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai age 39
Abdelmunim al-Rifai age 63
Ahmad Toukan age 77
Ahmad Lawzi age 55
Amangeldy Muraliyev age 33
Alexander Frick age 70
Hyppolite Ramaroson age 29
Mamadou Dembelé age 46
Mohamed Salem Ould Béchir age 17
Eugen Osmochescu age 8
Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan age 25
Puntsagiin Jasrai age 46
Radoje Kontić age 43
Ali Badjo Gamatié age 23
Amadou Cissé age 32
Charles David Ganao age 53
Justin Nsengiyumva age 9
Charles Antrobus age 47
Laʻauli Leuatea Schmidt age 14
Américo Ramos age 14
Raul Bragança Neto age 41
Yu Kuo-hwa age 66
Tomu Sione age 39
Alfred Maseng age 31
Roger Abiut age 8
Philip Boedoro age 22
Seoule Simeon age 10
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 48
Malimba Masheke age 39
Kebby Musokotwane age 34
Ignatius Kilage age 39
Silas Atopare age 29
Muhammad Hawadle Madar age 41
Abdiwahid Elmi Gonjeh age 30
Yoon Jeung-hyun age 34
Ro Jai-bong age 44
Pak Choong-hoon age 61
Gian Carlo Venturini age 18
Rosa Zafferani age 20
Assunta Meloni age 29
Alberto Selva age 16
Luca Boschi age 7
Nicola Selva age 18
Javier Valle Riestra age 48
Ernesto Álvarez Miranda age 19
Alden W. Clausen age 57
Peter de la Billière age 46
Edward H. Levi age 69
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 80
Claire Underwood age 15
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 67
Anthony Barber age 60
Peter Thorneycroft age 71
William J. Crowe age 55
Roj Shaweis age 32
Johnny Chiang age 8
James Moroka age 89
Ernest Medina age 44
Yang Dezhi age 69
Gholam Hossein Sadighi age 74
Nguyễn Hữu An age 54
Salah Aboud Mahmoud age 38
Rex Hunt age 54
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri age 72
Shimon Avidan age 69
Shahnawaz Tanai age 30
Masako Sen age 29
Prince Nayef bin Abdullah age 66
Princess Kira of Prussia age 37
Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg age 24
Vincenz Liechtenstein age 30
Lady Iris Mountbatten age 60
Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma age 33
Tord Magnuson age 39
John Ambler age 56
Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg age 12
Carlos Zurita, Duke of Soria age 37
Inaara Aga Khan age 17
Frank D. White age 47
Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde age 20
J. Lindsay Almond age 82
Dick Celeste age 43
Mills Godwin age 66
Sid McMath age 68
Carl Sanders age 55
Donald DiFrancesco age 35
Joe Kernan age 34
Joe Frank Harris age 44
Laz Ahmed Pasha
İbrahim Sarim Pasha
Clarence M. Kelley age 69
Mohammad Yusuf age 63
Fazal khaliq age 46
John Montague Stow age 69
Lhendup Dorji age 45
André Muhirwa age 60
Ek Yi Oun age 70
Sak Sutsakhan age 52
Luc Ayang age 33
Édouard Frank age 46
Jean-Paul Ngoupandé age 22
Timothée Malendoma age 45
Said Atthoumani age 30
Abbas Djoussouf age 38
Nourdine Bourhane age 30
Rosie Douglas age 39
Artur Sanhá age 15
Edward Zacca age 49
Kassim al-Rimawi age 62
Ata Teaotai age 27
Aaly Karashev age 12
Nazem Akkari age 78
Guy Razanamasy age 51
Younoussi Touré age 39
Vitalie Pîrlog age 6
Mircea Druc age 39
Mamane Oumarou age 35
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki age 29
Ksente Bogoev age 61
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 27
Vaughan Lewis age 40
Michael Pilgrim age 33
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 58
Qadriddin Aslonov age 33
Samuelu Teo age 23
Mainza Chona age 50
John Guise age 66