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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

Mircea Druc age 47
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki age 37
Ksente Bogoev age 69
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 35
Vaughan Lewis age 48
Michael Pilgrim age 42
Qadriddin Aslonov age 41
Samuelu Teo age 32
Mainza Chona age 59
John Guise age 74
Kingsford Dibela age 57
Sam Abal age 30
Roberto Giorgetti age 26
Antonio Carattoni age 43
Gabriele Gatti age 36
Glauco Sansovini age 50
Giovanni Francesco Ugolini age 36
Massimo Cenci age 21
Denis Amici age 16
Beriz Belkić age 42
Efraín Goldenberg age 59
Luis Alva Castro age 47
Víctor Joy Way age 44
Edward C. Meyer age 60
David Norquist age 22
Daniel Bennett Smith age 33
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 83
David E. Jeremiah age 55
Kenneth Rush age 79
Jo Grimond age 75
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 56
James Bevel age 52
Ye Fei age 74
Zhang Zhen age 74
Milutin Kukanjac age 54
Basilio Lami Dozo age 60
John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse age 61
Ngo Quang Truong age 59
Leighton W. Smith, Jr. age 49
Nguyen Van Toan age 56
Avigdor Ben-Gal age 52
Amir Drori age 51
Julian Thompson age 54
Jeremy Moore age 60
Teymuraz Bagration age 76
Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia age 64
Yi Geon age 79
Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm age 85
Princess Franziska of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst age 91
Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg age 67
Archduke Carl Christian of Austria age 34
Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk age 95
India Hicks age 21
Fernando Schwartz age 51
Princess Nina of Greece and Denmark age 2
Serena Armstrong-Jones, Countess of Snowdon age 19
Endicott Peabody age 69
Liam Byrne age 18
Jim Rhodes age 79
John William Brown age 75
Ernest Vandiver age 70
Theodore Olson age 48
Benderli Ali Pasha
Édouard Nzambimana age 43
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 77
Charles Assalé age 77
Adoum Younousmi age 26
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido age 42
Ali Mroudjaé age 49
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 80
Oliver Seraphin age 45
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 65
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 66
Andreas Fakudze age 44
Sishayi Nxumalo age 53
Vincent Mhlanga age 39
Mikael Imru age 59
François Lonseny Fall age 40
Mário Pires age 40
Kubanychbek Jumaliyev age 32
Omar al-Hasi age 40
Janlavyn Narantsatsralt age 31
Dragan Kujović age 41
Vidoje Žarković age 61
Mahn Win Khaing Than age 37
Sylvestre Nsanzimana age 53
Lee Moore age 50
Pretaap Radhakishun age 54
Bashir al-Azma age 78
Norberto Costa Alegre age 38
Armindo Vaz d'Almeida age 36
Paul Adderley age 60
Henry Milton Taylor age 85
Tekin Arıburun age 83
Muhammad Said al-Attar age 62
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 51
Hasan al-Lawzi age 37
Jeffrey Nape age 25
Tore Lokoloko age 58
Wiwa Korowi age 40
Jure Pelivan age 60
Dragan Mikerević age 34
Gian Carlo Capicchioni age 33
Teodoro Lonfernini age 12
Antonello Bacciocchi age 31
Ernesto Benedettini age 41
Loris Francini age 26
Federico Pedini Amati age 12
Maria Domenica Michelotti age 36
Jozo Križanović age 44
Federico Salas age 38
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 66
Alberto Bustamante Belaunde age 38
Pedro Richter Prada age 68
Sandro Mariátegui age 67
Luis Arroyo Sánchez age 32
Kwassi Klutse age 43
Aurelius Marie age 84
Frank G. Wisner age 50
Christopher W. Grady age 26
Dennis Reimer age 49
John William Vessey Jr. age 66
Tomás Mac Giolla age 65
Jassem Alwan age 60
Melba Pattillo Beals age 47
Hakija Turajlić age 53
Lewis MacKenzie age 48
Rupert Smith age 46
Philip Effiong age 63
Michael E. Ryan age 47
James Dutton age 35
Brian Burridge age 40
Ayad Futtayih al-Rawi age 47
Harbaksh Singh age 75
Ernesto Horacio Crespo age 59
Ayako Sano age 75
Mukbile Sultan age 77
Julia Mullock age 66
Chiang Hsiao-yen age 47
Oskar Prinz von Preussen age 29
Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt age 45
Archduchess Ilona of Austria age 62
Richard Brandram age 77
Prince Heinrich of Hesse-Kassel age 61
Prince Karl of Leiningen age 61
Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun age 58
Emmanuelle de Dampierre age 75
Edelmira, Countess of Covadonga age 83
Heinrich Prinz von Hannover age 27
Sonja Bernadotte age 44
Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia age 29
Philipp, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 19
Hubertus Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha age 13
Alois-Konstantin, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg age 47
Daniel Chatto age 32
Lady Nicholas Windsor age 19
María Margarita Vargas Santaella age 5
Chiang Pin-kung age 56
Francis Sargent age 73
William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill age 42
Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman age 46
Richard J. Hughes age 79
Parris Glendening age 46
Albertis Harrison age 82
Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon age 33
Robert D. Orr age 71
William Ruckelshaus age 56
Lawrence Walsh age 77
Chuck Horner age 52
Stuart Leslie age 25
Gabriel Koyambounou age 42
Said Ali Kemal age 51
Mohamed Abdou Madi age 33
Abdallah Mohamed age 39
Bianrifi Tarmidi age 31
Ibrahim Halidi age 34
Kamal el-Din Hussein age 68
Hailu Yimenu age 54
Herbert Duffus age 80
Almanbet Matubraimov age 36
Iskenderbek Aidaraliyev age 33
Mohamed Lemine Ould Guig age 29
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 33
Angidi Chettiar age 61
Sebastián Uriza age 128
Souley Abdoulaye age 33
Dismas Nsengiyaremye age 44
George Charles age 72
Ahmadou Al Aminou Lo age 23
Errol Alibux age 40
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 57
Daniel Daio age 42
John Warburton Paul age 73
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 54
Elijah Mudenda age 61
Božidar Matić age 51
Cesare Gasperoni age 45
Mirko Dolcini age 15
Edda Ceccoli age 41
Maurizio Rattini age 39