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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

Clarence M. Kelley age 67
Mohammad Yusuf age 62
Fazal khaliq age 45
John Montague Stow age 67
Lhendup Dorji age 43
André Muhirwa age 59
Ek Yi Oun age 69
Sak Sutsakhan age 51
Luc Ayang age 32
Édouard Frank age 44
Jean-Paul Ngoupandé age 21
Timothée Malendoma age 44
Said Atthoumani age 29
Abbas Djoussouf age 36
Nourdine Bourhane age 29
Rosie Douglas age 37
Artur Sanhá age 14
Naji Shawkat age 86
Edward Zacca age 47
Kassim al-Rimawi age 61
Ata Teaotai age 26
Aaly Karashev age 10
Nazem Akkari age 77
Guy Razanamasy age 50
Younoussi Touré age 38
Ahmed Ould Bouceif age 45
Vitalie Pîrlog age 4
Mircea Druc age 37
Mamane Oumarou age 34
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki age 27
Ksente Bogoev age 59
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 25
Vaughan Lewis age 38
Michael Pilgrim age 32
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 56
Qadriddin Aslonov age 31
Samuelu Teo age 22
Mainza Chona age 49
John Guise age 64
Kingsford Dibela age 46
Sam Abal age 20
Roberto Giorgetti age 16
Antonio Carattoni age 33
Gabriele Gatti age 25
Glauco Sansovini age 40
Giovanni Francesco Ugolini age 25
Massimo Cenci age 11
Denis Amici age 6
Beriz Belkić age 32
Efraín Goldenberg age 49
Luis Alva Castro age 36
Pedro Beltrán age 81
Víctor Joy Way age 33
George David Woods age 77
Edward C. Meyer age 50
David Norquist age 12
Daniel Bennett Smith age 22
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 73
David E. Jeremiah age 44
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 50
Kenneth Rush age 69
Phoumi Nosavan age 59
Xu Shiyou age 73
James Bevel age 42
Ye Fei age 64
Zhang Zhen age 64
Milutin Kukanjac age 44
Basilio Lami Dozo age 50
John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse age 50
Ngo Quang Truong age 49
Leighton W. Smith, Jr. age 39
Nguyen Van Toan age 46
Avigdor Ben-Gal age 42
Amir Drori age 41
Julian Thompson age 44
Jeremy Moore age 50
Teymuraz Bagration age 66
Irina Yusupova age 63
Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia age 54
Mihrişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Izzeddin) age 62
Deng Hua age 69
Yi Geon age 69
Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg age 79
Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm age 74
Princess Franziska of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst age 81
Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg age 57
Archduke Carl Christian of Austria age 24
Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk age 85
India Hicks age 11
Fernando Schwartz age 41
Serena Armstrong-Jones, Countess of Snowdon age 8
Endicott Peabody age 58
Liam Byrne age 8
John William Brown age 65
Colgate Darden age 82
Ned McWherter age 48
Ernest Vandiver age 60
Joe Purcell age 55
Theodore Olson age 38
Benderli Ali Pasha
Adrien Sibomana age 25
Édouard Nzambimana age 33
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 66
Charles Assalé age 67
Adoum Younousmi age 16
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido age 31
Ali Mroudjaé age 39
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 70
Jorge García Montes age 82
Oliver Seraphin age 35
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 55
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 56
Andreas Fakudze age 33
Sishayi Nxumalo age 43
Vincent Mhlanga age 29
Mikael Imru age 49
François Lonseny Fall age 30
Mário Pires age 30
Nureddin Mahmud age 80
Kubanychbek Jumaliyev age 22
Omar al-Hasi age 30
Janlavyn Narantsatsralt age 21
Dragan Kujović age 31
Vidoje Žarković age 51
Mahn Win Khaing Than age 26
Ange Édouard Poungui age 37
Sylvestre Nsanzimana age 43
Lee Moore age 39
Pretaap Radhakishun age 44
Hassan al-Hakim age 93
Bashir al-Azma age 68
Norberto Costa Alegre age 28
Armindo Vaz d'Almeida age 26
Wang Yun-wu age 90
Roland Theodore Symonette age 80
Paul Adderley age 50
Henry Milton Taylor age 75
Tekin Arıburun age 73
Muhammad Said al-Attar age 52
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 41
Hasan al-Lawzi age 27
Nalumino Mundia age 51
Jeffrey Nape age 15
Wiwa Korowi age 30
Jure Pelivan age 50
Dragan Mikerević age 23
Gian Carlo Capicchioni age 22
Teodoro Lonfernini age 2
Antonello Bacciocchi age 21
Ernesto Benedettini age 30
Loris Francini age 16
Federico Pedini Amati age 2
Maria Domenica Michelotti age 26
Jozo Križanović age 34
Armando Villanueva age 63
Federico Salas age 28
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 56
Alberto Bustamante Belaunde age 28
Pedro Richter Prada age 58
Sandro Mariátegui age 57
Luis Arroyo Sánchez age 22
Kwassi Klutse age 33
Aurelius Marie age 74
Frank G. Wisner age 40
George Decker age 76
Carl E. Vuono age 44
Christopher W. Grady age 16
Dennis Reimer age 39
Harold Keith Johnson age 66
John William Vessey Jr. age 56
Tomás Mac Giolla age 55
Munif Razzaz age 59
Jassem Alwan age 50
Melba Pattillo Beals age 37
Hakija Turajlić age 43
Lewis MacKenzie age 38
Rupert Smith age 36
Philip Effiong age 53
Michael E. Ryan age 37
James Dutton age 24
Hossein Kharrazi age 22
Bahram Afzali age 41
Brian Burridge age 30
Ayad Futtayih al-Rawi age 37
Harbaksh Singh age 65
Ernesto Horacio Crespo age 49
Ayako Sano age 65
Mukbile Sultan age 67
Han Xianchu age 66
Julia Mullock age 55
Chiang Hsiao-yen age 36
Oskar Prinz von Preussen age 19
Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt age 35
Prince Karl Alfred of Liechtenstein age 68
Archduchess Ilona of Austria age 51
Richard Brandram age 67
Prince Heinrich of Hesse-Kassel age 51
Prince Karl of Leiningen age 51
Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun age 48
Emmanuelle de Dampierre age 65