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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

People

Jean-Paul Ngoupandé age 21
Timothée Malendoma age 44
Said Atthoumani age 29
Abbas Djoussouf age 37
Nourdine Bourhane age 29
Rosie Douglas age 37
Artur Sanhá age 14
Naji Shawkat age 86
Edward Zacca age 48
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
Vitalie Pîrlog age 4
Mircea Druc age 38
Mamane Oumarou age 34
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki age 27
Ksente Bogoev age 59
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 25
Vaughan Lewis age 39
Michael Pilgrim age 32
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 57
Qadriddin Aslonov age 32
Samuelu Teo age 22
Mainza Chona age 49
John Guise age 64
Kingsford Dibela age 47
Sam Abal age 21
Roberto Giorgetti age 16
Antonio Carattoni age 33
Gabriele Gatti age 26
Glauco Sansovini age 41
Giovanni Francesco Ugolini age 26
Massimo Cenci age 12
Denis Amici age 7
Beriz Belkić age 32
Efraín Goldenberg age 49
Luis Alva Castro age 37
Víctor Joy Way age 34
George David Woods age 78
David Norquist age 12
Daniel Bennett Smith age 23
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 73
David E. Jeremiah age 45
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 51
Kenneth Rush age 69
Phoumi Nosavan age 59
Xu Shiyou age 74
James Bevel age 42
Ye Fei age 65
Zhang Zhen age 64
Milutin Kukanjac age 44
Basilio Lami Dozo age 50
John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse age 51
Ngo Quang Truong age 49
Leighton W. Smith, Jr. age 39
Nguyen Van Toan age 46
Avigdor Ben-Gal age 43
Amir Drori age 41
Julian Thompson age 44
Jeremy Moore age 51
Teymuraz Bagration age 66
Irina Yusupova age 64
Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia age 55
Mihrişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Izzeddin) age 63
Deng Hua age 69
Yi Geon age 69
Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg age 80
Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm age 75
Princess Franziska of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst age 82
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 9
Endicott Peabody age 59
Liam Byrne age 8
John William Brown age 65
Colgate Darden age 82
Ned McWherter age 48
Ernest Vandiver age 61
Joe Purcell age 56
Theodore Olson age 38
Benderli Ali Pasha
Adrien Sibomana age 25
Édouard Nzambimana age 33
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 67
Charles Assalé age 67
Adoum Younousmi age 16
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido age 32
Ali Mroudjaé age 39
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 70
Jorge García Montes age 82
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 55
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 56
Andreas Fakudze age 34
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 23
Omar al-Hasi age 30
Janlavyn Narantsatsralt age 22
Dragan Kujović age 31
Vidoje Žarković age 52
Mahn Win Khaing Than age 27
Ange Édouard Poungui age 37
Sylvestre Nsanzimana age 43
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 91
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 31
Jure Pelivan age 50
Dragan Mikerević age 24
Gian Carlo Capicchioni age 23
Teodoro Lonfernini age 3
Antonello Bacciocchi age 21
Ernesto Benedettini age 31
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
Sandro Mariátegui age 57
Luis Arroyo Sánchez age 22
Kwassi Klutse age 33
Aurelius Marie age 74
Frank G. Wisner age 41
George Decker age 77
Carl E. Vuono age 44
Christopher W. Grady age 16
Dennis Reimer age 40
Harold Keith Johnson age 67
John William Vessey Jr. age 57
Tomás Mac Giolla age 55
Munif Razzaz age 59
Jassem Alwan age 51
Melba Pattillo Beals age 37
Hakija Turajlić age 43
Lewis MacKenzie age 39
Rupert Smith age 36
Philip Effiong age 53
Michael E. Ryan age 37
James Dutton age 25
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 66
Mukbile Sultan age 67
Han Xianchu age 66
Julia Mullock age 56
Chiang Hsiao-yen age 37
Oskar Prinz von Preussen age 20
Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt age 36
Prince Karl Alfred of Liechtenstein age 68
Archduchess Ilona of Austria age 52
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
Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince of Civitella-Cesi age 67
Edelmira, Countess of Covadonga age 73
Heinrich Prinz von Hannover age 18
Sonja Bernadotte age 35
Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia age 19
Philipp, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 9
Hubertus Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha age 3
Alois-Konstantin, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg age 37
Daniel Chatto age 22
Lady Nicholas Windsor age 9
Chiang Pin-kung age 46
Francis Sargent age 64
Robert F. Bradford age 76
William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill age 32
Michael DiSalle age 71
Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman age 37