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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
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
Salvadoran Civil War 1979-10-15 - 1992-01-16
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15

People

Ek Yi Oun age 70
Sak Sutsakhan age 52
Luc Ayang age 33
Édouard Frank age 45
Jean-Paul Ngoupandé age 22
Timothée Malendoma age 45
Said Atthoumani age 30
Abbas Djoussouf age 38
Nourdine Bourhane age 30
Rosie Douglas age 38
Artur Sanhá age 15
Naji Shawkat age 87
Edward Zacca age 48
Kassim al-Rimawi age 62
Ata Teaotai age 27
Aaly Karashev age 11
Nazem Akkari age 78
Guy Razanamasy age 51
Younoussi Touré age 39
Vitalie Pîrlog age 5
Mircea Druc age 38
Mamane Oumarou age 35
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki age 28
Ksente Bogoev age 60
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 26
Vaughan Lewis age 39
Michael Pilgrim age 33
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 57
Qadriddin Aslonov age 32
Samuelu Teo age 23
Mainza Chona age 50
John Guise age 65
Kingsford Dibela age 48
Sam Abal age 21
Roberto Giorgetti age 17
Antonio Carattoni age 34
Gabriele Gatti age 27
Glauco Sansovini age 41
Giovanni Francesco Ugolini age 27
Massimo Cenci age 12
Denis Amici age 7
Beriz Belkić age 33
Efraín Goldenberg age 50
Luis Alva Castro age 38
Víctor Joy Way age 35
George David Woods age 78
David Norquist age 13
Daniel Bennett Smith age 24
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 74
David E. Jeremiah age 46
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 51
Kenneth Rush age 70
Phoumi Nosavan age 60
Xu Shiyou age 75
James Bevel age 43
Ye Fei age 65
Zhang Zhen age 65
Milutin Kukanjac age 45
Basilio Lami Dozo age 51
John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse age 52
Ngo Quang Truong age 50
Leighton W. Smith, Jr. age 40
Nguyen Van Toan age 47
Avigdor Ben-Gal age 43
Amir Drori age 42
Julian Thompson age 45
Jeremy Moore age 51
Teymuraz Bagration age 67
Irina Yusupova age 65
Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia age 55
Mihrişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Izzeddin) age 63
Yi Geon age 70
Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg age 81
Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm age 75
Princess Franziska of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst age 82
Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg age 58
Archduke Carl Christian of Austria age 25
Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk age 86
India Hicks age 12
Fernando Schwartz age 42
Serena Armstrong-Jones, Countess of Snowdon age 10
Endicott Peabody age 60
Liam Byrne age 9
John William Brown age 66
Colgate Darden age 83
Ned McWherter age 49
Ernest Vandiver age 61
Joe Purcell age 56
Theodore Olson age 39
Benderli Ali Pasha
Adrien Sibomana age 26
Édouard Nzambimana age 34
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 68
Charles Assalé age 68
Adoum Younousmi age 17
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido age 32
Ali Mroudjaé age 40
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 71
Jorge García Montes age 83
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 56
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 57
Andreas Fakudze age 34
Sishayi Nxumalo age 44
Vincent Mhlanga age 30
Mikael Imru age 50
François Lonseny Fall age 31
Mário Pires age 31
Nureddin Mahmud age 81
Kubanychbek Jumaliyev age 23
Omar al-Hasi age 31
Janlavyn Narantsatsralt age 22
Dragan Kujović age 32
Vidoje Žarković age 52
Mahn Win Khaing Than age 27
Ange Édouard Poungui age 38
Sylvestre Nsanzimana age 44
Lee Moore age 41
Pretaap Radhakishun age 45
Hassan al-Hakim age 94
Bashir al-Azma age 69
Norberto Costa Alegre age 29
Armindo Vaz d'Almeida age 27
Paul Adderley age 51
Henry Milton Taylor age 76
Tekin Arıburun age 74
Muhammad Said al-Attar age 53
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 42
Hasan al-Lawzi age 28
Nalumino Mundia age 52
Jeffrey Nape age 16
Wiwa Korowi age 31
Jure Pelivan age 51
Dragan Mikerević age 25
Gian Carlo Capicchioni age 24
Teodoro Lonfernini age 3
Antonello Bacciocchi age 22
Ernesto Benedettini age 32
Loris Francini age 17
Federico Pedini Amati age 3
Maria Domenica Michelotti age 27
Jozo Križanović age 35
Armando Villanueva age 64
Federico Salas age 29
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 57
Alberto Bustamante Belaunde age 29
Sandro Mariátegui age 58
Luis Arroyo Sánchez age 23
Kwassi Klutse age 34
Frank G. Wisner age 41
Carl E. Vuono age 45
Christopher W. Grady age 17
Dennis Reimer age 40
Harold Keith Johnson age 68
John William Vessey Jr. age 57
Tomás Mac Giolla age 56
Munif Razzaz age 60
Jassem Alwan age 51
Melba Pattillo Beals age 38
Hakija Turajlić age 44
Lewis MacKenzie age 39
Rupert Smith age 37
Philip Effiong age 54
Michael E. Ryan age 38
James Dutton age 26
Hossein Kharrazi age 23
Bahram Afzali age 42
Brian Burridge age 31
Ayad Futtayih al-Rawi age 38
Harbaksh Singh age 66
Ernesto Horacio Crespo age 50
Ayako Sano age 66
Mukbile Sultan age 68
Han Xianchu age 67
Julia Mullock age 57
Chiang Hsiao-yen age 38
Oskar Prinz von Preussen age 20
Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt age 36
Prince Karl Alfred of Liechtenstein age 69
Archduchess Ilona of Austria age 52
Richard Brandram age 68
Prince Heinrich of Hesse-Kassel age 52
Prince Karl of Leiningen age 52
Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun age 49
Emmanuelle de Dampierre age 66
Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince of Civitella-Cesi age 68
Edelmira, Countess of Covadonga age 74
Heinrich Prinz von Hannover age 18
Sonja Bernadotte age 35
Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia age 20
Philipp, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 10
Hubertus Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha age 4
Alois-Konstantin, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg age 38
Daniel Chatto age 22
Lady Nicholas Windsor age 10
Chiang Pin-kung age 47
Francis Sargent age 64
Robert F. Bradford age 77
William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill age 33
Michael DiSalle age 72
Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman age 37