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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

People

Bernard Janvier age 40
Lewis MacKenzie age 39
Milutin Kukanjac age 45
Milan Gvero age 42
Li Zhen age 72
Izzat Darwaza age 91
Claude Auchinleck age 95
James Watson age 52
Francis Crick age 63
Jimmy Wales age 13
Larry Sanger age 11
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García age 50
Fernando Romeo Lucas García age 55
Rolando Morán age 50
Rodrigo Asturias age 40
Maxwell R. Thurman age 49
Jack B. Farris age 44
Manuel Noriega age 46
Marcos Justines age 46
Tikka Khan age 64
Nguyễn Văn Huyền age 69
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi age 13
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi age 21
Veselin Šljivančanin age 26
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 26
Blago Zadro age 36
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 30
Mile Dedaković age 28
Milorad Petrović age 98
Jorge Anaya age 53
Friedrich Hoßbach age 85
Basilio Lami Dozo age 51
Henry Leach age 56
John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse age 52
James T. Conway age 32
Vu Van Mau age 65
John A. Toolan age 26
Ngo Quang Truong age 50
Stanley S. Hughes age 61
Foster LaHue age 62
Trần Văn Quang age 63
Vũ Nam Long age 58
Milan Martić age 25
Milan Babić age 24
Dietrich von Saucken age 87
Nguyễn Hữu An age 53
Maximilian Fretter-Pico age 88
Yury Drozdov age 54
Viktor Fyodorovich Karpukhin age 32
Vladimir Stoychev age 88
Zvonimir Červenko age 53
Petar Stipetić age 42
Rathvon M. Tompkins age 67
David E. Lownds age 59
John Peters Humphrey age 74
Trần Quý Hai age 67
Le Quang Dao age 58
Charles Malik age 74
Ra'ad al-Hamdani age 28
Tariq Aziz age 43
Donald A. Henderson age 51
Peter Higgs age 50
François Englert age 47
Života Panić age 46
Mile Mrkšić age 32
Wesley Clark age 35
Rupert Smith age 37
Dragoljub Ojdanić age 38
Nebojša Pavković age 34
Ved Prakash Malik age 40
Anil Tipnis age 39
Borisav Jović age 51
Veljko Kadijević age 54
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu age 46
Philip Effiong age 54
Alexander Madiebo age 47
Leighton W. Smith, Jr. age 40
Michael E. Ryan age 38
Stuart Peach, Baron Peach age 24
Radislav Krstić age 32
Richard T. Knowles age 64
Hal Moore age 58
Melvin Zais age 63
Aslan Maskhadov age 28
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 36
Milan Čeleketić age 33
Pavel Grachev age 32
Shamil Basayev age 15
Bui Dinh Dam age 54
Huynh Van Cao age 52
Song Shilun age 72
Salah Aboud Mahmoud age 38
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 41
Rex Hunt age 53
Kim Ung age 68
Saad el-Shazly age 58
Saad Mamoun age 57
James Dutton age 26
Roman Polko age 17
Kamel Sajid age 41
Wafiq al-Samarrai age 32
Mostafa Chamran age 47
Mohammad Boroujerdi age 26
Harry Smith age 46
Oliver David Jackson age 60
Hooshang Samadi age 40
Maher Abd al-Rashid age 37
Mohsen Rezaee age 25
Ali Sayyad Shirazi age 35
Moshe Carmel age 69
Grzegorz Kaliciak age 7
William R. Peers age 65
Hoàng Minh Thảo age 58
Jacques Massu age 71
Marcel Maurice Bigeard age 64
Hossein Kharrazi age 23
Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai age 35
Mehdi Bakeri age 25
Sadi Tuma Abbas age 41
H. Jones age 39
Chris Keeble age 38
Ítalo Piaggi age 45
Ibrahim El-Orabi age 48
Avraham Adan age 53
Amnon Reshef age 41
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri age 71
Bahram Afzali age 42
Javad Fakoori age 41
Agim Ramadani age 15
Sali Çekaj age 24
Anton Quni age 12
William S. Wallace age 33
David Petraeus age 27
Brian Burridge age 31
Mizban Khadr al-Hadi age 42
Ayad Futtayih al-Rawi age 38
Hoàng Cầm age 59
Nguyen Van Toan age 47
Lê Minh Đảo age 47
Babru Bhan Yadav age 51
M. A. K. Lodhi age 59
Gholam Ali Rasheed age 26
Lou Lenart age 58
Shimon Avidan age 69
Yeshayahu Gavish age 54
Avigdor Ben-Gal age 43
Kuldip Singh Chandpuri age 39
Adnan Khairallah age 38
Boris Gromov age 36
Shahnawaz Tanai age 30
Brian Young age 49
Alfredo Astiz age 28
Danny Matt age 52
Keith Mills age 20
Trần Văn Trà age 62
Đàm Văn Ngụy age 51
Nguyễn Văn Minh age 51
Moshe Mann age 73
Harbaksh Singh age 66
Thomas K. Theogaraj age 60
Abdul Hamid Khan age 62
Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat age 25
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 38
Amir Drori age 42
Bakhtiar Rana age 69
Abrar Hussain age 61
Amjad Ali Chaudhri age 63
Salah Boubnider age 51
Paul Aussaresses age 61
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 39
Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri age 29
Sandy Woodward age 47
Michael Clapp age 48
Julian Thompson age 45
Yona Efrat age 54
Chris Wreford-Brown age 34
Jeremy Moore age 51
Ernesto Horacio Crespo age 50
Mario Benjamín Menéndez age 50
Juan Lombardo age 53
Hew Pike age 36
Carlos Eduardo del Valle Carrizo Salvadores age 37
Michael Scott age 39
John Kiszely age 32
Khem Karan Singh age 54
W. A. G. Pinto age 55
Arun Shridhar Vaidya age 54
Abdul-Ali Malik age 73
Sharbat Ali Changezi age 48
Nick Vaux age 44
Lachhman Singh Lehl age 56
Kuazi Nuruzzaman age 55
Tajammul Hussain Malik age 55
Mohammad Nabi Azimi age 36
Valentin Varennikov age 56
Lionel Protip Sen age 69
Ranjit Singh Dyal age 51
Sher Jung Thapa age 73
Burhan-ud-Din of Chitral age 65
Mogod Basappa Ravindranath age 20