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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

Claudio Muccioli age 31
Marco Conti age 20
Ermenegildo Gasperoni age 82
Halid Genjac age 31
Ante Jelavić age 25
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 72
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 69
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 91
Michel Roquejeoffre age 55
David D. Newsom age 71
Paul Clement age 22
Michael Armacost age 52
Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha age 44
Fred Gray age 58
Rolando Morán age 59
Mile Dedaković age 37
Viktor Fyodorovich Karpukhin age 41
Juan Lombardo age 62
Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia age 73
Prince Rostislav Romanov (born 1985) age 3
Nicoletta Romanoff age 9
Lütfiye Sultan age 79
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Abdülkadir) age 63
Hümeyra Hanımsultan age 71
Prince Asem bin Nayef age 41
Habis al-Majali age 75
Yi Seok age 47
Wilhelm Karl Prinz von Preussen age 67
Prince Heinrich of Liechtenstein (1920–1993) age 68
Géza von Habsburg age 48
Archduchess Yolande of Austria age 65
Alexander Ramsay of Mar age 69
Henry Abel Smith age 89
Patricia Lascelles, Countess of Harewood age 62
John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne age 64
Carlos Morales Quintana age 18
Penelope Knatchbull, Countess Mountbatten of Burma age 36
Fermín Palacios
Bob C. Riley age 64
Frank O'Bannon age 59
John Farmer Jr. age 31
Gus Macdonald age 48
Matthew E. Welsh age 76
Geoffrey Rippon age 64
Charles Fried age 54
Andrew Goodpaster age 74
George Joulwan age 49
Pierre de Chevigné age 79
Albin Nyamoya age 64
Anatole Kanyenkiko age 37
Antoine Nduwayo age 47
Léopold Biha age 70
Jean-Pierre Lebouder age 45
Michel Gbezera-Bria age 43
Simon Narcisse Bozanga age 46
Bernard Ayandho age 58
Moustadroine Abdou age 19
Halifa Humadi age 42
Bheki Dlamini age 37
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 81
Sid Ahmed Ould Bneijara age 42
Raouf Bundhun age 52
Dendev Terbishdagva age 34
Rifat Rastoder age 38
Radivoje Brajović age 54
Marko Orlandić age 58
Yeoh Ghim Seng age 70
Wim Udenhout age 51
Sami al-Jundi age 67
Dennis Young age 53
John Giheno age 40
Martin Raguž age 31
Gian Marco Marcucci age 34
Giancarlo Ghironzi age 57
Paolo Bollini age 29
Patrizia Busignani age 29
Joseph Kokou Koffigoh age 41
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe age 71
Adam Szubin age 17
Ziad al-Hariri age 59
Miles Copeland, Jr. age 72
Bernard Lafayette age 48
Milan Gvero age 51
Rodrigo Asturias age 49
Maxwell R. Thurman age 58
Le Quang Dao age 67
Ved Prakash Malik age 49
Saad Mamoun age 66
Mizban Khadr al-Hadi age 51
Lê Minh Đảo age 56
Nguyễn Văn Minh age 60
Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri age 38
David Chavchavadze age 64
Princess Xenia Andreevna of Russia age 70
Prince Nikita Romanov age 65
Prince Alexander Romanov age 59
Mahpeyker Hanımsultan age 71
Türkan Hanımsultan age 69
Princess Isabelle of Salm-Salm age 86
Princess Christina of Hesse age 56
Princess Marie Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein age 61
Silvia Paternò di Spedalotto age 35
James Lascelles age 35
Francisco de Aguilar age 179
Vicente Gómez
Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra age 51
Lin Junq-tzer age 45
Robert B. Meyner age 80
William T. Cahill age 76
George N. Craig age 79
Douglas Jay age 82
Aleksandar Mitrović age 55
Jo Ann Robinson age 77
Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai age 41
Jean-Luc Mandaba age 45
Enoch Derant Lakoué age 44
Carlos Lemos Simmonds age 55
Salim Ben Ali age 71
Paul Shabangu age 46
Tesfaye Dinka age 49
Francisco Bueso age 129
Medetbek Kerimkulov age 40
Boris Silayev age 43
Muhammad Ali al-Halabi age 52
Hsu Ching-chung age 81
Lee Hun-jai age 45
Gloriana Ranocchini age 32
Giuseppe Arzilli age 48
Enzo Colombini age 30
Luigi Lonfernini age 50
Giorgio Crescentini age 39
Roberto Raschi age 25
Giuseppe Amici age 50
Giovanni Lonfernini age 12
Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller age 48
Luis Pércovich Roca age 57
Roberto Dañino age 38
Luis Solari age 41
Frederick M. Franks Jr. age 52
Gary E. Luck age 51
Richard N. Cooper age 54
Neal S. Wolin age 27
James Hood age 46
Li Zhen age 81
Richard T. Knowles age 73
Milan Čeleketić age 42
Huynh Van Cao age 61
Wafiq al-Samarrai age 41
Grzegorz Kaliciak age 16
Ibrahim El-Orabi age 57
Sali Çekaj age 33
William S. Wallace age 42
Kuldip Singh Chandpuri age 48
Danny Matt age 61
Sharbat Ali Changezi age 57
Fevziye Sultan age 60
Muffakham Jah age 50
Yi Cheong age 53
Princess Magdalena Reuss of Köstritz age 68
Lady Brigid Guinness age 68
Princess Stephanie of Windisch-Graetz age 80
Dominic von Habsburg age 51
Emich Kyrill, Prince of Leiningen age 62
Gunnila Bernadotte age 65
Anne Abel Smith age 56
Richard Abel Smith age 55
Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth age 68
Countess Monika zu Solms-Laubach age 59
Jeremy Lascelles age 34
Marina Ogilvy age 22
Duke Friedrich August of Oldenburg age 53
Princess Marie Alix of Schaumburg-Lippe age 66
Baron Niclas Silfverschiöld age 54
Ian Liddell-Grainger age 30
Penny Mountbatten age 23
Felipe Neri Medina age 192
Ramón Rodríguez
Huang Min-hui age 30
Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale age 74
Larry Thompson age 43
Barbara Underwood age 44
Paul McNulty age 31
Laurence Silberman age 53
Neal Katyal age 19
Philip Heymann age 56
Elizabeth Prelogar age 9
Horacio Liendo age 64
Eddy Balancy age 35
Ariranga Pillay age 43
Branislav Šoškić age 66
Žarko Bulajić age 66
Augustin Poignet age 61
Henry Neijhorst age 49
Theo Zurenuoc age 23
Marino Bollini age 56
Ubaldo Biordi age 51
Gian Luigi Berti age 58
Ernesto Montagne Sánchez age 72
Jorge Fernández-Maldonado age 66
Alfonso Bustamante age 47