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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
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

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 72
Heinrich Prinz von Hannover age 17
Sonja Bernadotte age 34
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 21
Lady Nicholas Windsor age 9
Chiang Pin-kung age 46
Francis Sargent age 63
Robert F. Bradford age 76
William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill age 32
Michael DiSalle age 71
Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman age 36
William M. Tuck age 82
Richard J. Hughes age 69
William Donald Schaefer age 57
Parris Glendening age 36
Albertis Harrison age 72
Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon age 23
Robert D. Orr age 61
William Ruckelshaus age 46
Lawrence Walsh age 67
Chuck Horner age 42
Alfred Gruenther age 79
John Galvin age 49
Stuart Leslie age 15
Gabriel Koyambounou age 32
Said Ali Kemal age 41
Mohamed Abdou Madi age 23
Abdallah Mohamed age 29
Bianrifi Tarmidi age 20
Ibrahim Halidi age 24
Kamal el-Din Hussein age 58
Hailu Yimenu age 44
Imru Haile Selassie age 86
Herbert Duffus age 70
Hussein ibn Nasser age 76
Almanbet Matubraimov age 26
Iskenderbek Aidaraliyev age 23
Mohamed Lemine Ould Guig age 19
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 23
Angidi Chettiar age 50
Ba Swe age 63
Sebastián Uriza age 118
Orlando Montenegro Medrano age 58
Souley Abdoulaye age 23
Dismas Nsengiyaremye age 34
George Charles age 62
Ahmadou Al Aminou Lo age 12
Miha Marinko age 78
Errol Alibux age 30
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 47
Daniel Daio age 32
John Warburton Paul age 62
İbrahim Şevki Atasagun age 80
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 44
Elijah Mudenda age 51
Božidar Matić age 41
Cesare Gasperoni age 35
Mirko Dolcini age 5
Edda Ceccoli age 31
Maurizio Rattini age 29
Claudio Muccioli age 20
Marco Conti age 9
Halid Genjac age 20
Ante Jelavić age 15
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 62
Óscar Vargas Prieto age 61
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 59
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 80
Michel Roquejeoffre age 45
David D. Newsom age 61
Paul Clement age 12
Michael Armacost age 41
Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha age 34
Fred Gray age 48
Rolando Morán age 49
Mile Dedaković age 27
Viktor Fyodorovich Karpukhin age 31
Javad Fakoori age 40
Juan Lombardo age 51
Arun Shridhar Vaidya age 53
Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia age 63
Lütfiye Sultan age 68
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Abdülkadir) age 53
Hümeyra Hanımsultan age 61
Prince Asem bin Nayef age 30
Habis al-Majali age 64
Yi Seok age 37
Wilhelm Karl Prinz von Preussen age 57
Princess Herzeleide of Prussia age 60
Prince Heinrich of Liechtenstein (1920–1993) age 58
Géza von Habsburg age 38
Archduchess Yolande of Austria age 55
Alexander Ramsay of Mar age 59
Henry Abel Smith age 78
Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg age 53
Patricia Lascelles, Countess of Harewood age 52
John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne age 54
Carlos Morales Quintana age 8
Penelope Knatchbull, Countess Mountbatten of Burma age 25
Fermín Palacios
Bob C. Riley age 54
Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree age 41
Frank O'Bannon age 49
John Farmer Jr. age 21
Gus Macdonald age 38
Matthew E. Welsh age 66
Geoffrey Rippon age 54
Charles Fried age 43
Andrew Goodpaster age 63
George Joulwan age 39
Pierre de Chevigné age 69
Albin Nyamoya age 54
Anatole Kanyenkiko age 27
Antoine Nduwayo age 37
Léopold Biha age 60
Jean-Pierre Lebouder age 35
Michel Gbezera-Bria age 33
Simon Narcisse Bozanga age 36
Bernard Ayandho age 48
Moustadroine Abdou age 9
Halifa Humadi age 32
Bheki Dlamini age 27
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 70
Sid Ahmed Ould Bneijara age 32
Raouf Bundhun age 42
Dendev Terbishdagva age 24
Nyamyn Jagvaral age 59
Tsagaanlamyn Dügersüren age 65
Rifat Rastoder age 28
Radivoje Brajović age 44
Marko Orlandić age 48
Yeoh Ghim Seng age 60
Štefan Sádovský age 50
Wim Udenhout age 41
Sami al-Jundi age 57
Dennis Young age 43
John Giheno age 30
Martin Raguž age 20
Gian Marco Marcucci age 24
Giancarlo Ghironzi age 47
Paolo Bollini age 19
Patrizia Busignani age 19
Carlos Moreyra y Paz Soldán age 80
Rodolfo Llopis age 83
Joseph Kokou Koffigoh age 31
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe age 60
Adam Szubin age 7
Ziad al-Hariri age 49
Miles Copeland, Jr. age 62
William Kelly Harrison, Jr. age 83
Arthur Dewey Struble age 84
Bernard Lafayette age 38
Milan Gvero age 41
Rodrigo Asturias age 39
Maxwell R. Thurman age 47
Le Quang Dao age 57
Ved Prakash Malik age 39
Saad Mamoun age 56
Mohammad Boroujerdi age 24
William R. Peers age 64
Mehdi Bakeri age 24
Mizban Khadr al-Hadi age 41
Lê Minh Đảo age 45
Nguyễn Văn Minh age 50
Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat age 23
Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri age 28
David Chavchavadze age 54
Princess Xenia Andreevna of Russia age 59
Prince Nikita Romanov age 55
Prince Alexander Romanov age 49
Mahpeyker Hanımsultan age 61
Türkan Hanımsultan age 59
Princess Isabelle of Salm-Salm age 76
Alice Habsburg age 89
Princess Christina of Hesse age 46
Princess Marie Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein age 51
Prince Ludwig Rudolf of Hanover age 23
Silvia Paternò di Spedalotto age 25
James Lascelles age 25
Francisco de Aguilar age 169
Vicente Gómez
Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra age 41
Lin Junq-tzer age 34
Robert B. Meyner age 70
William T. Cahill age 66
George N. Craig age 69
Douglas Jay age 71
Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton age 72
John Davies age 63
Aleksandar Mitrović age 45
J. Lee Rankin age 71
Jo Ann Robinson age 66
Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai age 31