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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

William M. Tuck age 82
Richard J. Hughes age 69
William Donald Schaefer age 57
Parris Glendening age 37
Albertis Harrison age 72
Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon age 23
Robert D. Orr age 61
William Ruckelshaus age 47
Lawrence Walsh age 67
Chuck Horner age 42
Alfred Gruenther age 80
John Galvin age 50
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 21
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 20
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 23
Angidi Chettiar age 51
Ba Swe age 63
Sebastián Uriza age 118
Orlando Montenegro Medrano age 59
Souley Abdoulaye age 23
Dismas Nsengiyaremye age 34
George Charles age 63
Ahmadou Al Aminou Lo age 13
Miha Marinko age 78
Errol Alibux age 30
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 47
Daniel Daio age 32
John Warburton Paul age 63
İbrahim Şevki Atasagun age 80
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 44
Elijah Mudenda age 52
Božidar Matić age 41
Cesare Gasperoni age 35
Mirko Dolcini age 5
Edda Ceccoli age 32
Maurizio Rattini age 29
Claudio Muccioli age 21
Marco Conti age 10
Ermenegildo Gasperoni age 73
Halid Genjac age 21
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 81
Michel Roquejeoffre age 45
David D. Newsom age 61
Paul Clement age 13
Michael Armacost age 42
Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha age 34
Fred Gray age 48
Rolando Morán age 49
Mile Dedaković age 28
Viktor Fyodorovich Karpukhin age 31
Javad Fakoori age 40
Juan Lombardo age 52
Arun Shridhar Vaidya age 53
Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia age 64
Nicoletta Romanoff age 2 months
Lütfiye Sultan age 69
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Abdülkadir) age 53
Hümeyra Hanımsultan age 62
Prince Asem bin Nayef age 31
Habis al-Majali age 65
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 56
Alexander Ramsay of Mar age 59
Henry Abel Smith age 79
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 26
Fermín Palacios
Bob C. Riley age 54
Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree age 41
Frank O'Bannon age 49
John Farmer Jr. age 22
Gus Macdonald age 38
Matthew E. Welsh age 66
Geoffrey Rippon age 55
Charles Fried age 44
Andrew Goodpaster age 64
George Joulwan age 39
Pierre de Chevigné age 70
Albin Nyamoya age 55
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 10
Halifa Humadi age 32
Bheki Dlamini age 27
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 71
Sid Ahmed Ould Bneijara age 32
Raouf Bundhun age 42
Dendev Terbishdagva age 24
Nyamyn Jagvaral age 60
Tsagaanlamyn Dügersüren age 65
Rifat Rastoder age 29
Radivoje Brajović age 44
Marko Orlandić age 48
Yeoh Ghim Seng age 61
Štefan Sádovský age 50
Wim Udenhout age 41
Sami al-Jundi age 57
Dennis Young age 43
John Giheno age 30
Martin Raguž age 21
Gian Marco Marcucci age 24
Giancarlo Ghironzi age 47
Paolo Bollini age 19
Patrizia Busignani age 20
Carlos Moreyra y Paz Soldán age 80
Rodolfo Llopis age 84
Joseph Kokou Koffigoh age 31
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe age 61
Adam Szubin age 7
Ziad al-Hariri age 49
Miles Copeland, Jr. age 63
William Kelly Harrison, Jr. age 83
Arthur Dewey Struble age 85
Bernard Lafayette age 38
Milan Gvero age 41
Rodrigo Asturias age 39
Maxwell R. Thurman age 48
Le Quang Dao age 57
Ved Prakash Malik age 39
Saad Mamoun age 57
Mohammad Boroujerdi age 25
William R. Peers age 65
Mehdi Bakeri age 25
Mizban Khadr al-Hadi age 41
Lê Minh Đảo age 46
Nguyễn Văn Minh age 50
Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat age 24
Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri age 29
David Chavchavadze age 55
Princess Xenia Andreevna of Russia age 60
Prince Nikita Romanov age 56
Prince Alexander Romanov age 49
Mahpeyker Hanımsultan age 62
Türkan Hanımsultan age 60
Princess Isabelle of Salm-Salm age 76
Alice Habsburg age 89
Princess Christina of Hesse age 46
Princess Marie Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein age 52
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 42
Lin Junq-tzer age 35
Robert B. Meyner age 71
William T. Cahill age 67
George N. Craig age 69
Douglas Jay age 72
Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton age 73
Aleksandar Mitrović age 45
Jo Ann Robinson age 67
Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai age 31
Jean-Luc Mandaba age 35
Enoch Derant Lakoué age 34
Carlos Lemos Simmonds age 45
Paul Shabangu age 36
Tesfaye Dinka age 39
Francisco Bueso age 119
Medetbek Kerimkulov age 30
Boris Silayev age 33
Ahmad Salim uld Sidi age 40
Hugh Watt age 67
Archibald Currie age 91
Severinus Desiré Emanuels age 69
Hsu Ching-chung age 72
Lee Hun-jai age 35
Gloriana Ranocchini age 22
Giuseppe Arzilli age 38
Enzo Colombini age 21
Luigi Lonfernini age 40