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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
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27

People

George Charles age 64
Ahmadou Al Aminou Lo age 14
Miha Marinko age 80
Errol Alibux age 32
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 48
Daniel Daio age 33
John Warburton Paul age 64
İbrahim Şevki Atasagun age 81
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 46
Elijah Mudenda age 53
Božidar Matić age 43
Cesare Gasperoni age 36
Mirko Dolcini age 7
Edda Ceccoli age 33
Maurizio Rattini age 31
Claudio Muccioli age 22
Marco Conti age 11
Ermenegildo Gasperoni age 74
Halid Genjac age 22
Ante Jelavić age 17
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 64
Óscar Vargas Prieto age 63
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 61
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 82
Michel Roquejeoffre age 47
David D. Newsom age 62
Paul Clement age 14
Michael Armacost age 43
Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha age 35
Fred Gray age 50
Rolando Morán age 50
Mile Dedaković age 29
Viktor Fyodorovich Karpukhin age 33
Javad Fakoori age 41
Juan Lombardo age 53
Arun Shridhar Vaidya age 54
Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia age 65
Nicoletta Romanoff age 1
Lütfiye Sultan age 70
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Abdülkadir) age 54
Hümeyra Hanımsultan age 63
Prince Asem bin Nayef age 32
Habis al-Majali age 66
Yi Seok age 39
Wilhelm Karl Prinz von Preussen age 58
Princess Herzeleide of Prussia age 61
Prince Heinrich of Liechtenstein (1920–1993) age 60
Géza von Habsburg age 40
Archduchess Yolande of Austria age 57
Alexander Ramsay of Mar age 61
Henry Abel Smith age 80
Patricia Lascelles, Countess of Harewood age 54
John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne age 56
Carlos Morales Quintana age 9
Penelope Knatchbull, Countess Mountbatten of Burma age 27
Fermín Palacios
Bob C. Riley age 56
Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree age 43
Frank O'Bannon age 50
John Farmer Jr. age 23
Gus Macdonald age 40
Matthew E. Welsh age 68
Geoffrey Rippon age 56
Charles Fried age 45
Andrew Goodpaster age 65
George Joulwan age 41
Pierre de Chevigné age 71
Albin Nyamoya age 56
Anatole Kanyenkiko age 28
Antoine Nduwayo age 38
Léopold Biha age 61
Michel Gbezera-Bria age 34
Simon Narcisse Bozanga age 37
Bernard Ayandho age 50
Moustadroine Abdou age 11
Halifa Humadi age 33
Bheki Dlamini age 28
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 72
Sid Ahmed Ould Bneijara age 33
Raouf Bundhun age 43
Dendev Terbishdagva age 25
Nyamyn Jagvaral age 61
Tsagaanlamyn Dügersüren age 66
Rifat Rastoder age 30
Radivoje Brajović age 45
Marko Orlandić age 50
Yeoh Ghim Seng age 62
Štefan Sádovský age 52
Wim Udenhout age 43
Sami al-Jundi age 59
Dennis Young age 44
John Giheno age 31
Martin Raguž age 22
Gian Marco Marcucci age 26
Giancarlo Ghironzi age 48
Paolo Bollini age 20
Patrizia Busignani age 21
Carlos Moreyra y Paz Soldán age 82
Rodolfo Llopis age 85
Joseph Kokou Koffigoh age 32
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe age 62
Adam Szubin age 8
Ziad al-Hariri age 50
Miles Copeland, Jr. age 64
William Kelly Harrison, Jr. age 85
Arthur Dewey Struble age 86
Bernard Lafayette age 40
Milan Gvero age 43
Rodrigo Asturias age 41
Maxwell R. Thurman age 49
Le Quang Dao age 59
Ved Prakash Malik age 41
Saad Mamoun age 58
Mohammad Boroujerdi age 26
William R. Peers age 66
Mehdi Bakeri age 26
Mizban Khadr al-Hadi age 42
Lê Minh Đảo age 47
Nguyễn Văn Minh age 51
Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat age 25
Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri age 30
David Chavchavadze age 56
Princess Xenia Andreevna of Russia age 61
Prince Nikita Romanov age 57
Prince Alexander Romanov age 51
Mahpeyker Hanımsultan age 63
Türkan Hanımsultan age 61
Princess Isabelle of Salm-Salm age 77
Alice Habsburg age 91
Princess Christina of Hesse age 47
Princess Marie Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein age 53
Prince Ludwig Rudolf of Hanover age 25
Silvia Paternò di Spedalotto age 26
James Lascelles age 27
Francisco de Aguilar age 171
Vicente Gómez
Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra age 43
Lin Junq-tzer age 36
Robert B. Meyner age 72
William T. Cahill age 68
George N. Craig age 71
Douglas Jay age 73
Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton age 74
Aleksandar Mitrović age 47
Jo Ann Robinson age 68
Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai age 32
Jean-Luc Mandaba age 37
Enoch Derant Lakoué age 35
Carlos Lemos Simmonds age 47
Paul Shabangu age 37
Tesfaye Dinka age 41
Francisco Bueso age 121
Medetbek Kerimkulov age 31
Boris Silayev age 34
Ahmad Salim uld Sidi age 41
Archibald Currie age 92
Severinus Desiré Emanuels age 70
Muhammad Ali al-Halabi age 43
Hsu Ching-chung age 73
Lee Hun-jai age 36
Gloriana Ranocchini age 23
Giuseppe Arzilli age 39
Enzo Colombini age 22
Luigi Lonfernini age 42
Giorgio Crescentini age 30
Roberto Raschi age 16
Giuseppe Amici age 41
Giovanni Lonfernini age 4
Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller age 40
Luis Pércovich Roca age 49
Roberto Dañino age 29
Luis Solari age 32
Frederick M. Franks Jr. age 44
Gary E. Luck age 43
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 77
Richard N. Cooper age 46
Walter J. Stoessel Jr. age 60
Neal S. Wolin age 19
Liu Yuzhang age 77
James Hood age 38
Li Zhen age 72
Richard T. Knowles age 64
Milan Čeleketić age 34
Huynh Van Cao age 53
Wafiq al-Samarrai age 33
Grzegorz Kaliciak age 7
Ibrahim El-Orabi age 49
Sali Çekaj age 24
William S. Wallace age 33
Kuldip Singh Chandpuri age 40
Danny Matt age 53
Sharbat Ali Changezi age 48
Fevziye Sultan age 52
Muffakham Jah age 41
Moazzam Jah age 73
Yi Cheong age 44
Princess Magdalena Reuss of Köstritz age 60
Lady Brigid Guinness age 60
Princess Stephanie of Windisch-Graetz age 71
Dominic von Habsburg age 43