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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
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
Salvadoran Civil War 1979-10-15 - 1992-01-16
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Surinamese Civil War 1986-07-22 - 1992-08-08
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Bougainville conflict 1988-12-01 - 1998-04-20
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

Jorge Fernández-Maldonado age 66
Alfonso Bustamante age 47
Guillermo Larco Cox age 57
Alberto Pandolfi age 49
Mark Filip age 22
Peter Keisler age 28
James B. Vaught age 62
Hikmat al-Shihabi age 57
Said al-Muragha age 62
Bernard Janvier age 49
Nguyễn Văn Huyền age 78
Bui Dinh Dam age 63
Roman Polko age 26
Hoàng Minh Thảo age 67
Sadi Tuma Abbas age 50
Chris Keeble age 47
Hoàng Cầm age 69
Hew Pike age 46
Tajammul Hussain Malik age 64
Sher Jung Thapa age 82
Nobuhiko Higashikuni age 44
Tadateru Konoe age 49
Fariha Al-Ahmad age 45
Nermin Sultan age 66
Princess Chŏnghwa age 659
Chiang Hsiao-wu age 44
Chiang Hsiao-yung age 40
Donata Mecklenburg-Solodkoff age 33
Sophie Habsburg age 30
Park Geun-ryeong age 34
Park Ji-man age 30
Ashley Hicks age 25
Lady Amanda Ellingworth age 31
Prince Nikola of Yugoslavia (born 1958) age 31
Prince George of Yugoslavia (born 1984) age 4
Luis Gómez-Acebo, Duke of Badajoz age 54
Thyra von Westernhagen age 15
Alexander, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau age 19
Alexander Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles age 8
Clare Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven age 28
Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton age 85
David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere age 49
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester age 75
Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling age 49
John O. Bennett age 40
David W. Ogden age 35
Donald B. Verrilli Jr. age 31
James M. Cole age 36
Noel Francisco age 19
Walter J. Cummings Jr. age 72
Adem Salihaj age 38
Momčilo Cemović age 60
Peter Gatkuoth age 51
Giuseppe Maiani age 64
Romeo Morri age 37
Carlos Torres y Torres Lara age 46
Dante Córdova age 45
Guillermo Arbulú Galliani age 68
Julio Óscar Trelles Montes age 84
Walter E. Boomer age 50
Roy L. Johnson age 83
Pepe San Román age 59
Emmanuel Erskine age 52
Jack B. Farris age 53
Henry Leach age 65
John A. Toolan age 35
Trần Văn Quang age 72
Alexander Madiebo age 57
Harry Smith age 55
Hooshang Samadi age 49
Lou Lenart age 68
Moshe Mann age 82
Abdul-Ali Malik age 82
Kuazi Nuruzzaman age 64
Mogod Basappa Ravindranath age 29
Prince Michael Andreevich of Russia age 68
Princess Nadine Romanovskya age 80
Prince Max Emanuel of Thurn and Taxis age 87
Margaret Campbell Geddes age 76
Honduran military junta of 1956–1957
Temukisa Auina Penehuro Hauma age 34
Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby age 90
Harold R. Tyler Jr. age 66
Ian Heath Gershengorn age 22
Robert McCallum Jr. age 43
Emil Bove age 8
D. John Sauer age 14
Vuko Vukadinović age 51
Joseph James Tombura age 59
Marino Venturini age 45
Carlo Franciosi age 54
Óscar de la Puente Raygada age 50
John Demers age 17
Stuart M. Gerson age 45
U. S. Grant Sharp, Jr. age 83
Haydar al-Kuzbari age 69
Joseph Metcalf, III age 61
Chiang Chung-ling age 66
Wu Shih-wen age 54
William O'Callaghan age 67
Charles Sherrod age 52
Rathvon M. Tompkins age 76
Kamel Sajid age 50
Oliver David Jackson age 69
Ítalo Piaggi age 54
Amnon Reshef age 50
Anton Quni age 21
M. A. K. Lodhi age 68
Bakhtiar Rana age 78
Amjad Ali Chaudhri age 72
Salah Boubnider age 60
Michael Clapp age 57
Yona Efrat age 63
Chris Wreford-Brown age 43
Khem Karan Singh age 63
Mohammad Nabi Azimi age 45
Burhan-ud-Din of Chitral age 74
Prince Alexis Romanov age 35
Zeki Kuneralp age 74
Winston Chang age 47
Princess Maria of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1935–2018) age 53
Víctor González Fuentes
Mariano Garrigó age 179
George J. Terwilliger III age 38
Gregory G. Garre age 24
Craig S. Morford age 29
Edwin Kneedler age 43
Jim Obergefell age 22
Eddy Kapend age 29
Punch Coomaraswamy age 64
Renzo Renzi age 33
Umberto Barulli age 68
Cordell Reagon age 46
Marcos Justines age 55
Foster LaHue age 71
Vũ Nam Long age 67
David E. Lownds age 68
Anil Tipnis age 48
Đàm Văn Ngụy age 61
Thomas K. Theogaraj age 69
Abrar Hussain age 70
Carlos Eduardo del Valle Carrizo Salvadores age 46
Michael Scott age 48
John Kiszely age 41
W. A. G. Pinto age 64
Lachhman Singh Lehl age 65
Ranjit Singh Dyal age 60
Georgina Kennard age 69
Myra Butter age 64
Alexandra Pavlovna Galitzine age 84
Dorrit Reventlow age 47
Yi Haegyeong age 59
David Kung Ling-kan age 72
Kung Ling-i age 73
Princess Christa of Prussia age 52
Marta Esther Rocafort-Altuzarra age 75
Marcelino Mejía
Pedro Carve
Lin Rong-te age 29
Ed O'Callaghan age 20
John T. Koehler age 85
W. John Kenney age 85
Gordon Carey age 57
Stanley S. Hughes age 70
Babru Bhan Yadav age 60
Brian Young age 58
Keith Mills age 29
Nick Vaux age 53
Ramakrishnan Vishwanathan age 29
Calhoun Ancrum age 74
Inez Storer age 55
Princess Maria Christina of Bourbon-Parma age 63
Princess Marie Henriette of Liechtenstein age 74
Maria-Anna Galitzine age 34
Gary Grindler age 39
H. Struve Hensel age 87
Mark E. Andrews age 86
Waldo Bernal Pereira age 58
Óscar Pammo Rodríguez age 55
Saïd Ali Mohamed age 43
David Nimley age 44
Jean-Jacques Rasolondraibe age 42
Mijuško Šibalić age 74
Julián Irías Sandres age 109
France Popit age 67
Saulo Musoke age 69
Yoweri Hunter Wacha-Olwol age 66
Polycarp Nyamuchoncho age 59
Giovanni Vito Marcucci age 61
Primo Marani age 66
Giovanni Zaccaria Savoretti age 69
Severiano Tura age 36
Gastone Pasolini age 57
Ferruccio Piva age 65
Libero Barulli age 41
Pier Paolo Gasperoni age 38
Pietro Giancecchi age 67
Giordano Bruno Reffi age 68
Dante Rossi age 58
Emilio Della Balda age 52