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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

People

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
Giorgio Crescentini age 29
Roberto Raschi age 15
Giuseppe Amici age 40
Giovanni Lonfernini age 2
Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller age 38
Luis Pércovich Roca age 48
Roberto Dañino age 28
Luis Solari age 31
Frederick M. Franks Jr. age 42
Gary E. Luck age 41
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 76
Richard N. Cooper age 45
Walter J. Stoessel Jr. age 59
Neal S. Wolin age 17
Liu Yuzhang age 75
James Hood age 36
Li Zhen age 71
Richard T. Knowles age 63
Milan Čeleketić age 32
Huynh Van Cao age 51
Wafiq al-Samarrai age 32
Grzegorz Kaliciak age 6
Ibrahim El-Orabi age 48
Sali Çekaj age 23
William S. Wallace age 32
Kuldip Singh Chandpuri age 38
Danny Matt age 51
Sharbat Ali Changezi age 47
Fevziye Sultan age 50
Muffakham Jah age 40
Moazzam Jah age 71
Yi Cheong age 43
Princess Magdalena Reuss of Köstritz age 58
Lady Brigid Guinness age 59
Princess Stephanie of Windisch-Graetz age 70
Dominic von Habsburg age 42
Emich Kyrill, Prince of Leiningen age 52
Gunnila Bernadotte age 56
Anne Abel Smith age 47
Richard Abel Smith age 45
Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth age 58
Countess Monika zu Solms-Laubach age 49
Jeremy Lascelles age 24
Marina Ogilvy age 12
Duke Friedrich August of Oldenburg age 43
Princess Marie Alix of Schaumburg-Lippe age 56
Baron Niclas Silfverschiöld age 45
Ian Liddell-Grainger age 20
Penny Mountbatten age 13
Felipe Neri Medina age 182
Ramón Rodríguez
Huang Min-hui age 20
David Young, Baron Young of Graffham age 47
Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale age 65
John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham age 68
Larry Thompson age 33
Barbara Underwood age 34
Paul McNulty age 21
Laurence Silberman age 43
Neal Katyal age 9
Philip Heymann age 46
Horacio Liendo age 54
Eddy Balancy age 26
Ariranga Pillay age 34
Branislav Šoškić age 56
Filip Bajković age 69
Žarko Bulajić age 57
Đorđije Pajković age 62
Augustin Poignet age 51
Henry Neijhorst age 39
Theo Zurenuoc age 13
Paek Nak-chun age 84
Ubaldo Biordi age 41
Gian Luigi Berti age 49
Ernesto Montagne Sánchez age 62
Jorge Fernández-Maldonado age 57
Alfonso Bustamante age 37
Guillermo Larco Cox age 47
Alberto Pandolfi age 39
Mark Filip age 13
H. Freeman Matthews age 80
Peter Keisler age 18
James B. Vaught age 52
Hikmat al-Shihabi age 48
Said al-Muragha age 52
Bernard Janvier age 40
Nguyễn Văn Huyền age 68
Melvin Zais age 63
Bui Dinh Dam age 53
Roman Polko age 16
Hoàng Minh Thảo age 57
Sadi Tuma Abbas age 40
H. Jones age 39
Chris Keeble age 37
Hoàng Cầm age 59
Abdul Hamid Khan age 62
Hew Pike age 36
Tajammul Hussain Malik age 55
Sher Jung Thapa age 72
Nobuhiko Higashikuni age 34
Tadateru Konoe age 40
Fariha Al-Ahmad age 35
Nermin Sultan age 56
Princess Chŏnghwa age 649
Sō Takeyuki age 71
Chiang Hsiao-wu age 34
Chiang Hsiao-wen age 43
Chiang Hsiao-yung age 30
Donata Mecklenburg-Solodkoff age 23
Sophie Habsburg age 20
Park Geun-ryeong age 25
Park Ji-man age 20
Ashley Hicks age 16
Lady Amanda Ellingworth age 22
Prince Nikola of Yugoslavia (born 1958) age 21
Luis Gómez-Acebo, Duke of Badajoz age 44
Thyra von Westernhagen age 5
Alexander, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau age 9
Clare Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven age 18
Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton age 75
David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere age 39
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester age 65
Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling age 39
John O. Bennett age 30
Michael Noble, Baron Glenkinglas age 66
David W. Ogden age 25
Donald B. Verrilli Jr. age 22
James M. Cole age 27
Noel Francisco age 9
Walter J. Cummings Jr. age 62
Osei Kwame Panyin
Adem Salihaj age 28
Gwak Sanghun age 82
Giuseppe Maiani age 54
Romeo Morri age 27
Carlos Torres y Torres Lara age 36
Dante Córdova age 36
Guillermo Arbulú Galliani age 58
Julio Óscar Trelles Montes age 74
Walter E. Boomer age 40
Roy L. Johnson age 73
Pepe San Román age 49
Adnan Uqla age 29
Emmanuel Erskine age 42
Jack B. Farris age 43
Milorad Petrović age 97
Henry Leach age 55
John A. Toolan age 25
Trần Văn Quang age 62
Alexander Madiebo age 47
Kim Ung age 67
Harry Smith age 46
Hooshang Samadi age 39
Lou Lenart age 58
Moshe Mann age 72
Abdul-Ali Malik age 72
Kuazi Nuruzzaman age 54
Lionel Protip Sen age 68
Mogod Basappa Ravindranath age 20
Natasha Bagration age 65
Prince Michael Andreevich of Russia age 59
Princess Nadine Romanovskya age 71
Lady Mary Lygon age 69
Prince Wilhelm Victor of Prussia age 60
Prince Max Emanuel of Thurn and Taxis age 77
Margaret Campbell Geddes age 66
Honduran military junta of 1956–1957
Temukisa Auina Penehuro Hauma age 24
Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby age 80
Harold R. Tyler Jr. age 57
Ian Heath Gershengorn age 12
Robert McCallum Jr. age 33
D. John Sauer age 4
Vuko Vukadinović age 41
Joseph James Tombura age 49
Marino Venturini age 35
Carlo Franciosi age 44
Óscar de la Puente Raygada age 40
John Demers age 7
Stuart M. Gerson age 35
U. S. Grant Sharp, Jr. age 73
Haydar al-Kuzbari age 59
Joseph Metcalf, III age 51