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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
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980) 1980-09-22 - 1980-11-10
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27

People

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 39
Danny Matt age 52
Sharbat Ali Changezi age 48
Fevziye Sultan age 52
Muffakham Jah age 41
Moazzam Jah age 72
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
Emich Kyrill, Prince of Leiningen age 54
Gunnila Bernadotte age 57
Anne Abel Smith age 48
Richard Abel Smith age 47
Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth age 59
Countess Monika zu Solms-Laubach age 51
Jeremy Lascelles age 25
Marina Ogilvy age 14
Duke Friedrich August of Oldenburg age 44
Princess Marie Alix of Schaumburg-Lippe age 57
Baron Niclas Silfverschiöld age 46
Ian Liddell-Grainger age 21
Penny Mountbatten age 14
Felipe Neri Medina age 183
Ramón Rodríguez
Huang Min-hui age 21
David Young, Baron Young of Graffham age 48
Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale age 66
John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham age 69
Larry Thompson age 35
Barbara Underwood age 36
Paul McNulty age 22
Laurence Silberman age 45
Neal Katyal age 10
Philip Heymann age 48
Elizabeth Prelogar age 10 months
Horacio Liendo age 55
Eddy Balancy age 27
Ariranga Pillay age 35
Branislav Šoškić age 58
Filip Bajković age 70
Žarko Bulajić age 58
Augustin Poignet age 52
Henry Neijhorst age 40
Theo Zurenuoc age 15
Paek Nak-chun age 85
Marino Bollini age 47
Ubaldo Biordi age 42
Gian Luigi Berti age 50
Ernesto Montagne Sánchez age 64
Jorge Fernández-Maldonado age 58
Alfonso Bustamante age 39
Guillermo Larco Cox age 48
Alberto Pandolfi age 40
Mark Filip age 14
H. Freeman Matthews age 81
Peter Keisler age 20
James B. Vaught age 54
Hikmat al-Shihabi age 49
Said al-Muragha age 53
Bernard Janvier age 41
Nguyễn Văn Huyền age 69
Melvin Zais age 64
Bui Dinh Dam age 54
Roman Polko age 18
Hoàng Minh Thảo age 59
Sadi Tuma Abbas age 41
H. Jones age 40
Chris Keeble age 39
Hoàng Cầm age 60
Abdul Hamid Khan age 63
Hew Pike age 37
Tajammul Hussain Malik age 56
Sher Jung Thapa age 73
Nobuhiko Higashikuni age 35
Tadateru Konoe age 41
Fariha Al-Ahmad age 36
Nermin Sultan age 57
Princess Chŏnghwa age 651
Sō Takeyuki age 72
Chiang Hsiao-wu age 35
Chiang Hsiao-wen age 44
Chiang Hsiao-yung age 32
Donata Mecklenburg-Solodkoff age 24
Sophie Habsburg age 21
Park Geun-ryeong age 26
Park Ji-man age 21
Ashley Hicks age 17
Lady Amanda Ellingworth age 23
Prince Nikola of Yugoslavia (born 1958) age 22
Luis Gómez-Acebo, Duke of Badajoz age 45
Thyra von Westernhagen age 7
Alexander, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau age 11
Alexander Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles age 5 months
Clare Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven age 20
Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton age 76
David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere age 41
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester age 66
Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling age 41
John O. Bennett age 32
Michael Noble, Baron Glenkinglas age 67
David W. Ogden age 27
Donald B. Verrilli Jr. age 23
James M. Cole age 28
Noel Francisco age 11
Walter J. Cummings Jr. age 64
Adem Salihaj age 29
Peter Gatkuoth age 42
Giuseppe Maiani age 56
Romeo Morri age 28
Carlos Torres y Torres Lara age 38
Dante Córdova age 37
Guillermo Arbulú Galliani age 59
Julio Óscar Trelles Montes age 76
Walter E. Boomer age 42
Roy L. Johnson age 74
Pepe San Román age 50
Adnan Uqla age 30
Emmanuel Erskine age 43
Jack B. Farris age 44
Milorad Petrović age 98
Henry Leach age 57
John A. Toolan age 26
Trần Văn Quang age 63
Alexander Madiebo age 48
Kim Ung age 68
Harry Smith age 47
Hooshang Samadi age 40
Lou Lenart age 59
Moshe Mann age 73
Abdul-Ali Malik age 73
Kuazi Nuruzzaman age 55
Lionel Protip Sen age 70
Mogod Basappa Ravindranath age 21
Natasha Bagration age 66
Prince Michael Andreevich of Russia age 60
Princess Nadine Romanovskya age 72
Lady Mary Lygon age 70
Prince Wilhelm Victor of Prussia age 61
Prince Max Emanuel of Thurn and Taxis age 78
Margaret Campbell Geddes age 67
Honduran military junta of 1956–1957
Temukisa Auina Penehuro Hauma age 25
Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby age 82
Harold R. Tyler Jr. age 58
Ian Heath Gershengorn age 13
Robert McCallum Jr. age 34
D. John Sauer age 5
Vuko Vukadinović age 43
Joseph James Tombura age 51
Marino Venturini age 36
Carlo Franciosi age 45
Óscar de la Puente Raygada age 42
John Demers age 9
Stuart M. Gerson age 36
U. S. Grant Sharp, Jr. age 74
Haydar al-Kuzbari age 60
Joseph Metcalf, III age 52
Chiang Chung-ling age 58
Wu Shih-wen age 46
William O'Callaghan age 59
Charles Sherrod age 43
Rathvon M. Tompkins age 68
Kamel Sajid age 42
Oliver David Jackson age 61
Ítalo Piaggi age 45
Amnon Reshef age 42
Anton Quni age 13
M. A. K. Lodhi age 59
Bakhtiar Rana age 70
Amjad Ali Chaudhri age 63
Salah Boubnider age 51
Michael Clapp age 48
Yona Efrat age 54
Chris Wreford-Brown age 35
Khem Karan Singh age 54
Mohammad Nabi Azimi age 37
Burhan-ud-Din of Chitral age 65
Prince Alexis Romanov age 27
Zeki Kuneralp age 66
Winston Chang age 38
Princess Maria of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1935–2018) age 45
Kerstin Bernadotte age 70
Víctor González Fuentes
Mariano Garrigó age 170
George J. Terwilliger III age 30
Gregory G. Garre age 16
Craig S. Morford age 21
Edwin Kneedler age 34
Jim Obergefell age 14
Eddy Kapend age 20
Punch Coomaraswamy age 55
Renzo Renzi age 24