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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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15

People

Johannes Rau age 49
Yasuo Fukuda age 43
Dominique de Villepin age 26
Manuel Valls age 17
Malcolm Turnbull age 25
Charles Michel age 4
Pierre Nkurunziza age 15
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 38
Omar Bongo age 44
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 10
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 23
Frederik X of Denmark age 11
Najib Razak age 26
Helen Clark age 29
Lee Hsien Loong age 27
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 20
Celâl Bayar age 96
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 37
Lee Myung-bak age 38
Alija Izetbegović age 54
Franjo Tuđman age 57
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 40
Nana Akufo-Addo age 35
Prabowo Subianto age 28
Isaac Herzog age 19
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 24
Tomislav Nikolić age 27
Boris Tadić age 22
José Ramos-Horta age 30
Alec Douglas-Home age 76
Gustavo Petro age 19
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 26
John Evans Atta Mills age 35
Reuven Rivlin age 40
Hashim Thaçi age 11
Almazbek Atambaev age 23
Roza Otunbayeva age 29
Haakon VIII of Norway age 6
Magdalena Andersson age 13
Denys Shmyhal age 4
Trương Tấn Sang age 31
Alan García age 30
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 28
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 14
Janet Yellen age 33
Armen Sarkissian age 26
Boyko Borissov age 20
Jovenel Moïse age 11
Katrín Jakobsdóttir age 3
Yair Lapid age 16
Joyce Banda age 29
John Key age 18
Goodluck Jonathan age 22
Victor Chernomyrdin age 41
Ana Brnabić age 4
Halimah Yacob age 25
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 38
Binali Yıldırım age 24
José María Aznar age 26
Andrei Gromyko age 70
Spiro Agnew age 61
Carlos Menem age 49
Robert Kocharyan age 25
Laura Chinchilla age 20
Zoran Milanović age 13
Nikos Anastasiades age 33
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 37
Laurent Gbagbo age 34
Ingrida Šimonytė age 5
Shehbaz Sharif age 28
Macky Sall age 18
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 14
Kenan Evren age 62
Benigno Aquino III age 19
Roman Herzog age 45
Jean Castex age 14
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 12
Sali Berisha age 35
Stjepan Mesić age 45
Alexander Stubb age 11
Katalin Novák age 2
Isaac Shamir age 64
Michel Aoun age 46
Letsie III of Lesotho age 16
Gitanas Nausėda age 15
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 40
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 30
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 34
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 61
Umberto II of Italy age 75
Leo Varadkar age 1
Ivo Josipović age 22
Petr Pavel age 18
Isaias Afwerki age 33
Meles Zenawi age 24
Jan Peter Balkenende age 23
Filip Vujanović age 25
Milo Đukanović age 17
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 28
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 31
Ion Iliescu age 49
Janez Janša age 21
Bülent Ecevit age 54
Beata Szydło age 16
Kim Young-sam age 52
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 30
Leopold III of Belgium age 78
Evika Siliņa age 4
Anwar Ibrahim age 32
Gjorge Ivanov age 19
Tabaré Vázquez age 40
Walter Scheel age 60
Mohammed Omar age 20
Félix Tshisekedi age 16
Jalal Talabani age 46
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 50
Vicente Fox age 37
Olusegun Obasanjo age 42
Yahya Jammeh age 14
Beji Caid Essebsi age 53
Trần Đại Quang age 23
Mateusz Morawiecki age 11
Fidel Ramos age 51
Wallis Simpson age 83
Édouard Philippe age 9
Karl Nehammer age 7
Yves Leterme age 19
Alpha Condé age 41
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 36
Mary McAleese age 28
Ehud Barak age 37
Giuliano Amato age 41
Uhuru Kenyatta age 18
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 13
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 15
Ma Ying-jeou age 29
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 13
Dina Boluarte age 17
Bongbong Marcos age 22
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 59
Bujar Nishani age 13
Abdul Hamid age 36
Hun Sen age 27
Kim Campbell age 32
Andrej Babiš age 25
Lenín Moreno age 26
Mari Kiviniemi age 11
Giorgos Papandreou age 27
Karolos Papoulias age 50
Rafiq Hariri age 35
Ulf Kristersson age 16
Lai Ching-te age 20
John Magufuli age 20
Pridi Banomyong age 79
Milton Obote age 54
Horacio Cartes age 23
Yun Po-sun age 82
Shigeru Ishiba age 22
Lionel Jospin age 42
Abolhassan Banisadr age 46
Patrice Talon age 21
Blaise Compaoré age 28
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 29
János Kádár age 67
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 61
Bettino Craxi age 45
Valdas Adamkus age 53
Mamnoon Hussain age 39
Andrej Kiska age 16
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 34
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 34
Michael I of Romania age 58
Élisabeth Borne age 18
Thomas Bach age 26
Raúl Alfonsín age 52
Thomas Boni Yayi age 27
Georgi Parvanov age 22
Paul Martin age 41
Mwai Kibaki age 48
Xavier Bettel age 6
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 77
Oleksandr Turchynov age 15
Ollanta Humala age 17
Chun Doo-hwan age 49
Zhao Ziyang age 60
Rex Tillerson age 27
Alexander Schallenberg age 10
Mia Mottley age 14
Elio Di Rupo age 28
Jean Chrétien age 46
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 22
Andrej Plenković age 9
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 40
John Kufuor age 41
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 58
Atifete Jahjaga age 4
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 35
Janez Drnovšek age 29
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 35
Keiko Fujimori age 4