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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
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
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
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

Georgy Malenkov age 79
Edi Rama age 16
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 60
Joseph Kabila age 9
Mswati III age 12
Sahle-Work Zewde age 31
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 12
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 19
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 61
Michel Temer age 40
Mauricio Macri age 22
Erna Solberg age 20
Traian Băsescu age 29
Yingluck Shinawatra age 13
Walter Mondale age 53
Mike Pompeo age 17
Rumen Radev age 17
Borut Pahor age 17
Tansu Çiller age 34
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 32
Ratko Mladić age 38
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 35
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 50
B. J. Habibie age 44
Mary Robinson age 36
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 60
Enrico Letta age 14
Thaksin Shinawatra age 31
Jarosław Kaczyński age 31
Moshe Dayan age 65
Yoshihiko Noda age 23
Alberto Fernández age 21
Hamad II of Bahrain age 31
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 22
John Mahama age 22
János Áder age 21
Abdurrahman Wahid age 40
Alassane Ouattara age 39
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 37
Stefan Löfven age 23
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 26
Johannes Rau age 50
Yasuo Fukuda age 44
Dominique de Villepin age 27
Manuel Valls age 18
Malcolm Turnbull age 26
Charles Michel age 5
Pierre Nkurunziza age 16
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 39
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 11
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 24
Frederik X of Denmark age 12
Najib Razak age 27
Helen Clark age 31
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani age 9 months
Lee Hsien Loong age 29
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 21
Celâl Bayar age 97
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 38
Lee Myung-bak age 39
Alija Izetbegović age 55
Franjo Tuđman age 58
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 41
Nana Akufo-Addo age 36
Prabowo Subianto age 29
Isaac Herzog age 20
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 25
Tomislav Nikolić age 29
Boris Tadić age 23
José Ramos-Horta age 31
Alec Douglas-Home age 77
Gustavo Petro age 20
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 27
John Evans Atta Mills age 36
Reuven Rivlin age 41
Hashim Thaçi age 12
Almazbek Atambaev age 24
Roza Otunbayeva age 30
Haakon VIII of Norway age 7
Magdalena Andersson age 14
Denys Shmyhal age 5
Trương Tấn Sang age 32
Alan García age 31
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 29
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 16
Janet Yellen age 34
Armen Sarkissian age 27
Boyko Borissov age 21
Jovenel Moïse age 12
Katrín Jakobsdóttir age 5
Yair Lapid age 17
Joyce Banda age 30
John Key age 19
Goodluck Jonathan age 23
Victor Chernomyrdin age 42
Ana Brnabić age 5
Halimah Yacob age 26
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 39
Binali Yıldırım age 25
José María Aznar age 28
Andrei Gromyko age 71
Spiro Agnew age 62
Carlos Menem age 50
Robert Kocharyan age 26
Laura Chinchilla age 21
Zoran Milanović age 14
Nikos Anastasiades age 34
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 38
Laurent Gbagbo age 35
Ingrida Šimonytė age 6
Shehbaz Sharif age 29
Macky Sall age 19
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 15
Benigno Aquino III age 21
Roman Herzog age 46
Jean Castex age 15
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 13
Sali Berisha age 36
Stjepan Mesić age 46
Alexander Stubb age 12
Katalin Novák age 3
Isaac Shamir age 65
Michel Aoun age 47
Letsie III of Lesotho age 17
Gitanas Nausėda age 16
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 41
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 31
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 35
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 62
Umberto II of Italy age 76
Leo Varadkar age 2
Ivo Josipović age 23
Petr Pavel age 19
Isaias Afwerki age 35
Meles Zenawi age 25
Jan Peter Balkenende age 24
Filip Vujanović age 26
Milo Đukanović age 19
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 29
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 32
Ion Iliescu age 51
Janez Janša age 22
Bülent Ecevit age 55
Beata Szydło age 17
Kim Young-sam age 53
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 31
Leopold III of Belgium age 79
Evika Siliņa age 5
Anwar Ibrahim age 33
Gjorge Ivanov age 20
Tabaré Vázquez age 41
Walter Scheel age 61
Mohammed Omar age 21
Félix Tshisekedi age 17
Jalal Talabani age 47
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 51
Vicente Fox age 38
Olusegun Obasanjo age 44
Yahya Jammeh age 15
Beji Caid Essebsi age 54
Trần Đại Quang age 24
Mateusz Morawiecki age 12
Fidel Ramos age 52
Wallis Simpson age 84
Édouard Philippe age 10
Karl Nehammer age 8
Yves Leterme age 20
Alpha Condé age 43
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 37
Mary McAleese age 29
Ehud Barak age 39
Giuliano Amato age 42
Uhuru Kenyatta age 19
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 14
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 16
Ma Ying-jeou age 30
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 14
Dina Boluarte age 18
Bongbong Marcos age 23
Bujar Nishani age 14
Abdul Hamid age 37
Hun Sen age 28
Kim Campbell age 33
Andrej Babiš age 26
Lenín Moreno age 27
Mari Kiviniemi age 12
Giorgos Papandreou age 28
Karolos Papoulias age 51
Juliana of the Netherlands age 71
Rafiq Hariri age 36
Ulf Kristersson age 17
Lai Ching-te age 21
John Magufuli age 21
Pridi Banomyong age 80
Horacio Cartes age 24
Yun Po-sun age 83
Shigeru Ishiba age 24
Lionel Jospin age 43
Patrice Talon age 22
Blaise Compaoré age 30