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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

Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 60
Joseph Kabila age 10
Mswati III age 13
Sahle-Work Zewde age 31
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 13
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 20
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 61
Michel Temer age 41
Mauricio Macri age 22
Erna Solberg age 20
Traian Băsescu age 29
Yingluck Shinawatra age 14
Walter Mondale age 53
Mike Pompeo age 17
Rumen Radev age 18
Nayib Bukele age 2 months
Borut Pahor age 17
Tansu Çiller age 35
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 33
Ratko Mladić age 39
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 35
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 50
B. J. Habibie age 45
Mary Robinson age 37
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 60
Enrico Letta age 15
Thaksin Shinawatra age 32
Jarosław Kaczyński age 32
Moshe Dayan age 66
Yoshihiko Noda age 24
Alberto Fernández age 22
Hamad II of Bahrain age 31
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 22
John Mahama age 22
János Áder age 22
Abdurrahman Wahid age 41
Alassane Ouattara age 39
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 37
Stefan Löfven age 24
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 26
Johannes Rau age 50
Yasuo Fukuda age 45
Dominique de Villepin age 27
Manuel Valls age 19
Malcolm Turnbull age 26
Charles Michel age 5
Pierre Nkurunziza age 16
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 40
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 12
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 25
Frederik X of Denmark age 13
Najib Razak age 28
Helen Clark age 31
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani age 1
Lee Hsien Loong age 29
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 21
Celâl Bayar age 98
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 39
Lee Myung-bak age 39
Alija Izetbegović age 56
Franjo Tuđman age 59
Jorge Rafael Videla age 56
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 42
Nana Akufo-Addo age 37
Prabowo Subianto age 29
Isaac Herzog age 21
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 26
Tomislav Nikolić age 29
Boris Tadić age 23
José Ramos-Horta age 31
Alec Douglas-Home age 78
Gustavo Petro age 21
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 27
John Evans Atta Mills age 37
Reuven Rivlin age 42
Hashim Thaçi age 13
Almazbek Atambaev age 25
Roza Otunbayeva age 31
Haakon VIII of Norway age 8
Magdalena Andersson age 14
Denys Shmyhal age 5
Trương Tấn Sang age 32
Alan García age 32
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 30
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 16
Janet Yellen age 35
Armen Sarkissian age 28
Boyko Borissov age 22
Jovenel Moïse age 13
Katrín Jakobsdóttir age 5
Yair Lapid age 17
Joyce Banda age 31
John Key age 20
Goodluck Jonathan age 23
Victor Chernomyrdin age 43
Ana Brnabić age 6
Halimah Yacob age 27
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 40
Binali Yıldırım age 25
José María Aznar age 28
Andrei Gromyko age 72
Spiro Agnew age 62
Carlos Menem age 51
Robert Kocharyan age 27
Laura Chinchilla age 22
Zoran Milanović age 14
Nikos Anastasiades age 35
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 39
Laurent Gbagbo age 36
Ingrida Šimonytė age 6
Shehbaz Sharif age 30
Macky Sall age 19
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 16
Benigno Aquino III age 21
Roman Herzog age 47
Jean Castex age 16
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 13
Sali Berisha age 36
Stjepan Mesić age 46
Alexander Stubb age 13
Katalin Novák age 4
Isaac Shamir age 65
Michel Aoun age 48
Letsie III of Lesotho age 18
Gitanas Nausėda age 17
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 42
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 32
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 35
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 63
Umberto II of Italy age 77
Leo Varadkar age 2
Ivo Josipović age 24
Petr Pavel age 19
Isaias Afwerki age 35
Meles Zenawi age 26
Jan Peter Balkenende age 25
Filip Vujanović age 27
Milo Đukanović age 19
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 30
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 32
Ion Iliescu age 51
Janez Janša age 23
Bülent Ecevit age 56
Beata Szydło age 18
Kim Young-sam age 53
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 31
Leopold III of Belgium age 79
Péter Magyar age 6 months
Evika Siliņa age 6
Anwar Ibrahim age 34
Gjorge Ivanov age 21
Tabaré Vázquez age 41
Walter Scheel age 62
Mohammed Omar age 21
Félix Tshisekedi age 18
Jalal Talabani age 47
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 52
Vicente Fox age 39
Olusegun Obasanjo age 44
Yahya Jammeh age 16
Beji Caid Essebsi age 54
Trần Đại Quang age 24
Mateusz Morawiecki age 13
Fidel Ramos age 53
Wallis Simpson age 85
Édouard Philippe age 10
Karl Nehammer age 8
Yves Leterme age 20
Alpha Condé age 43
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 38
Mary McAleese age 30
Ehud Barak age 39
Giuliano Amato age 43
Uhuru Kenyatta age 19
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 14
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 17
Ma Ying-jeou age 31
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 15
Dina Boluarte age 19
Bongbong Marcos age 24
Bujar Nishani age 15
Abdul Hamid age 37
Hun Sen age 29
Kim Campbell age 34
Andrej Babiš age 27
Lenín Moreno age 28
Mari Kiviniemi age 13
Giorgos Papandreou age 29
Karolos Papoulias age 52
Juliana of the Netherlands age 72
Rafiq Hariri age 36
Ulf Kristersson age 17
Lai Ching-te age 21
John Magufuli age 21
Pridi Banomyong age 81
Horacio Cartes age 25
Yun Po-sun age 84
Shigeru Ishiba age 24
Lionel Jospin age 44
Abolhassan Banisadr age 48