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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
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
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Black Monday (1987) 1987-10-19

People

Mette Frederiksen age 9
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 31
José Manuel Barroso age 31
Leonid Kravchuk age 53
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 40
Antony Blinken age 25
Ahmed Ben Bella age 70
Tony Abbott age 29
Heinz Fischer age 49
Michael D. Higgins age 46
Paolo Gentiloni age 32
Mario Monti age 44
Alberto Fujimori age 49
Roh Moo-hyun age 41
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 27
Ram Nath Kovind age 42
Enrique Peña Nieto age 21
Nawaz Sharif age 37
François Fillon age 33
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 76
Albert II of Belgium age 53
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 53
Néstor Kirchner age 37
Nikol Pashinyan age 12
John Howard age 48
Idriss Déby age 35
Yukio Hatoyama age 40
Georgy Malenkov age 85
Ahmed al-Sharaa age 4
Edi Rama age 23
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 66
Joseph Kabila age 16
Sahle-Work Zewde age 37
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 19
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 26
Michel Temer age 47
Mauricio Macri age 28
Erna Solberg age 26
Traian Băsescu age 35
Yingluck Shinawatra age 20
Walter Mondale age 59
Mike Pompeo age 23
Rumen Radev age 24
Nayib Bukele age 6
António Costa age 26
Borut Pahor age 23
Tansu Çiller age 41
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 39
Ratko Mladić age 45
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 43
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 41
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 56
B. J. Habibie age 51
Mary Robinson age 43
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 66
Enrico Letta age 21
Thaksin Shinawatra age 38
Jarosław Kaczyński age 38
Yoshihiko Noda age 30
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 34
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 83
Alberto Fernández age 28
Hamad II of Bahrain age 37
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 28
John Mahama age 28
János Áder age 28
Abdurrahman Wahid age 47
Alassane Ouattara age 45
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 43
Stefan Löfven age 30
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 32
Johannes Rau age 56
Yasuo Fukuda age 51
Dominique de Villepin age 33
Manuel Valls age 25
Malcolm Turnbull age 33
Charles Michel age 11
Pierre Nkurunziza age 22
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 18
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 31
Frederik X of Denmark age 19
Najib Razak age 34
Helen Clark age 37
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani age 7
Lee Hsien Loong age 35
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 27
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 45
Lee Myung-bak age 45
Alija Izetbegović age 62
Franjo Tuđman age 65
Jorge Rafael Videla age 62
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 48
Nana Akufo-Addo age 43
Prabowo Subianto age 36
Isaac Herzog age 27
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 32
Tomislav Nikolić age 35
Boris Tadić age 29
José Ramos-Horta age 37
Juan Guaidó age 4
Adolfo Suárez age 55
François Englert age 54
Alec Douglas-Home age 84
Gustavo Petro age 27
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 33
John Evans Atta Mills age 43
Reuven Rivlin age 48
Hashim Thaçi age 19
Almazbek Atambaev age 31
Roza Otunbayeva age 37
Haakon VIII of Norway age 14
Magdalena Andersson age 20
Denys Shmyhal age 12
Trương Tấn Sang age 38
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 36
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 22
Janet Yellen age 41
Anne, Princess Royal age 37
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor age 27
Armen Sarkissian age 34
Boyko Borissov age 28
Jovenel Moïse age 19
Katrín Jakobsdóttir age 11
Yair Lapid age 23
Joyce Banda age 37
Felipe Calderón age 25
John Key age 26
Goodluck Jonathan age 29
Victor Chernomyrdin age 49
Ana Brnabić age 12
Halimah Yacob age 33
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 46
Binali Yıldırım age 31
Karol Nawrocki age 4
José María Aznar age 34
Andrei Gromyko age 78
Constantine II of Greece age 47
Robert G. Edwards age 62
Spiro Agnew age 68
Carlos Menem age 57
Robert Kocharyan age 33
Laura Chinchilla age 28
Zoran Milanović age 20
Nikos Anastasiades age 41
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 45
Laurent Gbagbo age 42
Ingrida Šimonytė age 12
Shehbaz Sharif age 36
Macky Sall age 25
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 22
Benigno Aquino III age 27
Roman Herzog age 53
Jean Castex age 22
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 20
Sali Berisha age 43
Stjepan Mesić age 52
Alexander Stubb age 19
Katalin Novák age 10
Michel Aoun age 54
Letsie III of Lesotho age 24
Gitanas Nausėda age 23
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 38
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 41
Leo Varadkar age 8
Sam Altman age 2
Katalin Karikó age 32
Ivo Josipović age 30
Petr Pavel age 25
Isaias Afwerki age 41
Meles Zenawi age 32
Jan Peter Balkenende age 31
Filip Vujanović age 33
Milo Đukanović age 25
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 36
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 38
Ion Iliescu age 57
Janez Janša age 29
Bülent Ecevit age 62
Beata Szydło age 24
Kim Young-sam age 59
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 37
Péter Magyar age 6
Sandro Pertini age 91
Evika Siliņa age 12
Anwar Ibrahim age 40
Gjorge Ivanov age 27
Tabaré Vázquez age 47
Walter Scheel age 68
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden age 10
Mohammed Omar age 27
Félix Tshisekedi age 24
Jalal Talabani age 53
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 58
Vicente Fox age 45
Olusegun Obasanjo age 50
Yahya Jammeh age 22
Beji Caid Essebsi age 60
Trần Đại Quang age 31
Mateusz Morawiecki age 19
Fidel Ramos age 59