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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
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12

People

Idriss Déby age 35
Yukio Hatoyama age 41
Ahmed al-Sharaa age 5
Edi Rama age 23
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 67
Joseph Kabila age 16
Sahle-Work Zewde age 38
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 19
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 26
Michel Temer age 47
Mauricio Macri age 29
Erna Solberg age 27
Traian Băsescu age 36
Yingluck Shinawatra age 20
Walter Mondale age 60
Mike Pompeo age 24
Rumen Radev age 24
Nayib Bukele age 6
Borut Pahor age 24
Habib Bourguiba age 84
Tansu Çiller age 41
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 39
Ratko Mladić age 45
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 42
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 57
B. J. Habibie age 51
Mary Robinson age 43
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 67
Enrico Letta age 21
Thaksin Shinawatra age 38
Jarosław Kaczyński age 38
Yoshihiko Noda age 30
Alberto Fernández age 28
Hamad II of Bahrain age 38
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 29
John Mahama age 29
János Áder age 28
Abdurrahman Wahid age 47
Alassane Ouattara age 46
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 44
Stefan Löfven age 30
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 33
Johannes Rau age 57
Yasuo Fukuda age 51
Dominique de Villepin age 34
Manuel Valls age 25
Malcolm Turnbull age 33
Charles Michel age 12
Pierre Nkurunziza age 23
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 18
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 31
Frederik X of Denmark age 19
Najib Razak age 34
Helen Clark age 38
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani age 7
Lee Hsien Loong age 36
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 28
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 45
Lee Myung-bak age 46
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 36
Boris Tadić age 30
José Ramos-Horta age 38
Juan Guaidó age 4
Alec Douglas-Home age 84
Gustavo Petro age 27
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 34
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 21
Denys Shmyhal age 12
Trương Tấn Sang age 39
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 36
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 23
Janet Yellen age 41
Armen Sarkissian age 34
Boyko Borissov age 28
Jovenel Moïse age 19
Katrín Jakobsdóttir age 12
Yair Lapid age 24
Joyce Banda age 37
John Key age 26
Goodluck Jonathan age 30
Victor Chernomyrdin age 49
Ana Brnabić age 12
Halimah Yacob age 33
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 46
Binali Yıldırım age 32
Karol Nawrocki age 4
José María Aznar age 35
Andrei Gromyko age 78
Spiro Agnew age 69
Carlos Menem age 57
Robert Kocharyan age 33
Laura Chinchilla age 28
Zoran Milanović age 21
Nikos Anastasiades age 41
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 45
Laurent Gbagbo age 42
Ingrida Šimonytė age 13
Shehbaz Sharif age 36
Macky Sall age 26
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 22
Benigno Aquino III age 28
Roman Herzog age 53
Jean Castex age 22
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 20
Sali Berisha age 43
Stjepan Mesić age 53
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 42
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 69
Leo Varadkar age 9
Ivo Josipović age 30
Petr Pavel age 26
Isaias Afwerki age 42
Meles Zenawi age 32
Jan Peter Balkenende age 31
Filip Vujanović age 33
Milo Đukanović age 26
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 36
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 39
Ion Iliescu age 58
Janez Janša age 29
Bülent Ecevit age 62
Beata Szydło age 24
Kim Young-sam age 60
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 38
Péter Magyar age 6
Sandro Pertini age 91
Evika Siliņa age 12
Anwar Ibrahim age 40
Gjorge Ivanov age 27
Tabaré Vázquez age 48
Walter Scheel age 68
Mohammed Omar age 28
Félix Tshisekedi age 24
Jalal Talabani age 54
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 58
Vicente Fox age 45
Olusegun Obasanjo age 51
Yahya Jammeh age 22
Beji Caid Essebsi age 61
Trần Đại Quang age 31
Mateusz Morawiecki age 19
Fidel Ramos age 59
Édouard Philippe age 17
Hua Guofeng age 67
Karl Nehammer age 15
Yves Leterme age 27
Alpha Condé age 50
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 44
Mary McAleese age 36
Ehud Barak age 46
Giuliano Amato age 49
Uhuru Kenyatta age 26
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 21
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 23
Ma Ying-jeou age 37
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 21
Dina Boluarte age 25
Bongbong Marcos age 30
Bujar Nishani age 21
Abdul Hamid age 44
Kim Campbell age 40
Andrej Babiš age 33
Lenín Moreno age 34
Mari Kiviniemi age 19
Giorgos Papandreou age 35
Karolos Papoulias age 58
Juliana of the Netherlands age 78
Rafiq Hariri age 43
Ulf Kristersson age 24
Lai Ching-te age 28
John Magufuli age 28
Milton Obote age 62
Horacio Cartes age 31
Yun Po-sun age 90
Shigeru Ishiba age 31
Lionel Jospin age 50
Abolhassan Banisadr age 54
Patrice Talon age 29
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 37
János Kádár age 75