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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

John Howard age 49
Idriss Déby age 36
Yukio Hatoyama age 41
Ahmed al-Sharaa age 5
Edi Rama age 24
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 67
Joseph Kabila age 17
Sahle-Work Zewde age 38
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 20
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 27
Michel Temer age 47
Mauricio Macri age 29
Erna Solberg age 27
Traian Băsescu age 36
Yingluck Shinawatra age 21
Walter Mondale age 60
Mike Pompeo age 24
Rumen Radev age 25
Nayib Bukele age 7
Borut Pahor age 24
Habib Bourguiba age 85
Tansu Çiller age 42
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 39
Ratko Mladić age 46
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 42
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 57
B. J. Habibie age 52
Mary Robinson age 44
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 67
Enrico Letta age 22
Thaksin Shinawatra age 39
Jarosław Kaczyński age 39
Yoshihiko Noda age 31
Alberto Fernández age 29
Hamad II of Bahrain age 38
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 29
John Mahama age 29
János Áder age 29
Abdurrahman Wahid age 47
Alassane Ouattara age 46
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 44
Stefan Löfven age 31
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 33
Johannes Rau age 57
Yasuo Fukuda age 52
Dominique de Villepin age 34
Manuel Valls age 26
Malcolm Turnbull age 33
Charles Michel age 12
Pierre Nkurunziza age 23
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 18
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 32
Frederik X of Denmark age 20
Najib Razak age 35
Helen Clark age 38
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani age 8
Lee Hsien Loong age 36
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 28
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 45
Lee Myung-bak age 46
Alija Izetbegović age 63
Franjo Tuđman age 66
Jorge Rafael Videla age 63
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 49
Nana Akufo-Addo age 44
Prabowo Subianto age 36
Isaac Herzog age 27
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 33
Tomislav Nikolić age 36
Boris Tadić age 30
José Ramos-Horta age 38
Juan Guaidó age 5
Alec Douglas-Home age 85
Gustavo Petro age 28
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 34
John Evans Atta Mills age 44
Reuven Rivlin age 48
Hashim Thaçi age 20
Almazbek Atambaev age 31
Roza Otunbayeva age 38
Haakon VIII of Norway age 15
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 42
Armen Sarkissian age 35
Boyko Borissov age 29
Jovenel Moïse age 20
Katrín Jakobsdóttir age 12
Yair Lapid age 24
Joyce Banda age 38
John Key age 27
Goodluck Jonathan age 30
Victor Chernomyrdin age 50
Ana Brnabić age 12
Halimah Yacob age 34
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 46
Binali Yıldırım age 32
Karol Nawrocki age 5
José María Aznar age 35
Andrei Gromyko age 79
Spiro Agnew age 69
Carlos Menem age 58
Robert Kocharyan age 33
Laura Chinchilla age 29
Zoran Milanović age 21
Nikos Anastasiades age 41
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 45
Laurent Gbagbo age 43
Ingrida Šimonytė age 13
Shehbaz Sharif age 36
Macky Sall age 26
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 23
Benigno Aquino III age 28
Roman Herzog age 54
Jean Castex age 23
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 20
Sali Berisha age 43
Stjepan Mesić age 53
Alexander Stubb age 20
Katalin Novák age 10
Michel Aoun age 54
Letsie III of Lesotho age 25
Gitanas Nausėda age 24
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 39
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 42
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 70
Leo Varadkar age 9
Ivo Josipović age 30
Petr Pavel age 26
Isaias Afwerki age 42
Meles Zenawi age 33
Jan Peter Balkenende age 32
Filip Vujanović age 33
Milo Đukanović age 26
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 37
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 39
Ion Iliescu age 58
Janez Janša age 29
Bülent Ecevit age 63
Beata Szydło age 25
Kim Young-sam age 60
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 38
Péter Magyar age 7
Sandro Pertini age 91
Evika Siliņa age 13
Anwar Ibrahim age 41
Gjorge Ivanov age 28
Tabaré Vázquez age 48
Walter Scheel age 69
Mohammed Omar age 28
Félix Tshisekedi age 25
Jalal Talabani age 54
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 59
Vicente Fox age 46
Olusegun Obasanjo age 51
Yahya Jammeh age 23
Beji Caid Essebsi age 61
Trần Đại Quang age 31
Mateusz Morawiecki age 20
Fidel Ramos age 60
Édouard Philippe age 17
Hua Guofeng age 67
Karl Nehammer age 15
Yves Leterme age 27
Alpha Condé age 50
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 45
Mary McAleese age 37
Ehud Barak age 46
Giuliano Amato age 50
Uhuru Kenyatta age 26
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 21
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 24
Ma Ying-jeou age 38
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 22
Dina Boluarte age 26
Bongbong Marcos age 30
Bujar Nishani age 21
Abdul Hamid age 44
Kim Campbell age 41
Andrej Babiš age 33
Lenín Moreno age 35
Mari Kiviniemi age 19
Giorgos Papandreou age 36
Karolos Papoulias age 59
Juliana of the Netherlands age 79
Rafiq Hariri age 43
Ulf Kristersson age 24
Lai Ching-te age 28
John Magufuli age 28
Milton Obote age 62
Horacio Cartes age 32
Yun Po-sun age 91
Shigeru Ishiba age 31
Lionel Jospin age 51
Abolhassan Banisadr age 55
Patrice Talon age 30
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 38