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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
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
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

Édouard Philippe age 9
Aslan Maskhadov age 29
Karl Nehammer age 8
Yves Leterme age 20
Alpha Condé age 42
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 37
Morarji Desai age 84
Mary McAleese age 29
Ehud Barak age 38
Giuliano Amato age 42
Uhuru Kenyatta age 19
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 13
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 16
Ma Ying-jeou age 30
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 14
Dina Boluarte age 18
Bongbong Marcos age 23
Otto von Habsburg age 68
Bujar Nishani age 14
Abdul Hamid age 36
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 16
Lai Ching-te age 21
John Magufuli age 21
Pridi Banomyong age 80
Milton Obote age 54
Horacio Cartes age 24
Yun Po-sun age 83
Shigeru Ishiba age 23
Lionel Jospin age 43
Patrice Talon age 22
Blaise Compaoré age 29
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 30
János Kádár age 68
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 62
Bettino Craxi age 46
Valdas Adamkus age 54
Mamnoon Hussain age 39
Andrej Kiska age 17
Fahri Korutürk age 77
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 35
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 35
Michael I of Romania age 59
Élisabeth Borne age 19
Thomas Bach age 26
Manuel Noriega age 46
Raúl Alfonsín age 53
Khaleda Zia age 34
Thomas Boni Yayi age 28
Georgi Parvanov age 23
Paul Martin age 42
Mwai Kibaki age 49
Xavier Bettel age 7
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 77
Oleksandr Turchynov age 16
Ollanta Humala age 18
Rex Tillerson age 28
Alexander Schallenberg age 11
Mia Mottley age 15
Elio Di Rupo age 29
Jean Chrétien age 46
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 23
Andrej Plenković age 10
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 40
John Kufuor age 41
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 59
Atifete Jahjaga age 5
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 35
Janez Drnovšek age 30
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 36
Keiko Fujimori age 5
Jacques Delors age 55
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 50
Mohammad Najibullah age 33
João Lourenço age 26
Werner Faymann age 20
Guy Verhofstadt age 27
Dimitris Christofias age 34
Alar Karis age 22
Giovanni Leone age 72
Igor Dodon age 5
Peter Pellegrini age 5
Ivan Gašparovič age 39
Cevdet Sunay age 81
Necmettin Erbakan age 54
Morgan Tsvangirai age 28
Felipe González age 38
Alexei Kosygin age 76
George F. Kennan age 76
Itamar Franco age 50
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 49
Jacques Rogge age 38
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi age 14
Bamir Topi age 23
Ilir Meta age 11
Alexander De Croo age 5
Sophie Wilmès age 5
Luis Arce age 17
Jeanine Áñez age 13
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 43
Jüri Ratas age 2
K. R. Narayanan age 60
Massimo D'Alema age 31
Dick Schoof age 23
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 31
Saad Harirị age 10
Andry Rajoelina age 6
Peter Mutharika age 40
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 17
Mário Soares age 55
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 28
Zoran Đinđić age 28
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 16
Adama Barrow age 15
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 19
Fernando Lugo age 29
Kgalema Motlanthe age 31
Shamil Basayev age 15
Zhu Rongji age 52
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 47
Gough Whitlam age 64
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 32
Arnold Rüütel age 52
Nouri al-Maliki age 30
Moshe Katsav age 34
Ibrahim Rugova age 35
Sadyr Japarov age 11
Amadou Toumani Touré age 32
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 21
Ram Baran Yadav age 32
Stevo Pendarovski age 17
Desi Bouterse age 35
Xanana Gusmão age 34
Arsenii Yatseniuk age 6
Armand Fallières age 139
Pierre Mauroy age 52
Laurent Fabius age 34
Édith Cresson age 46
Michel Barnier age 29
Lê Đức Thọ age 69
Enda Kenny age 29
Queen Sofía of Spain age 42
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh age 16
Queen Letizia of Spain age 8
Omar Bradley age 87
Soong Ching-ling age 87
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 40
Ivo Sanader age 27
Mohamed Naguib age 79
Andrus Ansip age 24
Loukas Papademos age 33
László Sólyom age 38
Charan Singh age 77
Edgars Rinkēvičs age 7
Valdis Zatlers age 25
Bingu wa Mutharika age 46
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 28
Violeta Chamorro age 51
Bola Tinubu age 28
Nikola Gruevski age 10
Egor Gajdar age 24
Göran Persson age 31
Carl Bildt age 31
Prayut Chanocha age 26
Delcy Rodriguez age 11
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 143
Lloyd Austin age 27
John Roberts age 25
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 23
Brian Mulroney age 41
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 28
Matti Vanhanen age 25
R. Venkataraman age 69
William Ruto age 13
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 42
Mohamed Agha age 24
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 21
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 23
Nicolae Timofti age 31
Chris Hipkins age 2
Evgeny Primakov age 51
Danilo Türk age 28
Tupou VI of Tonga age 21
Mykola Azarov age 32
Edgar Lungu age 24
Pedro Castillo age 11
Lee Jae Myung age 16
Yoshirō Mori age 43
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 57
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 36
Vahagn Khachatryan age 21
Bob Hawke age 50