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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

Beji Caid Essebsi age 54
Trần Đại Quang age 24
Mateusz Morawiecki age 12
Fidel Ramos age 53
Wallis Simpson age 84
Édouard Philippe age 10
Aslan Maskhadov age 29
Karl Nehammer age 8
Yves Leterme age 20
Alpha Condé age 43
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 38
Morarji Desai age 85
Mary McAleese age 29
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 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 37
Hun Sen age 28
Kim Campbell age 34
Andrej Babiš age 26
Lenín Moreno age 28
Mari Kiviniemi age 12
Giorgos Papandreou age 28
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 24
Yun Po-sun age 83
Shigeru Ishiba age 24
Lionel Jospin age 43
Patrice Talon age 23
Blaise Compaoré age 30
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 30
János Kádár age 69
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 62
Bettino Craxi age 47
Valdas Adamkus age 54
Mamnoon Hussain age 40
Andrej Kiska age 18
Fahri Korutürk age 77
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 35
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 35
Michael I of Romania age 59
Élisabeth Borne age 20
Thomas Bach age 27
Manuel Noriega age 47
Raúl Alfonsín age 54
Khaleda Zia age 34
Thomas Boni Yayi age 28
Georgi Parvanov age 23
Paul Martin age 42
Mwai Kibaki age 49
Xavier Bettel age 8
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 78
Oleksandr Turchynov age 17
Ollanta Humala age 18
Rex Tillerson age 29
Alexander Schallenberg age 11
Mia Mottley age 15
Elio Di Rupo age 29
Jean Chrétien age 47
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 24
Andrej Plenković age 11
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 41
John Kufuor age 42
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 59
Atifete Jahjaga age 6
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 36
Janez Drnovšek age 31
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 37
Keiko Fujimori age 6
Jacques Delors age 55
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 50
Mohammad Najibullah age 33
João Lourenço age 27
Werner Faymann age 21
Guy Verhofstadt age 28
Dimitris Christofias age 34
Alar Karis age 23
Giovanni Leone age 72
Igor Dodon age 6
Peter Pellegrini age 5
Ivan Gašparovič age 40
Cevdet Sunay age 82
Necmettin Erbakan age 54
Morgan Tsvangirai age 29
Felipe González age 39
George F. Kennan age 77
Itamar Franco age 50
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 49
Jacques Rogge age 39
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi age 14
Bamir Topi age 24
Ilir Meta age 12
Alexander De Croo age 5
Sophie Wilmès age 6
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 32
Dick Schoof age 24
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 31
Saad Harirị age 11
Andry Rajoelina age 6
Peter Mutharika age 40
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 18
Mário Soares age 56
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 29
Zoran Đinđić age 28
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 16
Adama Barrow age 16
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 20
Fernando Lugo age 30
Kgalema Motlanthe age 31
Shamil Basayev age 16
Zhu Rongji age 52
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 47
Gough Whitlam age 64
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 33
Arnold Rüütel age 53
Nouri al-Maliki age 30
Moshe Katsav age 35
Ibrahim Rugova age 36
Sadyr Japarov age 12
Amadou Toumani Touré age 32
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 21
Ram Baran Yadav age 33
Stevo Pendarovski age 18
Desi Bouterse age 35
Xanana Gusmão age 34
Arsenii Yatseniuk age 7
Armand Fallières age 139
Laurent Fabius age 34
Édith Cresson age 47
Michel Barnier age 30
Lê Đức Thọ age 69
Enda Kenny age 30
Queen Sofía of Spain age 42
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh age 17
Queen Letizia of Spain age 8
Soong Ching-ling age 88
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 40
Ivo Sanader age 27
Mohamed Naguib age 80
Andrus Ansip age 24
Loukas Papademos age 33
László Sólyom age 39
Charan Singh age 78
Edgars Rinkēvičs age 7
Valdis Zatlers age 26
Bingu wa Mutharika age 47
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 29
Violeta Chamorro age 51
Bola Tinubu age 29
Nikola Gruevski age 10
Egor Gajdar age 25
Göran Persson age 32
Carl Bildt age 31
Prayut Chanocha age 27
Delcy Rodriguez age 12
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 143
Lloyd Austin age 27
John Roberts age 26
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 24
Brian Mulroney age 42
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 28
Matti Vanhanen age 25
R. Venkataraman age 70
William Ruto age 14
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 43
Mohamed Agha age 25
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 22
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 24
Nicolae Timofti age 32
Chris Hipkins age 2
Evgeny Primakov age 51
Danilo Türk age 29
Tupou VI of Tonga age 21
Mykola Azarov age 33
Edgar Lungu age 24
Pedro Castillo age 11
Lee Jae Myung age 17
Yoshirō Mori age 43
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 58
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 37
Vahagn Khachatryan age 22