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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

Mateusz Morawiecki age 19
Fidel Ramos age 60
Édouard Philippe age 17
Aslan Maskhadov age 36
Hua Guofeng age 67
Karl Nehammer age 15
Yves Leterme age 27
Alpha Condé age 50
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 44
Morarji Desai age 92
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
Otto von Habsburg age 75
Bujar Nishani age 21
Abdul Hamid age 44
Kim Campbell age 41
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
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 69
Bettino Craxi age 54
Valdas Adamkus age 61
Mamnoon Hussain age 47
Andrej Kiska age 25
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 42
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 42
Michael I of Romania age 66
Élisabeth Borne age 26
Thomas Bach age 34
Manuel Noriega age 54
Khaleda Zia age 41
Thomas Boni Yayi age 35
Georgi Parvanov age 30
Paul Martin age 49
Mwai Kibaki age 56
Xavier Bettel age 15
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 85
Oleksandr Turchynov age 23
Ollanta Humala age 25
Chun Doo-hwan age 57
Rex Tillerson age 35
Alexander Schallenberg age 18
Mia Mottley age 22
Elio Di Rupo age 36
Jean Chrétien age 54
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 30
Andrej Plenković age 17
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 48
John Kufuor age 49
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 66
Vjosa Osmani age 5
Atifete Jahjaga age 12
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 43
Janez Drnovšek age 37
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 43
Keiko Fujimori age 12
Karl Carstens age 73
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 57
João Lourenço age 34
Werner Faymann age 27
Guy Verhofstadt age 34
Dimitris Christofias age 41
Alar Karis age 29
Giovanni Leone age 79
Igor Dodon age 13
Peter Pellegrini age 12
Ivan Gašparovič age 46
Paetongtarn Shinawatra age 1
Necmettin Erbakan age 61
Morgan Tsvangirai age 36
George F. Kennan age 84
Itamar Franco age 57
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 56
Jacques Rogge age 45
Kirsty Coventry age 4
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi age 21
Bamir Topi age 30
Ilir Meta age 18
Alexander De Croo age 12
Sophie Wilmès age 13
Luis Arce age 24
Jeanine Áñez age 20
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 50
Jüri Ratas age 9
K. R. Narayanan age 67
Massimo D'Alema age 38
Dick Schoof age 31
Rob Jetten age 11 months
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 38
Saad Harirị age 17
Andry Rajoelina age 13
Peter Mutharika age 47
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 24
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 36
Zoran Đinđić age 35
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 23
Adama Barrow age 23
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 27
Fernando Lugo age 36
Kgalema Motlanthe age 38
Shamil Basayev age 23
Zhu Rongji age 59
Gough Whitlam age 71
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 40
Arnold Rüütel age 59
Nouri al-Maliki age 37
Moshe Katsav age 42
Ibrahim Rugova age 43
Sadyr Japarov age 19
Amadou Toumani Touré age 39
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 28
Ram Baran Yadav age 40
Stevo Pendarovski age 24
Desi Bouterse age 42
Xanana Gusmão age 41
Serdar Berdimuhamedow age 6
Arsenii Yatseniuk age 13
Armand Fallières age 146
Pierre Mauroy age 59
Laurent Fabius age 41
Édith Cresson age 54
Michel Barnier age 37
Lê Đức Thọ age 76
Enda Kenny age 36
Queen Sofía of Spain age 49
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh age 24
Queen Letizia of Spain age 15
Robert McNamara age 71
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 47
Ivo Sanader age 34
Andrus Ansip age 31
Loukas Papademos age 40
László Sólyom age 46
Edgars Rinkēvičs age 14
Valdis Zatlers age 32
Bingu wa Mutharika age 54
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 36
Violeta Chamorro age 58
Bola Tinubu age 35
Nikola Gruevski age 17
Egor Gajdar age 31
Göran Persson age 39
Carl Bildt age 38
Prayut Chanocha age 33
Delcy Rodriguez age 18
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 150
Lloyd Austin age 34
Kim Yo Jong age 5 months
John Roberts age 33
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 30
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 35
Matti Vanhanen age 32
William Ruto age 21
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 50
Mohamed Agha age 32
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 29
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 31
Nicolae Timofti age 39
Chris Hipkins age 9
Evgeny Primakov age 58
Danilo Türk age 36
Tupou VI of Tonga age 28
Mykola Azarov age 40
Edgar Lungu age 31
Pedro Castillo age 18
Lee Jae Myung age 24
Yoshirō Mori age 50
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 64
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 44
Vahagn Khachatryan age 28
Sandra Mason age 39
Iván Duque age 11
Jadranka Kosor age 34
Daniel Noboa age 3 months
Irakli Garibashvili age 5
Guðni Jóhannesson age 19