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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
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

Fidel Ramos age 60
Édouard Philippe age 17
Aslan Maskhadov age 37
Hua Guofeng age 67
Karl Nehammer age 15
Yves Leterme age 27
Alpha Condé age 50
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 45
Morarji Desai age 92
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 31
Otto von Habsburg age 75
Bujar Nishani age 22
Abdul Hamid age 44
Kim Campbell age 41
Andrej Babiš age 34
Lenín Moreno age 35
Mari Kiviniemi age 20
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
János Kádár age 76
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 70
Bettino Craxi age 54
Valdas Adamkus age 61
Mamnoon Hussain age 47
Andrej Kiska age 25
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 43
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 43
Michael I of Romania age 66
Élisabeth Borne age 27
Thomas Bach age 34
Manuel Noriega age 54
Khaleda Zia age 42
Thomas Boni Yayi age 36
Georgi Parvanov age 31
Ibrahim Traoré age 6 months
Paul Martin age 50
Mwai Kibaki age 56
Xavier Bettel age 15
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 85
Oleksandr Turchynov age 24
Ollanta Humala age 26
Chun Doo-hwan age 57
Rex Tillerson age 36
Alexander Schallenberg age 19
Mia Mottley age 22
Elio Di Rupo age 37
Jean Chrétien age 54
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 31
Andrej Plenković age 18
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 48
John Kufuor age 49
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 67
Vjosa Osmani age 6
Atifete Jahjaga age 13
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 43
Janez Drnovšek age 38
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 44
Keiko Fujimori age 13
Karl Carstens age 73
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 58
João Lourenço age 34
Werner Faymann age 28
Guy Verhofstadt age 35
Dimitris Christofias age 42
Alar Karis age 30
Giovanni Leone age 79
Igor Dodon age 13
Peter Pellegrini age 12
Ivan Gašparovič age 47
Paetongtarn Shinawatra age 2
Necmettin Erbakan age 61
Morgan Tsvangirai age 36
George F. Kennan age 84
Itamar Franco age 58
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 57
Jacques Rogge age 46
Kirsty Coventry age 5
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi age 21
Bamir Topi age 31
Ilir Meta age 19
Alexander De Croo age 12
Sophie Wilmès age 13
Luis Arce age 25
Jeanine Áñez age 21
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 51
Jüri Ratas age 10
K. R. Narayanan age 67
Massimo D'Alema age 39
Dick Schoof age 31
Rob Jetten age 1
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 39
Saad Harirị age 18
Andry Rajoelina age 14
Peter Mutharika age 48
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 25
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 36
Zoran Đinđić age 36
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 24
Adama Barrow age 23
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 27
Fernando Lugo age 37
Kgalema Motlanthe age 39
Shamil Basayev age 23
Zhu Rongji age 59
Gough Whitlam age 72
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 40
Arnold Rüütel age 60
Nouri al-Maliki age 38
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 25
Desi Bouterse age 42
Xanana Gusmão age 42
Serdar Berdimuhamedow age 7
Arsenii Yatseniuk age 14
Armand Fallières age 146
Pierre Mauroy age 60
Laurent Fabius age 42
Édith Cresson age 54
Michel Barnier age 37
Lê Đức Thọ age 77
Enda Kenny age 37
Queen Sofía of Spain age 49
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh age 24
Queen Letizia of Spain age 16
Robert McNamara age 72
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 48
Ivo Sanader age 35
Andrus Ansip age 32
Loukas Papademos age 40
László Sólyom age 46
Edgars Rinkēvičs age 15
Valdis Zatlers age 33
Bingu wa Mutharika age 54
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 36
Violeta Chamorro age 58
Bola Tinubu age 36
Nikola Gruevski age 18
Egor Gajdar age 32
Göran Persson age 39
Carl Bildt age 39
Prayut Chanocha age 34
Delcy Rodriguez age 19
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 151
Lloyd Austin age 35
Kim Yo Jong age 12 months
John Roberts age 33
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 31
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 36
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 10
Evgeny Primakov age 58
Danilo Türk age 36
Tupou VI of Tonga age 29
Mykola Azarov age 40
Edgar Lungu age 31
Pedro Castillo age 18
Lee Jae Myung age 24
Yoshirō Mori age 51
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 65
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 44
Vahagn Khachatryan age 29
Sandra Mason age 39
Iván Duque age 12
Jadranka Kosor age 35
Daniel Noboa age 9 months
Irakli Garibashvili age 6
Guðni Jóhannesson age 20