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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

People

Lee Jae Myung age 15
Yoshirō Mori age 42
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 56
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 35
Vahagn Khachatryan age 20
Bob Hawke age 49
Sandra Mason age 30
Iván Duque age 3
Jadranka Kosor age 26
Guðni Jóhannesson age 11
Gulzarilal Nanda age 81
Raimonds Vējonis age 13
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 39
Joaquim Chissano age 39
Sam Nujoma age 50
Sani Abacha age 35
Jonas Gahr Støre age 19
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 23
Abdoulaye Wade age 53
Iveta Radičová age 22
Chen Shui-bian age 28
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 52
Bernard Cazeneuve age 16
Ed Miliband age 9
Lazar Kaganovich age 85
Jiang Qing age 65
Queen Sonja of Norway age 42
Gavin Newsom age 11
Lee Teng-hui age 56
Paul Keating age 35
Thomas Klestil age 46
Mokgweetsi Masisi age 18
Petr Fiala age 14
Mauricio Funes age 19
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 55
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 23
Manuel Zelaya age 26
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 18
Pál Schmitt age 37
Zail Singh age 63
Amintore Fanfani age 71
Willem Drees age 93
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 20
Egils Levits age 24
Filipe Nyusi age 20
Saara Kuugongelwa age 11
Sushila Karki age 27
Mahamadou Issoufou age 27
Arif Alvi age 30
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 27
Nicușor Dan age 9
Viktor Zubkov age 37
Vojislav Koštunica age 35
Robert Golob age 12
Ewa Kopacz age 22
Li Qiang age 20
Maithripala Sirisena age 27
Milorad Dodik age 20
Tomiichi Murayama age 55
Micheál Martin age 19
Soong Mei-ling age 81
Sarah Ferguson age 19
Li Peng age 50
Ferhat Abbas age 80
Brigitte Bierlein age 30
Bart De Wever age 8
Rosen Plevneliev age 15
José Antonio Kast age 13
Tassos Papadopoulos age 45
Petteri Orpo age 9
Antonis Samaras age 28
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 61
Chaim Herzog age 60
Giuseppe Saragat age 80
Lamberto Dini age 48
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 42
Askar Akayev age 34
Valdis Dombrovskis age 8
Algirdas Brazauskas age 46
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 24
José Sócrates age 21
Victor Ponta age 6
Prem Tinsulanonda age 59
Roh Tae-woo age 46
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 30
François Bayrou age 28
Egon Krenz age 42
Fernando Collor de Mello age 30
Kim Jong-nam age 8
Robert Mueller age 35
Ramiz Alia age 53
Leopoldo Galtieri age 53
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 34
Festus Mogae age 40
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 26
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 28
Lennart Meri age 50
Jyrki Katainen age 7
Giorgi Gakharia age 4
Juan Orlando Hernández age 10
Barham Salih age 18
Karim Massimov age 14
Wim Kok age 40
Albin Kurti age 4
Charles Taylor age 31
Robert Abela age 1
Agatha Barbara age 56
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 74
Branko Crvenkovski age 16
Emil Boc age 12
Nataša Pirc Musar age 11
Simonetta Sommaruga age 19
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 28
Moncef Marzouki age 34
Kais Saied age 21
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 25
Joseph Estrada age 42
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 23
Jean Casimir-Perier age 131
Alain Juppé age 34
Robert Gates age 35
Sandra Day O'Connor age 49
Bajram Begaj age 12
Mulatu Teshome age 22
Andreas Papandreou age 60
Xiomara Castro age 19
Chandra Shekhar age 52
Fuad Masum age 41
Andrius Kubilius age 22
Hage Geingob age 38
Mikhhail Fradkov age 28
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 39
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 34
Jerzy Buzek age 39
Kakuei Tanaka age 61
Bertie Ahern age 27
Tariq Aziz age 43
Andrew Cuomo age 21
Bob Geldof age 27
James Baker age 49
Antonin Scalia age 43
Babrak Karmal age 50
Alfred Moisiu age 49
Zillur Rahman age 50
Iliana Iotova age 14
François Bozizé age 32
Mirek Topolánek age 23
Petr Nečas age 14
Tamás Sulyok age 23
Inder Kumar Gujral age 59
V. P. Singh age 48
Masoud Barzani age 33
Abdulla Yameen age 20
Mohamed Nasheed age 12
Thein Sein age 34
Than Shwe age 46
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 26
Bill English age 17
Zoran Zaev age 4
Alenka Bratušek age 9
Doris Leuthard age 16
Volodymyr Hroisman age 1
Luis Lacalle Pou age 6
Hakainde Hichilema age 17
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed age 17
Bakir Izetbegović age 23
Javier Solana age 37
Jim Mattis age 28
James Comey age 18
Fernando de la Rúa age 41
Alfred Gusenbauer age 19
Ali Asadov age 22
Raman Halowchanka age 6
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 54
Lansana Conté age 44
René Préval age 36
Gordon Bajnai age 11
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 65
Ruud Lubbers age 40
Bounnhang Vorachit age 42
Andris Bērziņš age 34
Hilda Heine age 28
Vladimir Voronin age 38
Kiro Gligorov age 62
Thorbjørn Jagland age 28
Jorge Sampaio age 39
George Tupou V of Tonga age 31
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 36
Nobusuke Kishi age 82
Toshiki Kaifu age 48
Kiichi Miyazawa age 59
Tsutomu Hata age 44
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 31
Édouard Balladur age 50
David Petraeus age 26
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 34
Igor Girkin age 8
Queen Mary of Denmark age 7
Mike Huckabee age 24
Rick Perry age 29