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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

Sandra Mason age 31
Iván Duque age 4
Jadranka Kosor age 27
Guðni Jóhannesson age 12
Gulzarilal Nanda age 82
Raimonds Vējonis age 14
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 40
Joaquim Chissano age 41
Sam Nujoma age 51
Sani Abacha age 37
Jonas Gahr Støre age 20
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 25
Abdoulaye Wade age 54
Iveta Radičová age 23
Chen Shui-bian age 30
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 53
Bernard Cazeneuve age 17
Ed Miliband age 10
Lazar Kaganovich age 87
Jiang Qing age 66
Queen Sonja of Norway age 43
Gavin Newsom age 13
Lee Teng-hui age 57
Paul Keating age 36
Thomas Klestil age 48
Mokgweetsi Masisi age 19
Petr Fiala age 16
Mauricio Funes age 21
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 24
Jerry Rawlings age 33
Manuel Zelaya age 28
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 19
Pál Schmitt age 38
Zail Singh age 64
Amintore Fanfani age 72
Willem Drees age 94
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 22
Egils Levits age 25
Filipe Nyusi age 21
Saara Kuugongelwa age 13
Sushila Karki age 28
Mahamadou Issoufou age 28
Arif Alvi age 31
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 28
Nicușor Dan age 10
Viktor Zubkov age 39
Vojislav Koštunica age 36
Robert Golob age 13
Ewa Kopacz age 23
Li Qiang age 21
Maithripala Sirisena age 29
Milorad Dodik age 21
Tomiichi Murayama age 56
Micheál Martin age 20
Pete Hegseth age 5 months
Soong Mei-ling age 82
Sarah Ferguson age 21
Li Peng age 52
Ferhat Abbas age 81
Brigitte Bierlein age 31
Bart De Wever age 9
Rosen Plevneliev age 16
José Antonio Kast age 14
Tassos Papadopoulos age 46
Petteri Orpo age 11
Antonis Samaras age 29
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 62
Chaim Herzog age 62
Giuseppe Saragat age 82
Lamberto Dini age 49
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 43
Askar Akayev age 36
Valdis Dombrovskis age 9
Algirdas Brazauskas age 48
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 25
José Sócrates age 23
Victor Ponta age 8
Roh Tae-woo age 47
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 31
François Bayrou age 29
Egon Krenz age 43
Fernando Collor de Mello age 31
Kim Jong-nam age 9
Robert Mueller age 36
Ramiz Alia age 55
Leopoldo Galtieri age 54
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 35
Festus Mogae age 41
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 27
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 30
Lennart Meri age 51
Jyrki Katainen age 9
Giorgi Gakharia age 5
Juan Orlando Hernández age 12
Barham Salih age 20
Karim Massimov age 15
Wim Kok age 42
Albin Kurti age 5
Charles Taylor age 32
Robert Abela age 2
Agatha Barbara age 57
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 76
Branko Crvenkovski age 18
Emil Boc age 14
Nataša Pirc Musar age 12
Simonetta Sommaruga age 20
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 30
Moncef Marzouki age 35
Kais Saied age 22
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 26
Joseph Estrada age 43
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 24
Jean Casimir-Perier age 133
Alain Juppé age 35
Robert Gates age 37
Sandra Day O'Connor age 50
Bajram Begaj age 13
Mulatu Teshome age 23
Andreas Papandreou age 61
Xiomara Castro age 21
Chandra Shekhar age 53
Fuad Masum age 42
Andrius Kubilius age 23
Hage Geingob age 39
Mikhhail Fradkov age 30
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 40
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 35
Jerzy Buzek age 40
Kakuei Tanaka age 62
Bertie Ahern age 29
Tariq Aziz age 44
Andrew Cuomo age 22
Bob Geldof age 29
James Baker age 50
Antonin Scalia age 44
Alfred Moisiu age 50
Zillur Rahman age 51
Iliana Iotova age 16
François Bozizé age 34
Mirek Topolánek age 24
Petr Nečas age 15
Tamás Sulyok age 24
Inder Kumar Gujral age 60
V. P. Singh age 49
Masoud Barzani age 34
Abdulla Yameen age 21
Mohamed Nasheed age 13
Thein Sein age 35
Than Shwe age 47
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 28
Bill English age 18
Zoran Zaev age 6
Alenka Bratušek age 10
Doris Leuthard age 17
Volodymyr Hroisman age 2
Luis Lacalle Pou age 7
Hakainde Hichilema age 18
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed age 18
Bakir Izetbegović age 24
Javier Solana age 38
Jim Mattis age 30
James Comey age 19
Fernando de la Rúa age 43
Alfred Gusenbauer age 20
Ali Asadov age 23
Raman Halowchanka age 7
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 55
Lansana Conté age 45
René Préval age 37
Gordon Bajnai age 12
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 66
Ruud Lubbers age 41
Bounnhang Vorachit age 43
Andris Bērziņš age 35
Hilda Heine age 29
Vladimir Voronin age 39
Kiro Gligorov age 63
Thorbjørn Jagland age 30
Jorge Sampaio age 41
George Tupou V of Tonga age 32
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 38
Nobusuke Kishi age 84
Toshiki Kaifu age 49
Kiichi Miyazawa age 61
Tsutomu Hata age 45
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 32
Édouard Balladur age 51
David Petraeus age 28
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 35
Igor Girkin age 9
Queen Mary of Denmark age 8
Mike Huckabee age 25
Rick Perry age 30
Greg Abbott age 23
Eduardo Duhalde age 39
Wolfgang Schüssel age 35
Artur Rasizade age 45
José Maria Neves age 20
Ricardo Lagos age 42
Taavi Rõivas age 1