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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
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
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Baltic Way 1989-08-23

People

Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 62
Bernard Cazeneuve age 26
P. W. Botha age 73
Ed Miliband age 19
Lazar Kaganovich age 95
Jiang Qing age 75
Queen Sonja of Norway age 52
Gavin Newsom age 21
Paul Keating age 45
Thomas Klestil age 56
Mokgweetsi Masisi age 28
Petr Fiala age 24
Mauricio Funes age 29
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 33
Manuel Zelaya age 36
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 28
Pál Schmitt age 47
Zail Singh age 73
Amintore Fanfani age 81
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 30
Egils Levits age 34
Filipe Nyusi age 30
Saara Kuugongelwa age 21
Sushila Karki age 37
Mahamadou Issoufou age 37
Arif Alvi age 40
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 37
Nicușor Dan age 19
Viktor Zubkov age 47
Vojislav Koštunica age 45
Robert Golob age 22
Ewa Kopacz age 32
Li Qiang age 30
Maithripala Sirisena age 37
Milorad Dodik age 30
Tomiichi Murayama age 65
Micheál Martin age 29
Pete Hegseth age 9
Soong Mei-ling age 91
Sarah Ferguson age 29
Brigitte Bierlein age 40
Bart De Wever age 18
Rosen Plevneliev age 25
José Antonio Kast age 23
Tassos Papadopoulos age 55
Petteri Orpo age 19
Antonis Samaras age 38
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 71
Lamberto Dini age 58
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 52
Askar Akayev age 44
Valdis Dombrovskis age 18
Algirdas Brazauskas age 56
Guillaume V, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 7
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 34
José Sócrates age 31
Victor Ponta age 16
Prem Tinsulanonda age 69
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 40
François Bayrou age 38
Egon Krenz age 52
Fernando Collor de Mello age 40
Kim Jong-nam age 18
Robert Mueller age 45
Ramiz Alia age 63
Leopoldo Galtieri age 63
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 44
Bruno Kreisky age 78
Festus Mogae age 50
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 36
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 65
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 38
Lennart Meri age 60
Jyrki Katainen age 17
Giorgi Gakharia age 14
Juan Orlando Hernández age 20
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 76
Barham Salih age 28
Karim Massimov age 24
Wim Kok age 50
Albin Kurti age 14
Charles Taylor age 41
Robert Abela age 11
Agatha Barbara age 66
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 84
Branko Crvenkovski age 26
Emil Boc age 22
Nataša Pirc Musar age 21
Simonetta Sommaruga age 29
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 38
Moncef Marzouki age 44
Kais Saied age 31
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 35
Joseph Estrada age 52
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 33
Jean Casimir-Perier age 141
Alain Juppé age 44
Robert Gates age 45
Bajram Begaj age 22
Mulatu Teshome age 32
Andreas Papandreou age 70
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 38
Xiomara Castro age 29
Chandra Shekhar age 62
Fuad Masum age 51
Andrius Kubilius age 32
Hage Geingob age 48
Mikhhail Fradkov age 39
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 49
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 44
Jerzy Buzek age 49
Kakuei Tanaka age 71
Sébastien Lecornu age 3
Bertie Ahern age 37
Tariq Aziz age 53
Andrew Cuomo age 31
Bob Geldof age 37
Babrak Karmal age 60
Alfred Moisiu age 59
Zillur Rahman age 60
Iliana Iotova age 24
François Bozizé age 42
Mirek Topolánek age 33
Petr Nečas age 24
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 82
Tamás Sulyok age 33
Inder Kumar Gujral age 69
V. P. Singh age 58
Masoud Barzani age 43
Abdulla Yameen age 30
Mohamed Nasheed age 22
Jakov Milatović age 2
Thein Sein age 44
Than Shwe age 56
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 36
Bill English age 27
Zoran Zaev age 14
Alenka Bratušek age 19
Doris Leuthard age 26
Volodymyr Hroisman age 11
Luis Lacalle Pou age 16
Hakainde Hichilema age 27
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed age 27
Bakir Izetbegović age 33
Javier Solana age 47
Jim Mattis age 38
Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland age 7
James Comey age 28
Fernando de la Rúa age 51
Alfred Gusenbauer age 29
Ali Asadov age 32
Raman Halowchanka age 16
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 64
René Préval age 46
Gordon Bajnai age 21
Bounnhang Vorachit age 52
Andris Bērziņš age 44
Hilda Heine age 38
Vladimir Voronin age 48
Kiro Gligorov age 72
Thorbjørn Jagland age 38
Jorge Sampaio age 49
George Tupou V of Tonga age 41
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 46
Kiichi Miyazawa age 69
Tsutomu Hata age 54
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 41
Édouard Balladur age 60
David Petraeus age 36
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 44
Igor Girkin age 18
Queen Mary of Denmark age 17
Mike Huckabee age 34
Rick Perry age 39
Greg Abbott age 31
Eduardo Duhalde age 47
Malcolm Fraser age 59
Wolfgang Schüssel age 44
Artur Rasizade age 54
José Maria Neves age 29
Ricardo Lagos age 51
Taavi Rõivas age 9
Irakli Kobakhidze age 10
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 63
Umaro Sissoco Embaló age 16
Gyula Horn age 57
Fatmir Sejdiu age 37
Fayez al-Sarraj age 29
Ernesto Zedillo age 37
Khurelsukh Ukhnaa age 21
Luísa Diogo age 31
Mohamed Bazoum age 29
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 36
Viorica Dăncilă age 25
Goh Chok Tong age 48
Chan Santokhi age 30
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 39
Tô Lâm age 32
Michael Sata age 52
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 50