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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
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Laimdota Straujuma age 27
Joseph Aoun age 15
Min Aung Hlaing age 22
Ivica Dačić age 13
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 22
Lawrence Wong age 6
Ingvar Carlsson age 44
Frederick Chiluba age 35
Juan Carlos Varela age 15
Alejandro Toledo age 33
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 21
Željko Komšić age 15
Noboru Takeshita age 54
Keizō Obuchi age 41
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 30
Jeff Sessions age 32
Oswald Mosley age 82
Tim Kaine age 20
Hu Yaobang age 63
Clarence Thomas age 30
Iajuddin Ahmed age 47
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 29
Luis Guillermo Solís age 20
Jan Fischer age 28
Danilo Medina age 27
Hailemariam Desalegn age 13
Giorgi Kvirikashvili age 11
Costas Simitis age 42
Ezer Weizman age 54
Thongloun Sisoulith age 33
Krišjānis Kariņš age 14
Émile Lahoud age 43
Samuel Doe age 27
Jacques Santer age 41
Marc Ravalomanana age 29
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 20
Lazarus Chakwera age 23
Luis Echeverría age 57
Natalia Gavrilița age 1
Ram Chandra Poudel age 34
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 32
Luís Montenegro age 5
Ueli Maurer age 28
Benjamin Mkapa age 40
Ricardo Martinelli age 26
Haris Silajdžić age 33
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 18
Takeo Fukuda age 74
Morihiro Hosokawa age 41
João Figueiredo age 61
Priti Patel age 6
Warren Christopher age 53
Rexhep Meidani age 34
Reynaldo Bignone age 51
Ayaz Mutallibov age 40
Quett Masire age 53
John Turner age 49
David Dacko age 48
Catherine Samba-Panza age 24
Bohuslav Sobotka age 7
Leonel Fernández age 25
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 34
Antti Rinne age 16
Abdul Rahman Arif age 62
Portia Simpson-Miller age 33
George William Vella age 36
Win Myint age 27
Baron Waqa age 19
Jenny Shipley age 26
Mamadou Tandja age 40
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 31
S. R. Nathan age 54
Igor Matovič age 5
Didier Burkhalter age 18
Taur Matan Ruak age 22
Fouad Mebazaa age 45
Rupiah Banda age 41
Canaan Banana age 42
Han Duck-soo age 29
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 49
Jim Yong Kim age 19
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 44
John Lewis age 38
Tigran Sargsyan age 18
Lon Nol age 65
Azali Assoumani age 20
Alfredo Palacio age 40
Mostafa Madbouly age 12
Frank Bainimarama age 24
Rose Francine Rogombe age 36
Otto Pérez Molina age 28
Álvaro Colom age 27
Joseph Michel Martelly age 17
Halla Tómasdóttir age 10
Mohammad Hatta age 76
Mariano Rumor age 63
Ciriaco De Mita age 50
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 35
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 83
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 32
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 26
Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 15
Zdravko Krivokapić age 20
Boris Trajkovski age 22
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 64
Marcelo Caetano age 72
Mikhail Kasianov age 21
Miro Cerar age 15
Alain Berset age 6
Srettha Thavisin age 16
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 26
Trần Đức Lương age 41
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 70
Željka Cvijanović age 11
Zenkō Suzuki age 68
Philip Hammond age 23
Mario Cuomo age 46
Liz Cheney age 12
George Wallace age 59
Alexander Haig age 54
Fatos Nano age 26
Carlos Mesa age 25
Petar Stoyanov age 26
Sergey Stanishev age 12
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 10
Patricio Aylwin age 60
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 23
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 60
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 19
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 31
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 31
Davíð Oddsson age 31
Giovanni Spadolini age 53
Arnaldo Forlani age 53
Raila A Odinga age 34
Anote Tong age 26
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 38
Mohamed Muizzu age 7 months
Anerood Jugnauth age 48
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 67
Zinaida Greceanîi age 22
Aziz Akhannouch age 17
Armando Guebuza age 36
Einar Gerhardsen age 81
Farooq Leghari age 38
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 27
Emil Constantinescu age 39
Eduard Heger age 2
Tage Erlander age 77
Evaristo Carvalho age 37
Abdulla Aripov age 17
Rómulo Betancourt age 70
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 52
Sōsuke Uno age 56
Pierre Mendès France age 72
Jeremy Hunt age 12
Michael Gove age 11
Gennady Yanayev age 41
Chadli Bendjedid age 49
Franz Vranitzky age 41
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 38
Wilfried Martens age 42
Dean Barrow age 27
Pedro Pires age 44
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 68
Roosevelt Skerrit age 6
Sherif Ismail age 23
Geir Haarde age 27
Ephraim Katzir age 62
Giovanni Goria age 35
Asqar Mamin age 13
Rolandas Paksas age 22
Algirdas Butkevičius age 20
Gediminas Kirkilas age 27
Muhyiddin Yassin age 31
Eddie Fenech Adami age 44
U Nu age 71
Ibrahim Babangida age 37
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 49
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 49
Dacian Cioloș age 9
Julius Maada Bio age 14
Vladimír Mečiar age 36
Ronald Venetiaan age 42
Karin Keller-Sutter age 15
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 22
Rafael Caldera age 63
Hanna Suchocka age 32
Federico Franco age 16
Fernando Belaúnde age 66
Abdalla Hamdok age 23
Takeo Miki age 71
William Westmoreland age 64
Georges Bidault age 79
George Osborne age 7
Yang Shangkun age 71
Stephen Breyer age 40
Christian Stocker age 18
Hubert Maga age 62
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 57