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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

Eduardo Duhalde age 37
Wolfgang Schüssel age 33
Artur Rasizade age 43
John Diefenbaker age 83
José Maria Neves age 18
Ricardo Lagos age 40
Irakli Kobakhidze age 4 months
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 52
Umaro Sissoco Embaló age 6
Gyula Horn age 46
Fatmir Sejdiu age 27
Fayez al-Sarraj age 18
Ernesto Zedillo age 27
Khurelsukh Ukhnaa age 10
Luísa Diogo age 20
Mohamed Bazoum age 19
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 25
Viorica Dăncilă age 15
Goh Chok Tong age 37
Chan Santokhi age 20
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 29
Tô Lâm age 21
Michael Sata age 41
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 40
Martín Vizcarra age 15
Diosdado Macapagal age 68
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 41
José Sarney age 48
Brian Cowen age 19
Stanislav Shushkevich age 44
Empress Masako age 15
George Shultz age 58
Christian Kern age 13
Kristen Michal age 3
Juha Sipilä age 17
Kostas Karamanlis age 22
Jimmy Morales age 9
Haider Al-Abadi age 26
Catherine Connolly age 23
Emilio Colombo age 58
Choummaly Sayasone age 42
Michel Suleiman age 30
Joseph Muscat age 5
George Abela age 30
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 30
Milovan Đilas age 67
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 43
Girija Prasad Koirala age 54
Pedro Passos Coelho age 14
Ernest Bai Koroma age 25
Milan Kučan age 38
Viola Amherd age 16
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 37
Levy Mwanawasa age 30
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 29
Anura Kurankan Dissanayake age 10
Michel Rocard age 48
Paul Wolfowitz age 35
Alain Poher age 69
Empress Michiko age 44
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 44
Abulfaz Elchibey age 40
Zhelyu Zhelev age 43
Nicos Christodoulides age 5
Adly Mansour age 33
Nino Burjanadze age 14
Georgios Papadopoulos age 59
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 25
Ferenc Mádl age 48
Árpád Göncz age 57
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson age 3
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
Francisco Guterres age 24
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
Gerry Adams age 30
Queen Mette-Marit of Norway age 5
Oswald Mosley age 82
Tim Kaine age 20
Hu Yaobang age 63
Clarence Thomas age 30
Iajuddin Ahmed age 48
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
Miguel de la Madrid age 44
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
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 86
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
H. D. Deve Gowda age 45
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 27
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 42
Canaan Banana age 42
Han Duck-soo age 29
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 49
Jim Yong Kim age 19
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 44
Tarana Burke age 5
Ingrid of Sweden age 68
John Lewis age 38
Tigran Sargsyan age 19
Lon Nol age 65
Azali Assoumani age 20
Alfredo Palacio age 40
Mostafa Madbouly age 12
Siim Kallas age 30
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 51
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 35
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 83
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 33
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
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan age 13
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 22
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh age 14
Mario Cuomo age 46