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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

People

Greg Abbott age 22
Eduardo Duhalde age 38
Wolfgang Schüssel age 34
Artur Rasizade age 44
José Maria Neves age 19
Ricardo Lagos age 41
Taavi Rõivas age 2 months
Irakli Kobakhidze age 1
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 53
Umaro Sissoco Embaló age 7
Gyula Horn age 47
Fatmir Sejdiu age 28
Fayez al-Sarraj age 19
Ernesto Zedillo age 27
Khurelsukh Ukhnaa age 11
Luísa Diogo age 21
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 54
Mohamed Bazoum age 19
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 26
Viorica Dăncilă age 15
Goh Chok Tong age 38
Chan Santokhi age 20
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 30
Tô Lâm age 22
Michael Sata age 42
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 41
Martín Vizcarra age 16
Diosdado Macapagal age 69
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 42
José Sarney age 49
Brian Cowen age 19
Stanislav Shushkevich age 45
Empress Masako age 16
George Shultz age 59
Christian Kern age 13
Kristen Michal age 4
Juha Sipilä age 18
Kostas Karamanlis age 23
Jimmy Morales age 10
Haider Al-Abadi age 27
Catherine Connolly age 24
Emilio Colombo age 59
Choummaly Sayasone age 43
Michel Suleiman age 31
Joseph Muscat age 5
George Abela age 31
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 31
Milovan Đilas age 68
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 44
Girija Prasad Koirala age 55
Pedro Passos Coelho age 15
Ernest Bai Koroma age 26
Milan Kučan age 38
Viola Amherd age 17
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 38
Levy Mwanawasa age 31
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 30
Anura Kurankan Dissanayake age 11
Michel Rocard age 49
Paul Wolfowitz age 35
Alain Poher age 70
Empress Michiko age 45
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 45
Abulfaz Elchibey age 41
Zhelyu Zhelev age 44
Hissène Habré age 37
Nicos Christodoulides age 6
Adly Mansour age 33
Nino Burjanadze age 15
Georgios Papadopoulos age 60
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 26
Ferenc Mádl age 48
Árpád Göncz age 57
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson age 4
Laimdota Straujuma age 28
Joseph Aoun age 15
Min Aung Hlaing age 23
Ivica Dačić age 13
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 22
Lawrence Wong age 6
Ingvar Carlsson age 45
Francisco Guterres age 25
Frederick Chiluba age 36
Juan Carlos Varela age 15
Alejandro Toledo age 34
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 22
Željko Komšić age 15
Noboru Takeshita age 55
Keizō Obuchi age 42
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 31
Jeff Sessions age 32
Gerry Adams age 31
Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland age 6 months
Queen Mette-Marit of Norway age 6
Oswald Mosley age 83
Tim Kaine age 21
Hu Yaobang age 64
Clarence Thomas age 31
Iajuddin Ahmed age 48
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 30
Luis Guillermo Solís age 21
Jan Fischer age 28
Danilo Medina age 28
Hailemariam Desalegn age 14
Giorgi Kvirikashvili age 12
Costas Simitis age 43
Ezer Weizman age 55
Thongloun Sisoulith age 34
Krišjānis Kariņš age 14
Émile Lahoud age 43
Samuel Doe age 28
Jacques Santer age 42
Marc Ravalomanana age 30
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 21
Lazarus Chakwera age 24
Luis Echeverría age 57
Miguel de la Madrid age 45
Natalia Gavrilița age 2
Ram Chandra Poudel age 35
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 33
Luís Montenegro age 6
Ueli Maurer age 29
Benjamin Mkapa age 41
Ricardo Martinelli age 27
Haris Silajdžić age 34
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 19
Takeo Fukuda age 74
Morihiro Hosokawa age 41
Priti Patel age 7
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 87
Warren Christopher age 54
Rexhep Meidani age 35
Reynaldo Bignone age 51
Ayaz Mutallibov age 41
Quett Masire age 54
John Turner age 50
Catherine Samba-Panza age 25
Bohuslav Sobotka age 8
Leonel Fernández age 25
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 35
Antti Rinne age 17
H. D. Deve Gowda age 46
Abdul Rahman Arif age 63
Portia Simpson-Miller age 34
George William Vella age 37
Win Myint age 28
Baron Waqa age 19
Jenny Shipley age 27
Mamadou Tandja age 41
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 32
S. R. Nathan age 55
Igor Matovič age 6
Didier Burkhalter age 19
Taur Matan Ruak age 23
Fouad Mebazaa age 46
Rupiah Banda age 42
Canaan Banana age 43
Han Duck-soo age 30
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 50
Ernesto Geisel age 72
Jim Yong Kim age 20
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 45
Tarana Burke age 6
Ingrid of Sweden age 69
John Lewis age 39
Tigran Sargsyan age 19
Lon Nol age 66
Azali Assoumani age 20
Alfredo Palacio age 40
Mostafa Madbouly age 13
Siim Kallas age 31
Frank Bainimarama age 25
Rose Francine Rogombe age 37
Otto Pérez Molina age 29
Álvaro Colom age 28
Joseph Michel Martelly age 18
Halla Tómasdóttir age 11
Mohammad Hatta age 77
Mariano Rumor age 64
Ciriaco De Mita age 51
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 36
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 83
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 33
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 27
Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 16
Zdravko Krivokapić age 21
Boris Trajkovski age 23
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 64
Marcelo Caetano age 73
Mikhail Kasianov age 22
Miro Cerar age 16
Alain Berset age 7
Srettha Thavisin age 17
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 27
Trần Đức Lương age 42
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 71
Željka Cvijanović age 12
Zenkō Suzuki age 68
Philip Hammond age 24
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan age 14