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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

People

Laimdota Straujuma age 28
Joseph Aoun age 16
Min Aung Hlaing age 23
Ivica Dačić age 14
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 23
Lawrence Wong age 7
Ingvar Carlsson age 45
Frederick Chiluba age 36
Juan Carlos Varela age 16
Alejandro Toledo age 34
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 22
Željko Komšić age 16
Noboru Takeshita age 55
Keizō Obuchi age 42
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 31
Jeff Sessions age 33
Oswald Mosley age 83
Tim Kaine age 21
Hu Yaobang age 64
Clarence Thomas age 31
Iajuddin Ahmed age 49
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 30
Luis Guillermo Solís age 21
Jan Fischer age 29
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 15
Émile Lahoud age 44
Samuel Doe age 28
Jacques Santer age 42
Marc Ravalomanana age 30
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 21
Lazarus Chakwera age 24
Luis Echeverría age 58
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 75
Morihiro Hosokawa age 42
Priti Patel age 7
Warren Christopher age 54
Rexhep Meidani age 35
Reynaldo Bignone age 52
Ayaz Mutallibov age 41
Quett Masire age 54
John Turner age 50
Catherine Samba-Panza age 25
Bohuslav Sobotka age 8
Leonel Fernández age 26
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 35
Antti Rinne age 17
Abdul Rahman Arif age 63
Portia Simpson-Miller age 34
George William Vella age 37
Win Myint age 28
Baron Waqa age 20
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
John Lewis age 39
Tigran Sargsyan age 20
Lon Nol age 66
Azali Assoumani age 21
Alfredo Palacio age 41
Mostafa Madbouly age 13
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 52
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 36
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 84
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 65
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 69
Philip Hammond age 24
Mario Cuomo age 47
Liz Cheney age 13
George Wallace age 60
Alexander Haig age 55
Fatos Nano age 27
Xavier Espot Zamora age 2 months
Carlos Mesa age 26
Petar Stoyanov age 27
Sergey Stanishev age 13
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 11
Patricio Aylwin age 61
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 24
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 61
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 20
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 32
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 32
Davíð Oddsson age 32
Giovanni Spadolini age 54
Arnaldo Forlani age 54
Raila A Odinga age 35
Anote Tong age 27
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 39
Mohamed Muizzu age 1
Anerood Jugnauth age 49
Zinaida Greceanîi age 23
Aziz Akhannouch age 18
Armando Guebuza age 37
Einar Gerhardsen age 82
Farooq Leghari age 39
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 28
Emil Constantinescu age 40
Eduard Heger age 3
Tage Erlander age 78
Evaristo Carvalho age 38
Abdulla Aripov age 18
Rómulo Betancourt age 71
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 53
Sōsuke Uno age 57
Pierre Mendès France age 73
Jeremy Hunt age 13
Michael Gove age 12
Gennady Yanayev age 42
Franz Vranitzky age 42
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 39
Dean Barrow age 28
Pedro Pires age 45
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 69
Roosevelt Skerrit age 7
Sherif Ismail age 24
Geir Haarde age 28
Ephraim Katzir age 63
Giovanni Goria age 36
Asqar Mamin age 14
Rolandas Paksas age 23
Algirdas Butkevičius age 21
Gediminas Kirkilas age 28
Muhyiddin Yassin age 32
Eddie Fenech Adami age 45
U Nu age 72
Ibrahim Babangida age 38
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 50
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 50
Dacian Cioloș age 10
Julius Maada Bio age 15
Vladimír Mečiar age 37
Ronald Venetiaan age 43
Karin Keller-Sutter age 16
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 23
Rafael Caldera age 64
Hanna Suchocka age 33
Federico Franco age 17
Fernando Belaúnde age 67
Abdalla Hamdok age 24
Takeo Miki age 72
William Westmoreland age 65
Georges Bidault age 80
George Osborne age 8
Yang Shangkun age 72
Stephen Breyer age 41
Christian Stocker age 19
Hubert Maga age 63
Sylvie Kinigi age 27
Hun Manet age 2
Jioji Konrote age 32
Paavo Lipponen age 38