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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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
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

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 20
Takeo Fukuda age 75
Morihiro Hosokawa age 42
Priti Patel age 8
Warren Christopher age 54
Rexhep Meidani age 36
Reynaldo Bignone age 52
Ayaz Mutallibov age 42
John Turner age 51
Catherine Samba-Panza age 26
Bohuslav Sobotka age 8
Leonel Fernández age 26
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 36
Antti Rinne age 17
Abdul Rahman Arif age 64
Portia Simpson-Miller age 34
George William Vella age 38
Win Myint age 28
Baron Waqa age 20
Jenny Shipley age 28
Mamadou Tandja age 42
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 32
S. R. Nathan age 56
Igor Matovič age 7
Didier Burkhalter age 20
Taur Matan Ruak age 23
Fouad Mebazaa age 47
Rupiah Banda age 43
Han Duck-soo age 31
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 50
Ernesto Geisel age 73
Jim Yong Kim age 20
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 45
John Lewis age 40
Tigran Sargsyan age 20
Lon Nol age 66
Azali Assoumani age 21
Alfredo Palacio age 41
Mostafa Madbouly age 14
Frank Bainimarama age 26
Rose Francine Rogombe age 37
Otto Pérez Molina age 29
Álvaro Colom age 29
Joseph Michel Martelly age 19
Halla Tómasdóttir age 11
Mariano Rumor age 65
Ciriaco De Mita age 52
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 37
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 84
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 34
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 27
Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 17
Zdravko Krivokapić age 21
Boris Trajkovski age 24
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 65
Marcelo Caetano age 74
Mikhail Kasianov age 22
Bassirou Diomaye Faye age 4 months
Miro Cerar age 16
Alain Berset age 8
Srettha Thavisin age 18
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 28
Trần Đức Lương age 43
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 71
Željka Cvijanović age 13
Leon Panetta age 42
Philip Hammond age 24
Liz Cheney age 14
George Wallace age 61
Alexander Haig age 55
Fatos Nano age 27
Xavier Espot Zamora age 9 months
Carlos Mesa age 27
Petar Stoyanov age 28
Sergey Stanishev age 14
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 12
Patricio Aylwin age 61
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 25
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 61
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 21
Irfaan Ali age 3 months
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 32
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 32
Davíð Oddsson age 32
Giovanni Spadolini age 55
Arnaldo Forlani age 54
Raila A Odinga age 35
Anote Tong age 28
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 39
Mohamed Muizzu age 2
Anerood Jugnauth age 50
Zinaida Greceanîi age 24
Aziz Akhannouch age 18
Armando Guebuza age 37
Einar Gerhardsen age 83
Farooq Leghari age 40
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 28
Emil Constantinescu age 40
Eduard Heger age 4
Tage Erlander age 79
Evaristo Carvalho age 38
Abdulla Aripov age 19
Rómulo Betancourt age 72
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 54
Sōsuke Uno age 57
Pierre Mendès France age 73
Jeremy Hunt age 13
Gennady Yanayev age 42
Franz Vranitzky age 42
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 40
Dean Barrow age 29
Pedro Pires age 46
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 69
Roosevelt Skerrit age 8
Sherif Ismail age 25
Geir Haarde age 29
Ephraim Katzir age 64
Giovanni Goria age 37
Asqar Mamin age 14
Rolandas Paksas age 24
Algirdas Butkevičius age 21
Gediminas Kirkilas age 28
Muhyiddin Yassin age 33
Eddie Fenech Adami age 46
U Nu age 73
Ibrahim Babangida age 39
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 50
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 50
Dacian Cioloș age 11
Julius Maada Bio age 16
Vladimír Mečiar age 38
Ronald Venetiaan age 44
Karin Keller-Sutter age 16
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 24
Rafael Caldera age 64
Hanna Suchocka age 34
Federico Franco age 18
Abdalla Hamdok age 24
Takeo Miki age 73
William Westmoreland age 66
Georges Bidault age 80
George Osborne age 9
Yang Shangkun age 73
Stephen Breyer age 42
Christian Stocker age 20
Hubert Maga age 64
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 58
Kiril Petkov age 3 months
Sylvie Kinigi age 27
Hun Manet age 2
Jioji Konrote age 32
Paavo Lipponen age 39
Rose Christiane Raponda age 17
Mikheil Kavelashvili age 9
Alejandro Giammattei age 24
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 21
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 33
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 13
Piet de Jong age 65
Ramush Haradinaj age 12
Guntis Ulmanis age 40
Hassan Diab age 21
Gintautas Paluckas age 11 months
Lawrence Gonzi age 27
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 23
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 79
Mircea Snegur age 40
Dorin Recean age 6
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 22
Christopher Luxon age 10
Shaukat Aziz age 31
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 24
Marcel Ciolacu age 12
Andrei Belousov age 21
Sergei Stepashin age 28
Marjan Šarec age 2
Guy Parmelin age 20
Paula-Mae Weekes age 21
Najla Bouden age 22
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 57
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 20
Nicanor Duarte age 23
Nikolai Tikhonov age 75
Jânio Quadros age 63
Ash Carter age 25
Sajid Javid age 10
Ronald McNair age 29
Lawrence Eagleburger age 50
Dean Rusk age 71
Cyrus Vance age 63
Arturo Umberto Illia age 80
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 33
Arturo Frondizi age 71
William McMahon age 72
Lotay Tshering age 11
Joe Clark age 41
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 38
Luis Abinader age 13
Harri Holkeri age 43
Zurab Zhvania age 16