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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
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27

People

Umaro Sissoco Embaló age 8
Gyula Horn age 48
Fatmir Sejdiu age 29
Fayez al-Sarraj age 20
Ernesto Zedillo age 29
Khurelsukh Ukhnaa age 12
Luísa Diogo age 22
Mohamed Bazoum age 21
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 27
Viorica Dăncilă age 17
Goh Chok Tong age 39
Chan Santokhi age 22
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 31
Tô Lâm age 23
Michael Sata age 43
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 42
Martín Vizcarra age 17
Diosdado Macapagal age 70
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 43
José Sarney age 50
Brian Cowen age 21
Stanislav Shushkevich age 46
Empress Masako age 17
George Shultz age 60
Christian Kern age 15
Kristen Michal age 5
Juha Sipilä age 19
Kostas Karamanlis age 24
Jimmy Morales age 11
Haider Al-Abadi age 28
Catherine Connolly age 25
Emilio Colombo age 60
Choummaly Sayasone age 44
Michel Suleiman age 32
Joseph Muscat age 7
George Abela age 32
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 32
Milovan Đilas age 69
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 45
Girija Prasad Koirala age 56
Pedro Passos Coelho age 16
Ernest Bai Koroma age 27
Milan Kučan age 40
Viola Amherd age 18
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 39
Levy Mwanawasa age 32
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 31
Anura Kurankan Dissanayake age 12
Michel Rocard age 50
Paul Wolfowitz age 37
Alain Poher age 71
Kemi Badenoch age 1
Empress Michiko age 46
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 46
Abulfaz Elchibey age 42
Zhelyu Zhelev age 45
Hissène Habré age 38
Nicos Christodoulides age 7
Adly Mansour age 35
Nino Burjanadze age 16
Georgios Papadopoulos age 61
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 27
Ferenc Mádl age 50
Árpád Göncz age 59
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson age 5
Laimdota Straujuma age 29
Joseph Aoun age 17
Min Aung Hlaing age 24
Ivica Dačić age 15
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 24
Lawrence Wong age 8
Ingvar Carlsson age 46
Francisco Guterres age 26
Frederick Chiluba age 37
Juan Carlos Varela age 17
Alejandro Toledo age 35
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 23
Željko Komšić age 17
Noboru Takeshita age 56
Keizō Obuchi age 43
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 32
Gerry Adams age 32
Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland age 1
Queen Mette-Marit of Norway age 7
Tim Kaine age 22
Clarence Thomas age 32
Iajuddin Ahmed age 50
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 31
Luis Guillermo Solís age 22
Jan Fischer age 30
Danilo Medina age 29
Hailemariam Desalegn age 15
Giorgi Kvirikashvili age 13
Costas Simitis age 44
Ezer Weizman age 56
Thongloun Sisoulith age 35
Krišjānis Kariņš age 16
Émile Lahoud age 45
Samuel Doe age 29
Jacques Santer age 43
Marc Ravalomanana age 31
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 22
Lazarus Chakwera age 25
Luis Echeverría age 59
Miguel de la Madrid age 46
Natalia Gavrilița age 3
Ram Chandra Poudel age 36
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 34
Luís Montenegro age 7
Ueli Maurer age 30
Benjamin Mkapa age 42
Ricardo Martinelli age 28
Haris Silajdžić age 35
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 20
Takeo Fukuda age 76
Morihiro Hosokawa age 43
Priti Patel age 8
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 88
Warren Christopher age 55
Rexhep Meidani age 36
Reynaldo Bignone age 53
Ayaz Mutallibov age 42
John Turner age 51
Catherine Samba-Panza age 26
Bohuslav Sobotka age 9
Leonel Fernández age 27
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 36
Antti Rinne age 18
H. D. Deve Gowda age 47
Abdul Rahman Arif age 64
Portia Simpson-Miller age 35
George William Vella age 38
Win Myint age 29
Baron Waqa age 21
Jenny Shipley age 29
Mamadou Tandja age 42
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 33
S. R. Nathan age 56
Igor Matovič age 7
Didier Burkhalter age 20
Taur Matan Ruak age 24
Fouad Mebazaa age 47
Rupiah Banda age 44
Han Duck-soo age 31
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 51
Ernesto Geisel age 73
Jim Yong Kim age 21
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 46
Tarana Burke age 7
Ingrid of Sweden age 70
John Lewis age 40
Tigran Sargsyan age 21
Lon Nol age 67
Azali Assoumani age 22
Alfredo Palacio age 42
Mostafa Madbouly age 14
Siim Kallas age 32
Frank Bainimarama age 26
Rose Francine Rogombe age 38
Otto Pérez Molina age 30
Álvaro Colom age 29
Joseph Michel Martelly age 19
Halla Tómasdóttir age 12
Mariano Rumor age 65
Ciriaco De Mita age 53
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 37
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 85
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 35
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 28
Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 17
Zdravko Krivokapić age 22
Boris Trajkovski age 24
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 66
Mikhail Kasianov age 23
Bassirou Diomaye Faye age 10 months
Miro Cerar age 17
Alain Berset age 8
Srettha Thavisin age 18
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 28
Trần Đức Lương age 43
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 72
Choi Kyu-hah age 61
Željka Cvijanović age 13
Philip Hammond age 25
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan age 15
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 24
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh age 16
Mario Cuomo age 48
Timothy McVeigh age 12
Liz Cheney age 14
George Wallace age 61
Fatos Nano age 28
Xavier Espot Zamora age 1
Carlos Mesa age 27
Petar Stoyanov age 28
Sergey Stanishev age 14
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 12
Patricio Aylwin age 62
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 26
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 62