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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
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
Martial law in Poland 1981-12-13 - 1983-07-22
1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia 1983 - 1985

People

Umaro Sissoco Embaló age 10
Gyula Horn age 50
Fatmir Sejdiu age 31
Fayez al-Sarraj age 23
Ernesto Zedillo age 31
Khurelsukh Ukhnaa age 14
Luísa Diogo age 25
Mohamed Bazoum age 23
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 30
Viorica Dăncilă age 19
Goh Chok Tong age 41
Chan Santokhi age 24
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 33
Tô Lâm age 25
Michael Sata age 45
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 44
Martín Vizcarra age 20
Diosdado Macapagal age 72
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 45
José Sarney age 53
Brian Cowen age 23
Stanislav Shushkevich age 48
Empress Masako age 19
Christian Kern age 17
Kristen Michal age 7
Juha Sipilä age 22
Kostas Karamanlis age 26
Jimmy Morales age 14
Haider Al-Abadi age 31
Catherine Connolly age 27
Emilio Colombo age 63
Choummaly Sayasone age 47
Michel Suleiman age 34
Inga Ruginienė age 1
Joseph Muscat age 9
George Abela age 35
José López Portillo age 62
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 35
Milovan Đilas age 71
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 47
Girija Prasad Koirala age 58
Pedro Passos Coelho age 18
Ernest Bai Koroma age 29
Milan Kučan age 42
Viola Amherd age 20
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 41
Levy Mwanawasa age 34
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 33
Anura Kurankan Dissanayake age 14
Michel Rocard age 52
Paul Wolfowitz age 39
Alain Poher age 74
Kemi Badenoch age 3
Empress Michiko age 48
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 48
Abulfaz Elchibey age 44
Zhelyu Zhelev age 48
Nicos Christodoulides age 9
Adly Mansour age 37
Nino Burjanadze age 18
Georgios Papadopoulos age 64
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 29
Ferenc Mádl age 52
Árpád Göncz age 61
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson age 8
Laimdota Straujuma age 32
Joseph Aoun age 19
Min Aung Hlaing age 26
Ivica Dačić age 17
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 26
Lawrence Wong age 10
Ingvar Carlsson age 48
Francisco Guterres age 28
Frederick Chiluba age 40
Juan Carlos Varela age 19
Alejandro Toledo age 38
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 26
Željko Komšić age 19
Noboru Takeshita age 59
Keizō Obuchi age 45
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 35
Gerry Adams age 34
Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland age 3
Queen Mette-Marit of Norway age 9
Tim Kaine age 25
Clarence Thomas age 34
Iajuddin Ahmed age 52
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 33
Luis Guillermo Solís age 25
Jan Fischer age 32
Danilo Medina age 31
Hailemariam Desalegn age 17
Giorgi Kvirikashvili age 15
Costas Simitis age 46
Ezer Weizman age 58
Isaac Navon age 62
Dries van Agt age 52
Thongloun Sisoulith age 37
Krišjānis Kariņš age 18
Émile Lahoud age 47
Samuel Doe age 32
Jacques Santer age 46
Marc Ravalomanana age 33
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 24
Lazarus Chakwera age 28
Luis Echeverría age 61
Natalia Gavrilița age 5
Ne Win age 72
Ram Chandra Poudel age 38
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 36
Luís Montenegro age 10
Ueli Maurer age 32
Benjamin Mkapa age 44
Ricardo Martinelli age 31
Haris Silajdžić age 37
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 22
Takeo Fukuda age 78
Morihiro Hosokawa age 45
Priti Patel age 11
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 91
Jerry Brown age 45
Warren Christopher age 57
Rexhep Meidani age 38
Ayaz Mutallibov age 45
John Turner age 53
David Dacko age 53
Catherine Samba-Panza age 28
Bohuslav Sobotka age 11
Leonel Fernández age 29
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 38
Antti Rinne age 20
H. D. Deve Gowda age 50
Abdul Rahman Arif age 67
Portia Simpson-Miller age 37
George William Vella age 41
Win Myint age 31
Baron Waqa age 23
Jenny Shipley age 31
Mamadou Tandja age 44
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 35
S. R. Nathan age 58
Igor Matovič age 9
Didier Burkhalter age 23
Taur Matan Ruak age 26
Fouad Mebazaa age 49
Rupiah Banda age 46
Han Duck-soo age 33
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 53
Raymond Barre age 59
Ernesto Geisel age 75
Jim Yong Kim age 23
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 48
Tarana Burke age 9
Ingrid of Sweden age 73
John Lewis age 43
Tigran Sargsyan age 23
Lon Nol age 69
Azali Assoumani age 24
Alfredo Palacio age 44
Mostafa Madbouly age 17
Siim Kallas age 34
Frank Bainimarama age 29
Rose Francine Rogombe age 40
Otto Pérez Molina age 32
Álvaro Colom age 31
Joseph Michel Martelly age 22
Halla Tómasdóttir age 14
Mariano Rumor age 67
Ciriaco De Mita age 55
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 39
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 87
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 37
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 30
Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 20
Zdravko Krivokapić age 24
Boris Trajkovski age 26
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 68
Mikhail Kasianov age 25
Bassirou Diomaye Faye age 3
Miro Cerar age 19
Alain Berset age 11
Srettha Thavisin age 21
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 31
Trần Đức Lương age 46
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 74
Choi Kyu-hah age 63
Željka Cvijanović age 16
Zenkō Suzuki age 72
Philip Hammond age 27
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan age 17
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 26
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh age 18
Timothy McVeigh age 15
Li Xiannian age 73
Liz Cheney age 16
George Wallace age 63
Alexander Haig age 58
Fatos Nano age 30
Xavier Espot Zamora age 3
Carlos Mesa age 29