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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
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
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12

People

Ricardo Lagos age 53
Taavi Rõivas age 11
Irakli Kobakhidze age 12
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 64
Umaro Sissoco Embaló age 18
Gyula Horn age 58
Fatmir Sejdiu age 39
Fayez al-Sarraj age 31
Ernesto Zedillo age 39
Khurelsukh Ukhnaa age 22
Luísa Diogo age 33
Mohamed Bazoum age 31
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 38
Viorica Dăncilă age 27
Chan Santokhi age 32
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 41
Tô Lâm age 33
Michael Sata age 53
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 52
Martín Vizcarra age 28
Diosdado Macapagal age 80
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 53
José Sarney age 61
Brian Cowen age 31
Stanislav Shushkevich age 56
Empress Masako age 27
George Shultz age 70
Christian Kern age 25
Kristen Michal age 15
Juha Sipilä age 30
Kostas Karamanlis age 34
Jimmy Morales age 22
Haider Al-Abadi age 39
Catherine Connolly age 35
Emilio Colombo age 71
Choummaly Sayasone age 55
Michel Suleiman age 42
Inga Ruginienė age 9
Joseph Muscat age 17
George Abela age 43
José López Portillo age 70
Milovan Đilas age 79
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 55
Girija Prasad Koirala age 66
Pedro Passos Coelho age 26
Ernest Bai Koroma age 37
Milan Kučan age 50
Viola Amherd age 28
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 49
Levy Mwanawasa age 42
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 41
Anura Kurankan Dissanayake age 22
Paul Wolfowitz age 47
Alain Poher age 82
Kemi Badenoch age 11
Empress Michiko age 56
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 56
Abulfaz Elchibey age 52
Zhelyu Zhelev age 56
Hissène Habré age 48
Nicos Christodoulides age 17
Adly Mansour age 45
Nino Burjanadze age 26
Georgios Papadopoulos age 72
Ferenc Mádl age 60
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson age 16
Laimdota Straujuma age 40
Joseph Aoun age 27
Min Aung Hlaing age 34
Ivica Dačić age 25
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 34
Lawrence Wong age 18
Francisco Guterres age 36
Olexii Honcharuk age 6
Frederick Chiluba age 48
Juan Carlos Varela age 27
Alejandro Toledo age 46
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 34
Željko Komšić age 27
Noboru Takeshita age 67
Keizō Obuchi age 53
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 43
Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland age 11
Queen Mette-Marit of Norway age 17
Tim Kaine age 33
Clarence Thomas age 42
Iajuddin Ahmed age 60
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 41
Luis Guillermo Solís age 33
Jan Fischer age 40
Danilo Medina age 39
Hailemariam Desalegn age 25
Giorgi Kvirikashvili age 23
Costas Simitis age 54
Ezer Weizman age 66
Isaac Navon age 70
Dries van Agt age 60
Thongloun Sisoulith age 45
Krišjānis Kariņš age 26
Émile Lahoud age 55
Marc Ravalomanana age 41
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 32
Lazarus Chakwera age 36
Luis Echeverría age 69
Miguel de la Madrid age 56
Natalia Gavrilița age 13
Ne Win age 80
Ram Chandra Poudel age 46
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 44
Luís Montenegro age 18
Ueli Maurer age 40
Benjamin Mkapa age 52
Ricardo Martinelli age 39
Haris Silajdžić age 45
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 30
Takeo Fukuda age 86
Morihiro Hosokawa age 53
João Figueiredo age 73
Priti Patel age 19
Jerry Brown age 53
Warren Christopher age 65
Rexhep Meidani age 46
Reynaldo Bignone age 63
John Turner age 61
David Dacko age 61
Catherine Samba-Panza age 36
Bohuslav Sobotka age 19
Leonel Fernández age 37
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 46
Antti Rinne age 28
H. D. Deve Gowda age 58
Abdul Rahman Arif age 75
Portia Simpson-Miller age 45
George William Vella age 49
Win Myint age 39
Baron Waqa age 31
Jenny Shipley age 39
Mamadou Tandja age 52
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 43
S. R. Nathan age 66
Igor Matovič age 18
Didier Burkhalter age 31
Taur Matan Ruak age 34
Fouad Mebazaa age 57
Rupiah Banda age 54
Canaan Banana age 55
Han Duck-soo age 41
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 61
Raymond Barre age 67
Mohamed Bouazizi age 7
Ernesto Geisel age 83
Simon Harris age 4
Jim Yong Kim age 31
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 56
Tarana Burke age 17
Ingrid of Sweden age 81
Princess Beatrice age 2
Tigran Sargsyan age 31
Azali Assoumani age 32
Alfredo Palacio age 52
Mostafa Madbouly age 25
Siim Kallas age 42
Frank Bainimarama age 37
Rose Francine Rogombe age 48
Otto Pérez Molina age 40
Álvaro Colom age 39
Joseph Michel Martelly age 30
Halla Tómasdóttir age 22
Ciriaco De Mita age 63
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 47
Assimi Goïta age 7
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 45
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 38
Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 28
Zdravko Krivokapić age 32
Dritan Abazović age 5
Boris Trajkovski age 34
Mikhail Kasianov age 33
Bassirou Diomaye Faye age 11
Miro Cerar age 27
Alain Berset age 19
Srettha Thavisin age 29
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 39
Trần Đức Lương age 54
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 82
Choi Kyu-hah age 71
Željka Cvijanović age 24
Zenkō Suzuki age 80
Philip Hammond age 35
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan age 25
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 34
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh age 26
Timothy McVeigh age 23
Li Xiannian age 81
Liz Cheney age 24
George Wallace age 71
Alexander Haig age 66
Xavier Espot Zamora age 11
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 76
Carlos Mesa age 37