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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
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Sylvie Kinigi age 26
Hun Manet age 1
Jioji Konrote age 31
Paavo Lipponen age 37
Rose Christiane Raponda age 15
Mikheil Kavelashvili age 7
Alejandro Giammattei age 22
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 20
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 31
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 11
Piet de Jong age 63
Ramush Haradinaj age 10
Guntis Ulmanis age 39
Hassan Diab age 19
Lawrence Gonzi age 25
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 22
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 78
Mircea Snegur age 39
Dorin Recean age 4
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 20
Christopher Luxon age 8
Shaukat Aziz age 29
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 22
Marcel Ciolacu age 11
Andrei Belousov age 19
Sergei Stepashin age 26
Marjan Šarec age 1
Guy Parmelin age 19
Paula-Mae Weekes age 20
Najla Bouden age 20
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 19
Nicanor Duarte age 22
Nikolai Tikhonov age 73
Jânio Quadros age 62
Ash Carter age 24
Sajid Javid age 9
Mohammad Mokhber age 23
Michael Dukakis age 45
Ronald McNair age 28
Lawrence Eagleburger age 48
Dean Rusk age 69
Arturo Umberto Illia age 78
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 31
Arturo Frondizi age 70
William McMahon age 70
Lotay Tshering age 9
Joe Clark age 39
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 36
Luis Abinader age 11
Harri Holkeri age 42
Zurab Zhvania age 15
Efraín Ríos Montt age 52
László Kövér age 19
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 66
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 73
Yigal Allon age 60
Henri Konan Bédié age 44
Māris Kučinskis age 17
Saulius Skvernelis age 8
Duško Marković age 20
Saadeddine Othmani age 23
Htin Kyaw age 32
Marcus Stephen age 9
Yakubu Gowon age 44
Shehu Shagari age 53
António José Seguro age 16
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 33
Mirko Cvetković age 28
Rudolf Schuster age 45
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 36
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 53
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 59
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 14
Fuad II of Egypt age 27
Chuck Hagel age 32
Milka Planinc age 54
John Kasich age 26
Peter Mandelson age 25
Chris Christie age 16
John Ashcroft age 36
John Gorton age 67
César Gaviria age 31
José Figueres Ferrer age 72
Osvaldo Dorticós age 59
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 57
Mart Laar age 18
Péter Medgyessy age 36
Poul Schlüter age 49
Fouad Siniora age 35
Vlad Filat age 9
Diori Hamani age 62
Ilie Bolojan age 9
James Michel age 34
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 23
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 52
Anutin Charnvirakul age 12
Mesut Yılmaz age 31
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 51
Julio María Sanguinetti age 43
Iolu Abil age 36
Phạm Minh Chính age 20
Marek Belka age 27
Mireya Moscoso age 32
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 44
Michel Debré age 67
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 63
Margaret Chan age 31
Christine Kangaloo age 17
Ahmad Uyahya age 26
Antoni Martí age 15
Gaston Browne age 11
Leo Tindemans age 56
Tshering Tobgay age 13
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 71
Melchior Ndadaye age 26
Vladimír Špidla age 27
Antoine Gizenga age 53
Eugenia Charles age 59
Nicholas Liverpool age 44
Bharrat Jagdeo age 14
Mario Scelba age 77
Taneti Maamau age 18
Aigars Kalvītis age 12
Luc Frieden age 15
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih age 14
Abdelilah Benkirane age 24
Sushil Koirala age 39
Kåre Willoch age 50
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 20
Pascal Lissouba age 47
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 35
Nicolae Ciucă age 11
Adrian Năstase age 28
Michal Kováč age 48
Pascal Couchepin age 36
Wellington Koo age 91
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 17
James Marape age 7
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 19
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 126
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 91
Pierre Messmer age 62
Steven Mnuchin age 16
Janet Reno age 40
Pam Bondi age 13
Mohamed Boudiaf age 59
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 54
Quentin Bryce age 36
Salman bin Hamad, Crown Prince of Bahrain age 9
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 28
Hugo Banzer age 52
Nuon Chea age 52
Ange-Félix Patassé age 42
Glafcos Clerides age 59
Joaquín Balaguer age 72
Josefa Iloilo age 58
Esko Aho age 24
Sam Hinds age 35
Janet Jagan age 58
Abdul Latif Rashid age 34
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 37
Giuseppe Pella age 76
Andrew Holness age 6
Joop den Uyl age 59
Behgjet Pacolli age 27
Bakili Muluzi age 35
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 19
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 62
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 36
António de Spínola age 68
Sorin Grindeanu age 5
Florin Cîțu age 6
Milan Milutinović age 36
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 46
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 25
Ruth Dreifuss age 39
Fradique de Menezes age 36
Samak Sundaravej age 43
George Maxwell Richards age 47
Yurii Yekhanurov age 30
Juan María Bordaberry age 50
Baldwin Lonsdale age 30
Võ Văn Thưởng age 8
Laurentino Cortizo age 25
Santiago Peña Palacios age 2 months
Maurice Couve de Murville age 72
Pierre Bérégovoy age 53
Mark W. Clark age 82
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 73
Walter Hallstein age 77
Amber Rudd age 15
Kathy Hochul age 20
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 24
Andranik Margaryan age 27
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 48
Jigme Thinley age 26
Rosen Zhelyazkov age 10
Pierre Buyoya age 29
Jorge Alessandri age 82
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 24