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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

Timothy McVeigh age 10
Liz Cheney age 12
George Wallace age 59
Fatos Nano age 26
Carlos Mesa age 25
Petar Stoyanov age 26
Sergey Stanishev age 12
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 10
Patricio Aylwin age 60
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 24
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 60
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 19
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 31
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 31
Davíð Oddsson age 31
Giovanni Spadolini age 53
Arnaldo Forlani age 53
Raila A Odinga age 34
Anote Tong age 26
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 38
Mohamed Muizzu age 7 months
Anerood Jugnauth age 48
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 67
Zinaida Greceanîi age 23
Aziz Akhannouch age 17
Armando Guebuza age 36
Einar Gerhardsen age 81
Farooq Leghari age 38
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 27
Emil Constantinescu age 39
Eduard Heger age 2
Tage Erlander age 77
Evaristo Carvalho age 37
Abdulla Aripov age 17
Rómulo Betancourt age 71
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 52
Sōsuke Uno age 56
Pierre Mendès France age 72
Jeremy Hunt age 12
Michael Gove age 11
Gennady Yanayev age 41
Chadli Bendjedid age 49
Franz Vranitzky age 41
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 38
Wilfried Martens age 42
Dean Barrow age 27
Pedro Pires age 44
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 68
Roosevelt Skerrit age 6
Sherif Ismail age 23
Geir Haarde age 27
Ephraim Katzir age 62
Giovanni Goria age 35
Asqar Mamin age 13
Rolandas Paksas age 22
Algirdas Butkevičius age 20
Gediminas Kirkilas age 27
Muhyiddin Yassin age 31
Eddie Fenech Adami age 45
U Nu age 71
Ibrahim Babangida age 37
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 49
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 49
Dacian Cioloș age 9
Julius Maada Bio age 14
Vladimír Mečiar age 36
Ronald Venetiaan age 42
Karin Keller-Sutter age 15
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 22
Rafael Caldera age 63
Hanna Suchocka age 32
Federico Franco age 16
Fernando Belaúnde age 66
Abdalla Hamdok age 23
Takeo Miki age 71
William Westmoreland age 64
Georges Bidault age 79
George Osborne age 7
William Hague age 17
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 29
Marcel Lefebvre age 73
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 32
Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland age 5
Craig Venter age 32
Francis Collins age 28
Yang Shangkun age 71
Stephen Breyer age 40
Christian Stocker age 18
Hubert Maga age 62
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 57
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
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) age 9
Nikolai Tikhonov age 73
Jânio Quadros age 62
Ash Carter age 24
Sajid Javid age 9
Michel Aflaq age 69
Marsha P. Johnson age 33
Karl von Habsburg age 18
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 65
Mohammad Mokhber age 23
Michael Dukakis age 45
Dobrica Ćosić age 57
Ronald McNair age 28
Lawrence Eagleburger age 48
Dean Rusk age 70
Arturo Umberto Illia age 78
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 31
Arturo Frondizi age 70
William McMahon age 71
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
Mario Abdo Benítez age 7
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 14
Fuad II of Egypt age 27
Chuck Hagel age 32
Milka Planinc age 54
Günter Schabowski age 50
Wesley Clark age 34
Infanta Cristina of Spain age 13
John Kasich age 26
Peter Mandelson age 25
Chris Christie age 16
Elena Kagan age 18
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 24
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 52
Anutin Charnvirakul age 12
Mesut Yılmaz age 31
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 51
Julio María Sanguinetti age 43