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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
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Sergei Stepashin age 27
Marjan Šarec age 1
Guy Parmelin age 19
Paula-Mae Weekes age 20
Najla Bouden age 20
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 56
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 19
Nicanor Duarte age 22
Nikolai Tikhonov age 74
Jânio Quadros age 62
Ash Carter age 24
Sajid Javid age 9
Mohammad Mokhber age 23
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 10
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 45
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 54
António José Seguro age 17
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 34
Mirko Cvetković age 28
Rudolf Schuster age 45
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 36
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 54
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 59
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 14
Fuad II of Egypt age 27
Chuck Hagel age 32
Milka Planinc age 54
John Ashcroft age 37
John Gorton age 67
César Gaviria age 32
José Figueres Ferrer age 72
Osvaldo Dorticós age 60
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 57
Mart Laar age 19
Péter Medgyessy age 36
Poul Schlüter age 50
Fouad Siniora age 35
Vlad Filat age 10
Diori Hamani age 62
Ilie Bolojan age 10
James Michel age 34
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 24
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 53
Anutin Charnvirakul age 12
Mesut Yılmaz age 31
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 51
Julio María Sanguinetti age 43
Iolu Abil age 37
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 64
Margaret Chan age 31
Christine Kangaloo age 17
Ahmad Uyahya age 26
Antoni Martí age 15
Gaston Browne age 12
Leo Tindemans age 57
Tshering Tobgay age 13
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 71
Melchior Ndadaye age 26
Vladimír Špidla age 28
Antoine Gizenga age 53
Eugenia Charles age 60
Nicholas Liverpool age 44
Bharrat Jagdeo age 15
Mario Scelba age 77
Taneti Maamau age 18
Aigars Kalvītis age 12
Luc Frieden age 15
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih age 15
Abdelilah Benkirane age 25
Sushil Koirala age 39
Kåre Willoch age 50
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 20
Pascal Lissouba age 47
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 35
Nicolae Ciucă age 12
Adrian Năstase age 28
Michal Kováč age 48
Pascal Couchepin age 37
Wellington Koo age 91
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 18
James Marape age 8
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 19
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 126
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 91
Pierre Messmer age 63
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 29
Hugo Banzer age 53
Nuon Chea age 52
Ange-Félix Patassé age 42
Glafcos Clerides age 60
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 77
Andrew Holness age 6
Joop den Uyl age 59
Behgjet Pacolli age 27
Bakili Muluzi age 36
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 19
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 62
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 36
António de Spínola age 69
Sorin Grindeanu age 5
Florin Cîțu age 7
Milan Milutinović age 36
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 47
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 25
Ruth Dreifuss age 39
Fradique de Menezes age 37
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 26
Santiago Peña Palacios age 5 months
Maurice Couve de Murville age 72
Pierre Bérégovoy age 53
Mark W. Clark age 83
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 73
Walter Hallstein age 77
Amber Rudd age 15
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 25
Andranik Margaryan age 27
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 49
Jigme Thinley age 26
Rosen Zhelyazkov age 11
Pierre Buyoya age 29
Jorge Alessandri age 83
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 24
Abelardo de la Espriella age 9 months
Ikililou Dhoinine age 16
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 52
Essam Sharaf age 27
Ahmed Nazif age 26
Antonio Saca age 14
José Mário Vaz age 21
David A. Granger age 33
Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani age 9
Bisher Al-Khasawneh age 10
Serik Akhmetov age 20
Älihan Smaiylov age 6
Tammam Salam age 34
Kazimira Prunskienė age 36
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 26
Guido de Marco age 47
Moktar Ould Daddah age 54
Marian Lupu age 12
Igor Lukšić age 2
Myint Swe age 27
Pedro Santana Lopes age 22
Ludovic Orban age 15
Sergei Kirienko age 16
Ralph Gonsalves age 32
Danny Faure age 17
Moritz Leuenberger age 32
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 27
Oqil Oqilov age 35
Somchai Wongsawat age 31