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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
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
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh age 14
Mario Cuomo age 46
Timothy McVeigh age 11
Liz Cheney age 12
George Wallace age 59
Fatos Nano age 26
Carlos Mesa age 25
Petar Stoyanov age 26
Sergey Stanishev age 13
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 11 months
Anerood Jugnauth age 49
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 68
Zinaida Greceanîi age 23
Aziz Akhannouch age 17
Armando Guebuza age 36
Einar Gerhardsen age 82
Farooq Leghari age 38
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 27
Emil Constantinescu age 39
Eduard Heger age 3
Tage Erlander age 77
Evaristo Carvalho age 37
Abdulla Aripov age 17
Rómulo Betancourt age 71
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 53
Sōsuke Uno age 56
Pierre Mendès France age 72
Jeremy Hunt age 12
Michael Gove age 11
Gennady Yanayev age 41
Franz Vranitzky age 41
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 38
Dean Barrow age 28
Pedro Pires age 45
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 68
Roosevelt Skerrit age 6
Sherif Ismail age 23
Geir Haarde age 28
Ephraim Katzir age 63
Giovanni Goria age 35
Asqar Mamin age 13
Rolandas Paksas age 22
Algirdas Butkevičius age 20
Gediminas Kirkilas age 27
Muhyiddin Yassin age 32
Eddie Fenech Adami age 45
U Nu age 72
Ibrahim Babangida age 37
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 49
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 49
Dacian Cioloș age 9
Julius Maada Bio age 15
Vladimír Mečiar age 36
Ronald Venetiaan age 42
Karin Keller-Sutter age 15
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 23
Rafael Caldera age 63
Hanna Suchocka age 33
Federico Franco age 16
Fernando Belaúnde age 66
Abdalla Hamdok age 23
Takeo Miki age 72
William Westmoreland age 65
Georges Bidault age 79
George Osborne age 7
William Hague age 18
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 29
Yang Shangkun age 71
Stephen Breyer age 40
Christian Stocker age 19
Hubert Maga age 62
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 57
Sylvie Kinigi age 26
Hun Manet age 1
Jioji Konrote age 31
Paavo Lipponen age 38
Rose Christiane Raponda age 15
Mikheil Kavelashvili age 7
Alejandro Giammattei age 23
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 20
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 32
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 11
Piet de Jong age 64
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 5
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 20
Christopher Luxon age 8
Shaukat Aziz age 30
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 23
Marcel Ciolacu age 11
Andrei Belousov age 20
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
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) age 9
Nikolai Tikhonov age 74
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 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
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 27
Peter Mandelson age 25
Chris Christie age 16
Elena Kagan age 19
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