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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
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
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20

People

Harri Holkeri age 42
Zurab Zhvania age 15
Efraín Ríos Montt age 53
László Kövér age 19
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 67
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 74
Yigal Allon age 61
Henri Konan Bédié age 45
Māris Kučinskis age 18
Saulius Skvernelis age 9
Gaston Thorn age 51
Duško Marković age 21
Saadeddine Othmani age 23
Htin Kyaw age 33
Marcus Stephen age 10
Yakubu Gowon age 45
António José Seguro age 17
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 34
Mirko Cvetković age 29
Rudolf Schuster age 45
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 37
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 54
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 60
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 15
Fuad II of Egypt age 27
Chuck Hagel age 33
Milka Planinc age 55
John Ashcroft age 37
John Gorton age 68
César Gaviria age 32
José Figueres Ferrer age 73
Osvaldo Dorticós age 60
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 58
Mart Laar age 19
Péter Medgyessy age 37
Poul Schlüter age 50
Fouad Siniora age 36
Vlad Filat age 10
Diori Hamani age 63
Ilie Bolojan age 10
James Michel age 35
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 24
Anutin Charnvirakul age 13
Mesut Yılmaz age 32
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 52
Julio María Sanguinetti age 43
Iolu Abil age 37
Phạm Minh Chính age 20
Marek Belka age 27
Mireya Moscoso age 33
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 44
Michel Debré age 67
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 64
Margaret Chan age 32
Ahmad Uyahya age 27
Antoni Martí age 16
Gaston Browne age 12
Leo Tindemans age 57
Tshering Tobgay age 14
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 72
Melchior Ndadaye age 26
Vladimír Špidla age 28
Antoine Gizenga age 54
Eugenia Charles age 60
Nicholas Liverpool age 45
Bharrat Jagdeo age 15
Mario Scelba age 78
Taneti Maamau age 19
Aigars Kalvītis age 13
Luc Frieden age 16
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih age 15
Abdelilah Benkirane age 25
Sushil Koirala age 40
Kåre Willoch age 51
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 20
Pascal Lissouba age 48
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 36
Nicolae Ciucă age 12
Adrian Năstase age 29
Michal Kováč age 49
Pascal Couchepin age 37
Wellington Koo age 91
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 18
James Marape age 8
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 19
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 127
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 92
Pierre Messmer age 63
Steven Mnuchin age 16
Janet Reno age 41
Pam Bondi age 14
Edmund Muskie age 65
Mohamed Boudiaf age 60
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 55
Quentin Bryce age 36
Salman bin Hamad, Crown Prince of Bahrain age 10
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 29
Hugo Banzer age 53
Nuon Chea age 53
Ange-Félix Patassé age 42
Glafcos Clerides age 60
Joaquín Balaguer age 73
Josefa Iloilo age 58
Esko Aho age 25
Sam Hinds age 35
Janet Jagan age 59
Abdul Latif Rashid age 35
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 37
Giuseppe Pella age 77
Andrew Holness age 7
Joop den Uyl age 60
Behgjet Pacolli age 28
Bakili Muluzi age 36
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 19
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 63
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 37
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 26
Ruth Dreifuss age 39
Fradique de Menezes age 37
Samak Sundaravej age 44
George Maxwell Richards age 48
Yurii Yekhanurov age 31
Juan María Bordaberry age 51
Baldwin Lonsdale age 31
Võ Văn Thưởng age 8
Laurentino Cortizo age 26
Santiago Peña Palacios age 1
Maurice Couve de Murville age 72
Pierre Bérégovoy age 53
Mark W. Clark age 83
B. J. Vorster age 64
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 74
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 33
Walter Hallstein age 78
Amber Rudd age 16
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 25
Andranik Margaryan age 28
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 49
Jigme Thinley age 27
Rosen Zhelyazkov age 11
Pierre Buyoya age 30
Jorge Alessandri age 83
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 25
Abelardo de la Espriella age 1
Ikililou Dhoinine age 17
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 53
Essam Sharaf age 27
Ahmed Nazif age 27
Antonio Saca age 14
José Mário Vaz age 21
David A. Granger age 34
Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani age 9
Bisher Al-Khasawneh age 10
Serik Akhmetov age 21
Älihan Smaiylov age 6
Tammam Salam age 34
Kazimira Prunskienė age 36
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 26
Guido de Marco age 48
Moktar Ould Daddah age 54
Marian Lupu age 13
Igor Lukšić age 3
Myint Swe age 28
Pedro Santana Lopes age 23
Ludovic Orban age 16
Sergei Kirienko age 17
Ralph Gonsalves age 33
Danny Faure age 17
Ola Ullsten age 48
Moritz Leuenberger age 33
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 27
Oqil Oqilov age 35
Somchai Wongsawat age 32
Yamandú Orsi age 12
Peter O'Neill age 14
Borjana Krišto age 18
Ante Marković age 55
James Cleverly age 10
John Connally age 62
Merrick Garland age 27
Nandó dos Santos age 29
Baldwin Spencer age 31
Peter Cosgrove age 32
Tarique Rahman age 11
Freundel Stuart age 28
Syarhiey Sidorski age 25
Syarhei Rumas age 10
Nicéphore Soglo age 45
Eduardo Rodríguez age 23
Petar Mladenov age 43
Michel Micombero age 39
Belisario Betancur age 56
Juhan Parts age 13
Sitiveni Rabuka age 31
Kalevi Sorsa age 48