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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
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15

People

Rose Christiane Raponda age 16
Mikheil Kavelashvili age 8
Alejandro Giammattei age 23
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 21
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 32
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 12
Piet de Jong age 64
Ramush Haradinaj age 11
Guntis Ulmanis age 40
Hassan Diab age 20
Gintautas Paluckas age 5 months
Lawrence Gonzi age 26
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 23
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 79
Mircea Snegur age 40
Dorin Recean age 5
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 21
Christopher Luxon age 9
Shaukat Aziz age 30
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 23
Marcel Ciolacu age 12
Andrei Belousov age 20
Sergei Stepashin age 27
Marjan Šarec age 2
Guy Parmelin age 20
Paula-Mae Weekes age 21
Najla Bouden age 21
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 57
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 20
Nicanor Duarte age 23
Nikolai Tikhonov age 74
Jânio Quadros age 63
Ash Carter age 25
Sajid Javid age 10
Mohammad Mokhber age 24
Michael Dukakis age 46
Ronald McNair age 29
Lawrence Eagleburger age 49
Dean Rusk age 71
Arturo Umberto Illia age 79
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 32
Arturo Frondizi age 71
William McMahon age 71
Lotay Tshering age 10
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 37
Luis Abinader age 12
Harri Holkeri age 43
Zurab Zhvania age 16
Efraín Ríos Montt age 53
László Kövér age 20
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 24
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 46
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 37
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 54
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 60
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 15
Fuad II of Egypt age 28
Chuck Hagel age 33
Milka Planinc age 55
John Kasich age 27
Peter Mandelson age 26
Chris Christie age 17
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 44
Iolu Abil age 37
Phạm Minh Chính age 21
Marek Belka age 28
Mireya Moscoso age 33
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 45
Michel Debré age 68
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 64
Margaret Chan age 32
Christine Kangaloo age 18
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 27
Carlos Alvarado Quesada age 0 months
Vladimír Špidla age 28
Antoine Gizenga age 54
Eugenia Charles age 60
Nicholas Liverpool age 45
Bharrat Jagdeo age 16
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 21
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 92
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 18
James Marape age 8
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 20
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 127
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 92
Pierre Messmer age 63
Steven Mnuchin age 17
Janet Reno age 41
Pam Bondi age 14
Mohamed Boudiaf age 60
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 55
Quentin Bryce age 37
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 43
Glafcos Clerides age 60
Joaquín Balaguer age 73
Josefa Iloilo age 59
Esko Aho age 25
Sam Hinds age 36
Janet Jagan age 59
Abdul Latif Rashid age 35
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 38
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 20
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 63
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 37
António de Spínola age 69
Sorin Grindeanu age 6
Florin Cîțu age 7
Milan Milutinović age 37
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 47
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 26
Ruth Dreifuss age 40
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 9
Laurentino Cortizo age 27
Santiago Peña Palacios age 1
Maurice Couve de Murville age 73
Pierre Bérégovoy age 54
Mark W. Clark age 83
B. J. Vorster age 64
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 74
Walter Hallstein age 78
Amber Rudd age 16
Kathy Hochul age 21
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 25
Andranik Margaryan age 28
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 50
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