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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
Salvadoran Civil War 1979-10-15 - 1992-01-16
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15

People

Željka Cvijanović age 12
Zenkō Suzuki age 69
Philip Hammond age 24
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan age 14
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 23
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh age 15
Mario Cuomo age 47
Timothy McVeigh age 11
Liz Cheney age 13
George Wallace age 60
Alexander Haig age 55
Fatos Nano age 27
Xavier Espot Zamora age 3 months
Carlos Mesa age 26
Petar Stoyanov age 27
Sergey Stanishev age 13
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 11
Patricio Aylwin age 61
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 25
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 61
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 20
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 32
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 32
Davíð Oddsson age 32
Giovanni Spadolini age 54
Arnaldo Forlani age 54
Raila A Odinga age 35
Anote Tong age 27
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 39
Mohamed Muizzu age 1
Anerood Jugnauth age 49
Zinaida Greceanîi age 24
Aziz Akhannouch age 18
Armando Guebuza age 37
Einar Gerhardsen age 82
Farooq Leghari age 39
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 28
Emil Constantinescu age 40
Eduard Heger age 3
Tage Erlander age 78
Evaristo Carvalho age 38
Abdulla Aripov age 18
Rómulo Betancourt age 72
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 53
Sōsuke Uno age 57
Pierre Mendès France age 73
Jeremy Hunt age 13
Michael Gove age 12
Gennady Yanayev age 42
Franz Vranitzky age 42
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 39
Dean Barrow age 28
Pedro Pires age 45
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 69
Roosevelt Skerrit age 7
Sherif Ismail age 24
Geir Haarde age 28
Ephraim Katzir age 63
Giovanni Goria age 36
Asqar Mamin age 14
Rolandas Paksas age 23
Algirdas Butkevičius age 21
Gediminas Kirkilas age 28
Muhyiddin Yassin age 32
Eddie Fenech Adami age 46
U Nu age 72
Ibrahim Babangida age 38
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 50
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 50
Dacian Cioloș age 10
Julius Maada Bio age 15
Vladimír Mečiar age 37
Ronald Venetiaan age 43
Karin Keller-Sutter age 16
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 23
Rafael Caldera age 64
Hanna Suchocka age 33
Federico Franco age 17
Fernando Belaúnde age 67
Abdalla Hamdok age 24
Takeo Miki age 72
William Westmoreland age 65
Georges Bidault age 80
George Osborne age 8
William Hague age 18
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 30
Marcel Lefebvre age 74
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 33
Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland age 6
Craig Venter age 33
Francis Collins age 29
Yang Shangkun age 72
Stephen Breyer age 41
Christian Stocker age 19
Hubert Maga age 63
Sylvie Kinigi age 27
Hun Manet age 2
Jioji Konrote age 32
Paavo Lipponen age 38
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
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) age 10
Nikolai Tikhonov age 74
Jânio Quadros age 63
Ash Carter age 25
Sajid Javid age 10
Michel Aflaq age 70
Marsha P. Johnson age 34
Karl von Habsburg age 19
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 66
Mohammad Mokhber age 24
Michael Dukakis age 46
Dobrica Ćosić age 58
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 72
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
Mario Abdo Benítez age 8
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 15
Fuad II of Egypt age 28
Chuck Hagel age 33
Milka Planinc age 55
Günter Schabowski age 51
Wesley Clark age 35
Infanta Cristina of Spain age 14
John Kasich age 27
Peter Mandelson age 26
Chris Christie age 17
Elena Kagan age 19
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