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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
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15

People

Paula-Mae Weekes age 21
Najla Bouden age 22
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 57
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 20
Nicanor Duarte age 23
Nikolai Tikhonov age 75
Jânio Quadros age 63
Ash Carter age 25
Sajid Javid age 10
Mohammad Mokhber age 25
Ronald McNair age 29
Lawrence Eagleburger age 50
Dean Rusk age 71
Cyrus Vance age 63
Arturo Umberto Illia age 80
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 33
Arturo Frondizi age 71
William McMahon age 72
Lotay Tshering age 11
Joe Clark age 41
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 38
Luis Abinader age 13
Harri Holkeri age 43
Zurab Zhvania age 16
Efraín Ríos Montt age 54
László Kövér age 20
Kristján Eldjárn age 63
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 67
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 74
Henri Konan Bédié age 46
Māris Kučinskis age 18
Saulius Skvernelis age 10
Gaston Thorn age 51
Duško Marković age 22
Saadeddine Othmani age 24
Htin Kyaw age 34
Marcus Stephen age 10
Yakubu Gowon age 45
António José Seguro age 18
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 35
Mirko Cvetković age 30
Rudolf Schuster age 46
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 37
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 55
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 60
Michael Somare age 44
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 16
Fuad II of Egypt age 28
Chuck Hagel age 33
Milka Planinc age 55
John Ashcroft age 38
John Gorton age 68
César Gaviria age 33
José Figueres Ferrer age 73
Osvaldo Dorticós age 61
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 59
Mart Laar age 20
Péter Medgyessy age 37
Poul Schlüter age 51
Fouad Siniora age 37
Vlad Filat age 11
Diori Hamani age 64
Ilie Bolojan age 11
James Michel age 36
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 25
Anutin Charnvirakul age 13
Mesut Yılmaz age 32
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 52
Julio María Sanguinetti age 44
Iolu Abil age 38
Phạm Minh Chính age 21
Marek Belka age 28
Mireya Moscoso age 34
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 45
Michel Debré age 68
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 65
Margaret Chan age 32
Christine Kangaloo age 18
Ahmad Uyahya age 28
Antoni Martí age 17
Gaston Browne age 13
Leo Tindemans age 58
Tshering Tobgay age 14
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 72
Melchior Ndadaye age 27
Carlos Alvarado Quesada age 6 months
Vladimír Špidla age 29
Antoine Gizenga age 54
Nicholas Liverpool age 45
Bharrat Jagdeo age 16
Mario Scelba age 78
Taneti Maamau age 19
Aigars Kalvītis age 14
Luc Frieden age 16
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih age 16
Abdelilah Benkirane age 26
Sushil Koirala age 41
Kåre Willoch age 51
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 21
Pascal Lissouba age 48
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 36
Nicolae Ciucă age 13
Adrian Năstase age 30
Michal Kováč age 50
Pascal Couchepin age 38
Wellington Koo age 92
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 19
James Marape age 9
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 20
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 127
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 92
Pierre Messmer age 64
Steven Mnuchin age 17
Kash Patel age 5 months
Janet Reno age 42
Pam Bondi age 14
Mohamed Boudiaf age 61
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 55
Quentin Bryce age 37
Salman bin Hamad, Crown Prince of Bahrain age 10
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 30
Hugo Banzer age 54
Nuon Chea age 54
Ange-Félix Patassé age 43
Glafcos Clerides age 61
Joaquín Balaguer age 73
Josefa Iloilo age 59
Esko Aho age 26
Sam Hinds age 36
Janet Jagan age 59
Abdul Latif Rashid age 36
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 38
Giuseppe Pella age 78
Andrew Holness age 8
Joop den Uyl age 61
Behgjet Pacolli age 28
Bakili Muluzi age 37
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 20
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 63
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 38
António de Spínola age 70
Sorin Grindeanu age 6
Florin Cîțu age 8
Milan Milutinović age 37
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 48
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 26
Ruth Dreifuss age 40
Fradique de Menezes age 38
Samak Sundaravej age 45
George Maxwell Richards age 48
Yurii Yekhanurov age 31
Juan María Bordaberry age 52
Baldwin Lonsdale age 32
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 84
B. J. Vorster age 64
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 74
Walter Hallstein age 78
Amber Rudd age 17
Suella Braverman age 4 months
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 26
Andranik Margaryan age 29
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 50
Jigme Thinley age 27
Rosen Zhelyazkov age 12
Pierre Buyoya age 30
Jorge Alessandri age 84
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 25
Abelardo de la Espriella age 2
Ikililou Dhoinine age 18
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 54
Essam Sharaf age 28
Ahmed Nazif age 28
Antonio Saca age 15
José Mário Vaz age 22
David A. Granger age 35
Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani age 10
Bisher Al-Khasawneh age 11
Serik Akhmetov age 22
Älihan Smaiylov age 7
Tammam Salam age 35
Kazimira Prunskienė age 37
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 27
Guido de Marco age 49
Moktar Ould Daddah age 55
Marian Lupu age 14
Igor Lukšić age 4
Myint Swe age 29
Pedro Santana Lopes age 24
Ludovic Orban age 17
Sergei Kirienko age 18
Ralph Gonsalves age 34
Danny Faure age 18
Ola Ullsten age 49
Moritz Leuenberger age 33
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 28