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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
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27

People

Fatos Nano age 28
Xavier Espot Zamora age 1
Carlos Mesa age 27
Petar Stoyanov age 28
Sergey Stanishev age 14
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 12
Patricio Aylwin age 62
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 25
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 62
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 21
Irfaan Ali age 6 months
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 32
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 33
Davíð Oddsson age 32
Giovanni Spadolini age 55
Raila A Odinga age 35
Anote Tong age 28
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 40
Mohamed Muizzu age 2
Anerood Jugnauth age 50
Zinaida Greceanîi age 24
Aziz Akhannouch age 19
Armando Guebuza age 37
Einar Gerhardsen age 83
Farooq Leghari age 40
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 28
Emil Constantinescu age 41
Eduard Heger age 4
Tage Erlander age 79
Evaristo Carvalho age 39
Abdulla Aripov age 19
Rómulo Betancourt age 72
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 54
Sōsuke Uno age 58
Pierre Mendès France age 73
Jeremy Hunt age 14
Michael Gove age 13
Gennady Yanayev age 43
Franz Vranitzky age 43
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 40
Dean Barrow age 29
Pedro Pires age 46
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 69
Roosevelt Skerrit age 8
Sherif Ismail age 25
Geir Haarde age 29
Ephraim Katzir age 64
Giovanni Goria age 37
Asqar Mamin age 15
Rolandas Paksas age 24
Algirdas Butkevičius age 21
Gediminas Kirkilas age 29
Muhyiddin Yassin age 33
Eddie Fenech Adami age 46
U Nu age 73
Ibrahim Babangida age 39
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 51
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 50
Dacian Cioloș age 11
Julius Maada Bio age 16
Vladimír Mečiar age 38
Ronald Venetiaan age 44
Karin Keller-Sutter age 16
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 24
Rafael Caldera age 64
Hanna Suchocka age 34
Federico Franco age 18
Abdalla Hamdok age 24
Takeo Miki age 73
William Westmoreland age 66
Georges Bidault age 81
George Osborne age 9
William Hague age 19
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 31
Marcel Lefebvre age 75
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 34
Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland age 7
Craig Venter age 34
Francis Collins age 30
Yang Shangkun age 73
Stephen Breyer age 42
Christian Stocker age 20
Hubert Maga age 64
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 59
Kiril Petkov age 6 months
Sylvie Kinigi age 27
Hun Manet age 3
Jioji Konrote age 32
Paavo Lipponen age 39
Rose Christiane Raponda age 17
Mikheil Kavelashvili age 9
Alejandro Giammattei age 24
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 22
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 33
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 13
Piet de Jong age 65
Ramush Haradinaj age 12
Guntis Ulmanis age 41
Hassan Diab age 21
Gintautas Paluckas age 1
Lawrence Gonzi age 27
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 23
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 80
Mircea Snegur age 40
Dorin Recean age 6
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 22
Christopher Luxon age 10
Shaukat Aziz age 31
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 24
Marcel Ciolacu age 12
Andrei Belousov age 21
Sergei Stepashin age 28
Marjan Šarec age 2
Guy Parmelin age 21
Paula-Mae Weekes age 21
Najla Bouden age 22
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 58
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 20
Nicanor Duarte age 24
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) age 10
Jânio Quadros age 63
Ash Carter age 26
Sajid Javid age 10
Michel Aflaq age 70
Marsha P. Johnson age 35
Karl von Habsburg age 19
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 67
Mohammad Mokhber age 25
Michael Dukakis age 47
Dobrica Ćosić age 58
Ronald McNair age 30
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 72
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 68
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 74
Henri Konan Bédié age 46
Māris Kučinskis age 18
Saulius Skvernelis age 10
Gaston Thorn age 52
Duško Marković age 22
Saadeddine Othmani age 24
Htin Kyaw age 34
Marcus Stephen age 11
Yakubu Gowon age 46
António José Seguro age 18
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 35
Mirko Cvetković age 30
Rudolf Schuster age 46
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 38
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 55
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 61
Michael Somare age 44
Mario Abdo Benítez age 9
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 16
Fuad II of Egypt age 28
Chuck Hagel age 34
Milka Planinc age 56
Günter Schabowski age 51
Wesley Clark age 35
Infanta Cristina of Spain age 15
John Kasich age 28
Peter Mandelson age 27
Chris Christie age 18
Elena Kagan age 20
John Ashcroft age 38
John Gorton age 69
César Gaviria age 33
José Figueres Ferrer age 74
Osvaldo Dorticós age 61
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 59
Mart Laar age 20
Péter Medgyessy age 38
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 14
Mesut Yılmaz age 33
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 53
Julio María Sanguinetti age 44
Iolu Abil age 38
Phạm Minh Chính age 21
Marek Belka age 28