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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
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

Konstantinos Tasoulas age 21
Irfaan Ali age 9 months
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 33
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 33
Davíð Oddsson age 33
Giovanni Spadolini age 55
Raila A Odinga age 36
Anote Tong age 28
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 40
Mohamed Muizzu age 2
Anerood Jugnauth age 50
Zinaida Greceanîi age 25
Aziz Akhannouch age 19
Armando Guebuza age 38
Einar Gerhardsen age 83
Farooq Leghari age 40
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 29
Emil Constantinescu age 41
Eduard Heger age 4
Tage Erlander age 79
Evaristo Carvalho age 39
Abdulla Aripov age 19
Rómulo Betancourt age 73
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 54
Sōsuke Uno age 58
Pierre Mendès France age 74
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 70
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 22
Gediminas Kirkilas age 29
Muhyiddin Yassin age 33
Eddie Fenech Adami age 47
U Nu age 73
Ibrahim Babangida age 39
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 51
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 51
Dacian Cioloș age 11
Julius Maada Bio age 16
Vladimír Mečiar age 38
Ronald Venetiaan age 44
Karin Keller-Sutter age 17
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 24
Rafael Caldera age 65
Hanna Suchocka age 34
Federico Franco age 18
Abdalla Hamdok age 25
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
Christian Stocker age 20
Hubert Maga age 64
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 59
Kiril Petkov age 9 months
Sylvie Kinigi age 28
Hun Manet age 3
Jioji Konrote age 33
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 24
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 80
Mircea Snegur age 41
Dorin Recean age 6
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 22
Christopher Luxon age 10
Shaukat Aziz age 31
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 24
Marcel Ciolacu age 13
Andrei Belousov age 21
Sergei Stepashin age 28
Marjan Šarec age 3
Guy Parmelin age 21
Paula-Mae Weekes age 22
Najla Bouden age 22
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 58
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 21
Nicanor Duarte age 24
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) age 11
Jânio Quadros age 64
Ash Carter age 26
Sajid Javid age 11
Michel Aflaq age 71
Marsha P. Johnson age 35
Karl von Habsburg age 20
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 67
Mohammad Mokhber age 25
Michael Dukakis age 47
Dobrica Ćosić age 59
Ronald McNair age 30
Lawrence Eagleburger age 50
Dean Rusk age 72
Cyrus Vance age 63
Arturo Umberto Illia age 80
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 33
Arturo Frondizi age 72
William McMahon age 73
Lotay Tshering age 11
Joe Clark age 41
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 38
Luis Abinader age 13
Harri Holkeri age 44
Zurab Zhvania age 17
Efraín Ríos Montt age 54
László Kövér age 21
Kristján Eldjárn age 64
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 68
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 75
Henri Konan Bédié age 46
Māris Kučinskis age 19
Saulius Skvernelis age 10
Duško Marković age 22
Saadeddine Othmani age 25
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 47
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 29
Chuck Hagel age 34
Milka Planinc age 56
Günter Schabowski age 52
Wesley Clark age 36
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 26
Anutin Charnvirakul age 14
Mesut Yılmaz age 33
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 53
Julio María Sanguinetti age 45
Iolu Abil age 38
Phạm Minh Chính age 22
Marek Belka age 29
Mireya Moscoso age 34
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 46
Michel Debré age 69
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 65
Margaret Chan age 33
Claude Auchinleck age 96
Christine Kangaloo age 19
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 39
Frederica of Hanover age 63
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 45
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 44