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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
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

People

Carlos Mesa age 28
Petar Stoyanov age 29
Sergey Stanishev age 15
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 13
Patricio Aylwin age 62
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 26
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 63
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 22
Irfaan Ali age 1
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 33
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 34
Davíð Oddsson age 33
Arnaldo Forlani age 55
Raila A Odinga age 36
Anote Tong age 29
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 41
Mohamed Muizzu age 3
Anerood Jugnauth age 51
Zinaida Greceanîi age 25
Aziz Akhannouch age 20
Armando Guebuza age 38
Einar Gerhardsen age 84
Farooq Leghari age 41
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 29
Emil Constantinescu age 41
Eduard Heger age 5
Tage Erlander age 80
Evaristo Carvalho age 40
Abdulla Aripov age 20
Sōsuke Uno age 59
Pierre Mendès France age 74
Jeremy Hunt age 14
Michael Gove age 14
Gennady Yanayev age 44
Franz Vranitzky age 44
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 41
Wilfried Martens age 45
Dean Barrow age 30
Pedro Pires age 47
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 70
Roosevelt Skerrit age 9
Sherif Ismail age 26
Geir Haarde age 30
Ephraim Katzir age 65
Giovanni Goria age 38
Asqar Mamin age 16
Rolandas Paksas age 25
Algirdas Butkevičius age 22
Gediminas Kirkilas age 30
Muhyiddin Yassin age 34
Eddie Fenech Adami age 47
U Nu age 74
Ibrahim Babangida age 40
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 52
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 51
Dacian Cioloș age 12
Julius Maada Bio age 17
Vladimír Mečiar age 39
Ronald Venetiaan age 45
Karin Keller-Sutter age 17
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 25
Rafael Caldera age 65
Hanna Suchocka age 35
Federico Franco age 19
Abdalla Hamdok age 25
Takeo Miki age 74
William Westmoreland age 67
Georges Bidault age 82
George Osborne age 10
William Hague age 20
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 32
Marcel Lefebvre age 75
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 35
Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland age 8
Craig Venter age 35
Francis Collins age 31
Yang Shangkun age 74
Christian Stocker age 21
Hubert Maga age 65
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 60
Kiril Petkov age 1
Sylvie Kinigi age 28
Hun Manet age 4
Jioji Konrote age 33
Paavo Lipponen age 40
Rose Christiane Raponda age 18
Mikheil Kavelashvili age 10
Alejandro Giammattei age 25
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 23
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 34
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 14
Piet de Jong age 66
Ramush Haradinaj age 13
Guntis Ulmanis age 42
Hassan Diab age 22
Gintautas Paluckas age 2
Lawrence Gonzi age 28
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 24
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 81
Mircea Snegur age 41
Dorin Recean age 7
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 23
Christopher Luxon age 11
Shaukat Aziz age 32
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 25
Marcel Ciolacu age 13
Andrei Belousov age 22
Sergei Stepashin age 29
Marjan Šarec age 3
Guy Parmelin age 21
Paula-Mae Weekes age 22
Najla Bouden age 23
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 59
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 21
Nicanor Duarte age 25
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) age 11
Jânio Quadros age 64
Ash Carter age 27
Sajid Javid age 11
Michel Aflaq age 71
Marsha P. Johnson age 36
Karl von Habsburg age 20
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 68
Mohammad Mokhber age 26
Michael Dukakis age 48
Dobrica Ćosić age 59
Ronald McNair age 31
Lawrence Eagleburger age 51
Dean Rusk age 72
Cyrus Vance age 64
Arturo Umberto Illia age 81
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 34
Arturo Frondizi age 73
William McMahon age 73
Lotay Tshering age 12
Joe Clark age 42
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 39
Luis Abinader age 14
Harri Holkeri age 44
Zurab Zhvania age 17
Efraín Ríos Montt age 55
László Kövér age 21
Kristján Eldjárn age 64
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 69
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 75
Henri Konan Bédié age 47
Māris Kučinskis age 19
Saulius Skvernelis age 11
Duško Marković age 23
Saadeddine Othmani age 25
Htin Kyaw age 35
Marcus Stephen age 12
Yakubu Gowon age 47
António José Seguro age 19
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 36
Mirko Cvetković age 31
Rudolf Schuster age 47
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 38
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 56
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 61
Michael Somare age 45
Mario Abdo Benítez age 9
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 17
Fuad II of Egypt age 29
Chuck Hagel age 35
Milka Planinc age 56
Günter Schabowski age 52
Wesley Clark age 36
Infanta Cristina of Spain age 16
John Kasich age 29
Peter Mandelson age 28
Chris Christie age 19
Elena Kagan age 21
John Ashcroft age 39
John Gorton age 70
César Gaviria age 34
José Figueres Ferrer age 75
Osvaldo Dorticós age 62
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 60
Mart Laar age 21
Péter Medgyessy age 39
Poul Schlüter age 52
Fouad Siniora age 38
Vlad Filat age 12
Diori Hamani age 65
Ilie Bolojan age 12
James Michel age 37
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 26
Anutin Charnvirakul age 15
Mesut Yılmaz age 33
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 54
Julio María Sanguinetti age 45
Iolu Abil age 39
Phạm Minh Chính age 22
Marek Belka age 29
Mireya Moscoso age 35
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 46
Michel Debré age 69
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 66
Margaret Chan age 34