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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
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
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Iran–Contra affair 1985-08-20 - 1987-03-04

People

Sergey Stanishev age 19
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 17
Patricio Aylwin age 66
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 30
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 67
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 26
Irfaan Ali age 5
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 37
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 38
Davíð Oddsson age 37
Giovanni Spadolini age 60
Arnaldo Forlani age 59
Raila A Odinga age 40
Anote Tong age 33
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 45
Mohamed Muizzu age 7
Zinaida Greceanîi age 29
Aziz Akhannouch age 24
Armando Guebuza age 42
Einar Gerhardsen age 88
Farooq Leghari age 45
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 33
Emil Constantinescu age 45
Eduard Heger age 9
Evaristo Carvalho age 44
Abdulla Aripov age 24
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 59
Sōsuke Uno age 63
Jeremy Hunt age 19
Ri Sol-ju age 10 months
Michael Gove age 18
Gennady Yanayev age 48
Franz Vranitzky age 48
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 45
Dean Barrow age 34
Pedro Pires age 51
Mahamat Déby age 1
Roosevelt Skerrit age 13
Sherif Ismail age 30
Geir Haarde age 34
Ephraim Katzir age 69
Giovanni Goria age 42
Asqar Mamin age 20
Rolandas Paksas age 29
Algirdas Butkevičius age 26
Gediminas Kirkilas age 34
Muhyiddin Yassin age 38
Eddie Fenech Adami age 51
U Nu age 78
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 56
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 55
Dacian Cioloș age 16
Julius Maada Bio age 21
Vladimír Mečiar age 43
Ronald Venetiaan age 49
Karin Keller-Sutter age 21
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 29
Rafael Caldera age 69
Hanna Suchocka age 39
Federico Franco age 23
Fernando Belaúnde age 73
Abdalla Hamdok age 29
Takeo Miki age 78
William Westmoreland age 71
George Osborne age 14
William Hague age 24
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 36
Marcel Lefebvre age 79
Eduardo Saverin age 3
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 39
Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland age 12
Craig Venter age 39
Francis Collins age 35
Yang Shangkun age 78
Christian Stocker age 25
Hubert Maga age 69
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 64
Kiril Petkov age 5
Sylvie Kinigi age 32
Hun Manet age 8
Jioji Konrote age 37
Paavo Lipponen age 44
Rose Christiane Raponda age 22
Mikheil Kavelashvili age 14
Alejandro Giammattei age 29
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 27
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 38
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 18
Piet de Jong age 70
Ramush Haradinaj age 17
Guntis Ulmanis age 46
Hassan Diab age 26
Gintautas Paluckas age 6
Lawrence Gonzi age 32
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 28
Mircea Snegur age 45
Dorin Recean age 11
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 27
Christopher Luxon age 15
Shaukat Aziz age 36
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 29
Marcel Ciolacu age 17
Andrei Belousov age 26
Sergei Stepashin age 33
Marjan Šarec age 7
Guy Parmelin age 25
Paula-Mae Weekes age 26
Najla Bouden age 27
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 63
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 25
Nicanor Duarte age 29
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) age 15
Nikolai Tikhonov age 80
Jânio Quadros age 68
Ash Carter age 31
Sajid Javid age 15
Michel Aflaq age 75
Marsha P. Johnson age 40
Karl von Habsburg age 24
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 72
Mohammad Mokhber age 30
Dobrica Ćosić age 63
Ronald McNair age 35
Lawrence Eagleburger age 55
Dean Rusk age 76
Cyrus Vance age 68
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 38
Arturo Frondizi age 77
William McMahon age 77
Lotay Tshering age 16
Joe Clark age 46
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 43
Luis Abinader age 18
Harri Holkeri age 48
Zurab Zhvania age 21
Efraín Ríos Montt age 59
László Kövér age 25
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 73
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 79
Henri Konan Bédié age 51
Māris Kučinskis age 23
Saulius Skvernelis age 15
Gaston Thorn age 57
Duško Marković age 27
Saadeddine Othmani age 29
Htin Kyaw age 39
Marcus Stephen age 16
Yakubu Gowon age 51
Shehu Shagari age 60
António José Seguro age 23
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 40
Mirko Cvetković age 35
Rudolf Schuster age 51
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 42
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 60
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 65
Mario Abdo Benítez age 13
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 21
Fuad II of Egypt age 33
Chuck Hagel age 39
Günter Schabowski age 56
Wesley Clark age 40
Infanta Cristina of Spain age 20
John Kasich age 33
Peter Mandelson age 32
Chris Christie age 23
Elena Kagan age 25
John Ashcroft age 43
John Gorton age 74
César Gaviria age 38
José Figueres Ferrer age 79
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 64
Mart Laar age 25
Péter Medgyessy age 43
Fouad Siniora age 42
Vlad Filat age 16
Diori Hamani age 69
Ilie Bolojan age 16
James Michel age 41
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 30
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 59
Anutin Charnvirakul age 19
Mesut Yılmaz age 38
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 58
Iolu Abil age 43
Phạm Minh Chính age 26
Marek Belka age 33
Mireya Moscoso age 39
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 50
Michel Debré age 73
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 70
Margaret Chan age 38
Christine Kangaloo age 23
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 43
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 50
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 48
Zara Tindall age 4
Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland age 10 months
Ahmad Uyahya age 33
Antoni Martí age 22