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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
Surinamese Civil War 1986-07-22 - 1992-08-08
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12

People

Patricio Aylwin age 69
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 33
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 69
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 28
Irfaan Ali age 7
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 40
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 40
Davíð Oddsson age 40
Giovanni Spadolini age 62
Arnaldo Forlani age 62
Raila A Odinga age 43
Anote Tong age 35
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 47
Mohamed Muizzu age 9
Zinaida Greceanîi age 32
Aziz Akhannouch age 26
Armando Guebuza age 45
Farooq Leghari age 47
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 36
Emil Constantinescu age 48
Eduard Heger age 11
Evaristo Carvalho age 46
Abdulla Aripov age 26
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 61
Sōsuke Uno age 65
Jeremy Hunt age 21
Ri Sol-ju age 3
Michael Gove age 20
Gennady Yanayev age 50
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 47
Dean Barrow age 37
Pedro Pires age 53
Mahamat Déby age 3
Roosevelt Skerrit age 15
Sherif Ismail age 32
Geir Haarde age 36
Ephraim Katzir age 71
Asqar Mamin age 22
Rolandas Paksas age 31
Algirdas Butkevičius age 29
Gediminas Kirkilas age 36
Muhyiddin Yassin age 40
Milojko Spajić age 5 months
U Nu age 80
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 58
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 58
Dacian Cioloș age 18
Julius Maada Bio age 23
Vladimír Mečiar age 45
Ronald Venetiaan age 51
Karin Keller-Sutter age 24
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 31
Rafael Caldera age 72
Hanna Suchocka age 41
Federico Franco age 25
Fernando Belaúnde age 75
Abdalla Hamdok age 32
Takeo Miki age 81
William Westmoreland age 73
George Osborne age 16
William Hague age 26
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 38
Marcel Lefebvre age 82
Eduardo Saverin age 5
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 41
Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland age 14
Craig Venter age 41
Francis Collins age 37
Yang Shangkun age 80
Christian Stocker age 27
Hubert Maga age 71
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 66
Kiril Petkov age 7
Sylvie Kinigi age 35
Hun Manet age 10
Jioji Konrote age 40
Paavo Lipponen age 46
Rose Christiane Raponda age 24
Mikheil Kavelashvili age 16
Alejandro Giammattei age 31
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 29
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 40
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 20
Piet de Jong age 72
Ramush Haradinaj age 19
Guntis Ulmanis age 48
Hassan Diab age 28
Gintautas Paluckas age 8
Lawrence Gonzi age 34
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 31
Mircea Snegur age 48
Dorin Recean age 13
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 29
Christopher Luxon age 17
Shaukat Aziz age 39
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 32
Marcel Ciolacu age 20
Andrei Belousov age 28
Sergei Stepashin age 36
Marjan Šarec age 10
Guy Parmelin age 28
Paula-Mae Weekes age 29
Najla Bouden age 29
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 65
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 28
Nicanor Duarte age 31
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) age 18
Nikolai Tikhonov age 82
Jânio Quadros age 71
Ash Carter age 33
Sajid Javid age 18
Michel Aflaq age 78
Marsha P. Johnson age 42
Karl von Habsburg age 27
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 74
Mohammad Mokhber age 32
Dobrica Ćosić age 66
Lawrence Eagleburger age 57
Dean Rusk age 79
Cyrus Vance age 70
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 40
Arturo Frondizi age 79
William McMahon age 80
Lotay Tshering age 18
Joe Clark age 48
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 45
Luis Abinader age 20
Zurab Zhvania age 24
Efraín Ríos Montt age 61
László Kövér age 28
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 75
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 82
Henri Konan Bédié age 53
Māris Kučinskis age 26
Saulius Skvernelis age 17
Gaston Thorn age 59
Duško Marković age 29
Saadeddine Othmani age 32
Htin Kyaw age 41
Marcus Stephen age 18
Yakubu Gowon age 53
Shehu Shagari age 63
António José Seguro age 25
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 42
Mirko Cvetković age 37
Rudolf Schuster age 54
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 45
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 68
Michael Somare age 51
Mario Abdo Benítez age 16
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 23
Fuad II of Egypt age 36
Chuck Hagel age 41
Milka Planinc age 63
Günter Schabowski age 59
Wesley Clark age 43
Infanta Cristina of Spain age 22
John Kasich age 35
Peter Mandelson age 34
Chris Christie age 25
Elena Kagan age 27
John Ashcroft age 45
John Gorton age 76
César Gaviria age 40
José Figueres Ferrer age 81
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 66
Mart Laar age 27
Péter Medgyessy age 45
Fouad Siniora age 44
Vlad Filat age 18
Diori Hamani age 71
Ilie Bolojan age 18
James Michel age 43
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 33
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 61
Anutin Charnvirakul age 21
Mesut Yılmaz age 40
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 60
Iolu Abil age 46
Phạm Minh Chính age 29
Marek Belka age 36
Mireya Moscoso age 41
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 53
Michel Debré age 76
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 73
Margaret Chan age 40
Christine Kangaloo age 26
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 46
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 52
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 51
Zara Tindall age 6
Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland age 3
Ahmad Uyahya age 35
Antoni Martí age 24
Gaston Browne age 21
Leo Tindemans age 65
Tshering Tobgay age 22
Melchior Ndadaye age 35
Laura Fernández Delgado age 1
Carlos Alvarado Quesada age 8