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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
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
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12

People

Irfaan Ali age 8
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 40
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 41
Davíð Oddsson age 40
Giovanni Spadolini age 63
Arnaldo Forlani age 63
Raila A Odinga age 43
Anote Tong age 36
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 48
Mohamed Muizzu age 10
Zinaida Greceanîi age 32
Aziz Akhannouch age 27
Armando Guebuza age 45
Farooq Leghari age 48
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 36
Emil Constantinescu age 49
Eduard Heger age 12
Evaristo Carvalho age 47
Abdulla Aripov age 27
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 62
Sōsuke Uno age 66
Jeremy Hunt age 22
Ri Sol-ju age 3
Michael Gove age 21
Gennady Yanayev age 51
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 48
Dean Barrow age 37
Pedro Pires age 54
Mahamat Déby age 4
Roosevelt Skerrit age 16
Sherif Ismail age 33
Geir Haarde age 37
Ephraim Katzir age 72
Giovanni Goria age 45
Asqar Mamin age 23
Rolandas Paksas age 32
Algirdas Butkevičius age 30
Gediminas Kirkilas age 37
Muhyiddin Yassin age 41
Milojko Spajić age 1
U Nu age 81
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 59
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 58
Dacian Cioloș age 19
Julius Maada Bio age 24
Vladimír Mečiar age 46
Ronald Venetiaan age 52
Karin Keller-Sutter age 24
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 32
Rafael Caldera age 72
Hanna Suchocka age 42
Federico Franco age 26
Fernando Belaúnde age 76
Abdalla Hamdok age 32
William Westmoreland age 74
George Osborne age 17
William Hague age 27
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 39
Marcel Lefebvre age 83
Eduardo Saverin age 6
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 42
Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland age 15
Craig Venter age 42
Francis Collins age 38
Christian Stocker age 28
Hubert Maga age 72
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 67
Kiril Petkov age 8
Sylvie Kinigi age 36
Hun Manet age 11
Jioji Konrote age 40
Paavo Lipponen age 47
Rose Christiane Raponda age 25
Mikheil Kavelashvili age 17
Alejandro Giammattei age 32
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 30
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 41
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 21
Piet de Jong age 73
Ramush Haradinaj age 20
Guntis Ulmanis age 49
Hassan Diab age 29
Gintautas Paluckas age 9
Lawrence Gonzi age 35
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 31
Mircea Snegur age 48
Dorin Recean age 14
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 30
Christopher Luxon age 18
Shaukat Aziz age 39
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 32
Marcel Ciolacu age 21
Andrei Belousov age 29
Sergei Stepashin age 36
Marjan Šarec age 11
Guy Parmelin age 29
Paula-Mae Weekes age 29
Najla Bouden age 30
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 66
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 28
Nicanor Duarte age 32
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) age 18
Nikolai Tikhonov age 83
Jânio Quadros age 71
Ash Carter age 34
Sajid Javid age 19
Michel Aflaq age 78
Marsha P. Johnson age 43
Karl von Habsburg age 27
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 75
Mohammad Mokhber age 33
Dobrica Ćosić age 66
Lawrence Eagleburger age 58
Dean Rusk age 79
Cyrus Vance age 71
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 41
Arturo Frondizi age 80
Lotay Tshering age 19
Joe Clark age 49
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 46
Luis Abinader age 21
Zurab Zhvania age 25
Efraín Ríos Montt age 62
László Kövér age 28
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 76
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 83
Henri Konan Bédié age 54
Māris Kučinskis age 27
Saulius Skvernelis age 18
Gaston Thorn age 60
Duško Marković age 30
Saadeddine Othmani age 32
Htin Kyaw age 42
Marcus Stephen age 19
Yakubu Gowon age 54
Shehu Shagari age 63
António José Seguro age 26
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 43
Mirko Cvetković age 38
Rudolf Schuster age 54
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 46
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 69
Michael Somare age 52
Mario Abdo Benítez age 17
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 24
Fuad II of Egypt age 36
Chuck Hagel age 42
Milka Planinc age 64
Günter Schabowski age 59
Wesley Clark age 43
Infanta Cristina of Spain age 23
John Kasich age 36
Peter Mandelson age 35
Chris Christie age 26
Elena Kagan age 28
John Ashcroft age 46
John Gorton age 77
César Gaviria age 41
José Figueres Ferrer age 82
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 67
Mart Laar age 28
Péter Medgyessy age 46
Fouad Siniora age 45
Vlad Filat age 19
Diori Hamani age 72
Ilie Bolojan age 19
James Michel age 44
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 33
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 62
Anutin Charnvirakul age 22
Mesut Yılmaz age 41
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 61
Iolu Abil age 46
Phạm Minh Chính age 30
Marek Belka age 36
Mireya Moscoso age 42
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 54
Michel Debré age 76
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 73
Margaret Chan age 41
Christine Kangaloo age 27
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 47
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 53
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 51
Zara Tindall age 7
Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland age 3
Ahmad Uyahya age 36
Antoni Martí age 25
Gaston Browne age 21
Leo Tindemans age 66
Tshering Tobgay age 23
Melchior Ndadaye age 35
Laura Fernández Delgado age 2
Carlos Alvarado Quesada age 8
Vladimír Špidla age 37
Antoine Gizenga age 63
Nicholas Liverpool age 54
Mamuka Bakhtadze age 6
Mamady Doumbouya age 4
Bharrat Jagdeo age 24