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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
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
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
Salvadoran Civil War 1979-10-15 - 1992-01-16
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
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
Bougainville conflict 1988-12-01 - 1998-04-20
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12

People

Carlos Mesa age 37
Petar Stoyanov age 38
Sergey Stanishev age 25
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 22
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 36
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 31
Irfaan Ali age 11
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 43
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 43
Giovanni Spadolini age 65
Arnaldo Forlani age 65
Raila A Odinga age 46
Anote Tong age 38
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 50
Mohamed Muizzu age 12
Zinaida Greceanîi age 35
Aziz Akhannouch age 29
Armando Guebuza age 48
Farooq Leghari age 50
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 39
Emil Constantinescu age 51
Eduard Heger age 15
Evaristo Carvalho age 49
Abdulla Aripov age 29
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 65
Sōsuke Uno age 68
Jeremy Hunt age 24
Ri Sol-ju age 6
Michael Gove age 23
Gennady Yanayev age 53
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 50
Dean Barrow age 40
Aristides Pereira age 67
Pedro Pires age 57
Mahamat Déby age 7
Roosevelt Skerrit age 18
Sherif Ismail age 35
Geir Haarde age 40
Ephraim Katzir age 75
Giovanni Goria age 47
Asqar Mamin age 25
Rolandas Paksas age 34
Algirdas Butkevičius age 32
Gediminas Kirkilas age 39
Muhyiddin Yassin age 44
Moussa Traoré age 54
Milojko Spajić age 3
U Nu age 84
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 61
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 61
Dacian Cioloș age 21
Julius Maada Bio age 27
Vladimír Mečiar age 48
Ronald Venetiaan age 54
Karin Keller-Sutter age 27
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 35
Rafael Caldera age 75
Hanna Suchocka age 45
Federico Franco age 28
Fernando Belaúnde age 78
Abdalla Hamdok age 35
William Westmoreland age 77
George Osborne age 19
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 41
Eduardo Saverin age 9
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 44
Princess Eugenie age 1
Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland age 17
Craig Venter age 44
Francis Collins age 41
Christian Stocker age 31
Hubert Maga age 74
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 69
Kiril Petkov age 11
Sylvie Kinigi age 38
Hun Manet age 13
Jioji Konrote age 43
Paavo Lipponen age 50
Rose Christiane Raponda age 27
Mikheil Kavelashvili age 19
Alejandro Giammattei age 35
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 32
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 44
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 23
Piet de Jong age 76
Ramush Haradinaj age 22
Guntis Ulmanis age 51
Hassan Diab age 31
Gintautas Paluckas age 11
Lawrence Gonzi age 37
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 34
Dorin Recean age 17
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 32
Christopher Luxon age 20
Shaukat Aziz age 42
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 35
Marcel Ciolacu age 23
Andrei Belousov age 32
Sergei Stepashin age 39
Marjan Šarec age 13
Guy Parmelin age 31
Paula-Mae Weekes age 32
Najla Bouden age 32
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 31
Nicanor Duarte age 34
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) age 21
Nikolai Tikhonov age 86
Jânio Quadros age 74
Ash Carter age 36
Sajid Javid age 21
Marsha P. Johnson age 45
Karl von Habsburg age 30
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 77
Mohammad Mokhber age 35
Michael Dukakis age 57
Dobrica Ćosić age 69
Lawrence Eagleburger age 60
Dean Rusk age 82
Cyrus Vance age 74
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 43
Arturo Frondizi age 82
Lotay Tshering age 22
Joe Clark age 51
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 48
Luis Abinader age 23
Harri Holkeri age 54
Zurab Zhvania age 27
Efraín Ríos Montt age 64
László Kövér age 31
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 78
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 85
Henri Konan Bédié age 57
Māris Kučinskis age 29
Saulius Skvernelis age 20
Gaston Thorn age 62
Duško Marković age 32
Saadeddine Othmani age 35
Htin Kyaw age 44
Marcus Stephen age 21
Yakubu Gowon age 56
Shehu Shagari age 66
António José Seguro age 29
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 46
Mirko Cvetković age 40
Rudolf Schuster age 57
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 48
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 71
Michael Somare age 55
Mario Abdo Benítez age 19
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 26
Fuad II of Egypt age 39
Chuck Hagel age 44
Milka Planinc age 66
Günter Schabowski age 62
Wesley Clark age 46
Infanta Cristina of Spain age 25
John Kasich age 39
Peter Mandelson age 37
Chris Christie age 28
Elena Kagan age 31
John Ashcroft age 49
John Gorton age 79
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 69
Mart Laar age 31
Péter Medgyessy age 48
Fouad Siniora age 47
Vlad Filat age 22
Balendra Shah age 1
Ilie Bolojan age 22
James Michel age 46
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 36
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 65
Anutin Charnvirakul age 24
Mesut Yılmaz age 43
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 63
Julio María Sanguinetti age 55
Iolu Abil age 49
Phạm Minh Chính age 32
Marek Belka age 39
Mireya Moscoso age 44
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 56
Michel Debré age 79
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 76
Margaret Chan age 43
Christine Kangaloo age 29
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 49
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 55
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 54
Zara Tindall age 9
Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland age 6
Ahmad Uyahya age 38
Antoni Martí age 27
Gaston Browne age 24
Leo Tindemans age 69
Tshering Tobgay age 25
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 83
Melchior Ndadaye age 38
Laura Fernández Delgado age 4
Carlos Alvarado Quesada age 11
Vladimír Špidla age 40