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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
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
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
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11

People

Mesut Yılmaz age 30
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 50
Julio María Sanguinetti age 42
Iolu Abil age 35
Phạm Minh Chính age 19
Marek Belka age 26
Mireya Moscoso age 31
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 43
Michel Debré age 66
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 62
Margaret Chan age 30
Claude Auchinleck age 93
Christine Kangaloo age 16
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 36
Frederica of Hanover age 60
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 42
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 41
Ahmad Uyahya age 25
Antoni Martí age 14
Gaston Browne age 10
Tshering Tobgay age 12
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 70
Melchior Ndadaye age 25
Vladimír Špidla age 26
Antoine Gizenga age 52
Eugenia Charles age 58
Nicholas Liverpool age 43
Bharrat Jagdeo age 14
Mario Scelba age 76
Taneti Maamau age 17
Aigars Kalvītis age 11
Luc Frieden age 14
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih age 13
Abdelilah Benkirane age 23
Sushil Koirala age 38
Kåre Willoch age 49
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 19
Pascal Lissouba age 46
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 34
Nicolae Ciucă age 11
Adrian Năstase age 27
Michal Kováč age 47
Pascal Couchepin age 35
Wellington Koo age 90
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 16
James Marape age 6
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 18
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 125
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 90
Tetsu Katayama age 90
Pierre Messmer age 61
Steven Mnuchin age 15
Sirhan Sirhan age 33
Biljana Plavšić age 47
Karl Rahner age 73
Paul Tibbets age 62
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 56
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 62
Prince Joachim of Denmark age 8
Janet Reno age 39
Pam Bondi age 12
Mohamed Boudiaf age 58
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 53
Quentin Bryce age 35
Salman bin Hamad, Crown Prince of Bahrain age 8
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 27
Nuon Chea age 51
Glafcos Clerides age 58
Josefa Iloilo age 57
Esko Aho age 23
Sam Hinds age 34
Janet Jagan age 57
Abdul Latif Rashid age 33
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 36
Giuseppe Pella age 75
Andrew Holness age 5
Joop den Uyl age 58
Behgjet Pacolli age 26
Bakili Muluzi age 34
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 18
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 61
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 35
António de Spínola age 67
Sorin Grindeanu age 4
Florin Cîțu age 5
Milan Milutinović age 35
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 46
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 24
Ruth Dreifuss age 38
Fradique de Menezes age 35
Samak Sundaravej age 42
George Maxwell Richards age 46
Yurii Yekhanurov age 29
Juan María Bordaberry age 49
Baldwin Lonsdale age 29
Võ Văn Thưởng age 7
Laurentino Cortizo age 25
Maurice Couve de Murville age 71
Pierre Bérégovoy age 52
Mark W. Clark age 81
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 72
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 31
Walter Hallstein age 76
Amber Rudd age 14
Kiko, Crown Princess of Japan age 11
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 81
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 71
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 46
Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo age 14
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 44
Kathy Hochul age 19
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 23
Andranik Margaryan age 26
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 48
Jigme Thinley age 25
Rosen Zhelyazkov age 9
Pierre Buyoya age 28
Jorge Alessandri age 81
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 23
Ikililou Dhoinine age 15
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 51
Essam Sharaf age 26
Ahmed Nazif age 25
Antonio Saca age 12
José Mário Vaz age 20
David A. Granger age 32
András Baka age 25
Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani age 7
Bisher Al-Khasawneh age 9
Serik Akhmetov age 19
Älihan Smaiylov age 5
Tammam Salam age 32
Kazimira Prunskienė age 34
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 25
Guido de Marco age 46
Marian Lupu age 11
Igor Lukšić age 1
Myint Swe age 26
Pedro Santana Lopes age 21
Ludovic Orban age 14
Sergei Kirienko age 15
Ralph Gonsalves age 31
Danny Faure age 15
Ola Ullsten age 46
Moritz Leuenberger age 31
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 25
Oqil Oqilov age 34
Somchai Wongsawat age 30
Yamandú Orsi age 10
Peter O'Neill age 12
Borjana Krišto age 16
Ante Marković age 53
James Cleverly age 8
James Earl Ray age 49
Bachir Gemayel age 30
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 32
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway age 6
David Paterson age 23
Özlem Türeci age 10
John Connally age 60
Merrick Garland age 25
Nandó dos Santos age 27
Baldwin Spencer age 29
Peter Cosgrove age 30
Tarique Rahman age 9
Freundel Stuart age 26
Syarhiey Sidorski age 23
Syarhei Rumas age 8
Nicéphore Soglo age 43
Eduardo Rodríguez age 21
Petar Mladenov age 41
Michel Micombero age 37
Belisario Betancur age 55
Juhan Parts age 11
Sitiveni Rabuka age 29
Nika Gilauri age 2
Óscar Berger age 31
Kumba Ialá age 24
Ivars Godmanis age 26
Amine Gemayel age 36
Joseph Boakai age 33
Boubou Cisse age 4
Christopher Loeak age 25
Mihai Ghimpu age 26
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 23
Dimitar Kovačevski age 3
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 27
Salam Fayyad age 25
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 20
Wavel Ramkalawan age 16
Devan Nair age 54
Surayud Chulanont age 34
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 34
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 36
Guy Scott age 33
Martín Torrijos age 14
Valentín Paniagua age 41
Ye Jianying age 80
Robert Zoellick age 24
Jack Straw age 31