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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
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
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11

People

Juhan Parts age 11
Sitiveni Rabuka age 29
Nika Gilauri age 3
Óscar Berger age 31
Kumba Ialá age 25
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 4
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 27
Salam Fayyad age 26
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 21
Wavel Ramkalawan age 17
Devan Nair age 55
Surayud Chulanont age 34
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 34
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 37
Guy Scott age 34
Martín Torrijos age 15
Valentín Paniagua age 41
Ye Jianying age 81
Robert Zoellick age 25
Jack Straw age 32
Mark Esper age 14
Souvanna Phouma age 76
Ellison Onizuka age 32
Eric Holder age 27
Abd al-Malek Selal age 30
Liamine Zéroual age 37
Karen Karapetyan age 14
Johnny Briceño age 18
Nikolai Denkov age 15
Khieu Samphan age 47
Abel Pacheco age 44
Tihomir Orešković age 12
Giorgos Vasiliou age 47
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 26
Charles Savarin age 34
León Febres-Cordero age 47
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema age 3
Vano Merabishvili age 10
Hilla Limann age 43
Vasiliki Thanou age 27
Moussa Dadis Camara age 13
Carmen Pereira age 41
Roberto Micheletti age 34
József Antall age 46
Ayad Allawi age 34
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro age 6
Marouf al-Bakhit age 31
Isa Mustafa age 27
Khamtai Siphandone age 54
Omar Karami age 43
Mahmoud Jibril age 26
Artūras Paulauskas age 24
David Kabua age 27
Nangolo Mbumba age 36
Ludwig Scotty age 30
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 25
Hristijan Mickoski age 10 months
Jan P. Syse age 47
Trygve Bratteli age 68
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 25
Miloš Vučević age 3
Wee Kim Wee age 62
Ignazio Cassis age 17
Carlos Vila Nova age 19
Rahmon Nabiyev age 47
Carlos Arias Navarro age 69
Trường Chinh age 71
Garret FitzGerald age 52
John Bruton age 31
Henry Paulson age 32
Larry Summers age 23
Michael Howard age 37
Scott Bessent age 15
Timothy Geithner age 16
Kwasi Kwarteng age 3
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 53
Akhtar Mansour age 10
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 36
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 48
David Thompson age 16
Viačasław Kiebič age 42
Mark Eyskens age 45
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 61
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 48
Rodrigo Paz age 10
Plamen Oresharski age 18
Elisabeth Domitien age 53
Michel Djotodia age 29
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 56
Jiří Rusnok age 17
Stanislav Gross age 8
Ahmed Shafik age 36
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 62
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 33
Christos Sartzetakis age 49
Boniface Alexandre age 42
Nasry Asfura age 20
Elias Hrawi age 51
Pakalitha Mosisili age 33
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 40
Pravind Jugnauth age 16
Emilio Portes Gil age 87
Jhala Nath Khanal age 28
Enrique Bolaños age 50
Mahamane Ousmane age 28
Vlado Bučkovski age 15
Surangel Whipps Jr. age 9
Radu Vasile age 35
Petre Roman age 32
Édouard Ngirente age 5
Aminata Touré age 15
Mame Madior Boye age 37
Manasseh Sogavare age 23
Thanom Kittikachorn age 67
Lương Cường age 20
Leszek Miller age 32
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 45
Ferruccio Parri age 88
Liam Cosgrave age 58
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 59
Vuk Drašković age 31
William Barr age 28
William J. Burns age 22
Wang Qishan age 30
James R. Schlesinger age 49
Ayman ibn Abd ar-Rahman age 11
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 59
Héctor José Cámpora age 69
Juan Carlos Onganía age 64
Hovik Abrahamyan age 20
Frank Forde age 88
David Hurley age 24
Viktor Klima age 31
Andrei Kobyakow age 17
Gaston Eyskens age 73
Duma Boko age 8
Michel Kafando age 35
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 23
Domitien Ndayizeye age 25
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 34
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 79
Ernesto Samper age 28
Judith Suminwa age 10
Juan Bosch age 69
Gustavo Noboa age 40
Zurab Noghaideli age 13
Keith Mitchell age 31
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 32
Ariel Henry age 28
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson age 16
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 31
Pierre Werner age 64
Albert Zafy age 51
Christian Ntsay age 17
Anthony Mamo age 69
Amata Kabua age 49
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 36
Navin Ramgoolam age 31
Petru Lucinschi age 38
Ion Chicu age 6
Pavel Filip age 12
Momir Bulatović age 21
Abbas El Fassi age 37
Baburam Bhattarai age 24
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 53
David Lange age 36
Radmila Šekerinska age 6
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 27
Johnson Toribiong age 32
Rami Hamdallah age 19
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 44
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 75
Philip J. Pierre age 23
Su Tseng-chang age 31
Hubert Minnis age 24
Keith Rowley age 28
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 64
Le Duc Anh age 57
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 67
José Raúl Mulino age 19
Ibrahim Abboud age 77
Manfred Wörner age 43
Alberto Gonzales age 23
Yvette Cooper age 9
Vladimir Ivashko age 45
David Souter age 38
William P. Rogers age 65
Vazgen Sargsyan age 19
Owen Arthur age 28
André Kolingba age 41
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 20
Rodrigo Chaves age 17
Manuel Marrero Cruz age 15