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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
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
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Abelardo de la Espriella age 9 months
Ikililou Dhoinine age 16
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 52
Essam Sharaf age 27
Ahmed Nazif age 26
Antonio Saca age 14
José Mário Vaz age 21
David A. Granger age 33
Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani age 9
Bisher Al-Khasawneh age 10
Serik Akhmetov age 20
Älihan Smaiylov age 6
Tammam Salam age 34
Kazimira Prunskienė age 36
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 26
Guido de Marco age 47
Moktar Ould Daddah age 54
Marian Lupu age 12
Igor Lukšić age 2
Myint Swe age 27
Pedro Santana Lopes age 22
Ludovic Orban age 15
Sergei Kirienko age 16
Ralph Gonsalves age 32
Danny Faure age 17
Moritz Leuenberger age 32
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 27
Oqil Oqilov age 35
Somchai Wongsawat age 31
Yamandú Orsi age 11
Peter O'Neill age 14
Borjana Krišto age 17
Ante Marković age 54
James Cleverly age 9
David Paterson age 24
John Connally age 62
Merrick Garland age 26
Nandó dos Santos age 29
Baldwin Spencer age 30
Peter Cosgrove age 31
Tarique Rahman age 10
Freundel Stuart age 28
Syarhiey Sidorski age 25
Syarhei Rumas age 9
Nicéphore Soglo age 44
Eduardo Rodríguez age 23
Petar Mladenov age 42
Michel Micombero age 38
Belisario Betancur age 56
Juhan Parts age 12
Sitiveni Rabuka age 30
Kalevi Sorsa age 48
Nika Gilauri age 4
Óscar Berger age 32
Kumba Ialá age 26
Ivars Godmanis age 27
Amine Gemayel age 37
Joseph Boakai age 34
Boubou Cisse age 5
Christopher Loeak age 26
Mihai Ghimpu age 27
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 24
Dimitar Kovačevski age 4
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 28
Salam Fayyad age 27
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 22
Wavel Ramkalawan age 18
Devan Nair age 55
Surayud Chulanont age 35
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 35
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 37
Guy Scott age 34
Martín Torrijos age 15
Valentín Paniagua age 42
Ye Jianying age 82
Robert Zoellick age 25
Mark Esper age 15
Martin O'Malley age 16
Deval Patrick age 22
Souvanna Phouma age 77
Ellison Onizuka age 32
Eric Holder age 28
Abd al-Malek Selal age 30
Liamine Zéroual age 37
Karen Karapetyan age 15
Johnny Briceño age 18
Nikolai Denkov age 16
Khieu Samphan age 47
Abel Pacheco age 45
Tihomir Orešković age 13
Giorgos Vasiliou age 48
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 26
Charles Savarin age 35
León Febres-Cordero age 48
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema age 4
Vano Merabishvili age 11
Hilla Limann age 44
Vasiliki Thanou age 28
Moussa Dadis Camara age 14
Carmen Pereira age 42
Roberto Micheletti age 35
József Antall age 47
Ayad Allawi age 34
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro age 7
Marouf al-Bakhit age 32
Isa Mustafa age 28
Khamtai Siphandone age 55
Omar Karami age 44
Mahmoud Jibril age 26
Artūras Paulauskas age 25
David Kabua age 27
Nangolo Mbumba age 37
Ludwig Scotty age 30
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 26
Hristijan Mickoski age 1
Jan P. Syse age 48
Trygve Bratteli age 69
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 25
Miloš Vučević age 4
Wee Kim Wee age 63
Ignazio Cassis age 18
Carlos Vila Nova age 19
Rahmon Nabiyev age 48
Carlos Arias Navarro age 70
Trường Chinh age 72
Garret FitzGerald age 53
John Bruton age 31
Henry Paulson age 33
Larry Summers age 24
Michael Howard age 37
Scott Bessent age 16
Timothy Geithner age 17
Kwasi Kwarteng age 3
Mark Warner age 24
W. Averell Harriman age 87
Eliot Spitzer age 19
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 54
Akhtar Mansour age 11
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 37
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 49
David Thompson age 17
Viačasław Kiebič age 42
Mark Eyskens age 46
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 62
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 48
Rodrigo Paz age 11
Plamen Oresharski age 19
Elisabeth Domitien age 54
Michel Djotodia age 30
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 57
Jiří Rusnok age 18
Stanislav Gross age 9
Ahmed Shafik age 37
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 63
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 33
Christos Sartzetakis age 50
Boniface Alexandre age 42
Nasry Asfura age 20
Elias Hrawi age 52
Pakalitha Mosisili age 34
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 41
Pravind Jugnauth age 17
Jhala Nath Khanal age 28
Enrique Bolaños age 51
Mahamane Ousmane age 29
Vlado Bučkovski age 16
Surangel Whipps Jr. age 10
Radu Vasile age 36
Petre Roman age 32
Édouard Ngirente age 6
Aminata Touré age 16
Mame Madior Boye age 38
Manasseh Sogavare age 24
Thanom Kittikachorn age 67
Lương Cường age 21
Leszek Miller age 32
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 46
Ferruccio Parri age 89
Liam Cosgrave age 59
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 59
Vuk Drašković age 32
William Barr age 28
William J. Burns age 23
Wang Qishan age 30
James R. Schlesinger age 50
Ayman ibn Abd ar-Rahman age 12
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 60
Héctor José Cámpora age 70
Juan Carlos Onganía age 65
Hovik Abrahamyan age 21
Frank Forde age 88
David Hurley age 25
Viktor Klima age 31
Andrei Kobyakow age 18
Gaston Eyskens age 74
Duma Boko age 9
Michel Kafando age 36
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 24
Domitien Ndayizeye age 26
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 35