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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
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
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

Thorbjörn Fälldin age 53
Anutin Charnvirakul age 12
Mesut Yılmaz age 31
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 51
Julio María Sanguinetti age 43
Iolu Abil age 37
Phạm Minh Chính age 20
Marek Belka age 27
Mireya Moscoso age 32
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 44
Michel Debré age 67
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 64
Margaret Chan age 31
Claude Auchinleck age 94
Christine Kangaloo age 17
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 37
Frederica of Hanover age 62
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 43
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 42
Ahmad Uyahya age 26
Antoni Martí age 15
Gaston Browne age 12
Leo Tindemans age 57
Tshering Tobgay age 13
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 71
Melchior Ndadaye age 26
Vladimír Špidla age 28
Antoine Gizenga age 53
Eugenia Charles age 60
Nicholas Liverpool age 44
Bharrat Jagdeo age 15
Mario Scelba age 77
Taneti Maamau age 18
Aigars Kalvītis age 12
Luc Frieden age 15
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih age 15
Abdelilah Benkirane age 25
Sushil Koirala age 39
Kåre Willoch age 50
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 20
Pascal Lissouba age 47
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 35
Nicolae Ciucă age 12
Adrian Năstase age 28
Michal Kováč age 48
Pascal Couchepin age 37
Wellington Koo age 91
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 18
James Marape age 8
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 19
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 126
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 91
Pierre Messmer age 63
Steven Mnuchin age 16
Sirhan Sirhan age 35
Biljana Plavšić age 48
Karl Rahner age 75
Paul Tibbets age 64
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 58
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 63
Prince Joachim of Denmark age 9
Janet Reno age 40
Pam Bondi age 13
Mohamed Boudiaf age 59
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 54
Quentin Bryce age 36
Salman bin Hamad, Crown Prince of Bahrain age 9
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 29
Hugo Banzer age 53
Nuon Chea age 52
Ange-Félix Patassé age 42
Glafcos Clerides age 60
Joaquín Balaguer age 72
Josefa Iloilo age 58
Esko Aho age 25
Sam Hinds age 35
Janet Jagan age 58
Abdul Latif Rashid age 34
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 37
Giuseppe Pella age 77
Andrew Holness age 6
Joop den Uyl age 59
Behgjet Pacolli age 27
Bakili Muluzi age 36
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 19
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 62
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 36
António de Spínola age 69
Sorin Grindeanu age 5
Florin Cîțu age 7
Milan Milutinović age 36
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 47
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 25
Ruth Dreifuss age 39
Fradique de Menezes age 37
Samak Sundaravej age 43
George Maxwell Richards age 47
Yurii Yekhanurov age 30
Juan María Bordaberry age 50
Baldwin Lonsdale age 30
Võ Văn Thưởng age 8
Laurentino Cortizo age 26
Santiago Peña Palacios age 5 months
Maurice Couve de Murville age 72
Pierre Bérégovoy age 53
Mark W. Clark age 83
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 73
Walter Hallstein age 77
Amber Rudd age 15
Margaret Beckett age 36
Kiko, Crown Princess of Japan age 12
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 83
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 72
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 47
Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo age 15
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 46
Kathy Hochul age 20
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 25
Andranik Margaryan age 27
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 49
Jigme Thinley age 26
Rosen Zhelyazkov age 11
Pierre Buyoya age 29
Jorge Alessandri age 83
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 24
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
András Baka age 26
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
James Earl Ray age 51
Bachir Gemayel age 31
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 33
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway age 7
David Paterson age 25
Özlem Türeci age 12
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