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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
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15

People

Julio María Sanguinetti age 44
Iolu Abil age 37
Phạm Minh Chính age 21
Marek Belka age 28
Mireya Moscoso age 33
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 45
Michel Debré age 68
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 64
Margaret Chan age 32
Claude Auchinleck age 95
Christine Kangaloo age 18
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 38
Frederica of Hanover age 62
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 44
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 43
Ahmad Uyahya age 27
Antoni Martí age 16
Gaston Browne age 12
Leo Tindemans age 57
Tshering Tobgay age 14
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 72
Melchior Ndadaye age 27
Carlos Alvarado Quesada age 0 months
Vladimír Špidla age 28
Antoine Gizenga age 54
Eugenia Charles age 60
Nicholas Liverpool age 45
Bharrat Jagdeo age 16
Mario Scelba age 78
Taneti Maamau age 19
Aigars Kalvītis age 13
Luc Frieden age 16
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih age 15
Abdelilah Benkirane age 25
Sushil Koirala age 40
Kåre Willoch age 51
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 21
Pascal Lissouba age 48
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 36
Nicolae Ciucă age 12
Adrian Năstase age 29
Michal Kováč age 49
Pascal Couchepin age 37
Wellington Koo age 92
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 18
James Marape age 8
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 20
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 127
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 92
Pierre Messmer age 63
Steven Mnuchin age 17
Sirhan Sirhan age 35
Biljana Plavšić age 49
Karl Rahner age 75
Paul Tibbets age 64
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 58
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 64
Prince Joachim of Denmark age 10
Janet Reno age 41
Pam Bondi age 14
Mohamed Boudiaf age 60
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 55
Quentin Bryce age 37
Salman bin Hamad, Crown Prince of Bahrain age 10
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 29
Hugo Banzer age 53
Nuon Chea age 53
Ange-Félix Patassé age 43
Glafcos Clerides age 60
Joaquín Balaguer age 73
Josefa Iloilo age 59
Esko Aho age 25
Sam Hinds age 36
Janet Jagan age 59
Abdul Latif Rashid age 35
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 38
Giuseppe Pella age 77
Andrew Holness age 7
Joop den Uyl age 60
Behgjet Pacolli age 28
Bakili Muluzi age 36
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 20
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 63
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 37
António de Spínola age 69
Sorin Grindeanu age 6
Florin Cîțu age 7
Milan Milutinović age 37
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 47
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 26
Ruth Dreifuss age 40
Fradique de Menezes age 37
Samak Sundaravej age 44
George Maxwell Richards age 48
Yurii Yekhanurov age 31
Juan María Bordaberry age 51
Baldwin Lonsdale age 31
Võ Văn Thưởng age 9
Laurentino Cortizo age 27
Santiago Peña Palacios age 1
Maurice Couve de Murville age 73
Pierre Bérégovoy age 54
Mark W. Clark age 83
B. J. Vorster age 64
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 74
Walter Hallstein age 78
Amber Rudd age 16
Margaret Beckett age 37
Kiko, Crown Princess of Japan age 13
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 83
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 73
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 47
Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo age 16
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 46
Kathy Hochul age 21
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 25
Andranik Margaryan age 28
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 50
Jigme Thinley age 27
Rosen Zhelyazkov age 11
Pierre Buyoya age 30
Jorge Alessandri age 83
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 25
Abelardo de la Espriella age 1
Ikililou Dhoinine age 17
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 53
Essam Sharaf age 28
Ahmed Nazif age 27
Antonio Saca age 14
José Mário Vaz age 22
David A. Granger age 34
András Baka age 27
Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani age 9
Bisher Al-Khasawneh age 10
Serik Akhmetov age 21
Älihan Smaiylov age 7
Tammam Salam age 34
Kazimira Prunskienė age 36
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 27
Guido de Marco age 48
Moktar Ould Daddah age 55
Marian Lupu age 13
Igor Lukšić age 3
Myint Swe age 28
Pedro Santana Lopes age 23
Ludovic Orban age 16
Sergei Kirienko age 17
Ralph Gonsalves age 33
Danny Faure age 17
Ola Ullsten age 48
Moritz Leuenberger age 33
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 27
Oqil Oqilov age 36
Somchai Wongsawat age 32
Yamandú Orsi age 12
Peter O'Neill age 14
Borjana Krišto age 18
Ante Marković age 55
James Cleverly age 10
James Earl Ray age 51
Bachir Gemayel age 32
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 34
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway age 8
David Paterson age 25
Özlem Türeci age 12
John Connally age 62
Merrick Garland age 27
Nandó dos Santos age 29
Baldwin Spencer age 31
Peter Cosgrove age 32
Tarique Rahman age 11
Freundel Stuart age 28
Syarhiey Sidorski age 25
Syarhei Rumas age 10
Nicéphore Soglo age 45
Eduardo Rodríguez age 23
Petar Mladenov age 43
Michel Micombero age 39
Belisario Betancur age 57
Juhan Parts age 13
Sitiveni Rabuka age 31
Kalevi Sorsa age 49
Nika Gilauri age 4
Óscar Berger age 33
Kumba Ialá age 26
Ivars Godmanis age 28
Amine Gemayel age 38
Joseph Boakai age 35
Boubou Cisse age 6
Christopher Loeak age 27
Mihai Ghimpu age 28
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 25
Dimitar Kovačevski age 5
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 29
Salam Fayyad age 27
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 22
Wavel Ramkalawan age 18
Devan Nair age 56
Surayud Chulanont age 36
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 36