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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
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000

People

Salvador Jorge Blanco age 54
Essam Sharaf age 28
Ahmed Nazif age 28
Antonio Saca age 15
José Mário Vaz age 22
David A. Granger age 35
Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani age 10
Bisher Al-Khasawneh age 11
Serik Akhmetov age 22
Älihan Smaiylov age 7
Tammam Salam age 35
Kazimira Prunskienė age 37
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 27
Guido de Marco age 49
Moktar Ould Daddah age 55
Marian Lupu age 14
Igor Lukšić age 4
Myint Swe age 29
Pedro Santana Lopes age 24
Ludovic Orban age 17
Sergei Kirienko age 18
Ralph Gonsalves age 34
Danny Faure age 18
Ola Ullsten age 49
Moritz Leuenberger age 33
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 28
Oqil Oqilov age 36
Somchai Wongsawat age 32
Yamandú Orsi age 13
Peter O'Neill age 15
Borjana Krišto age 19
Ante Marković age 55
James Cleverly age 10
David Paterson age 26
John Connally age 63
Merrick Garland age 27
Nandó dos Santos age 30
Baldwin Spencer age 31
Peter Cosgrove age 33
Tarique Rahman age 11
Freundel Stuart age 29
Syarhiey Sidorski age 26
Syarhei Rumas age 10
Nicéphore Soglo age 45
Eduardo Rodríguez age 24
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 5
Óscar Berger age 34
Kumba Ialá age 27
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 6
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 29
Salam Fayyad age 28
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 23
Wavel Ramkalawan age 19
Devan Nair age 57
Surayud Chulanont age 36
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 37
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 39
Guy Scott age 36
Martín Torrijos age 17
Valentín Paniagua age 43
Ye Jianying age 83
Robert Zoellick age 27
Mark Esper age 16
Martin O'Malley age 17
Deval Patrick age 24
Souvanna Phouma age 78
Ellison Onizuka age 34
Eric Holder age 29
Abd al-Malek Selal age 32
Liamine Zéroual age 39
Karen Karapetyan age 17
Johnny Briceño age 20
Nikolai Denkov age 17
Khieu Samphan age 49
Abel Pacheco age 46
Tihomir Orešković age 14
Giorgos Vasiliou age 49
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 28
Charles Savarin age 36
León Febres-Cordero age 49
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema age 5
Vano Merabishvili age 12
Vasiliki Thanou age 29
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 81
Moussa Dadis Camara age 15
Carmen Pereira age 43
Roberto Micheletti age 37
József Antall age 48
Ayad Allawi age 36
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro age 8
Marouf al-Bakhit age 33
Isa Mustafa age 29
Khamtai Siphandone age 56
Omar Karami age 45
Mahmoud Jibril age 28
Artūras Paulauskas age 26
David Kabua age 29
Nangolo Mbumba age 39
Ludwig Scotty age 32
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 27
Hristijan Mickoski age 2
Jan P. Syse age 49
Trygve Bratteli age 70
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 27
Miloš Vučević age 5
Wee Kim Wee age 64
Ignazio Cassis age 19
Carlos Vila Nova age 21
Rahmon Nabiyev age 49
Carlos Arias Navarro age 71
Trường Chinh age 73
Garret FitzGerald age 54
John Bruton age 33
Henry Paulson age 34
Larry Summers age 25
Michael Howard age 39
Scott Bessent age 17
Timothy Geithner age 18
Kwasi Kwarteng age 5
Mark Warner age 25
W. Averell Harriman age 88
Eliot Spitzer age 21
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 55
Akhtar Mansour age 12
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 38
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 50
David Thompson age 18
Viačasław Kiebič age 44
Mark Eyskens age 47
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 63
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 50
Rodrigo Paz age 12
Plamen Oresharski age 20
Elisabeth Domitien age 55
Michel Djotodia age 31
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 58
Jiří Rusnok age 19
Stanislav Gross age 10
Ahmed Shafik age 38
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 65
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 35
Christos Sartzetakis age 51
Boniface Alexandre age 44
Nasry Asfura age 22
Elias Hrawi age 53
Pakalitha Mosisili age 35
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 42
Pravind Jugnauth age 18
Jhala Nath Khanal age 30
Enrique Bolaños age 52
Mahamane Ousmane age 30
Vlado Bučkovski age 17
Surangel Whipps Jr. age 12
Radu Vasile age 37
Petre Roman age 34
Édouard Ngirente age 7
Aminata Touré age 17
Mame Madior Boye age 39
Manasseh Sogavare age 25
Thanom Kittikachorn age 69
Lương Cường age 23
Leszek Miller age 34
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 58
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 47
Ferruccio Parri age 90
Liam Cosgrave age 60
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 61
Vuk Drašković age 33
William Barr age 30
William J. Burns age 24
Wang Qishan age 32
James R. Schlesinger age 51
Ayman ibn Abd ar-Rahman age 13
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 61
Héctor José Cámpora age 71
Juan Carlos Onganía age 66
Hovik Abrahamyan age 22
Frank Forde age 90
David Hurley age 26
Viktor Klima age 33
Andrei Kobyakow age 19
Gaston Eyskens age 75
Duma Boko age 10
Michel Kafando age 38
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 25
Domitien Ndayizeye age 27
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 36