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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
Salvadoran Civil War 1979-10-15 - 1992-01-16
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27

People

Ali Hassan al-Majid age 39
Frederica of Hanover age 63
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 45
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 44
Ahmad Uyahya age 28
Antoni Martí age 17
Gaston Browne age 13
Leo Tindemans age 58
Tshering Tobgay age 15
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 73
Melchior Ndadaye age 28
Carlos Alvarado Quesada age 1
Vladimír Špidla age 29
Antoine Gizenga age 55
Nicholas Liverpool age 46
Bharrat Jagdeo age 17
Mario Scelba age 79
Taneti Maamau age 20
Aigars Kalvītis age 14
Luc Frieden age 17
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih age 16
Abdelilah Benkirane age 26
Sushil Koirala age 41
Kåre Willoch age 52
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 22
Pascal Lissouba age 49
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 37
Nicolae Ciucă age 14
Adrian Năstase age 30
Michal Kováč age 50
Pascal Couchepin age 38
Wellington Koo age 93
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 19
James Marape age 9
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 21
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 128
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 93
Pierre Messmer age 64
Steven Mnuchin age 18
Sirhan Sirhan age 36
Biljana Plavšić age 50
Karl Rahner age 76
Paul Tibbets age 65
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 59
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 65
Prince Joachim of Denmark age 11
Kash Patel age 11 months
Janet Reno age 42
Pam Bondi age 15
Edmund Muskie age 66
Mohamed Boudiaf age 61
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 56
Quentin Bryce age 38
Salman bin Hamad, Crown Prince of Bahrain age 11
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 30
Hugo Banzer age 54
Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba age 1 month
Nuon Chea age 54
Ange-Félix Patassé age 44
Glafcos Clerides age 61
Joaquín Balaguer age 74
Josefa Iloilo age 60
Esko Aho age 26
Luís Cabral age 49
Sam Hinds age 37
Janet Jagan age 60
Abdul Latif Rashid age 36
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 39
Giuseppe Pella age 78
Andrew Holness age 8
Joop den Uyl age 61
Behgjet Pacolli age 29
Bakili Muluzi age 37
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 21
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 64
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 38
António de Spínola age 70
Sorin Grindeanu age 7
Florin Cîțu age 8
Milan Milutinović age 38
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 49
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 27
Ruth Dreifuss age 41
Fradique de Menezes age 38
Samak Sundaravej age 45
George Maxwell Richards age 49
Yurii Yekhanurov age 32
Juan María Bordaberry age 52
Baldwin Lonsdale age 32
Võ Văn Thưởng age 10
Laurentino Cortizo age 28
Santiago Peña Palacios age 2
Maurice Couve de Murville age 74
Pierre Bérégovoy age 55
Mark W. Clark age 84
B. J. Vorster age 65
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 75
Walter Hallstein age 79
Amber Rudd age 17
Suella Braverman age 10 months
Margaret Beckett age 38
Kiko, Crown Princess of Japan age 14
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 84
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 74
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 49
Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo age 17
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 47
Kathy Hochul age 22
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 26
Andranik Margaryan age 29
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 51
Jigme Thinley age 28
Rosen Zhelyazkov age 12
Pierre Buyoya age 31
Jorge Alessandri age 84
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 26
Abelardo de la Espriella age 2
Ikililou Dhoinine age 18
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 54
Essam Sharaf age 29
Ahmed Nazif age 28
Antonio Saca age 15
José Mário Vaz age 23
David A. Granger age 35
András Baka age 28
Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani age 10
Bisher Al-Khasawneh age 12
Serik Akhmetov age 22
Älihan Smaiylov age 8
Tammam Salam age 35
Kazimira Prunskienė age 37
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 28
Guido de Marco age 49
Moktar Ould Daddah age 56
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 34
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 28
Oqil Oqilov age 37
Somchai Wongsawat age 33
Yamandú Orsi age 13
Peter O'Neill age 15
Borjana Krišto age 19
Ante Marković age 56
James Cleverly age 11
James Earl Ray age 52
Bachir Gemayel age 33
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 35
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway age 9
David Paterson age 26
Özlem Türeci age 13
John Connally age 63
Merrick Garland age 28
Nandó dos Santos age 30
Baldwin Spencer age 32
Peter Cosgrove age 33
Tarique Rahman age 12
Freundel Stuart age 29
Syarhiey Sidorski age 26
Syarhei Rumas age 11
Nicéphore Soglo age 46
Eduardo Rodríguez age 24
Petar Mladenov age 44
Michel Micombero age 40
Belisario Betancur age 58
Juhan Parts age 14
Sitiveni Rabuka age 32
Kalevi Sorsa age 50
Nika Gilauri age 5
Óscar Berger age 34
Kumba Ialá age 27
Ivars Godmanis age 29
Amine Gemayel age 39
Joseph Boakai age 36
Boubou Cisse age 7
Christopher Loeak age 28
Mihai Ghimpu age 29
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 26
Dimitar Kovačevski age 6
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 30
Salam Fayyad age 28
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 23
Wavel Ramkalawan age 19
Devan Nair age 57
Johan Ferrier age 70
Surayud Chulanont age 37
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 37
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 39
Guy Scott age 36
Martín Torrijos age 17
Valentín Paniagua age 44
Ye Jianying age 83
Roy Jenkins age 60