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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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12

People

León Febres-Cordero age 57
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema age 13
Vano Merabishvili age 20
Hilla Limann age 53
Vasiliki Thanou age 37
Moussa Dadis Camara age 23
Carmen Pereira age 51
Roberto Micheletti age 45
József Antall age 56
Ayad Allawi age 44
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro age 16
Marouf al-Bakhit age 41
Isa Mustafa age 37
Khamtai Siphandone age 64
Omar Karami age 53
Mahmoud Jibril age 36
Artūras Paulauskas age 35
David Kabua age 37
Nangolo Mbumba age 47
Ludwig Scotty age 40
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 35
Hristijan Mickoski age 10
Jan P. Syse age 57
Odvar Nordli age 60
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 35
Tufuga Efi age 50
Miloš Vučević age 13
Ignazio Cassis age 27
Carlos Vila Nova age 29
Rahmon Nabiyev age 57
Phạm Văn Đồng age 82
Carlos Arias Navarro age 79
Trường Chinh age 81
Garret FitzGerald age 62
John Bruton age 41
Henry Paulson age 42
Larry Summers age 33
Michael Howard age 47
Scott Bessent age 26
Timothy Geithner age 27
Kwasi Kwarteng age 13
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 63
Akhtar Mansour age 20
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 46
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 58
David Thompson age 26
Viačasław Kiebič age 52
Mark Eyskens age 55
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 71
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 58
Rodrigo Paz age 20
Plamen Oresharski age 28
Elisabeth Domitien age 63
Michel Djotodia age 39
Jiří Rusnok age 27
Stanislav Gross age 18
Ahmed Shafik age 46
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 73
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 43
Boniface Alexandre age 52
Nasry Asfura age 30
Elias Hrawi age 62
Pakalitha Mosisili age 43
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 50
Pravind Jugnauth age 26
Jhala Nath Khanal age 38
Enrique Bolaños age 60
Mahamane Ousmane age 38
Vlado Bučkovski age 25
Surangel Whipps Jr. age 20
Radu Vasile age 45
Petre Roman age 42
Édouard Ngirente age 15
Aminata Touré age 25
Mame Madior Boye age 47
Manasseh Sogavare age 33
Thanom Kittikachorn age 77
Lương Cường age 31
Leszek Miller age 42
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 66
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 55
Liam Cosgrave age 68
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 69
Vuk Drašković age 41
William Barr age 38
William J. Burns age 32
Wang Qishan age 40
James R. Schlesinger age 59
Ayman ibn Abd ar-Rahman age 21
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 70
Juan Carlos Onganía age 74
Hovik Abrahamyan age 30
David Hurley age 35
Viktor Klima age 41
Andrei Kobyakow age 27
Duma Boko age 18
Michel Kafando age 46
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 33
Domitien Ndayizeye age 35
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 44
Ernesto Samper age 38
Judith Suminwa age 20
Juan Bosch age 79
Gustavo Noboa age 51
Zurab Noghaideli age 23
Keith Mitchell age 41
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 42
Arthur Chung age 70
Ariel Henry age 38
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson age 26
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 41
Michael Manley age 63
Pierre Werner age 74
Albert Zafy age 61
Christian Ntsay age 27
Anthony Mamo age 79
Amata Kabua age 59
Navin Ramgoolam age 41
Petru Lucinschi age 48
Ion Chicu age 16
Pavel Filip age 22
Momir Bulatović age 31
Abbas El Fassi age 47
Baburam Bhattarai age 34
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 63
Radmila Šekerinska age 16
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 37
Johnson Toribiong age 42
Rami Hamdallah age 30
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 85
Philip J. Pierre age 33
Su Tseng-chang age 41
Hubert Minnis age 34
Keith Rowley age 38
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 74
Le Duc Anh age 67
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 77
José Raúl Mulino age 29
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 74
Alberto Gonzales age 33
Yvette Cooper age 19
Vladimir Ivashko age 55
David Souter age 48
William P. Rogers age 75
Vazgen Sargsyan age 29
Owen Arthur age 38
George Cadle Price age 69
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 72
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 30
Rodrigo Chaves age 27
Manuel Marrero Cruz age 25
Jiří Paroubek age 36
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 30
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 31
Edgar Savisaar age 38
Taye Atske Selassie age 32
Epeli Nailatikau age 47
Leslie Manigat age 58
Miklós Németh age 40
Robert Guéï age 47
Bah Ndaw age 38
Dioncounda Traoré age 46
Iurie Leancă age 24
Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene age 8
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 46
Cindy Kiro age 30
Patsy Reddy age 34
Lars Korvald age 72
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 44
Mohammad Shtayyeh age 30
Denzil Douglas age 35
James Mancham age 49
Chuan Leekpai age 50
Perry Christie age 45
Mari Alkatiri age 38
Yıldırım Akbulut age 53
Pavlo Lazarenko age 35
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh age 28
Jan Olszewski age 58
José María Balcázar age 45
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 53
Ho Chong age 92
Joseph Luns age 77
William J. Perry age 60
Rachel Reeves age 9
Han Zheng age 34
Bashkim Fino age 25
Novruz Mammadov age 41
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 62
Yacouba Isaac Zida age 22
Alfonso López Michelsen age 75
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 82
Ivica Račan age 44
Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde Kyenge age 11
Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini age 20
Manny Mori age 39
Wiliame Katonivere age 24
Ahti Karjalainen age 65
Martti Miettunen age 81
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 40