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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
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
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

People

Elizabeth II age 50
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 50
President - Cuba
Jimmy Carter age 52
President - United States
Hirohito age 75
Emperor - Japan
Leonid Brezhnev age 70
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Josip Broz Tito age 84
President - Yugoslavia
Anwar Sadat age 58
President - Egypt
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 57
Shah - Iran
Erich Honecker age 64
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 46
President - Syria
Walter Scheel age 57
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 46
King - Belgium
Hua Guofeng age 56
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 62
President - Iraq
José López Portillo age 56
President - Mexico
Ernesto Geisel age 69
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 69
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Tôn Đức Thắng age 88
President - Vietnam
Yen Chia-kan age 71
President - Republic of China
Kim Il-sung age 64
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 51
President - France
Pol Pot age 51
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Kurt Waldheim age 58
Secretary-General - United Nations
Indira Gandhi age 59
Prime Minister - India
Yitzhak Rabin age 55
Prime Minister - Israel
Helmut Schmidt age 58
Chancellor - Germany
James Callaghan age 64
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giulio Andreotti age 58
Prime Minister - Italy
Alexei Kosygin age 73
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Robert McNamara age 60
President - World Bank
Chiang Ching-kuo age 66
Premier - Republic of China
Takeo Fukuda age 72
Prime Minister - Japan
Raymond Barre age 52
Prime Minister - France
B. J. Vorster age 61
Prime Minister - South Africa
Kaysone Phomvihane age 56
Prime Minister - Laos
Roy Jenkins age 56
President - European Commission
Phạm Văn Đồng age 71
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Liam Cosgrave age 56
Taoiseach - Ireland
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 62
President - International Olympic Committee
Joseph Luns age 65
Secretary General - NATO
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 67
Prime Minister - Poland
Pak Song-chol age 63
Premier - North Korea
Halfdan T. Mahler age 53
Director-General - World Health Organization
Mamdouh Salem age 59
Prime Minister - Egypt
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 50
Prime Minister - Syria
Warren E. Burger age 69
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Saddam Hussein age 39
Vice President - Iraq
Walter Mondale age 49
Vice President - United States
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 48
Vice President - Iraq
Deng Xiaoping age 72
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Li Xiannian age 67
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 77
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
George Scratchley Brown age 58
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Cyrus Vance age 59
Secretary of State - United States
Harold Brown age 49
Secretary of Defense - United States
Denis Healey age 59
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
W. Michael Blumenthal age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Griffin Bell age 58
Attorney General - United States
Bernard W. Rogers age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Merlyn Rees age 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Clarence M. Kelley age 65
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Margaret Thatcher age 51
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Thurgood Marshall age 68
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 52
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 70
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 62
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 59
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 69
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester age 63
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
David Steel age 38
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 59
President - African National Congress
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 44
President - Sinn Féin
Anthony Kennedy age 40
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 34
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 65
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 52
Senate - United States
Edmund Muskie age 62
Senate - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 56
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Dan Quayle age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Harold Wilson age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leon Panetta age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Geoffrey Howe age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Cohen age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Nigel Lawson age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Les Aspin age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Douglas Hurd age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leon Brittan age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Norman Lamont age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Reginald Maudling age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Neil Kinnock age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Smith age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Thorpe age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jerry Brown age 38
Governor of California - United States
Hugh Carey age 57
Governor of New York - United States
David Pryor age 42
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Otis Bowen age 59
Governor of Indiana - United States
George Busbee age 49
Governor of Georgia - United States
Brendan Byrne age 52
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Marvin Mandel age 56
Governor of Maryland - United States
Dolph Briscoe age 53
Governor of Texas - United States
Mills Godwin age 62
Governor of Virginia - United States
Jim Rhodes age 67
Governor of Ohio - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 49
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 59
President - Philippines
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 39
King - Spain
Paul VI age 79
Pope - Vatican City
Augusto Pinochet age 61
President of the Government Junta - Chile
Suharto age 55
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 59
President - Romania
Idi Amin age 52
President - Uganda
Margrethe II of Denmark age 36
Queen - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 30
King - Sweden
Park Chung-hee age 59
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 36
Sultan - Oman
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 70
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 46
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 83
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 54
President - Tanzania
Hussein I of Jordan age 41
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 73
President - Tunisia
Hastings Banda age 87
President - Malawi
Omar Bongo age 41
President - Gabon
Jorge Rafael Videla age 51
President - Argentina
Urho Kekkonen age 76
President - Finland
Hassan II age 47
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 52
President - Zambia
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 39
President - Ethiopia
Olusegun Obasanjo age 39
President - Nigeria
Olav V of Norway age 73
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 64
President - Paraguay
Agostinho Neto age 54
President - Angola
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 55
President - Guinea
Juliana of the Netherlands age 67
Queen - Netherlands
Samora Moisés Machel age 43
President - Mozambique
Fahri Korutürk age 73
President - Turkey
Giovanni Leone age 68
President - Italy
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 71
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 53
Prince - Monaco
Houari Boumédiène age 44
President - Algeria
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 21
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 57
President - Somalia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 39
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 58
President - United Arab Emirates
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 53
President - Equatorial Guinea
Seretse Khama age 55
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 52
President - Cameroon
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 41
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 25
President - Haiti
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 67
President - Afghanistan
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 51
President - Nicaragua
Ne Win age 65
President - Myanmar
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 56
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 61
President - Austria
Sobhuza II age 77
King - Eswatini
Aristides Pereira age 53
President - Cape Verde
Ephraim Katzir age 60
President - Israel
Moussa Traoré age 40
President - Mali
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 52
President - The Gambia
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 54
President - Venezuela
Kristján Eldjárn age 60
President - Iceland
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 64
President - India
Souphanouvong age 67
President - Laos
William Richard Tolbert age 63
President - Liberia
Didier Ratsiraka age 40
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 58
King - Tonga
Gaafar Nimeiry age 46
President - Sudan
Hugo Banzer age 50
President - Bolivia
Joaquín Balaguer age 70
President - Dominican Republic
Luís Cabral age 45
President - Guinea-Bissau
António Ramalho Eanes age 42
President - Portugal
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 39
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Patrick Hillery age 53
President - Ireland
Moktar Ould Daddah age 52
President - Mauritania
Marien Ngouabi age 38
President - Republic of the Congo
Johan Ferrier age 66
President - Suriname
Isa II of Bahrain age 43
Emir - Bahrain
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 30
President - Burundi
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 77
President - Greece
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 44
Emir - Qatar
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 55
President - Peru
Arthur Chung age 59
President - Guyana
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 61
President - Burkina Faso
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 73
President - Pakistan
James Mancham age 37
President - Seychelles
Siaka Stevens age 71
President - Sierra Leone
Benjamin Sheares age 69
President - Singapore
Alfonso López Michelsen age 63
President - Colombia
Haxhi Lleshi age 63
President - Albania
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 45
President - Ghana
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 38
King - Lesotho