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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
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04

People

Elizabeth II age 51
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 51
President - Cuba
Jimmy Carter age 53
President - United States
Hirohito age 76
Emperor - Japan
Leonid Brezhnev age 71
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Josip Broz Tito age 85
President - Yugoslavia
Anwar Sadat age 59
President - Egypt
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 58
Shah - Iran
Erich Honecker age 65
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 47
President - Syria
Walter Scheel age 58
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 47
King - Belgium
Hua Guofeng age 56
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 63
President - Iraq
José López Portillo age 57
President - Mexico
Ernesto Geisel age 70
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 70
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Tôn Đức Thắng age 89
President - Vietnam
Yen Chia-kan age 72
President - Republic of China
Kim Il-sung age 65
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 51
President - France
Pol Pot age 52
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Kurt Waldheim age 59
Secretary-General - United Nations
Helmut Schmidt age 59
Chancellor - Germany
Menachem Begin age 64
Prime Minister - Israel
James Callaghan age 65
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 61
President - World Bank
Chiang Ching-kuo age 67
Premier - Republic of China
Takeo Fukuda age 72
Prime Minister - Japan
Raymond Barre age 53
Prime Minister - France
B. J. Vorster age 62
Prime Minister - South Africa
Kaysone Phomvihane age 57
Prime Minister - Laos
Roy Jenkins age 57
President - European Commission
Phạm Văn Đồng age 71
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 63
President - International Olympic Committee
Joseph Luns age 66
Secretary General - NATO
Jack Lynch age 60
Taoiseach - Ireland
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 68
Prime Minister - Poland
Halfdan T. Mahler age 54
Director-General - World Health Organization
Veselin Đuranović age 52
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Mamdouh Salem age 60
Prime Minister - Egypt
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 51
Prime Minister - Syria
Morarji Desai age 81
Prime Minister - India
Warren E. Burger age 70
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Saddam Hussein age 40
Vice President - Iraq
Walter Mondale age 49
Vice President - United States
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 49
Vice President - Iraq
Deng Xiaoping age 73
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Li Xiannian age 68
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
Nie Rongzhen age 78
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
George Scratchley Brown age 59
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Cyrus Vance age 60
Secretary of State - United States
Harold Brown age 50
Secretary of Defense - United States
Denis Healey age 60
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
W. Michael Blumenthal age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Griffin Bell age 59
Attorney General - United States
Bernard W. Rogers age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Merlyn Rees age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Clarence M. Kelley age 66
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Margaret Thatcher age 52
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Thurgood Marshall age 69
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 53
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 71
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 62
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 60
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 70
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 39
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 60
President - African National Congress
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 45
President - Sinn Féin
Anthony Kennedy age 41
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 35
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 66
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 53
Senate - United States
Edmund Muskie age 63
Senate - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 56
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Dan Quayle age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Harold Wilson age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leon Panetta age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Geoffrey Howe age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Cohen age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Nigel Lawson age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Les Aspin age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Douglas Hurd age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leon Brittan age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Norman Lamont age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Reginald Maudling age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Neil Kinnock age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Smith age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Thorpe age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jerry Brown age 39
Governor of California - United States
Hugh Carey age 58
Governor of New York - United States
David Pryor age 43
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Otis Bowen age 59
Governor of Indiana - United States
George Busbee age 50
Governor of Georgia - United States
Brendan Byrne age 53
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Marvin Mandel age 57
Governor of Maryland - United States
Dolph Briscoe age 54
Governor of Texas - United States
Mills Godwin age 63
Governor of Virginia - United States
Jim Rhodes age 68
Governor of Ohio - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 50
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 60
President - Philippines
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 39
King - Spain
Paul VI age 80
Pope - Vatican City
Augusto Pinochet age 62
President of the Government Junta - Chile
Suharto age 56
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 59
President - Romania
Idi Amin age 53
President - Uganda
Margrethe II of Denmark age 37
Queen - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 31
King - Sweden
Park Chung-hee age 60
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 37
Sultan - Oman
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 71
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 47
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 84
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 55
President - Tanzania
Hussein I of Jordan age 42
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 74
President - Tunisia
Hastings Banda age 88
President - Malawi
Omar Bongo age 42
President - Gabon
Jorge Rafael Videla age 52
President - Argentina
Urho Kekkonen age 77
President - Finland
Hassan II age 48
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 53
President - Zambia
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 40
President - Ethiopia
Olusegun Obasanjo age 40
President - Nigeria
Olav V of Norway age 74
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 65
President - Paraguay
Agostinho Neto age 55
President - Angola
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 55
President - Guinea
Juliana of the Netherlands age 68
Queen - Netherlands
Samora Moisés Machel age 44
President - Mozambique
Fahri Korutürk age 74
President - Turkey
Giovanni Leone age 69
President - Italy
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 72
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 54
Prince - Monaco
Houari Boumédiène age 45
President - Algeria
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 22
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 58
President - Somalia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 40
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 59
President - United Arab Emirates
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 54
President - Equatorial Guinea
Seretse Khama age 56
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 53
President - Cameroon
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 64
President - India
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 42
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 26
President - Haiti
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 68
President - Afghanistan
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 52
President - Nicaragua
Ziaur Rahman age 41
President - Bangladesh
Ne Win age 66
President - Myanmar
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 56
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 62
President - Austria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 61
President - Djibouti
Sobhuza II age 78
King - Eswatini
Aristides Pereira age 54
President - Cape Verde
Ephraim Katzir age 61
President - Israel
Moussa Traoré age 41
President - Mali
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 53
President - The Gambia
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 55
President - Venezuela
Kristján Eldjárn age 61
President - Iceland
Souphanouvong age 68
President - Laos
William Richard Tolbert age 64
President - Liberia
Didier Ratsiraka age 41
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 59
King - Tonga
Gaafar Nimeiry age 46
President - Sudan
Hugo Banzer age 51
President - Bolivia
Joaquín Balaguer age 71
President - Dominican Republic
Luís Cabral age 46
President - Guinea-Bissau
António Ramalho Eanes age 42
President - Portugal
France-Albert René age 42
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 40
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Patrick Hillery age 54
President - Ireland
Moktar Ould Daddah age 53
President - Mauritania
Johan Ferrier age 67
President - Suriname
Isa II of Bahrain age 44
Emir - Bahrain
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 31
President - Burundi
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 78
President - Greece
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 45
Emir - Qatar
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 56
President - Peru
Arthur Chung age 59
President - Guyana
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 61
President - Burkina Faso
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 74
President - Pakistan
Siaka Stevens age 72
President - Sierra Leone
Benjamin Sheares age 70
President - Singapore
Alfonso López Michelsen age 64
President - Colombia
Haxhi Lleshi age 64
President - Albania
Spiros Cyprianou age 45
President - Cyprus