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Cold War
1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Guatemalan Civil War
1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Lebanese Civil War
1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide
1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Islamist uprising in Syria
1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Iranian Revolution
1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
People
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 89
President
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Vietnam
Leonid Brezhnev
age 71
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Fidel Castro
age 51
President
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Cuba
Pol Pot
age 52
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Jimmy Carter
age 53
President
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United States
Hirohito
age 76
Emperor
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Japan
Hafez al-Assad
age 47
President
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Syria
Lê Duẩn
age 71
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Walter Mondale
age 50
Vice President
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United States
Elizabeth II
age 52
Queen
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United Kingdom
Saddam Hussein
age 40
Vice President
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Iraq
Hua Guofeng
age 57
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Kim Il-sung
age 66
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Daniel Inouye
age 53
Senate
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United States
Li Xiannian
age 68
Vice Chairman
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Communist Party of China
Joe Biden
age 35
Senate
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United States
Al Gore
age 30
House of Representatives
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United States
Dan Quayle
age 31
House of Representatives
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United States
Warren E. Burger
age 70
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
William H. Webster
age 54
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Margaret Thatcher
age 52
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 70
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens
age 58
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William Rehnquist
age 53
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Byron White
age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 63
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 72
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall
age 69
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 48
Republican Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 49
Republican Party (United States)
James Baker
age 47
Democratic Party (United States)
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 67
Kuomintang
Arthur Goldberg
age 69
Democratic Party (United States)
Anthony Kennedy
age 41
US Court Of Appeals
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US Judiciary
Ronald Reagan
age 67
Republican Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 49
Communist Party of China
Jiang Zemin
age 51
Communist Party of China
George H. W. Bush
age 53
Republican Party (United States)
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 54
Kuomintang
Henry Kissinger
age 54
Republican Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 65
Democratic Party (United States)
Zhao Ziyang
age 58
Communist Party of China
George Wallace
age 58
Democratic Party (United States)
Sun Yun-suan
age 64
Kuomintang
Rong Yiren
age 61
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 62
Communist Party of China
Deng Xiaoping
age 73
Communist Party of China
Mike Pence
age 18
Republican Party (United States)
Barack Obama
age 16
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Keqiang
age 22
Communist Party of China
Condoleezza Rice
age 23
Republican Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
age 30
Democratic Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
age 31
Democratic Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 86
Nazi Party
Clark Clifford
age 71
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 34
Democratic Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 35
Communist Party of China
Wen Jiabao
age 35
Communist Party of China
Rudolf Hess
age 84
Nazi Party
Yang Shangkun
age 70
Communist Party of China
Dick Cheney
age 37
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 38
Democratic Party (United States)
David Souter
age 38
Republican Party (United States)
Kamala Harris
age 13
Democratic Party (United States)
Wang Zhen (general)
age 70
Communist Party of China
Liz Cheney
age 11
Republican Party (United States)
Colin Powell
age 41
United States Army
Lien Chan
age 41
Kuomintang
Omar Bradley
age 85
Jo Ann Robinson
age 66
Richard Nixon
age 65
Soong Ching-ling
age 85
Rosa Parks
age 65
Gerald Ford
age 64
He Yingqin
age 88
Yuri Andropov
age 63
Thomas Gage
age 260
Robert A. Lovett
age 82
Otto Hofmann
age 82
Souvanna Phouma
age 76
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 75
Juan José Arévalo
age 73
Albert Speer
age 73
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 72
Clarence M. Kelley
age 66
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 72
Konstantin Chernenko
age 66
Abe Fortas
age 67
Souphanouvong
age 68
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 69
Nelson Rockefeller
age 69
Kim Jong-il
age 37
Muhammad Ali
age 36
John Major
age 35
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 32
Donald Trump
age 31
Ellison Onizuka
age 31
George W. Bush
age 31
Clarence Thomas
age 29
Charles III
age 29
Narendra Modi
age 27
Ronald McNair
age 27
Gordon Brown
age 27
Tony Blair
age 24
Xi Jinping
age 24
François Hollande
age 23
John Roberts
age 23
Nicolas Sarkozy
age 23
Tim Berners-Lee
age 22
Theresa May
age 21
Keir Starmer
age 15
Boris Johnson
age 13
David Cameron
age 11
Liz Truss
age 2
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 62
Robert McNamara
age 61
John Connally
age 61
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 59
Nelson Mandela
age 59
Spiro Agnew
age 59
George Shultz
age 57
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 56
Melvin Laird
age 55
Lee Teng-hui
age 55
Warren Christopher
age 52
Ramsey Clark
age 50
Zhu Rongji
age 49
Yasser Arafat
age 48
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 47
Boris Yeltsin
age 47
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 47
Jacques Chirac
age 45
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 45
Antonin Scalia
age 42
Gennady Yanayev
age 40
Stephen Breyer
age 39
Zeng Qinghong
age 38