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Events

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

Lê Duẩn age 71
Leonid Brezhnev age 71
Fidel Castro age 52
Pol Pot age 53
Jimmy Carter age 53
Chiang Ching-kuo age 68
Hirohito age 77
Hafez al-Assad age 47
Tôn Đức Thắng age 90
Hua Guofeng age 57
Kim Il-sung age 66
Walter Mondale age 50
Elizabeth II age 52
Saddam Hussein age 41
Sun Yun-suan age 64
Li Xiannian age 69
Joe Biden age 35
Daniel Inouye age 53
Dan Quayle age 31
Al Gore age 30
Warren E. Burger age 70
Margaret Thatcher age 52
William H. Webster age 54
Thurgood Marshall age 70
William J. Brennan Jr. age 72
Potter Stewart age 63
Byron White age 61
William Rehnquist age 53
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 70
John Paul Stevens age 58
Sandra Day O'Connor age 48
James R. Schlesinger age 49
James Baker age 48
Arthur Goldberg age 70
Anthony Kennedy age 42
Ronald Reagan age 67
Li Peng age 49
Jiang Zemin age 52
George H. W. Bush age 54
Lee Yuan-tsu age 54
Henry Kissinger age 55
Archibald Cox age 66
Zhao Ziyang age 58
George Wallace age 58
Rong Yiren age 62
Hu Yaobang age 62
Deng Xiaoping age 74
Mike Pence age 19
Barack Obama age 17
Li Keqiang age 23
Condoleezza Rice age 23
Hillary Clinton age 30
Bill Clinton age 31
Karl Dönitz age 86
Clark Clifford age 71
John Kerry age 34
Hu Jintao age 35
Wen Jiabao age 35
Rudolf Hess age 84
Yang Shangkun age 71
Dick Cheney age 37
John Lewis age 38
David Souter age 38
Kamala Harris age 13
Wang Zhen (general) age 70
Liz Cheney age 12
Colin Powell age 41
Lien Chan age 41
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 65
He Yingqin age 88
Yuri Andropov age 64
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 73
Clarence M. Kelley age 66
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 72
Konstantin Chernenko age 66
Abe Fortas age 68
Souphanouvong age 69
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 70
Nelson Rockefeller age 70
Kim Jong-il age 37
Muhammad Ali age 36
John Major age 35
Aung San Suu Kyi age 33
Donald Trump age 32
Ellison Onizuka age 32
George W. Bush age 32
Clarence Thomas age 30
Charles III age 29
Narendra Modi age 27
Ronald McNair age 27
Gordon Brown age 27
Tony Blair age 25
Xi Jinping age 25
François Hollande age 24
John Roberts age 23
Nicolas Sarkozy age 23
Tim Berners-Lee age 23
Theresa May age 21
Keir Starmer age 15
Boris Johnson age 14
David Cameron age 11
Liz Truss age 3
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 62
Robert McNamara age 62
John Connally age 61
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 60
Nelson Mandela age 60
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 48
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 40
Zeng Qinghong age 39