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1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
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1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Iranian Revolution
1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
People
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 90
President
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Vietnam
Hirohito
age 77
Emperor
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Japan
Jimmy Carter
age 54
President
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United States
Leonid Brezhnev
age 72
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Pol Pot
age 53
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Lê Duẩn
age 71
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Fidel Castro
age 52
President
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Cuba
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 68
President
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Republic of China
Hafez al-Assad
age 48
President
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Syria
Saddam Hussein
age 41
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
Sun Yun-suan
age 65
Premier
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Republic of China
Kim Il-sung
age 66
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Elizabeth II
age 52
Queen
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United Kingdom
Walter Mondale
age 51
Vice President
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United States
Li Xiannian
age 69
Vice Chairman
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Communist Party of China
Daniel Inouye
age 54
Senate
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United States
Joe Biden
age 36
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
Dick Cheney
age 37
House of Representatives
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United States
Warren E. Burger
age 71
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 53
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
John Paul Stevens
age 58
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Byron White
age 61
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William Rehnquist
age 54
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 64
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
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 71
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall
age 70
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Jiang Zemin
age 52
Communist Party of China
George H. W. Bush
age 54
Republican Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 50
Communist Party of China
James R. Schlesinger
age 49
Republican Party (United States)
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 55
Kuomintang
Henry Kissinger
age 55
Republican Party (United States)
Zhao Ziyang
age 59
Communist Party of China
George Wallace
age 59
Democratic Party (United States)
Rong Yiren
age 62
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 63
Communist Party of China
Archibald Cox
age 66
Democratic Party (United States)
Ronald Reagan
age 67
Republican Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 70
Democratic Party (United States)
Wang Zhen (general)
age 70
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
age 71
Communist Party of China
Clark Clifford
age 72
Democratic Party (United States)
Deng Xiaoping
age 74
Communist Party of China
Rudolf Hess
age 84
Nazi Party
Condoleezza Rice
age 24
Republican Party (United States)
Wen Jiabao
age 36
Communist Party of China
John Lewis
age 38
Democratic Party (United States)
David Souter
age 39
Republican Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 36
Communist Party of China
John Kerry
age 35
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Keqiang
age 23
Communist Party of China
Colin Powell
age 41
United States Army
Lien Chan
age 42
Kuomintang
Anthony Kennedy
age 42
US Court Of Appeals
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US Judiciary
Mike Pence
age 19
Republican Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
age 31
Democratic Party (United States)
Barack Obama
age 17
Democratic Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
age 32
Democratic Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 87
Nazi Party
Kamala Harris
age 14
Democratic Party (United States)
Liz Cheney
age 12
Republican Party (United States)
James Baker
age 48
Democratic Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 48
Republican Party (United States)
Xi Jinping
age 25
Ronald McNair
age 28
Konstantin Chernenko
age 67
Narendra Modi
age 28
George W. Bush
age 32
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 70
Charles III
age 30
Nelson Rockefeller
age 70
Clarence Thomas
age 30
Abe Fortas
age 68
Souphanouvong
age 69
François Hollande
age 24
John Roberts
age 23
Nicolas Sarkozy
age 23
Tim Berners-Lee
age 23
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 72
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 73
Albert Speer
age 73
Juan José Arévalo
age 74
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 76
Souvanna Phouma
age 77
Otto Hofmann
age 82
Robert A. Lovett
age 83
Omar Bradley
age 85
Soong Ching-ling
age 86
He Yingqin
age 88
Kim Jong-il
age 37
George Shultz
age 58
Zeng Qinghong
age 39
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 57
Melvin Laird
age 56
Lee Teng-hui
age 56
Stephen Breyer
age 40
Gennady Yanayev
age 41
Antonin Scalia
age 42
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 45
Jacques Chirac
age 46
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 47
Warren Christopher
age 53
Boris Yeltsin
age 47
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 48
Ramsey Clark
age 51
Yasser Arafat
age 49
Thomas Gage
age 261
Clarence M. Kelley
age 67
Ellison Onizuka
age 32
Jo Ann Robinson
age 66
Donald Trump
age 32
Richard Nixon
age 66
Rosa Parks
age 65
Gerald Ford
age 65
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 33
Yuri Andropov
age 64
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 63
Robert McNamara
age 62
John Connally
age 61
Muhammad Ali
age 36
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 60
Nelson Mandela
age 60
Spiro Agnew
age 60
Zhu Rongji
age 50