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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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Elizabeth II age 52
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 52
President - Cuba
Jimmy Carter age 54
President - United States
Hirohito age 77
Emperor - Japan
Leonid Brezhnev age 72
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Josip Broz Tito age 86
President - Yugoslavia
Anwar Sadat age 60
President - Egypt
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 59
Shah - Iran
Erich Honecker age 66
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 48
President - Syria
Walter Scheel age 59
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 48
Monarch - Belgium
Hua Guofeng age 58
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Chiang Ching-kuo age 68
President - Republic of China
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 64
President - Iraq
José López Portillo age 58
President - Mexico
Ernesto Geisel age 71
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 71
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Tôn Đức Thắng age 90
President - Vietnam
Kim Il-sung age 66
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 53
President - France
Pol Pot age 53
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Kurt Waldheim age 60
Secretary-General - United Nations
Helmut Schmidt age 60
Chancellor - Germany
Menachem Begin age 65
Prime Minister - Israel
James Callaghan age 66
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giulio Andreotti age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Alexei Kosygin age 75
Chairman - Soviet Union
Robert McNamara age 62
President - World Bank
P. W. Botha age 63
Prime Minister - South Africa
Raymond Barre age 54
Prime Minister - France
Masayoshi Ōhira age 68
Prime Minister - Japan
Kaysone Phomvihane age 58
Prime Minister - Laos
Roy Jenkins age 58
President - European Commission
Phạm Văn Đồng age 72
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 64
President - International Olympic Committee
Joseph Luns age 67
Secretary General - NATO
Jack Lynch age 61
Taoiseach - Ireland
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 69
Prime Minister - Poland
Mustafa Khalil age 58
Prime Minister - Egypt
Halfdan T. Mahler age 55
Director-General - World Health Organization
Sun Yun-suan age 65
Premier - Republic of China
Morarji Desai age 82
Prime Minister - India
Muhammad Ali al-Halabi age 42
Prime Minister - Syria
Warren E. Burger age 71
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Saddam Hussein age 41
Vice President - Iraq
Walter Mondale age 51
Vice President - United States
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 50
Vice President - Iraq
Li Xiannian age 69
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
David C. Jones age 57
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Cyrus Vance age 61
Secretary Of State - United States
Harold Brown age 51
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Denis Healey age 61
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
W. Michael Blumenthal age 53
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Griffin Bell age 60
Attorney General - United States
Bernard W. Rogers age 57
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Merlyn Rees age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William H. Webster age 54
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Margaret Thatcher age 53
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Thurgood Marshall age 70
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 54
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 58
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 72
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 64
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 61
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 71
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Steel age 40
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Anthony Kennedy age 42
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 36
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 54
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Dick Cheney age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Dan Quayle age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Bill Clinton age 32
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Paul II age 58
Pope - Vatican City
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 51
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 61
President - Philippines
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 41
Monarch - Spain
Augusto Pinochet age 63
President of the Government Junta - Chile
Suharto age 57
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 61
President - Romania
Idi Amin age 54
President - Uganda
Margrethe II of Denmark age 38
Monarch - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 32
Monarch - Sweden
Park Chung-hee age 61
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 38
Sultan - Oman
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 72
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 48
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Julius Nyerere age 56
President - Tanzania
Hussein I of Jordan age 43
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 75
President - Tunisia
Hastings Banda age 89
President - Malawi
Jorge Rafael Videla age 53
President - Argentina
Urho Kekkonen age 78
President - Finland
Hassan II age 49
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 54
President - Zambia
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 54
President - Pakistan
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 41
President - Ethiopia
Sandro Pertini age 82
President - Italy
Olusegun Obasanjo age 41
President - Nigeria
Olav V of Norway age 75
Monarch - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 66
President - Paraguay
Agostinho Neto age 56
President - Angola
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 57
President - Guinea
Juliana of the Netherlands age 69
King - Netherlands
Samora Moisés Machel age 45
President - Mozambique
Fahri Korutürk age 75
President - Turkey
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 73
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 54
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 55
Prince - Monaco
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 23
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 59
President - Somalia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 41
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 60
President - United Arab Emirates
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 55
President - Equatorial Guinea
Seretse Khama age 57
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 54
President - Cameroon
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 65
President - India
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 41
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 43
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 27
President - Haiti
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 53
President - Nicaragua
Ziaur Rahman age 43
President - Bangladesh
Isaac Navon age 57
President - Israel
Ne Win age 67
President - Myanmar
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 58
Monarch - Luxembourg
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 63
President - Austria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 62
President - Djibouti
Sobhuza II age 79
King - Eswatini
Aristides Pereira age 55
President - Cape Verde
Moussa Traoré age 42
President - Mali
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 54
President - The Gambia
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 56
President - Venezuela
Kristján Eldjárn age 62
President - Iceland
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 52
Emir - Kuwait
Souphanouvong age 69
President - Laos
William Richard Tolbert age 65
President - Liberia
Didier Ratsiraka age 42
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 60
Monarch - Tonga
Gaafar Nimeiry age 48
President - Sudan
Luís Cabral age 47
President - Guinea-Bissau
António Ramalho Eanes age 44
President - Portugal
France-Albert René age 43
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 41
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
B. J. Vorster age 63
State President - South Africa
Patrick Hillery age 55
President - Ireland
Johan Ferrier age 68
President - Suriname
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 72
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 45
Monarch - Bahrain
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 32
President - Burundi
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 79
President - Greece
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 46
Emir - Qatar
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 57
President - Peru
Arthur Chung age 61
President - Guyana
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 63
President - Burkina Faso
Siaka Stevens age 73
President - Sierra Leone
Benjamin Sheares age 71
President - Singapore
Ahmed Abdallah age 59
President - Comoros
Haxhi Lleshi age 65
President - Albania
Julio César Turbay age 62
President - Colombia
Spiros Cyprianou age 46
President - Cyprus
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 40
King - Lesotho
Hammer DeRoburt age 56
President - Nauru
Fred Akuffo age 41
President - Ghana
Aparicio Méndez age 74
President - Uruguay
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 52
President - Costa Rica
Anton Buttigieg age 67
President - Malta
Rabah Bitat age 53
President - Algeria
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 68
President - Dominican Republic
David Padilla age 51
President - Bolivia
Elias Sarkis age 54
President - Lebanon
Mustafa Ould Salek age 43
President - Mauritania
Ellis Clarke age 61
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Sergej Kraigher age 64
President - Slovenia
Hans Hürlimann age 60
President - Switzerland
Arístides Royo age 38
President - Panama
Policarpo Paz García age 46
President - Honduras
Viktor Avbelj age 64
President - Slovenia
Ermenegildo Gasperoni age 72
Captain Regent - San Marino
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 66
King - Saudi Arabia
Kuan Yew Lee age 55
Prime Minister - Singapore
Pierre Trudeau age 59
Prime Minister - Canada
Paul Biya age 46
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Bülent Ecevit age 53
Prime Minister - Turkey
João Bernardo Vieira age 39
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Bruno Kreisky age 68
Chancellor - Austria
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 71
Prime Minister - Greece
Malcolm Fraser age 48
Prime Minister - Australia
Abdou Diouf age 43
Prime Minister - Senegal
Hissène Habré age 36
Prime Minister - Chad
Dries van Agt age 48
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 43
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Choi Kyu-hah age 59
Prime Minister - South Korea
Gaston Thorn age 50
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Michael Somare age 42
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Anker Jørgensen age 56
Prime Minister - Denmark
Dom Mintoff age 62
Prime Minister - Malta
Ola Ullsten age 47
Prime Minister - Sweden
Mehmet Shehu age 66
Prime Minister - Albania
Kalevi Sorsa age 48
Prime Minister - Finland