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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
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
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Elizabeth II age 53
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 52
President - Cuba
Jimmy Carter age 54
President - United States
Hirohito age 78
Emperor - Japan
Leonid Brezhnev age 72
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Josip Broz Tito age 87
President - Yugoslavia
Anwar Sadat age 60
President - Egypt
Erich Honecker age 66
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 48
President - Syria
Walter Scheel age 60
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 48
King - Belgium
Hua Guofeng age 58
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Chiang Ching-kuo age 69
President - Republic of China
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 65
President - Iraq
José López Portillo age 59
President - Mexico
João Figueiredo age 61
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 72
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Tôn Đức Thắng age 90
President - Vietnam
Kim Il-sung age 67
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 53
President - France
Pol Pot age 54
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Kurt Waldheim age 60
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 53
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Helmut Schmidt age 60
Chancellor - Germany
Menachem Begin age 65
Prime Minister - Israel
Giulio Andreotti age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Alexei Kosygin age 75
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Robert McNamara age 63
President - World Bank
P. W. Botha age 63
Prime Minister - South Africa
Raymond Barre age 55
Prime Minister - France
Masayoshi Ōhira age 69
Prime Minister - Japan
Kaysone Phomvihane age 58
Prime Minister - Laos
Roy Jenkins age 58
President - European Commission
Phạm Văn Đồng age 73
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 56
Director-General - World Health Organization
Sun Yun-suan age 65
Premier - Republic of China
Veselin Đuranović age 54
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Morarji Desai age 83
Prime Minister - India
Muhammad Ali al-Halabi age 42
Prime Minister - Syria
Warren E. Burger age 71
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Saddam Hussein age 42
Vice President - Iraq
Walter Mondale age 51
Vice President - United States
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 51
Vice President - Iraq
Deng Xiaoping age 74
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Li Xiannian age 70
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
Nie Rongzhen age 79
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
David C. Jones age 58
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Cyrus Vance age 62
Secretary of State - United States
Geoffrey Howe age 52
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Harold Brown age 51
Secretary of Defense - United States
W. Michael Blumenthal age 53
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Griffin Bell age 60
Attorney General - United States
Edward C. Meyer age 50
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
William H. Webster age 55
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
James Callaghan age 67
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Thurgood Marshall age 71
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 59
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 73
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 64
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 62
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 71
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Benjamin Civiletti age 43
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
David Steel age 41
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 61
President - African National Congress
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 46
President - Sinn Féin
Anthony Kennedy age 42
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 36
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 54
Senate - United States
Edmund Muskie age 65
Senate - United States
William Cohen age 38
Senate - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 58
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Dick Cheney age 38
House of Representatives - United States
John Major age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Dan Quayle age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Harold Wilson age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leon Panetta age 41
House of Representatives - United States
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jack Straw age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nigel Lawson age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Denis Healey age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Les Aspin age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Douglas Hurd age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leon Brittan age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Norman Lamont age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Waddington age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable age 56
House of Representatives - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Merlyn Rees age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Neil Kinnock age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Smith age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 32
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Jerry Brown age 41
Governor of California - United States
Lamar Alexander age 39
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Hugh Carey age 60
Governor of New York - United States
Otis Bowen age 61
Governor of Indiana - United States
George Busbee age 51
Governor of Georgia - United States
Brendan Byrne age 55
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Edward J. King age 54
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Harry Hughes age 52
Governor of Maryland - United States
Jim Rhodes age 69
Governor of Ohio - United States
John N. Dalton age 47
Governor of Virginia - United States
John Paul II age 59
Pope - Vatican City
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 51
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 61
President - Philippines
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 41
King - Spain
Augusto Pinochet age 63
President of the Government Junta - Chile
Suharto age 58
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 61
President - Romania
Margrethe II of Denmark age 39
Queen - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 33
King - 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 57
President - Tanzania
Hussein I of Jordan age 43
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 75
President - Tunisia
Hastings Banda age 89
President - Malawi
Omar Bongo age 43
President - Gabon
Jorge Rafael Videla age 53
President - Argentina
Urho Kekkonen age 78
President - Finland
Hassan II age 50
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 55
President - Zambia
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 54
President - Pakistan
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 42
President - Ethiopia
Sandro Pertini age 82
President - Italy
Olusegun Obasanjo age 42
President - Nigeria
Olav V of Norway age 76
King - 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 70
Queen - 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 56
Prince - Monaco
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 23
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 59
President - Somalia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 42
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 61
President - United Arab Emirates
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 55
President - Equatorial Guinea
Jerry Rawlings age 32
President - Ghana
Seretse Khama age 58
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 54
President - Cameroon
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 66
President - India
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 41
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 43
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 28
President - Haiti
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 53
President - Nicaragua
Ziaur Rahman age 43
President - Bangladesh
Isaac Navon age 58
President - Israel
Ne Win age 68
President - Myanmar
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 58
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 64
President - Austria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 62
President - Djibouti
Sobhuza II age 79
King - Eswatini
Chadli Bendjedid age 50
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 55
President - Cape Verde
Moussa Traoré age 42
President - Mali
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 55
President - The Gambia
Kristján Eldjárn age 62
President - Iceland
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 53
Emir - Kuwait
Souphanouvong age 70
President - Laos
William Richard Tolbert age 66
President - Liberia
Didier Ratsiraka age 42
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 61
King - Tonga
Gaafar Nimeiry age 48
President - Sudan
Luís Cabral age 48
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
Patrick Hillery age 56
President - Ireland
Johan Ferrier age 69
President - Suriname
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 72
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 46
Emir - Bahrain
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 32
President - Burundi
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 80
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 60
President - Comoros
Haxhi Lleshi age 65
President - Albania
Julio César Turbay age 63
President - Colombia
Spiros Cyprianou age 46
President - Cyprus