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1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
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1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Iran hostage crisis
1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
People
Lê Duẩn
age 72
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Leonid Brezhnev
age 72
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Hafez al-Assad
age 49
President
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Syria
Hirohito
age 78
Emperor
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Japan
Fidel Castro
age 53
President
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Cuba
Margaret Thatcher
age 54
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Pol Pot
age 54
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 69
President
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Republic of China
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 91
President
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Vietnam
Saddam Hussein
age 42
President
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Iraq
Jimmy Carter
age 55
President
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United States
Elizabeth II
age 53
Queen
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United Kingdom
Hua Guofeng
age 58
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Kim Il-sung
age 67
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Sun Yun-suan
age 66
Premier
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Republic of China
Walter Mondale
age 51
Vice President
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United States
Li Xiannian
age 70
Vice Chairman
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Communist Party of China
Daniel Inouye
age 55
Senate
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United States
Joe Biden
age 36
Senate
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United States
Al Gore
age 31
House of Representatives
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United States
Dan Quayle
age 32
House of Representatives
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United States
Dick Cheney
age 38
House of Representatives
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United States
Warren E. Burger
age 72
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
William H. Webster
age 55
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
William Rehnquist
age 55
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 73
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens
age 59
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall
age 71
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 72
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Byron White
age 62
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
Bill Clinton
age 33
Governor of Arkansas
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United States
Arthur Goldberg
age 71
Democratic Party (United States)
Anthony Kennedy
age 43
US Court Of Appeals
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US Judiciary
Lien Chan
age 43
Kuomintang
Archibald Cox
age 67
Democratic Party (United States)
James Baker
age 49
Democratic Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 49
Republican Party (United States)
Ronald Reagan
age 68
Republican Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 50
Republican Party (United States)
Li Peng
age 51
Communist Party of China
Henry Kissinger
age 56
Republican Party (United States)
Jiang Zemin
age 53
Communist Party of China
George H. W. Bush
age 55
Republican Party (United States)
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 56
Kuomintang
Liz Cheney
age 13
Republican Party (United States)
Kamala Harris
age 15
Democratic Party (United States)
Rong Yiren
age 63
Communist Party of China
Karl Dönitz
age 88
Nazi Party
Barack Obama
age 18
Democratic Party (United States)
Mike Pence
age 20
Republican Party (United States)
Hu Yaobang
age 64
Communist Party of China
Li Keqiang
age 24
Communist Party of China
Rudolf Hess
age 85
Nazi Party
Condoleezza Rice
age 24
Republican Party (United States)
Deng Xiaoping
age 75
Communist Party of China
George Wallace
age 60
Democratic Party (United States)
Colin Powell
age 42
United States Army
Wang Zhen (general)
age 71
Communist Party of China
David Souter
age 40
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 39
Democratic Party (United States)
Yang Shangkun
age 72
Communist Party of China
Wen Jiabao
age 37
Communist Party of China
Hu Jintao
age 36
Communist Party of China
John Kerry
age 35
Democratic Party (United States)
Clark Clifford
age 72
Democratic Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
age 32
Democratic Party (United States)
Zhao Ziyang
age 60
Communist Party of China
Yuri Andropov
age 65
Richard Nixon
age 66
Gerald Ford
age 66
Rosa Parks
age 66
Jo Ann Robinson
age 67
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 63
Thomas Gage
age 261
He Yingqin
age 89
Soong Ching-ling
age 86
Omar Bradley
age 86
Robert A. Lovett
age 84
Otto Hofmann
age 83
Souvanna Phouma
age 78
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 77
Juan José Arévalo
age 75
Albert Speer
age 74
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 74
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 73
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 71
Souphanouvong
age 70
Abe Fortas
age 69
Konstantin Chernenko
age 68
Kim Jong-il
age 38
Muhammad Ali
age 37
John Major
age 36
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 34
Donald Trump
age 33
Ellison Onizuka
age 33
George W. Bush
age 33
Clarence Thomas
age 31
Charles III
age 30
Narendra Modi
age 29
Ronald McNair
age 29
Gordon Brown
age 28
Tony Blair
age 26
Xi Jinping
age 26
François Hollande
age 25
John Roberts
age 24
Nicolas Sarkozy
age 24
Tim Berners-Lee
age 24
Theresa May
age 23
Keir Starmer
age 17
Boris Johnson
age 15
David Cameron
age 13
Liz Truss
age 4
Clarence M. Kelley
age 68
Robert McNamara
age 63
John Connally
age 62
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 61
Nelson Mandela
age 61
Spiro Agnew
age 61
George Shultz
age 58
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 57
Melvin Laird
age 57
Lee Teng-hui
age 56
Warren Christopher
age 54
Ramsey Clark
age 51
Zhu Rongji
age 51
Yasser Arafat
age 50
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 49
Boris Yeltsin
age 48
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 48
Jacques Chirac
age 46
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 46
Antonin Scalia
age 43
Gennady Yanayev
age 42
Stephen Breyer
age 41
Zeng Qinghong
age 40