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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
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27

People

Elizabeth II age 54
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 54
President - Cuba
Jimmy Carter age 56
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 43
President - Iraq
Hirohito age 79
Emperor - Japan
Leonid Brezhnev age 74
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Ruhollah Khomeini age 78
Supreme Leader - Iran
Anwar Sadat age 61
President - Egypt
Erich Honecker age 68
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 50
President - Syria
Baudouin of Belgium age 50
Monarch - Belgium
Hua Guofeng age 59
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Abolhassan Banisadr age 47
President - Iran
Karl Carstens age 66
President - Germany
Chiang Ching-kuo age 70
President - Republic of China
José López Portillo age 60
President - Mexico
João Figueiredo age 62
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 73
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Nguyen Huu Tho age 70
President - Vietnam
Kim Il-sung age 68
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 54
President - France
Pol Pot age 55
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Kurt Waldheim age 62
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 55
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Indira Gandhi age 63
Prime Minister - India
Helmut Schmidt age 62
Chancellor - Germany
Menachem Begin age 67
Prime Minister - Israel
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 60
President - International Olympic Committee
Zhao Ziyang age 61
Premier - People's Republic of China
Robert McNamara age 64
President - World Bank
P. W. Botha age 64
Prime Minister - South Africa
Raymond Barre age 56
Prime Minister - France
Zenkō Suzuki age 69
Prime Minister - Japan
Arnaldo Forlani age 55
Prime Minister - Italy
Nikolai Tikhonov age 75
Chairman - Soviet Union
Kaysone Phomvihane age 60
Prime Minister - Laos
Roy Jenkins age 60
President - European Commission
Phạm Văn Đồng age 74
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Charles Haughey age 55
Taoiseach - Ireland
Joseph Luns age 69
Secretary General - NATO
Halfdan T. Mahler age 57
Director-General - World Health Organization
Sun Yun-suan age 67
Premier - Republic of China
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 48
Prime Minister - Syria
Warren E. Burger age 73
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Walter Mondale age 52
Vice President - United States
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 52
Vice President - Iraq
Li Xiannian age 71
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
David C. Jones age 59
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Edmund Muskie age 66
Secretary Of State - United States
Geoffrey Howe age 54
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Harold Brown age 53
Secretary Of Defense - United States
G. William Miller age 55
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Benjamin Civiletti age 45
Attorney General - United States
Edward C. Meyer age 52
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
William H. Webster age 56
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Hu Yaobang age 65
Secretariat - Communist Party of China
Thurgood Marshall age 72
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 56
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 74
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 65
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 63
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 73
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 47
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 44
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 38
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 56
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Dick Cheney age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Dan Quayle age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Bill Clinton age 34
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Paul II age 60
Pope - Vatican City
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 53
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 63
President - Philippines
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 42
Monarch - Spain
Augusto Pinochet age 65
President of the Government Junta - Chile
Suharto age 59
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 62
President - Romania
Margrethe II of Denmark age 40
Monarch - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 34
Monarch - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 42
King - Netherlands
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 40
Sultan - Oman
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 74
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 50
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Julius Nyerere age 58
President - Tanzania
José Eduardo dos Santos age 38
President - Angola
Hussein I of Jordan age 45
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 77
President - Tunisia
Teodoro Obiang age 38
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hastings Banda age 90
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 50
President - Iceland
Jorge Rafael Videla age 55
President - Argentina
Urho Kekkonen age 80
President - Finland
Hassan II age 51
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 56
President - Zambia
Kenan Evren age 63
President - Turkey
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 56
President - Pakistan
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 43
President - Ethiopia
Sandro Pertini age 84
President - Italy
Olav V of Norway age 77
Monarch - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 68
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 58
President - Guinea
Samora Moisés Machel age 47
President - Mozambique
Chun Doo-hwan age 49
President - South Korea
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 75
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 56
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 57
Prince - Monaco
Mathieu Kérékou age 47
President - Benin
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 25
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 61
President - Somalia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 43
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 62
President - United Arab Emirates
João Bernardo Vieira age 41
President - Guinea-Bissau
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 56
President - Cameroon
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 67
President - India
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 42
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 44
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 29
President - Haiti
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 73
President - Greece
Ziaur Rahman age 44
President - Bangladesh
Isaac Navon age 59
President - Israel
Ne Win age 69
President - Myanmar
Quett Masire age 55
President - Botswana
David Dacko age 50
President - Central African Republic
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 59
Monarch - Luxembourg
Canaan Banana age 44
President - Zimbabwe
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 65
President - Austria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 64
President - Djibouti
Sobhuza II age 81
King - Eswatini
Chadli Bendjedid age 51
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 57
President - Cape Verde
Moussa Traoré age 44
President - Mali
Fernando Belaúnde age 68
President - Peru
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 56
President - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 54
Emir - Kuwait
Shehu Shagari age 55
President - Nigeria
Souphanouvong age 71
President - Laos
Didier Ratsiraka age 44
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 62
Monarch - Tonga
Gaafar Nimeiry age 49
President - Sudan
António Ramalho Eanes age 45
President - Portugal
France-Albert René age 45
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 43
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Patrick Hillery age 57
President - Ireland
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 74
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 47
Monarch - Bahrain
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 34
President - Burundi
Hilla Limann age 46
President - Ghana
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 48
Emir - Qatar
Siaka Stevens age 75
President - Sierra Leone
Benjamin Sheares age 73
President - Singapore
Ahmed Abdallah age 61
President - Comoros
Haxhi Lleshi age 67
President - Albania
Julio César Turbay age 64
President - Colombia
Spiros Cyprianou age 48
President - Cyprus
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 42
King - Lesotho
Luis García Meza Tejada age 51
President - Bolivia
Forbes Burnham age 57
President - Guyana
Hammer DeRoburt age 58
President - Nauru
Luis Herrera Campins age 55
President - Venezuela
Marais Viljoen age 65
State President - South Africa
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 40
President - Ecuador
Saye Zerbo age 48
President - Burkina Faso
Tosiwo Nakayama age 49
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Aparicio Méndez age 76
President - Uruguay
Goukouni Oueddei age 38
President - Chad
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 53
President - Costa Rica
Anton Buttigieg age 68
President - Malta
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 69
President - Dominican Republic
Elias Sarkis age 56
President - Lebanon
Henk Chin A Sen age 46
President - Suriname
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 40
President - Mauritania
Ieremia Tabai age 31
President - Kiribati
Georges-André Chevallaz age 65
President - Switzerland
Ellis Clarke age 62
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Ati George Sokomanu age 44
President - Vanuatu
Arístides Royo age 40
President - Panama
Policarpo Paz García age 48
President - Honduras
Viktor Avbelj age 66
President - Slovenia
Aurelius Marie age 76
President - Dominica
Saulo Musoke age 60
President - Uganda
Yoweri Hunter Wacha-Olwol age 57
President - Uganda
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 67
King - Saudi Arabia
Robert Mugabe age 56
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Kuan Yew Lee age 57
Prime Minister - Singapore
Pierre Trudeau age 61
Prime Minister - Canada
Paul Biya age 47
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Mauno Koivisto age 57
Prime Minister - Finland
Prem Tinsulanonda age 60
Prime Minister - Thailand
Bruno Kreisky age 69
Chancellor - Austria
Babrak Karmal age 51
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Malcolm Fraser age 50
Prime Minister - Australia
Abdou Diouf age 45
Prime Minister - Senegal
Dries van Agt age 49
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 45
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Wilfried Martens age 44
Prime Minister - Belgium
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 54
Prime Minister - Sweden
Eugenia Charles age 61
Prime Minister - Dominica
Anker Jørgensen age 58
Prime Minister - Denmark
Dom Mintoff age 64
Prime Minister - Malta