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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
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Martial law in Poland 1981-12-13 - 1983-07-22

People

Ronald Reagan age 71
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 55
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 55
President - Cuba
Saddam Hussein age 44
President - Iraq
Ali Khamenei age 42
President - Iran
Hirohito age 80
Emperor - Japan
Leonid Brezhnev age 75
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hosni Mubarak age 53
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 65
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 79
Supreme Leader - Iran
Erich Honecker age 69
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 51
President - Syria
Baudouin of Belgium age 51
King - Belgium
Karl Carstens age 67
President - Germany
Chiang Ching-kuo age 71
President - Republic of China
José López Portillo age 61
President - Mexico
Hu Yaobang age 66
Chairman - Communist Party of China
João Figueiredo age 64
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 74
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Trường Chinh age 75
President - Vietnam
Kim Il-sung age 69
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 62
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 56
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Indira Gandhi age 64
Prime Minister - India
Deng Xiaoping age 77
Chairman of the Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Helmut Schmidt age 63
Chancellor - Germany
Menachem Begin age 68
Prime Minister - Israel
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 58
Prime Minister - Poland
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 61
President - International Olympic Committee
Zhao Ziyang age 62
Premier - People's Republic of China
Pierre Mauroy age 53
Prime Minister - France
P. W. Botha age 66
Prime Minister - South Africa
Zenkō Suzuki age 71
Prime Minister - Japan
Giovanni Spadolini age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
Nikolai Tikhonov age 76
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Gaston Thorn age 53
President - European Commission
Kaysone Phomvihane age 61
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 75
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Garret FitzGerald age 56
Taoiseach - Ireland
Joseph Luns age 70
Secretary General - NATO
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 56
Prime Minister - Egypt
Halfdan T. Mahler age 58
Director-General - World Health Organization
Sun Yun-suan age 68
Premier - Republic of China
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 50
Prime Minister - Syria
Alden W. Clausen age 59
President - World Bank
Warren E. Burger age 74
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
George H. W. Bush age 57
Vice President - United States
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 53
Vice President - Iraq
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 39
Vice President - Iraq
Hua Guofeng age 61
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian age 72
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
Nie Rongzhen age 82
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
David C. Jones age 60
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Alexander Haig age 57
Secretary of State - United States
Geoffrey Howe age 55
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Donald Regan age 63
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William French Smith age 64
Attorney General - United States
Edward C. Meyer age 53
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Caspar Weinberger age 64
Secretary of Defense - United States
William H. Webster age 57
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Thurgood Marshall age 73
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 61
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 75
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 64
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 74
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 51
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Michael Foot age 68
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
David Steel age 43
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 64
President - African National Congress
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 49
President - Sinn Féin
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 48
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 43
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 45
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Jeff Sessions age 35
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Joe Biden age 39
Senate - United States
Dan Quayle age 35
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 57
Senate - United States
William Cohen age 41
Senate - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 61
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Dick Cheney age 41
House of Representatives - United States
John Major age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leon Panetta age 43
House of Representatives - United States
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jack Straw age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nigel Lawson age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Denis Healey age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Les Aspin age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Douglas Hurd age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leon Brittan age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Norman Lamont age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Waddington age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 64
House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Merlyn Rees age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Neil Kinnock age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Smith age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jerry Brown age 43
Governor of California - United States
Lamar Alexander age 41
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Chuck Robb age 42
Governor of Virginia - United States
Hugh Carey age 62
Governor of New York - United States
Thomas Kean age 46
Governor of New Jersey - United States
George Busbee age 54
Governor of Georgia - United States
Edward J. King age 56
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Harry Hughes age 55
Governor of Maryland - United States
Frank D. White age 48
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Jim Rhodes age 72
Governor of Ohio - United States
Robert D. Orr age 64
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Paul II age 61
Pope - Vatican City
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 54
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 64
President - Philippines
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 44
King - Spain
Augusto Pinochet age 66
President - Chile
Suharto age 60
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 64
President - Romania
Margrethe II of Denmark age 41
Queen - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 35
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 44
Queen - Netherlands
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 41
Sultan - Oman
Mobutu Sese Seko age 51
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Julius Nyerere age 59
President - Tanzania
José Eduardo dos Santos age 39
President - Angola
Hussein I of Jordan age 46
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 78
President - Tunisia
Teodoro Obiang age 39
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hastings Banda age 92
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 51
President - Iceland
Omar Bongo age 46
President - Gabon
Hassan II age 52
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 57
President - Zambia
Kenan Evren age 64
President - Turkey
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 57
President - Pakistan
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 44
President - Ethiopia
Sandro Pertini age 85
President - Italy
Olav V of Norway age 78
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 69
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 60
President - Guinea
Mauno Koivisto age 58
President - Finland
Milton Obote age 56
President - Uganda
Samora Moisés Machel age 48
President - Mozambique
Chun Doo-hwan age 51
President - South Korea
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 76
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 57
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 58
Prince - Monaco
Mathieu Kérékou age 48
President - Benin
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 26
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 62
President - Somalia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 44
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 63
President - United Arab Emirates
Jerry Rawlings age 34
President - Ghana
João Bernardo Vieira age 42
President - Guinea-Bissau
Leopoldo Galtieri age 55
President - Argentina
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 57
President - Cameroon
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 68
President - India
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 44
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 46
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 30
President - Haiti
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 74
President - Greece
Abdou Diouf age 46
President - Senegal
Isaac Navon age 60
President - Israel
Quett Masire age 56
President - Botswana
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 61
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Canaan Banana age 45
President - Zimbabwe
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 66
President - Austria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 65
President - Djibouti
Sobhuza II age 82
King - Eswatini
Chadli Bendjedid age 52
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 58
President - Cape Verde
Moussa Traoré age 45
President - Mali
Fernando Belaúnde age 69
President - Peru
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 57
President - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 55
Emir - Kuwait
Shehu Shagari age 56
President - Nigeria
Souphanouvong age 72
President - Laos
Didier Ratsiraka age 45
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 63
King - Tonga
Gaafar Nimeiry age 51
President - Sudan
António Ramalho Eanes age 47
President - Portugal
France-Albert René age 46
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 44
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Patrick Hillery age 58
President - Ireland
Devan Nair age 58
President - Singapore
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 75
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 48
Emir - Bahrain
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 35
President - Burundi
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 49
Emir - Qatar
Amata Kabua age 53
President - Marshall Islands
André Kolingba age 45
President - Central African Republic
Siaka Stevens age 76
President - Sierra Leone
Ahmed Abdallah age 62
President - Comoros
Haxhi Lleshi age 68
President - Albania
Julio César Turbay age 65
President - Colombia
Spiros Cyprianou age 49
President - Cyprus