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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
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20

People

Ronald Reagan age 73
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 58
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 57
President - Cuba
Saddam Hussein age 47
President - Iraq
Ali Khamenei age 45
President - Iran
Hirohito age 83
Emperor - Japan
Hosni Mubarak age 56
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 67
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 81
Supreme Leader - Iran
Konstantin Chernenko age 72
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Erich Honecker age 71
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 53
President - Syria
Baudouin of Belgium age 53
Monarch - Belgium
Karl Carstens age 69
President - Germany
Chiang Ching-kuo age 74
President - Republic of China
Hu Yaobang age 68
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
João Figueiredo age 66
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 77
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Li Xiannian age 74
President - People's Republic of China
Trường Chinh age 77
President - Vietnam
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 53
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 72
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Miguel de la Madrid age 49
President - Mexico
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 64
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 58
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Indira Gandhi age 66
Prime Minister - India
Deng Xiaoping age 79
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Helmut Kohl age 54
Chancellor - Germany
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 60
Prime Minister - Poland
Isaac Shamir age 68
Prime Minister - Israel
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 66
Prime Minister - Japan
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 63
President - International Olympic Committee
Bettino Craxi age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Zhao Ziyang age 64
Premier - People's Republic of China
Pierre Mauroy age 55
Prime Minister - France
P. W. Botha age 68
Prime Minister - South Africa
Nikolai Tikhonov age 79
Chairman - Soviet Union
Gaston Thorn age 55
President - European Commission
Milka Planinc age 59
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kaysone Phomvihane age 63
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 78
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Garret FitzGerald age 58
Taoiseach - Ireland
Joseph Luns age 72
Secretary General - NATO
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 58
Prime Minister - Egypt
Halfdan T. Mahler age 61
Director-General - World Health Organization
Sun Yun-suan age 70
Premier - Republic of China
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 52
Prime Minister - Syria
Alden W. Clausen age 61
President - World Bank
Warren E. Burger age 76
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
George H. W. Bush age 59
Vice President - United States
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 55
Vice President - Iraq
John William Vessey Jr. age 61
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
George Shultz age 63
Secretary Of State - United States
Nigel Lawson age 52
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Leon Brittan age 44
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Donald Regan age 65
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
William French Smith age 66
Attorney General - United States
John A. Wickham Jr. age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
William H. Webster age 60
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Thurgood Marshall age 75
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 59
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 64
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 78
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 66
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 76
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 54
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 51
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 48
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 45
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 47
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 41
Senate - United States
Dan Quayle age 37
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 59
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Dick Cheney age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Bill Clinton age 37
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Paul II age 64
Pope - Vatican City
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 56
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 66
President - Philippines
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 46
Monarch - Spain
Augusto Pinochet age 68
President - Chile
Suharto age 62
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 66
President - Romania
Margrethe II of Denmark age 44
Monarch - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 38
Monarch - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 46
King - Netherlands
Thomas Sankara age 34
President - Burkina Faso
Muhammadu Buhari age 41
President - Nigeria
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 43
Sultan - Oman
Mobutu Sese Seko age 53
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Julius Nyerere age 62
President - Tanzania
José Eduardo dos Santos age 41
President - Angola
Paul Biya age 51
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 48
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 80
President - Tunisia
Teodoro Obiang age 41
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hastings Banda age 94
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 54
President - Iceland
Hassan II age 54
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 60
President - Zambia
Kenan Evren age 66
President - Turkey
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 59
President - Pakistan
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 47
President - Ethiopia
Sandro Pertini age 87
President - Italy
Olav V of Norway age 80
Monarch - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 71
President - Paraguay
Mauno Koivisto age 60
President - Finland
Milton Obote age 58
President - Uganda
Samora Moisés Machel age 50
President - Mozambique
Raúl Alfonsín age 57
President - Argentina
Chun Doo-hwan age 53
President - South Korea
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 78
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 59
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 60
Prince - Monaco
Mathieu Kérékou age 50
President - Benin
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 28
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 64
President - Somalia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 47
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 66
President - United Arab Emirates
Jerry Rawlings age 36
President - Ghana
Zail Singh age 68
President - India
João Bernardo Vieira age 45
President - Guinea-Bissau
Chaim Herzog age 65
President - Israel
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 46
President - Maldives
Agatha Barbara age 61
President - Malta
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 48
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 32
President - Haiti
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 77
President - Greece
Lansana Conté age 49
President - Guinea
Abdou Diouf age 48
President - Senegal
Hissène Habré age 41
President - Chad
Quett Masire age 58
President - Botswana
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 63
Monarch - Luxembourg
Canaan Banana age 48
President - Zimbabwe
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 69
President - Austria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 67
President - Djibouti
Chadli Bendjedid age 55
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 60
President - Cape Verde
Moussa Traoré age 47
President - Mali
Fernando Belaúnde age 71
President - Peru
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 60
President - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 57
Emir - Kuwait
Souphanouvong age 74
President - Laos
Didier Ratsiraka age 47
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 65
Monarch - Tonga
Gaafar Nimeiry age 53
President - Sudan
António Ramalho Eanes age 49
President - Portugal
France-Albert René age 48
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 46
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 54
President - Bangladesh
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 57
President - Dominican Republic
Patrick Hillery age 61
President - Ireland
Belisario Betancur age 61
President - Colombia
Amine Gemayel age 42
President - Lebanon
Devan Nair age 60
President - Singapore
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 77
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 50
Monarch - Bahrain
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 37
President - Burundi
Carmen Pereira age 47
President - Guinea-Bissau
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 51
Emir - Qatar
André Kolingba age 47
President - Central African Republic
Siaka Stevens age 78
President - Sierra Leone
Ahmed Abdallah age 64
President - Comoros
Jaime Lusinchi age 60
President - Venezuela
Spiros Cyprianou age 51
President - Cyprus
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 46
King - Lesotho
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 58
President - Uruguay
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 70
President - Bolivia
Forbes Burnham age 61
President - Guyana
Hammer DeRoburt age 61
President - Nauru
Marais Viljoen age 68
State President - South Africa
Haruo Remeliik age 50
President - Palau
Tosiwo Nakayama age 52
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Osvaldo Hurtado age 44
President - Ecuador
Luis Alberto Monge age 58
President - Costa Rica
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 57
President - Honduras
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 44
President - Mauritania
Fred Ramdat Misier age 57
President - Suriname
Leon Schlumpf age 59
President - Switzerland
Álvaro Magaña age 58
President - El Salvador
Ieremia Tabai age 34
President - Kiribati
San Yu age 66
President - Myanmar
Ellis Clarke age 66
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Ati George Sokomanu age 48
President - Vanuatu
Sebastiano Baggio age 71
President - Vatican City
Gloriana Ranocchini age 27
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giorgio Crescentini age 34
Captain Regent - San Marino
France Popit age 62
President - Slovenia
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 63
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 58
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Robert Mugabe age 60
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Kuan Yew Lee age 60
Prime Minister - Singapore
Hassanal Bolkiah I of Brunei age 37
Prime Minister - Brunei
Olof Palme age 57
Prime Minister - Sweden
Pierre Trudeau age 64
Prime Minister - Canada
Turgut Özal age 56
Prime Minister - Turkey
Felipe González age 42
Prime Minister - Spain
Mário Soares age 59
Prime Minister - Portugal
Bob Hawke age 54
Prime Minister - Australia
Prem Tinsulanonda age 63
Prime Minister - Thailand