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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
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
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26

People

Ronald Reagan age 74
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 59
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 58
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 54
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Saddam Hussein age 48
President - Iraq
Ali Khamenei age 46
President - Iran
Hirohito age 84
Emperor - Japan
Hosni Mubarak age 57
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 68
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 82
Supreme Leader - Iran
Erich Honecker age 72
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 54
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 65
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 54
King - Belgium
Chiang Ching-kuo age 75
President - Republic of China
José Sarney age 55
President - Brazil
Hu Yaobang age 69
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Lê Duẩn age 78
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Li Xiannian age 75
President - People's Republic of China
Trường Chinh age 78
President - Vietnam
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 54
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 73
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Miguel de la Madrid age 50
President - Mexico
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 65
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Deng Xiaoping age 80
Chairman of the Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Helmut Kohl age 55
Chancellor - Germany
Shimon Peres age 61
Prime Minister - Israel
Rajiv Gandhi age 40
Prime Minister - India
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 61
Prime Minister - Poland
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 67
Prime Minister - Japan
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 64
President - International Olympic Committee
Bettino Craxi age 51
Prime Minister - Italy
Zhao Ziyang age 65
Premier - People's Republic of China
Jacques Delors age 59
President - European Commission
Laurent Fabius age 38
Prime Minister - France
Nikolai Tikhonov age 80
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Milka Planinc age 60
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kaysone Phomvihane age 64
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 79
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Garret FitzGerald age 59
Taoiseach - Ireland
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 65
Secretary General - NATO
Kamal Hassan Ali age 52
Prime Minister - Egypt
Halfdan T. Mahler age 62
Director-General - World Health Organization
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 53
Prime Minister - Syria
Yu Kuo-hwa age 71
Premier - Republic of China
Alden W. Clausen age 62
President - World Bank
Warren E. Burger age 77
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
George H. W. Bush age 60
Vice President - United States
Lee Teng-hui age 62
Vice President - Republic of China
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 42
Vice President - Iraq
Li Peng age 56
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 85
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
John William Vessey Jr. age 62
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
James Baker age 55
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Shultz age 64
Secretary of State - United States
Nigel Lawson age 53
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Leon Brittan age 45
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edwin Meese age 53
Attorney General - United States
John A. Wickham Jr. age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Caspar Weinberger age 67
Secretary of Defense - United States
William H. Webster age 61
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Thurgood Marshall age 76
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 60
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 65
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 79
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 67
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 77
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Neil Kinnock age 43
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
David Steel age 47
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 67
President - African National Congress
Gerry Adams age 36
President - Sinn Féin
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 52
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 49
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 46
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 48
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Jeff Sessions age 38
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Joe Biden age 42
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 37
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 41
Senate - United States
Dan Quayle age 38
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 60
Senate - United States
William Cohen age 44
Senate - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 64
Senate - United States
Tony Blair age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gordon Brown age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Dick Cheney age 44
House of Representatives - United States
John Major age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leon Panetta age 46
House of Representatives - United States
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roy Jenkins age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jack Straw age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Howard age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Geoffrey Howe age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Denis Healey age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Les Aspin age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Douglas Hurd age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Norman Lamont age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Waddington age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 67
House of Representatives - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Merlyn Rees age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Smith age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John McCain age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Bill Clinton age 38
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Mario Cuomo age 52
Governor of New York - United States
Michael Dukakis age 51
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Lamar Alexander age 44
Governor of Tennessee - United States
George Deukmejian age 56
Governor of California - United States
Mark White age 45
Governor of Texas - United States
Chuck Robb age 45
Governor of Virginia - United States
Thomas Kean age 50
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Harry Hughes age 58
Governor of Maryland - United States
Dick Celeste age 47
Governor of Ohio - United States
Joe Frank Harris age 49
Governor of Georgia - United States
Robert D. Orr age 67
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 62
New York State Senate - United States
John Paul II age 65
Pope - Vatican City
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 57
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 67
President - Philippines
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 47
King - Spain
Augusto Pinochet age 69
President - Chile
Suharto age 63
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 67
President - Romania
Margrethe II of Denmark age 45
Queen - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 39
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 47
Queen - Netherlands
Thomas Sankara age 35
President - Burkina Faso
Muhammadu Buhari age 42
President - Nigeria
Daniel Ortega age 39
President - Nicaragua
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 44
Sultan - Oman
Mobutu Sese Seko age 54
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Julius Nyerere age 63
President - Tanzania
José Eduardo dos Santos age 42
President - Angola
Paul Biya age 52
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 49
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 81
President - Tunisia
Teodoro Obiang age 42
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hastings Banda age 95
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 55
President - Iceland
Omar Bongo age 49
President - Gabon
Hassan II age 55
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 61
President - Zambia
Kenan Evren age 67
President - Turkey
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 60
President - Pakistan
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 48
President - Ethiopia
Sandro Pertini age 88
President - Italy
Olav V of Norway age 81
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 72
President - Paraguay
Mauno Koivisto age 61
President - Finland
Milton Obote age 59
President - Uganda
Samora Moisés Machel age 51
President - Mozambique
Raúl Alfonsín age 58
President - Argentina
Chun Doo-hwan age 54
President - South Korea
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 79
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 60
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 61
Prince - Monaco
Mathieu Kérékou age 51
President - Benin
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 29
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 65
President - Somalia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 48
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 67
President - United Arab Emirates
P. W. Botha age 69
State President - South Africa
Jerry Rawlings age 37
President - Ghana
Zail Singh age 69
President - India
João Bernardo Vieira age 46
President - Guinea-Bissau
Chaim Herzog age 66
President - Israel
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 47
President - Maldives
Agatha Barbara age 62
President - Malta
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 49
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 33
President - Haiti
Lansana Conté age 50
President - Guinea
Abdou Diouf age 49
President - Senegal
Hissène Habré age 42
President - Chad
Quett Masire age 59
President - Botswana
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 64
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Canaan Banana age 49
President - Zimbabwe
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 70
President - Austria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 68
President - Djibouti
Chadli Bendjedid age 56
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 61
President - Cape Verde
Moussa Traoré age 48
President - Mali
Fernando Belaúnde age 72
President - Peru
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 61
President - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 58
Emir - Kuwait
Souphanouvong age 75
President - Laos
Julio María Sanguinetti age 49
President - Uruguay
Didier Ratsiraka age 48
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 66
King - Tonga
António Ramalho Eanes age 50
President - Portugal
France-Albert René age 49
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 47
President - São Tomé and Príncipe