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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
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Dissolution of the Soviet Union 1991-08-24 - 1991-12-26
Battle of Vukovar 1991-08-25 - 1991-11-18
Siege of Dubrovnik 1991-10-01 - 1992-05-31

People

Elizabeth II age 65
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 65
President - Cuba
George H. W. Bush age 67
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 54
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 60
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 52
Supreme Leader - Iran
Hosni Mubarak age 63
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 75
President - France
Akihito age 57
Emperor - Japan
Jiang Zemin age 65
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Hafez al-Assad age 61
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 71
President - Germany
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 57
President - Iran
Baudouin of Belgium age 61
King - Belgium
Lee Teng-hui age 68
President - Republic of China
Fernando Collor de Mello age 42
President - Brazil
Yang Shangkun age 84
President - People's Republic of China
Do Muoi age 74
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Vo Chi Cong age 79
President - Vietnam
Jorge Serrano Elías age 46
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 79
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 43
President - Mexico
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 71
Secretary-General - United Nations
Mikhail Gorbachev age 60
President - Soviet Union
Helmut Kohl age 61
Chancellor - Germany
John Major age 48
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giulio Andreotti age 72
Prime Minister - Italy
Isaac Shamir age 76
Prime Minister - Israel
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 71
President - International Olympic Committee
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 70
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Delors age 66
President - European Commission
Édith Cresson age 57
Prime Minister - France
Li Peng age 63
Premier - People's Republic of China
Kiichi Miyazawa age 72
Prime Minister - Japan
Ante Marković age 67
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Khamtai Siphandone age 67
Prime Minister - Laos
Manfred Wörner age 57
Secretary General - NATO
Charles Haughey age 66
Taoiseach - Ireland
Vo Van Kiet age 69
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Hau Pei-tsun age 72
Premier - Republic of China
Atef Sedki age 61
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hiroshi Nakajima age 63
Director-General - World Health Organization
Yon Hyong-muk age 60
Premier - North Korea
Mahmoud Zuabi age 56
Prime Minister - Syria
Lewis Thompson Preston age 65
President - World Bank
William Rehnquist age 67
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Dan Quayle age 44
Vice President - United States
Wang Zhen (general) age 83
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Lee Yuan-tsu age 68
Vice President - Republic of China
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 49
Vice President - Iraq
Deng Xiaoping age 87
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Colin Powell age 54
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Nie Rongzhen age 91
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dick Cheney age 50
Secretary of Defense - United States
James Baker age 61
Secretary of State - United States
William Barr age 41
Attorney General - United States
Norman Lamont age 49
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Nicholas F. Brady age 61
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Gordon R. Sullivan age 54
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William S. Sessions age 61
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Nelson Mandela age 73
President - African National Congress
Antonin Scalia age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 43
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 71
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 52
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 74
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 61
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Neil Kinnock age 49
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Gerry Adams age 43
President - Sinn Féin
Ken Starr age 45
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 58
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Robert Mueller age 47
Assistant Attorney General - Department of Justice
Stephen Breyer age 53
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Jeff Sessions age 44
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Joe Biden age 49
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 43
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 47
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 67
Senate - United States
William Cohen age 51
Senate - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 70
Senate - United States
John McCain age 55
Senate - United States
Margaret Thatcher age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Tony Blair age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gordon Brown age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 75
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Leon Panetta age 53
House of Representatives - United States
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jack Straw age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Howard age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Geoffrey Howe age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nigel Lawson age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Denis Healey age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Blunkett age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Les Aspin age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Douglas Hurd age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Frank Underwood age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph W. Barr age 73
House of Representatives - United States
Merlyn Rees age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Hague age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 78
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Smith age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Steel age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Mario Cuomo age 59
Governor of New York - United States
Ann Richards age 58
Governor of Texas - United States
Bill Weld age 46
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George Voinovich age 55
Governor of Ohio - United States
Evan Bayh age 35
Governor of Indiana - United States
Zell Miller age 59
Governor of Georgia - United States
Pete Wilson age 58
Governor of California - United States
Douglas Wilder age 60
Governor of Virginia - United States
James Florio age 54
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Ned McWherter age 61
Governor of Tennessee - United States
William Donald Schaefer age 70
Governor of Maryland - United States
Barber Conable age 69
New York State Senate - United States
John Paul II age 71
Pope - Vatican City
Lech Wałęsa age 48
President - Poland
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 63
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 67
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 53
King - Spain
Suharto age 70
President - Indonesia
Margrethe II of Denmark age 51
Queen - Denmark
Corazon Aquino age 58
President - Philippines
Harald V of Norway age 54
King - Norway
Slobodan Milošević age 50
President - Serbia
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 45
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 53
Queen - Netherlands
Islam Karimov age 53
President - Uzbekistan
Omar al-Bashir age 47
President - Sudan
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 51
Sultan - Oman
F. W. de Klerk age 55
State President - South Africa
Kurt Waldheim age 72
President - Austria
Mobutu Sese Seko age 61
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Saparmurat Niyazov age 51
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 47
President - Uganda
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 55
President - Tunisia
Francesco Cossiga age 63
President - Italy
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 44
President - Yemen
Alberto Fujimori age 53
President - Peru
José Eduardo dos Santos age 49
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 39
President - Chad
Turgut Özal age 64
President - Turkey
Mswati III age 23
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 58
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 56
King - Jordan
Teodoro Obiang age 49
President - Equatorial Guinea
Mary Robinson age 47
President - Ireland
Hastings Banda age 101
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 61
President - Iceland
Omar Bongo age 55
President - Gabon
Alija Izetbegović age 66
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 52
President - Georgia
Hassan II age 62
King - Morocco
Carlos Menem age 61
President - Argentina
Letsie III of Lesotho age 28
King - Lesotho
Meles Zenawi age 36
President - Ethiopia
Ion Iliescu age 61
President - Romania
Mauno Koivisto age 68
President - Finland
Blaise Compaoré age 40
President - Burkina Faso
Mohammad Najibullah age 44
President - Afghanistan
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 86
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 67
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 68
Prince - Monaco
Mário Soares age 66
President - Portugal
Amadou Toumani Touré age 43
President - Mali
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 36
King - Bhutan
Violeta Chamorro age 62
President - Nicaragua
R. Venkataraman age 81
President - India
Joaquim Chissano age 52
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 62
President - Namibia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 54
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 73
President - United Arab Emirates
Jerry Rawlings age 44
President - Ghana
João Bernardo Vieira age 52
President - Guinea-Bissau
Chaim Herzog age 73
President - Israel
Askar Akayev age 47
President - Kyrgyzstan
Roh Tae-woo age 58
President - South Korea
Ramiz Alia age 66
President - Albania
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 46
President - Armenia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 53
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 55
President - Togo
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 84
President - Greece
Lansana Conté age 57
President - Guinea
Kiro Gligorov age 74
President - North Macedonia
Abdou Diouf age 56
President - Senegal
Milan Kučan age 50
President - Slovenia
Árpád Göncz age 69
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 48
President - Zambia
Ayaz Mutallibov age 53
President - Azerbaijan
Quett Masire age 66
President - Botswana
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 70
Grand Duke - Luxembourg