✦ History

Explore August 2, 1990 – August 4, 1990

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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
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Gulf War 1990-08-02 - 1991-02-28
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait 1990-08-02 - 1990-08-04

People

Elizabeth II age 64
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 64
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 59
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
George H. W. Bush age 66
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 53
President - Iraq
Ali Khamenei age 51
Supreme Leader - Iran
Hosni Mubarak age 62
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 73
President - France
Akihito age 56
Emperor - Japan
Jiang Zemin age 64
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Hafez al-Assad age 59
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 70
President - Germany
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 55
President - Iran
Baudouin of Belgium age 59
King - Belgium
Lee Teng-hui age 67
President - Republic of China
Fernando Collor de Mello age 41
President - Brazil
Yang Shangkun age 83
President - People's Republic of China
Vo Chi Cong age 78
President - Vietnam
Vinicio Cerezo age 47
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 78
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 42
President - Mexico
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 70
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 64
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Helmut Kohl age 60
Chancellor - Germany
Giulio Andreotti age 71
Prime Minister - Italy
Isaac Shamir age 74
Prime Minister - Israel
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 70
President - International Olympic Committee
Jacques Delors age 65
President - European Commission
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 63
Prime Minister - Poland
Li Peng age 61
Premier - People's Republic of China
V. P. Singh age 59
Prime Minister - India
Toshiki Kaifu age 59
Prime Minister - Japan
Michel Rocard age 59
Prime Minister - France
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 60
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Ante Marković age 65
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kaysone Phomvihane age 69
Prime Minister - Laos
Manfred Wörner age 55
Secretary General - NATO
Charles Haughey age 64
Taoiseach - Ireland
Do Muoi age 73
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Hau Pei-tsun age 71
Premier - Republic of China
Atef Sedki age 59
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hiroshi Nakajima age 62
Director-General - World Health Organization
Yon Hyong-muk age 58
Premier - North Korea
Mahmoud Zuabi age 55
Prime Minister - Syria
Barber Conable age 67
President - World Bank
William Rehnquist age 65
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Dan Quayle age 43
Vice President - United States
Wang Zhen (general) age 82
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Lee Yuan-tsu age 66
Vice President - Republic of China
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 48
Vice President - Iraq
Deng Xiaoping age 86
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Colin Powell age 53
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Nie Rongzhen age 90
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dick Cheney age 49
Secretary of Defense - United States
John Major age 47
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
James Baker age 60
Secretary of State - United States
Nicholas F. Brady age 60
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Dick Thornburgh age 58
Attorney General - United States
David Waddington age 61
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Carl E. Vuono age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
William S. Sessions age 60
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Antonin Scalia age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall age 82
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 70
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Barr age 40
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Byron White age 73
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 55
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Sandra Day O'Connor age 60
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Neil Kinnock age 48
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 72
President - African National Congress
Gerry Adams age 41
President - Sinn Féin
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 57
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Robert Mueller age 46
Assistant Attorney General - Department of Justice
Stephen Breyer age 52
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
David Souter age 50
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Jeff Sessions age 43
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Joe Biden age 47
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 42
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 46
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 65
Senate - United States
William Cohen age 49
Senate - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 69
Senate - United States
John McCain age 53
Senate - United States
Tony Blair age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gordon Brown age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Leon Panetta age 52
House of Representatives - United States
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jack Straw age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Howard age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Geoffrey Howe age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nigel Lawson age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Denis Healey age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Blunkett age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Les Aspin age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Douglas Hurd age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Norman Lamont age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 72
House of Representatives - United States
Merlyn Rees age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Hague age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 77
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Smith age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Steel age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 43
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Paul II age 70
Pope - Vatican City
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 62
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 66
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 52
King - Spain
Suharto age 69
President - Indonesia
Margrethe II of Denmark age 50
Queen - Denmark
Corazon Aquino age 57
President - Philippines
Slobodan Milošević age 48
President - Serbia
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 44
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 52
Queen - Netherlands
Omar al-Bashir age 46
President - Sudan
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 49
Sultan - Oman
F. W. de Klerk age 54
State President - South Africa
Kurt Waldheim age 71
President - Austria
Mobutu Sese Seko age 59
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Yoweri Museveni age 45
President - Uganda
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 67
President - Poland
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 53
President - Tunisia
Francesco Cossiga age 62
President - Italy
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 43
President - Yemen
Alberto Fujimori age 52
President - Peru
José Eduardo dos Santos age 47
President - Angola
Turgut Özal age 62
President - Turkey
Mswati III age 22
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 57
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 54
King - Jordan
Teodoro Obiang age 48
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hastings Banda age 100
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 60
President - Iceland
Omar Bongo age 54
President - Gabon
Hassan II age 61
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 66
President - Zambia
Carlos Menem age 60
President - Argentina
Michel Aoun age 56
President - Lebanon
Letsie III of Lesotho age 27
King - Lesotho
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 53
President - Ethiopia
Ion Iliescu age 60
President - Romania
Olav V of Norway age 87
King - Norway
Mauno Koivisto age 66
President - Finland
Blaise Compaoré age 39
President - Burkina Faso
Mohammad Najibullah age 43
President - Afghanistan
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 84
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 65
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 67
Prince - Monaco
Mário Soares age 65
President - Portugal
Mathieu Kérékou age 56
President - Benin
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 34
King - Bhutan
Violeta Chamorro age 60
President - Nicaragua
R. Venkataraman age 79
President - India
Siad Barre age 70
President - Somalia
Joaquim Chissano age 50
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 61
President - Namibia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 53
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 72
President - United Arab Emirates
Jerry Rawlings age 43
President - Ghana
João Bernardo Vieira age 51
President - Guinea-Bissau
Chaim Herzog age 71
President - Israel
Roh Tae-woo age 57
President - South Korea
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 52
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 54
President - Togo
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 83
President - Greece
Lansana Conté age 55
President - Guinea
Abdou Diouf age 54
President - Senegal
Hissène Habré age 48
President - Chad
Árpád Göncz age 68
President - Hungary
Samuel Doe age 39
President - Liberia
Quett Masire age 65
President - Botswana
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 69
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 75
President - Pakistan
Patricio Aylwin age 71
President - Chile
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 73
President - Djibouti
Chadli Bendjedid age 61
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 66
President - Cape Verde
Moussa Traoré age 53
President - Mali
Ibrahim Babangida age 48
President - Nigeria
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 66
President - The Gambia
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 67
President - Venezuela
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 64
Emir - Kuwait
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 65
President - Tanzania
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 70
President - Poland
Souphanouvong age 81
President - Laos
Didier Ratsiraka age 53
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 72
King - Tonga
Joaquín Balaguer age 83
President - Dominican Republic
France-Albert René age 54
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 53
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 60
President - Bangladesh
Pierre Buyoya age 40
President - Burundi