✦ History

Explore July 2, 1997 – December 31, 1998

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Events

The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales 1997-08-31
Kyoto Protocol 1997-12-11
Kosovo War 1998-02-28 - 1999-06-11
Good Friday Agreement 1998-04-10
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998-07-17
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18
Launch of the International Space Station 1998-11-20

People

Frederick Sumaye age 47
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Bill Skate age 43
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Ung Huot age 52
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 51
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Jumabek Ibraimov age 53
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Bernard Kolélas age 64
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Mamadou Lamine Loum age 45
Prime Minister - Senegal
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 57
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Baron Vaea age 76
Prime Minister - Tonga
Ahmed Abdou age 61
Prime Minister - Comoros
Mohamed Ahmed Mangush age 29
Prime Minister - Libya
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 73
Prime Minister - Samoa
Yahyo Azimov age 49
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Pascal-Firmin Ndimira age 41
Prime Minister - Burundi
Edison James age 53
Prime Minister - Dominica
Amadou Cissé age 49
Prime Minister - Niger
Charles David Ganao age 70
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Raul Bragança Neto age 58
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Javier Valle Riestra age 65
Prime Minister - Peru
Abbas Djoussouf age 55
Prime Minister - Comoros
Nourdine Bourhane age 47
Prime Minister - Comoros
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki age 45
Prime Minister - Niger
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 43
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido age 50
Prime Minister - Chad
Kubanychbek Jumaliyev age 41
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Janlavyn Narantsatsralt age 40
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 59
Prime Minister - Yemen
Kwassi Klutse age 51
Prime Minister - Togo
Mohamed Lemine Ould Guig age 38
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 41
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 62
Prime Minister - Yemen
Michel Gbezera-Bria age 51
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai age 49
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Boris Silayev age 51
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Alberto Pandolfi age 57
Prime Minister - Peru
Sidya Touré age 52
Prime Minister - Guinea
Gediminas Vagnorius age 40
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan age 42
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Colville Young age 64
Governor-General - Belize
Cuthbert Sebastian age 75
Governor-General - Saint Kitts and Nevis
William Deane age 66
Governor-General - Australia
Clifford Husbands age 70
Governor-General - Barbados
James Carlisle age 59
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Howard Cooke age 81
Governor-General - Jamaica
Michael Hardie Boys age 65
Governor-General - New Zealand
Tomasi Puapua age 58
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Orville Turnquest age 68
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Tulaga Manuella age 60
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Charles Antrobus age 64
Governor-General - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Silas Atopare age 46
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Wiwa Korowi age 49
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 35
Illinois Senate
Donald Trump age 51
Michael Jackson age 38
Vladimir Putin age 44
Ronald Reagan age 86
Bill Gates age 41
Pope Francis age 60
Steve Jobs age 42
Angela Merkel age 42
Neil Armstrong age 66
François Hollande age 42
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 19
Margaret Thatcher age 71
Gabriel García Márquez age 70
Mikhail Gorbachev age 66
Elon Musk age 26
Stephen Hawking age 55
Jimmy Carter age 72
Emmanuel Macron age 19
Benedict XVI age 70
Mother Teresa age 86
Hillary Clinton age 49
George H. W. Bush age 73
Kamala Harris age 32
Nicolas Sarkozy age 42
Xi Jinping age 44
Naruhito age 37
Hugo Chávez age 42
Muammar Gaddafi age 55
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 43
Muhammad Ali age 55
Charles III age 48
Osama bin Laden age 40
Lech Wałęsa age 53
Gerald Ford age 84
Leo XIV age 41
Diego Maradona age 36
Narendra Modi age 46
Rafael Correa age 34
Aung San Suu Kyi age 52
Dmitry Medvedev age 31
14th Dalai Lama age 62
Mark Zuckerberg age 13
Silvio Berlusconi age 60
Shinzo Abe age 42
Tim Berners-Lee age 42
Guillermo Lasso age 41
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 78
Malala Yousafzai born 1997-07-12
Yasser Arafat age 67
David Cameron age 30
Linus Torvalds age 27
Ban Ki-moon age 53
Boris Johnson age 33
Diana, Princess of Wales age 36
Bashar al-Assad age 31
Benazir Bhutto age 44
Jair Bolsonaro age 42
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 51
Theresa May age 40
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 40
Henry Kissinger age 74
Rishi Sunak age 17
Justin Trudeau age 25
Nicolás Maduro age 34
Dilma Rousseff age 49
Milton Friedman age 84
Valentina Tereshkova age 60
Pol Pot age 72
Ilham Aliyev age 35
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 58
Rosa Parks age 84
Shimon Peres age 73
Giorgia Meloni age 20
Olaf Scholz age 39
Keir Starmer age 34
Hassan Rouhani age 48
Evo Morales age 37
Joko Widodo age 36
Petro Poroshenko age 31
Mikheil Saakashvili age 29
Liz Truss age 21
Augusto Pinochet age 81
Lee Kuan Yew age 73
Ursula von der Leyen age 38
Mike Pence age 38
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 44
Michelle Bachelet age 45
Ariel Sharon age 69
Felipe VI of Spain age 29
Desmond Tutu age 65
Viktor Yanukovych age 47
Mohamed Morsi age 45
Sergio Mattarella age 55
Manmohan Singh age 64
Pervez Musharraf age 53
Julia Gillard age 35
Abdullah Gül age 46
Lech Kaczyński age 48
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 41
Jeff Bezos age 33
Buzz Aldrin age 67
Tsai Ing-wen age 40
Mariano Rajoy age 42
Dick Cheney age 56
Condoleezza Rice age 42
Raúl Castro age 66
Giorgio Napolitano age 72
Mark Rutte age 30
Idi Amin age 72
Yulia Tymoshenko age 36
Rodrigo Duterte age 52
JD Vance age 12
Abdullah II of Jordan age 35
Helmut Schmidt age 78
Stephen Harper age 38
Donald Tusk age 40
Corazon Aquino age 64
Hamid Karzai age 39
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 30
Jacinda Ardern age 16
José Mujica age 62
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 72
Yoshihide Suga age 48
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 29
Andrzej Duda age 25
Viktor Yushchenko age 43
John Major age 54
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 42
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 60
Jens Stoltenberg age 38
Kaja Kallas age 20
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 33
Jacob Zuma age 55
Park Geun-hye age 45
Zuzana Čaputová age 24
Moon Jae-in age 44
Juan Manuel Santos age 45
Matteo Renzi age 22
Pedro Sánchez age 25
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 61
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 65
Friedrich Merz age 41
Sauli Niinistö age 48
Giuseppe Conte age 32
Ebrahim Raisi age 36
Cyril Ramaphosa age 44
Serzh Sargsyan age 43
Sanna Marin age 11