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Events

Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Second Chechen War 1999-08-26 - 2009-04-16
Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
First Ivorian Civil War 2002-09-19 - 2007-03-04
War in Darfur 2003-02-26 - 2020-08-31
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18
Second Battle of Fallujah 2004-11-07 - 2004-12-23
Orange Revolution 2004-11-22 - 2005-01-23
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami 2004-12-26

People

Vladimir Putin age 52
President - Russia
George W. Bush age 58
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 78
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 78
President - Cuba
Ali Khamenei age 65
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 72
President - France
Bashar al-Assad age 39
President - Syria
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 59
President - Brazil
Hosni Mubarak age 76
President - Egypt
Akihito age 70
Emperor - Japan
Hu Jintao age 61
President - People's Republic of China
Mohammad Khatami age 61
President - Iran
Horst Köhler age 61
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 70
King - Belgium
Vicente Fox age 62
President - Mexico
Chen Shui-bian age 54
President - Republic of China
Trần Đức Lương age 67
President - Vietnam
Óscar Berger age 58
President - Guatemala
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 46
President - Iraq
Kim Jong-il age 63
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Kofi Annan age 66
Secretary-General - United Nations
Silvio Berlusconi age 68
Prime Minister - Italy
Tony Blair age 51
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Gerhard Schröder age 60
Chancellor - Germany
Ariel Sharon age 76
Prime Minister - Israel
Manmohan Singh age 72
Prime Minister - India
Jiang Zemin age 78
Chairman of the Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Junichiro Koizumi age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
Wen Jiabao age 62
Premier - People's Republic of China
Jacques Rogge age 62
President - International Olympic Committee
Bertie Ahern age 53
Taoiseach - Ireland
Bounnhang Vorachit age 67
Prime Minister - Laos
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 56
Prime Minister - France
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 56
Secretary General - NATO
Marek Belka age 52
Prime Minister - Poland
Ahmed Nazif age 52
Prime Minister - Egypt
Phan Văn Khải age 70
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Pak Pong-ju age 65
Premier - North Korea
Lee Jong-wook age 59
Director-General - World Health Organization
James Wolfensohn age 71
President - World Bank
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 60
Prime Minister - Syria
Yu Shyi-kun age 56
Premier - Republic of China
José Manuel Barroso age 48
President - European Commission
William Rehnquist age 80
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Dick Cheney age 63
Vice President - United States
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 57
Vice President - Iraq
Zeng Qinghong age 65
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Roj Shaweis age 57
Vice President - Iraq
Richard Myers age 62
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Gordon Brown age 53
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Donald Rumsfeld age 72
Secretary of Defense - United States
Colin Powell age 67
Secretary of State - United States
John Ashcroft age 62
Attorney General - United States
David Blunkett age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John W. Snow age 65
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles Clarke age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Peter Schoomaker age 58
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Mueller age 60
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Thabo Mbeki age 62
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 71
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 68
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Comey age 43
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Clarence Thomas age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 66
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 68
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Michael Howard age 63
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
John Paul Stevens age 84
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 65
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lien Chan age 68
Chairman - Kuomintang
Alan Milburn age 46
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Sandra Day O'Connor age 74
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Gerry Adams age 56
President - Sinn Féin
Paul Clement age 38
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Christopher Wray age 37
Assistant Attorney General - Department of Justice
Matthew Whitaker age 35
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Barack Obama age 43
Senate - United States
Joe Biden age 62
Senate - United States
Hillary Clinton age 57
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 60
Senate - United States
Jeff Sessions age 57
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 80
Senate - United States
Chuck Hagel age 58
Senate - United States
John McCain age 68
Senate - United States
David Cameron age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Boris Johnson age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Theresa May age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mike Pence age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Andy Burnham age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 64
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Hammond age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Osborne age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jack Straw age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Yvette Cooper age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jacqui Smith age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Healey age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alan Johnson age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Frank Underwood age 45
House of Representatives - United States
William Hague age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Duncan Smith age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ian Liddell-Grainger age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 57
Governor of California - United States
Mitt Romney age 57
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Mike Huckabee age 49
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Rick Perry age 54
Governor of Texas - United States
Mark Warner age 49
Governor of Virginia - United States
George Pataki age 59
Governor of New York - United States
Sonny Perdue age 57
Governor of Georgia - United States
Mitch Daniels age 55
Governor of Indiana - United States
Phil Bredesen age 61
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Bob Ehrlich age 47
Governor of Maryland - United States
Richard Codey age 58
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Bob Taft age 62
Governor of Ohio - United States
Joe Kernan age 58
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Paul II age 84
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 50
President - Venezuela
Alexander Lukashenko age 50
President - Belarus
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 77
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 80
President - Zimbabwe
Ilham Aliyev age 42
President - Azerbaijan
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 66
King - Spain
Mikheil Saakashvili age 36
President - Georgia
Pervez Musharraf age 61
President - Pakistan
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 64
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 42
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 64
Queen - Denmark
Hamid Karzai age 46
President - Afghanistan
Harald V of Norway age 67
King - Norway
Viktor Yushchenko age 50
President - Ukraine
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 67
President - Algeria
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 41
King - Morocco
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 58
King - Sweden
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 73
President - India
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 66
Queen - Netherlands
Tarja Halonen age 60
President - Finland
Islam Karimov age 66
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 47
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 60
President - Sudan
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 55
President - Indonesia
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 64
Sultan - Oman
Emomali Rahmon age 52
President - Tajikistan
Saparmurat Niyazov age 64
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 60
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 66
President - Ukraine
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 57
President - Philippines
Norodom Sihamoni age 51
King - Cambodia
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 68
President - Tunisia
Václav Klaus age 63
President - Czech Republic
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 57
President - Yemen
Heinz Fischer age 66
President - Austria
Roh Moo-hyun age 58
President - South Korea
José Eduardo dos Santos age 62
President - Angola
Néstor Kirchner age 54
President - Argentina
Idriss Déby age 52
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 33
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 36
King - Eswatini
Traian Băsescu age 53
President - Romania
Paul Biya age 71
President - Cameroon
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 56
President - United Arab Emirates
Teodoro Obiang age 62
President - Equatorial Guinea
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 84
President - Italy
Hamad II of Bahrain age 54
King - Bahrain
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 61
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 50
President - Poland
Omar Bongo age 68
President - Gabon
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 49
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Boris Tadić age 46
President - Serbia
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 63
President - Turkey
Robert Kocharyan age 50
President - Armenia
Laurent Gbagbo age 59
President - Ivory Coast
Stjepan Mesić age 69
President - Croatia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 41
King - Lesotho
Isaias Afwerki age 58
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 50
President - Montenegro
Ion Iliescu age 74
President - Romania
Olusegun Obasanjo age 67
President - Nigeria
Yahya Jammeh age 39
President - The Gambia
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 61
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 53
President - Ireland
Blaise Compaoré age 53
President - Burkina Faso
Valdas Adamkus age 78
President - Lithuania
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 59
President - Sri Lanka
Georgi Parvanov age 47
President - Bulgaria
Mwai Kibaki age 73
President - Kenya
John Kufuor age 66
President - Ghana
Janez Drnovšek age 54
President - Slovenia
Ivan Gašparovič age 63
President - Slovakia
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 81
Prince - Monaco
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 52
Emir - Qatar
Mathieu Kérékou age 71
President - Benin
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 57
President - Djibouti
Arnold Rüütel age 76
President - Estonia
Moshe Katsav age 59
President - Israel
Ibrahim Rugova age 60
President - Kosovo
Amadou Toumani Touré age 56
President - Mali