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Events

North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Second Chechen War 1999-08-26 - 2009-04-16
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
War in Darfur 2003-02-26 - 2020-08-31
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18
2008 financial crisis 2007-08-09 - 2009-06-30
Russo-Georgian War 2008-08-07 - 2008-08-16
2008 Summer Olympics 2008-08-08 - 2008-08-24

People

Ram Baran Yadav age 60
President - Nepal
László Sólyom age 66
President - Hungary
Valdis Zatlers age 53
President - Latvia
Bingu wa Mutharika age 74
President - Malawi
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 56
President - Colombia
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 51
President - Mauritania
Danilo Türk age 56
President - Slovenia
Abdoulaye Wade age 82
President - Senegal
Manuel Zelaya age 55
President - Honduras
João Bernardo Vieira age 69
President - Guinea-Bissau
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 55
President - Botswana
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 70
President - Maldives
Branko Crvenkovski age 45
President - North Macedonia
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 57
President - Tanzania
François Bozizé age 61
President - Central African Republic
Than Shwe age 75
President - Myanmar
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 83
President - Ethiopia
Lansana Conté age 73
President - Guinea
René Préval age 65
President - Haiti
Vladimir Voronin age 67
President - Moldova
George Tupou V of Tonga age 60
King - Tonga
Fatmir Sejdiu age 56
President - Kosovo
Choummaly Sayasone age 72
President - Laos
Michel Suleiman age 59
President - Lebanon
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 73
President - Namibia
Ernest Bai Koroma age 54
President - Sierra Leone
Levy Mwanawasa age 59
President - Zambia
Željko Komšić age 44
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Iajuddin Ahmed age 77
President - Bangladesh
Marc Ravalomanana age 58
President - Madagascar
Haris Silajdžić age 62
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Leonel Fernández age 54
President - Dominican Republic
Mamadou Tandja age 70
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 84
President - Singapore
Rupiah Banda age 71
President - Zambia
Anote Tong age 56
President - Kiribati
Anerood Jugnauth age 78
President - Mauritius
Armando Guebuza age 65
President - Mozambique
Pedro Pires age 74
President - Cape Verde
Eddie Fenech Adami age 74
President - Malta
Ronald Venetiaan age 72
President - Suriname
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 50
President - Mongolia
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 52
President - Palau
Nicanor Duarte age 51
President - Paraguay
Marcus Stephen age 38
President - Nauru
James Michel age 64
President - Seychelles
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 73
President - Somalia
Nicholas Liverpool age 73
President - Dominica
Bharrat Jagdeo age 44
President - Guyana
Pascal Couchepin age 66
President - Switzerland
Josefa Iloilo age 87
President - Fiji
Fradique de Menezes age 66
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
George Maxwell Richards age 76
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Antonio Saca age 43
President - El Salvador
Martín Torrijos age 45
President - Panama
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 50
President - Comoros
Manny Mori age 59
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 59
President - Vanuatu
Nebojša Radmanović age 58
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Giovanni Lajolo age 73
President - Vatican City
Litokwa Tomeing age 68
President - Marshall Islands
Rosa Zafferani age 48
Captain Regent - San Marino
Federico Pedini Amati age 32
Captain Regent - San Marino
Vladimir Putin age 55
Prime Minister - Russia
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 54
Prime Minister - Turkey
Yulia Tymoshenko age 47
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Stephen Harper age 49
Prime Minister - Canada
Jens Stoltenberg age 49
Prime Minister - Norway
Jean-Claude Juncker age 53
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 51
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 48
Prime Minister - Spain
Kevin Rudd age 50
Prime Minister - Australia
Hassanal Bolkiah age 62
Prime Minister - Brunei
Robert Fico age 43
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 55
Prime Minister - Denmark
Helen Clark age 58
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Lee Hsien Loong age 56
Prime Minister - Singapore
Hashim Thaçi age 40
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 43
Prime Minister - Sweden
Sali Berisha age 63
Prime Minister - Albania
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 59
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Meles Zenawi age 53
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Jan Peter Balkenende age 52
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Milo Đukanović age 46
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Janez Janša age 49
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Yves Leterme age 47
Prime Minister - Belgium
Hun Sen age 56
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 51
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Nouri al-Maliki age 58
Prime Minister - Iraq
Xanana Gusmão age 62
Prime Minister - Timor-Leste
Ivo Sanader age 55
Prime Minister - Croatia
Andrus Ansip age 51
Prime Minister - Estonia
Nikola Gruevski age 37
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Matti Vanhanen age 52
Prime Minister - Finland
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 68
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 47
Prime Minister - Hungary
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 56
Prime Minister - Pakistan
José Sócrates age 50
Prime Minister - Portugal
Mirek Topolánek age 52
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Thein Sein age 63
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Alfred Gusenbauer age 48
Chancellor - Austria
Artur Rasizade age 73
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Luísa Diogo age 50
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Kostas Karamanlis age 51
Prime Minister - Greece
Girija Prasad Koirala age 84
Prime Minister - Nepal
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 67
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Tigran Sargsyan age 48
Prime Minister - Armenia
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 72
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Frank Bainimarama age 54
Prime Minister - Fiji
Sergey Stanishev age 42
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Raila A Odinga age 63
Prime Minister - Kenya
Zinaida Greceanîi age 52
Prime Minister - Moldova
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 56
Prime Minister - Romania
Dean Barrow age 57
Prime Minister - Belize
Roosevelt Skerrit age 36
Prime Minister - Dominica
Geir Haarde age 57
Prime Minister - Iceland
Gediminas Kirkilas age 56
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Lawrence Gonzi age 55
Prime Minister - Malta
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 63
Prime Minister - Samoa
Mirko Cvetković age 58
Prime Minister - Serbia
Michael Somare age 72
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Fouad Siniora age 65
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Ahmad Uyahya age 56
Prime Minister - Algeria
Antoine Gizenga age 82
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Sam Hinds age 64
Prime Minister - Guyana
Samak Sundaravej age 73
Prime Minister - Thailand
Jigme Thinley age 55
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Ralph Gonsalves age 62
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Oqil Oqilov age 64
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Nandó dos Santos age 58
Prime Minister - Angola
Baldwin Spencer age 59
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Syarhiey Sidorski age 54
Prime Minister - Belarus
Ivars Godmanis age 56
Prime Minister - Latvia
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro age 36
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
David Thompson age 46
Prime Minister - Barbados
Pakalitha Mosisili age 63
Prime Minister - Lesotho
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 75
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Navin Ramgoolam age 61
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Abbas El Fassi age 67
Prime Minister - Morocco
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 50
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Denzil Douglas age 55
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani age 48
Prime Minister - Qatar
Nahas Angula age 65
Prime Minister - Namibia
Bernard Makuza age 45
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Nur Hassan Hussein age 70
Prime Minister - Somalia
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 67
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 63
Prime Minister - Libya
Nikola Špirić age 51
Prime Minister - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hubert Ingraham age 61
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Apolo Nsibambi age 67
Prime Minister - Uganda
Albert Pintat age 65
Prime Minister - Andorra
Lado Gurgenidze age 37
Prime Minister - Georgia
Tillman Thomas age 63
Prime Minister - Grenada
Bruce Golding age 60
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Mizengo Pinda age 60
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Apisai Ielemia age 53
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 68
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Modibo Sidibé age 55
Prime Minister - Mali
Feleti Sevele age 64
Prime Minister - Tonga
Patrick Manning age 62
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Ham Lini age 56
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Ephraïm Inoni age 61
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Igor Chudinov age 46
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 55
Prime Minister - Yemen
Ignacio Milam Tang age 68
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Themba Dlamini age 57
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Carlos Correia age 74
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Nader al-Dahabi age 61
Prime Minister - Jordan
Charles Rabemananjara age 61
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Jorge del Castillo age 58
Prime Minister - Peru
Tertius Zongo age 51
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Jacques-Édouard Alexis age 60
Prime Minister - Haiti
Isidore Mvouba age 54
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 57
Prime Minister - Guinea
Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf age 50
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Stephenson King age 49
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Youssouf Saleh Abbas age 55
Prime Minister - Chad
Seyni Oumarou age 58
Prime Minister - Niger
Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré age 56
Prime Minister - Senegal
Joaquim Rafael Branco age 54
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Komlan Mally age 47
Prime Minister - Togo
Louise Lake-Tack age 64
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Michael Jeffery age 70
Governor-General - Australia
Anand Satyanand age 64
Governor-General - New Zealand
Frederick Ballantyne age 72
Governor-General - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Colville Young age 75
Governor-General - Belize
Cuthbert Sebastian age 86
Governor-General - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Clifford Husbands age 82
Governor-General - Barbados
Paulias Matane age 76
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Filoimea Telito age 63
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Kenneth O. Hall age 67
Governor-General - Jamaica
Arthur Dion Hanna age 80
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Nathaniel Waena age 62
Governor-General - Solomon Islands
Donald Trump age 62
Michael Jackson age 49
Nelson Mandela age 90
Bill Gates age 52
Pope Francis age 71
Steve Jobs age 53
Bill Clinton age 62