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Explore August 8, 2008 – August 24, 2008

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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
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

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
Neil Armstrong age 78
François Hollande age 54
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 30
Margaret Thatcher age 82
Gabriel García Márquez age 81
Fidel Castro age 82
Mikhail Gorbachev age 77
Elon Musk age 37
Stephen Hawking age 66
Jimmy Carter age 83
Emmanuel Macron age 30
George H. W. Bush age 84
Kamala Harris age 43
Naruhito age 48
Muammar Gaddafi age 66
Muhammad Ali age 66
Kofi Annan age 70
Charles III age 59
Osama bin Laden age 51
Lech Wałęsa age 64
Leo XIV age 52
Diego Maradona age 47
Narendra Modi age 57
Aung San Suu Kyi age 63
Benjamin Netanyahu age 58
14th Dalai Lama age 73
Mark Zuckerberg age 24
Shinzo Abe age 53
Tim Berners-Lee age 53
Mahathir Mohamad age 83
Jacques Chirac age 75
Guillermo Lasso age 52
Tony Blair age 55
Malala Yousafzai age 11
Greta Thunberg age 5
Linus Torvalds age 38
Boris Johnson age 44
Jair Bolsonaro age 53
Henry Kissinger age 85
Václav Havel age 71
Rishi Sunak age 28
Justin Trudeau age 36
Nicolás Maduro age 45
Dilma Rousseff age 60
Al Gore age 60
Valentina Tereshkova age 71
António Guterres age 59
Helmut Kohl age 78
Giorgia Meloni age 31
Olaf Scholz age 50
Keir Starmer age 45
Gerhard Schröder age 64
Hassan Rouhani age 59
Joko Widodo age 47
Petro Poroshenko age 42
Liz Truss age 33
Lee Kuan Yew age 84
Ursula von der Leyen age 49
Ariel Sharon age 80
Felipe VI of Spain age 40
Desmond Tutu age 76
Viktor Yanukovych age 58
Mohamed Morsi age 57
Viktor Orbán age 45
Sergio Mattarella age 67
Julia Gillard age 46
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 52
Jeff Bezos age 44
Buzz Aldrin age 78
Mohammad Khatami age 64
Tsai Ing-wen age 51
Mariano Rajoy age 53
Sheikh Hasina age 60
Mark Rutte age 41
Rodrigo Duterte age 63
JD Vance age 24
Helmut Schmidt age 89
Corazon Aquino age 75
Madeleine Albright age 71
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 41
Jacinda Ardern age 28
José Mujica age 73
Yoshihide Suga age 59
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 40
Andrzej Duda age 36
John Major age 65
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 53
Kaja Kallas age 31
Park Geun-hye age 56
Martti Ahtisaari age 71
Zuzana Čaputová age 35
Moon Jae-in age 55
Mitt Romney age 61
Juan Manuel Santos age 57
Matteo Renzi age 33
Pedro Sánchez age 36
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 72
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 76
Jiang Zemin age 82
Friedrich Merz age 52
Sauli Niinistö age 59
Eduard Shevardnadze age 80
Romano Prodi age 69
Giuseppe Conte age 44
Ebrahim Raisi age 47
Cyril Ramaphosa age 55
Sanna Marin age 22
Pranab Mukherjee age 72
Maia Sandu age 36
Joachim Gauck age 68
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 61
Kersti Kaljulaid age 38
Muhammadu Buhari age 65
Fumio Kishida age 51
Sanae Takaichi age 47
Sebastián Piñera age 58
Alexis Tsipras age 34
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 69
Dan Quayle age 61
Scott Morrison age 40
George Weah age 41
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 343
Naoto Kan age 61
Philippe of Belgium age 48
Droupadi Murmu age 50
Norodom Sihanouk age 85
Abiy Ahmed age 32
Mario Draghi age 60
Kim Dae-jung age 84
Christian Wulff age 49
Radovan Karadžić age 63
Mohammed bin Salman age 22
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 85
Asif Ali Zardari age 53
Yoon Suk Yeol age 47
F. W. de Klerk age 72
Ashraf Ghani age 59
Javier Milei age 37
Alexander Van der Bellen age 64
Mark Carney age 43
Miloš Zeman age 63
Salome Zourabichvili age 56
Leonid Kuchma age 70
Donald Rumsfeld age 76
Masoud Pezeshkian age 53
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 55
Klaus Iohannis age 49
Aleksandar Vučić age 38
Süleyman Demirel age 83
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 49
Queen Camilla age 61
Mikhail Mishustin age 42
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 85
Bronisław Komorowski age 56
Junichiro Koizumi age 66
Tarō Asō age 67
Colin Powell age 71
Marco Rubio age 37
Sebastian Kurz age 21
Gabriel Boric age 22
Naftali Bennett age 36
Giulio Andreotti age 89
Anthony Albanese age 45
Francesco Cossiga age 80
Mette Frederiksen age 30
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 52
Leonid Kravchuk age 74
Antony Blinken age 46
Ahmed Ben Bella age 91
Tony Abbott age 50
Michael D. Higgins age 67
Paolo Gentiloni age 53
Mario Monti age 65
Alberto Fujimori age 70
Roh Moo-hyun age 61
Richard von Weizsäcker age 88
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 48
Ram Nath Kovind age 62
Nawaz Sharif age 58
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 74
Néstor Kirchner age 58
Nikol Pashinyan age 33
John Howard age 69
Yukio Hatoyama age 61
Ahmed al-Sharaa age 25