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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
2009 swine flu pandemic 2009-01 - 2010-08-10
Eurozone crisis 2009
Launch of Bitcoin 2009-01-03
2010 Haiti earthquake 2010-01-12
Deepwater Horizon oil spill 2010-04-20 - 2010-09-19

People

Barack Obama age 47
President - United States
George W. Bush age 62
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 82
Queen - United Kingdom
Nicolas Sarkozy age 53
President - France
Dmitry Medvedev age 43
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 69
Supreme Leader - Iran
Bashar al-Assad age 43
President - Syria
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 63
President - Brazil
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 52
President - Iran
Hosni Mubarak age 80
President - Egypt
Akihito age 75
Emperor - Japan
Hu Jintao age 66
President - People's Republic of China
Raúl Castro age 77
President - Cuba
Horst Köhler age 65
President - Germany
Christian Wulff age 49
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 74
King - Belgium
Jalal Talabani age 75
President - Iraq
Ma Ying-jeou age 58
President - Republic of China
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 66
President - Vietnam
Álvaro Colom age 57
President - Guatemala
Kim Jong-il age 67
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Felipe Calderón age 46
President - Mexico
Ban Ki-moon age 64
Secretary-General - United Nations
Angela Merkel age 54
Chancellor - Germany
Benjamin Netanyahu age 59
Prime Minister - Israel
Silvio Berlusconi age 72
Prime Minister - Italy
David Cameron age 42
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Gordon Brown age 57
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Manmohan Singh age 76
Prime Minister - India
Donald Tusk age 51
Prime Minister - Poland
Naoto Kan age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
Tarō Asō age 68
Prime Minister - Japan
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 55
Secretary General - NATO
Wen Jiabao age 66
Premier - People's Republic of China
Ehud Olmert age 63
Prime Minister - Israel
François Fillon age 54
Prime Minister - France
Yukio Hatoyama age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Jacques Rogge age 66
President - International Olympic Committee
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 59
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Brian Cowen age 49
Taoiseach - Ireland
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 60
Secretary General - NATO
Margaret Chan age 61
Director-General - World Health Organization
Ahmed Nazif age 56
Prime Minister - Egypt
Robert Zoellick age 55
President - World Bank
Kim Yong-il age 64
Premier - North Korea
Choe Yong-rim age 78
Premier - North Korea
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 54
Prime Minister - Laos
Wu Den-yih age 60
Premier - Republic of China
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 65
Prime Minister - Syria
Liu Chao-shiuan age 65
Premier - Republic of China
José Manuel Barroso age 52
President - European Commission
John Roberts age 53
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 66
Vice President - United States
Xi Jinping age 55
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Dick Cheney age 67
Vice President - United States
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 67
Vice President - Iraq
Li Keqiang age 53
Vice Premier Of The People's Republic Of China - People's Republic of China
Michael Mullen age 62
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Hillary Clinton age 61
Secretary Of State - United States
Theresa May age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Condoleezza Rice age 54
Secretary Of State - United States
Robert Gates age 65
Secretary Of Defense - United States
George Osborne age 37
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Eric Holder age 57
Attorney General - United States
Henry Paulson age 62
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Timothy Geithner age 47
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
William J. Burns age 52
Secretary Of State - United States
Jacqui Smith age 46
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 55
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Alan Johnson age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Michael Mukasey age 67
Attorney General - United States
Mark Filip age 42
Attorney General - United States
Robert Mueller age 64
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Jacob Zuma age 66
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 75
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 72
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 70
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 72
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 88
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 69
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Harriet Harman age 58
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Wu Po-hsiung age 69
Chairman - Kuomintang
Gerry Adams age 60
President - Sinn Féin
John Kerry age 65
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 84
Senate - United States
Mike Pence age 49
House of Representatives - United States
John Lewis age 68
House of Representatives - United States
Benedict XVI age 81
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 54
President - Venezuela
Rafael Correa age 45
President - Ecuador
Alexander Lukashenko age 54
President - Belarus
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 81
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 84
President - Zimbabwe
Ilham Aliyev age 47
President - Azerbaijan
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 70
President - Liberia
Shimon Peres age 85
President - Israel
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 71
King - Spain
Evo Morales age 49
President - Bolivia
Mikheil Saakashvili age 41
President - Georgia
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 55
President - Argentina
Michelle Bachelet age 57
President - Chile
Viktor Yanukovych age 58
President - Ukraine
Abdullah Gül age 58
President - Turkey
Lech Kaczyński age 59
President - Poland
Giorgio Napolitano age 83
President - Italy
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 68
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 46
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 68
Queen - Denmark
Hamid Karzai age 51
President - Afghanistan
José Mujica age 73
President - Uruguay
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 84
King - Saudi Arabia
Harald V of Norway age 71
King - Norway
Viktor Yushchenko age 54
President - Ukraine
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 71
President - Algeria
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 45
King - Morocco
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 62
King - Sweden
Juan Manuel Santos age 57
President - Colombia
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 70
Queen - Netherlands
Serzh Sargsyan age 54
President - Armenia
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 28
King - Bhutan
Sebastián Piñera age 59
President - Chile
Tarja Halonen age 65
President - Finland
Daniel Ortega age 63
President - Nicaragua
Islam Karimov age 70
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 51
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 65
President - Sudan
Pratibha Patil age 74
President - India
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 59
President - Indonesia
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 68
Sultan - Oman
Asif Ali Zardari age 53
President - Pakistan
Emomali Rahmon age 56
President - Tajikistan
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 51
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 64
President - Uganda
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 50
Prince - Monaco
Bronisław Komorowski age 56
President - Poland
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 61
President - Philippines
Norodom Sihamoni age 55
King - Cambodia
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 72
President - Tunisia
Václav Klaus age 67
President - Czech Republic
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 52
President - Lithuania
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 61
President - Yemen
Heinz Fischer age 70
President - Austria
José Eduardo dos Santos age 66
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 56
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 37
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 40
King - Eswatini
Traian Băsescu age 57
President - Romania
Paul Biya age 75
President - Cameroon
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 60
President - United Arab Emirates
Teodoro Obiang age 66
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hamad II of Bahrain age 58
King - Bahrain
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 49
President - Gabon
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 65
President - Republic of the Congo
Pierre Nkurunziza age 44
President - Burundi
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 67
President - Costa Rica
Lee Myung-bak age 67
President - South Korea
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 53
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Boris Tadić age 50
President - Serbia
José Ramos-Horta age 59
President - Timor-Leste
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 55
President - Estonia
John Evans Atta Mills age 64
President - Ghana
Roza Otunbayeva age 58
President - Kyrgyzstan
Alan García age 59
President - Peru
Goodluck Jonathan age 51
President - Nigeria
Laura Chinchilla age 49
President - Costa Rica
Laurent Gbagbo age 63
President - Ivory Coast
Benigno Aquino III age 48
President - Philippines
Stjepan Mesić age 74
President - Croatia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 45
King - Lesotho
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 69
President - Portugal
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 63
President - Sri Lanka
Ivo Josipović age 51
President - Croatia
Isaias Afwerki age 62
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 54
President - Montenegro
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 57
President - Nigeria
Gjorge Ivanov age 48
President - North Macedonia
Tabaré Vázquez age 69
President - Uruguay
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 79
Emir - Kuwait
Yahya Jammeh age 43
President - The Gambia
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 65
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 57
President - Ireland
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 42
President - Togo
Karolos Papoulias age 79
President - Greece
Blaise Compaoré age 57
President - Burkina Faso
Valdas Adamkus age 82
President - Lithuania
Thomas Boni Yayi age 56
President - Benin
Georgi Parvanov age 51
President - Bulgaria
Mwai Kibaki age 77
President - Kenya
John Kufuor age 70
President - Ghana
Dimitris Christofias age 62
President - Cyprus
Ivan Gašparovič age 67
President - Slovakia
Bamir Topi age 51
President - Albania
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 59
President - Kyrgyzstan
Andry Rajoelina age 34
President - Madagascar
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 45
President - Mongolia
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 57
Emir - Qatar
Fernando Lugo age 57
President - Paraguay
Kgalema Motlanthe age 59
President - South Africa
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 61
President - Djibouti