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Events

North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
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
Arab Spring 2010-12-17 - 2012-12-31
Libyan civil war (2011) 2011-02-15 - 2011-10-23
Syrian civil war 2011-03-15 - 2024-12-08
Occupy Wall Street 2011-09-17 - 2011-11-15

People

Barack Obama age 50
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 85
Queen - United Kingdom
Nicolas Sarkozy age 56
President - France
Dmitry Medvedev age 46
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 72
Supreme Leader - Iran
Bashar al-Assad age 46
President - Syria
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 54
President - Iran
Dilma Rousseff age 63
President - Brazil
Akihito age 77
Emperor - Japan
Hu Jintao age 68
President - People's Republic of China
Raúl Castro age 80
President - Cuba
Christian Wulff age 52
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 77
Monarch - Belgium
Trương Tấn Sang age 62
President - Vietnam
Jalal Talabani age 77
President - Iraq
Ma Ying-jeou age 61
President - Republic of China
Álvaro Colom age 60
President - Guatemala
Kim Jong-il age 70
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Felipe Calderón age 49
President - Mexico
Ban Ki-moon age 67
Secretary-General - United Nations
Angela Merkel age 57
Chancellor - Germany
Benjamin Netanyahu age 61
Prime Minister - Israel
Silvio Berlusconi age 75
Prime Minister - Italy
David Cameron age 44
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Manmohan Singh age 79
Prime Minister - India
Donald Tusk age 54
Prime Minister - Poland
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 58
Secretary General - NATO
Wen Jiabao age 69
Premier - People's Republic of China
François Fillon age 57
Prime Minister - France
Yoshihiko Noda age 54
Prime Minister - Japan
Jacques Rogge age 69
President - International Olympic Committee
Enda Kenny age 60
Taoiseach - Ireland
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 61
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Margaret Chan age 64
Director-General - World Health Organization
Essam Sharaf age 59
Prime Minister - Egypt
Robert Zoellick age 58
President - World Bank
Thongsing Thammavong age 67
Prime Minister - Laos
Choe Yong-rim age 80
Premier - North Korea
Wu Den-yih age 63
Premier - Republic of China
Adel Safar age 58
Prime Minister - Syria
José Manuel Barroso age 55
President - European Commission
John Roberts age 56
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 68
Vice President - United States
Xi Jinping age 58
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Li Keqiang age 56
Vice Premier Of The People's Republic Of China - People's Republic of China
Martin Dempsey age 59
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Michael Mullen age 64
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Hillary Clinton age 63
Secretary Of State - United States
Theresa May age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Leon Panetta age 73
Secretary Of Defense - United States
George Osborne age 40
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Eric Holder age 60
Attorney General - United States
Timothy Geithner age 50
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Raymond T. Odierno age 57
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Mueller age 67
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Jacob Zuma age 69
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 78
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 75
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 63
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 73
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 75
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Ed Miliband age 41
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Gerry Adams age 62
President - Sinn Féin
John Kerry age 67
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 87
Senate - United States
Mike Pence age 52
House of Representatives - United States
John Lewis age 71
House of Representatives - United States
Benedict XVI age 84
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 57
President - Venezuela
Rafael Correa age 48
President - Ecuador
Alexander Lukashenka age 57
President - Belarus
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 83
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 87
President - Zimbabwe
Ilham Aliyev age 49
President - Azerbaijan
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 72
President - Liberia
Shimon Peres age 88
President - Israel
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 73
Monarch - Spain
Evo Morales age 51
President - Bolivia
Mikheil Saakashvili age 43
President - Georgia
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 58
President - Argentina
Viktor Yanukovych age 61
President - Ukraine
Abdullah Gül age 60
President - Turkey
Giorgio Napolitano age 86
President - Italy
Nūrsūltan Nazarbaev age 71
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 49
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 71
Monarch - Denmark
Hamid Karzai age 53
President - Afghanistan
José Mujica age 76
President - Uruguay
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 87
King - Saudi Arabia
Harald V of Norway age 74
Monarch - Norway
Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa age 74
President - Algeria
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 48
King - Morocco
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 65
Monarch - Sweden
Juan Manuel Santos age 60
President - Colombia
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 73
King - Netherlands
Serzh Sargsyan age 57
President - Armenia
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 31
King - Bhutan
Sebastián Piñera age 61
President - Chile
Tarja Halonen age 67
President - Finland
Daniel Ortega age 65
President - Nicaragua
Islam Karimov age 73
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 53
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 67
President - Sudan
Pratibha Patil age 76
President - India
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 62
President - Indonesia
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 70
Sultan - Oman
Asif Ali Zardari age 56
President - Pakistan
Emomali Rahmon age 58
President - Tajikistan
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 54
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 67
President - Uganda
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 53
Prince - Monaco
Bronisław Komorowski age 59
President - Poland
Norodom Sihamoni age 58
King - Cambodia
Václav Klaus age 70
President - Czech Republic
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 55
President - Lithuania
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 64
President - Yemen
Heinz Fischer age 72
President - Austria
Michael D. Higgins age 70
President - Ireland
José Eduardo dos Santos age 69
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 59
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 40
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 43
King - Eswatini
Traian Băsescu age 59
President - Romania
Paul Biya age 78
President - Cameroon
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 63
President - United Arab Emirates
Teodoro Obiang age 69
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hamad II of Bahrain age 61
King - Bahrain
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 52
President - Gabon
Alassane Ouattara age 69
President - Ivory Coast
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 67
President - Republic of the Congo
Pierre Nkurunziza age 46
President - Burundi
Lee Myung-bak age 69
President - South Korea
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 56
Monarch - Luxembourg
Boris Tadić age 53
President - Serbia
José Ramos-Horta age 61
President - Timor-Leste
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 57
President - Estonia
John Evans Atta Mills age 67
President - Ghana
Roza Otunbayeva age 61
President - Kyrgyzstan
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 60
President - South Sudan
Goodluck Jonathan age 53
President - Nigeria
Laura Chinchilla age 52
President - Costa Rica
Benigno Aquino III age 51
President - Philippines
Letsie III of Lesotho age 48
King - Lesotho
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 72
President - Portugal
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 65
President - Sri Lanka
Ivo Josipović age 54
President - Croatia
Isaias Afwerki age 65
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 57
President - Montenegro
Gjorge Ivanov age 51
President - North Macedonia
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 82
Emir - Kuwait
Yahya Jammeh age 46
President - The Gambia
Alpha Condé age 73
President - Guinea
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 68
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 60
President - Ireland
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 45
President - Togo
Karolos Papoulias age 82
President - Greece
Blaise Compaoré age 60
President - Burkina Faso
Thomas Boni Yayi age 59
President - Benin
Georgi Parvanov age 54
President - Bulgaria
Mwai Kibaki age 79
President - Kenya
Ollanta Humala age 49
President - Peru
Atifete Jahjaga age 36
President - Kosovo
Dimitris Christofias age 65
President - Cyprus
Ivan Gašparovič age 70
President - Slovakia
Bamir Topi age 54
President - Albania
Andry Rajoelina age 37
President - Madagascar
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 48
President - Mongolia
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 59
Emir - Qatar
Fernando Lugo age 60
President - Paraguay
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 63
President - Djibouti
Amadou Toumani Touré age 62
President - Mali
Ram Baran Yadav age 63
President - Nepal
Desi Bouterse age 65
President - Suriname
Bingu wa Mutharika age 77
President - Malawi
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 54
President - Mauritania
Danilo Türk age 59
President - Slovenia
Abdoulaye Wade age 85
President - Senegal
Mauricio Funes age 51
President - El Salvador
Pál Schmitt age 69
President - Hungary
Mahamadou Issoufou age 59
President - Niger
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 58
President - Botswana
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 60
President - Cape Verde
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 60
President - Tanzania
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 71
President - Singapore
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 66
President - Switzerland
Zillur Rahman age 82
President - Bangladesh
François Bozizé age 64
President - Central African Republic
Mohamed Nasheed age 44
President - Maldives
Thein Sein age 66
President - Myanmar
Bakir Izetbegović age 55
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 86
President - Ethiopia
Andris Bērziņš age 66
President - Latvia
George Tupou V of Tonga age 63
Monarch - Tonga
Michael Sata age 74
President - Zambia
Choummaly Sayasone age 75
President - Laos
Michel Suleiman age 62
President - Lebanon
George Abela age 63
President - Malta
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 76
President - Namibia
Ernest Bai Koroma age 57
President - Sierra Leone
Željko Komšić age 47
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina