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1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
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1989-04-15 - 1989-06-04
People
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 58
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 86
Supreme Leader
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Iran
Saddam Hussein
age 52
President
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Iraq
Kim Il-sung
age 77
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
George H. W. Bush
age 65
President
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United States
Elizabeth II
age 63
Queen
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United Kingdom
Lee Teng-hui
age 66
President
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Republic of China
Hafez al-Assad
age 58
President
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Syria
Yang Shangkun
age 81
President
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People's Republic of China
Zhao Ziyang
age 69
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Fidel Castro
age 62
President
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Cuba
François Mitterrand
age 72
President
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France
Ali Khamenei
age 50
President
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Iran
Hosni Mubarak
age 61
President
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Egypt
Vinicio Cerezo
age 46
President
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Guatemala
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
age 41
President
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Mexico
Vo Chi Cong
age 76
President
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Vietnam
Deng Xiaoping
age 84
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Margaret Thatcher
age 63
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Li Peng
age 60
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Helmut Kohl
age 59
Chancellor
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Germany
Atef Sedki
age 58
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Rajiv Gandhi
age 44
Prime Minister
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India
Isaac Shamir
age 73
Prime Minister
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Israel
Ciriaco De Mita
age 61
Prime Minister
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Italy
Kaysone Phomvihane
age 68
Prime Minister
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Laos
Yon Hyong-muk
age 57
Premier
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North Korea
Mahmoud Zuabi
age 54
Prime Minister
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Syria
Lee Huan
age 71
Premier
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Republic of China
Do Muoi
age 72
Prime Minister
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Vietnam
Mieczysław Rakowski
age 62
Prime Minister
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Poland
William Rehnquist
age 64
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Dan Quayle
age 42
Vice President
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United States
Wang Zhen (general)
age 81
Vice President
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People's Republic of China
Dick Cheney
age 48
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
James Baker
age 59
Secretary Of State
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United States
William S. Sessions
age 59
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Byron White
age 72
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens
age 69
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy
age 52
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia
age 53
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 59
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall
age 80
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 83
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 56
US Court Of Appeals
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US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer
age 50
US Court Of Appeals
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US Judiciary
Joe Biden
age 46
Senate
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United States
Al Gore
age 41
Senate
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United States
Daniel Inouye
age 64
Senate
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United States
John Kerry
age 45
Senate
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United States
John Lewis
age 49
Democratic Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
age 42
Governor of Arkansas
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United States
Jimmy Carter
age 64
Democratic Party (United States)
Ronald Reagan
age 78
Republican Party (United States)
Barack Obama
age 27
Democratic Party (United States)
Jiang Zemin
age 62
Communist Party of China
Henry Kissinger
age 66
Republican Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 46
Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian
age 79
Communist Party of China
Hua Guofeng
age 68
Communist Party of China
Walter Mondale
age 61
Democratic Party (United States)
Rong Yiren
age 73
Communist Party of China
Wen Jiabao
age 46
Communist Party of China
Li Keqiang
age 33
Communist Party of China
Kamala Harris
age 24
Democratic Party (United States)
Mike Pence
age 30
Republican Party (United States)
Sun Yun-suan
age 75
Kuomintang
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 65
Kuomintang
Lien Chan
age 52
Kuomintang
David Souter
age 49
Republican Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 81
Democratic Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 77
Democratic Party (United States)
William H. Webster
age 65
Republican Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 80
Democratic Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
age 41
Democratic Party (United States)
Liz Cheney
age 22
Republican Party (United States)
Clark Clifford
age 82
Democratic Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 60
Republican Party (United States)
Condoleezza Rice
age 34
Republican Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 69
Democratic Party (United States)
Souphanouvong
age 79
President
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Laos
Colin Powell
age 52
General
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United States Army
Mohammad Najibullah
age 41
President
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Afghanistan
Chadli Bendjedid
age 60
President
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Algeria
José Eduardo dos Santos
age 46
President
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Angola
Raúl Alfonsín
age 62
President
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Argentina
Kurt Waldheim
age 70
President
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Austria
Hussain Muhammad Ershad
age 59
President
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Bangladesh
Mathieu Kérékou
age 55
President
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Benin
Víctor Paz Estenssoro
age 81
President
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Bolivia
Quett Masire
age 63
President
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Botswana
Blaise Compaoré
age 38
President
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Burkina Faso
Pierre Buyoya
age 39
President
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Burundi
Paul Biya
age 56
President
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Cameroon
Aristides Pereira
age 65
President
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Cape Verde
André Kolingba
age 52
President
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Central African Republic
Hissène Habré
age 46
President
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Chad
Augusto Pinochet
age 73
President
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Chile
Virgilio Barco Vargas
age 67
President
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Colombia
Ahmed Abdallah
age 70
President
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Comoros
Óscar Arias Sánchez
age 47
President
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Costa Rica
Giorgos Vasiliou
age 58
President
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Cyprus
Mobutu Sese Seko
age 58
President
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
Hassan Gouled Aptidon
age 72
President
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Djibouti
Joaquín Balaguer
age 82
President
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Dominican Republic
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos
age 53
President
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Ecuador
José Napoleón Duarte
age 63
President
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El Salvador
Teodoro Obiang
age 47
President
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Equatorial Guinea
Mengistu Haile Mariam
age 52
President
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Ethiopia
John Haglelgam
age 39
President
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Federated States of Micronesia
Penaia Ganilau
age 70
President
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Fiji
Mauno Koivisto
age 65
President
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Finland
Jerry Rawlings
age 41
President
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Ghana
Christos Sartzetakis
age 60
President
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Greece
Lansana Conté
age 54
President
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Guinea
João Bernardo Vieira
age 50
President
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Guinea-Bissau
Desmond Hoyte
age 60
President
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Guyana
Prosper Avril
age 51
President
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Haiti
José Azcona del Hoyo
age 62
President
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Honduras
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
age 59
President
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Iceland
R. Venkataraman
age 78
President
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India
Suharto
age 68
President
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Indonesia
Patrick Hillery
age 66
President
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Ireland
Chaim Herzog
age 70
President
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Israel
Francesco Cossiga
age 60
President
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Italy
Félix Houphouët-Boigny
age 83
President
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Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi
age 64
President
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Kenya
Ieremia Tabai
age 39
President
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Kiribati
Phoumi Vongvichit
age 80
President
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Laos
Michel Aoun
age 55
Prime Minister
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Lebanon
Samuel Doe
age 38
President
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Liberia
Didier Ratsiraka
age 52
President
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Madagascar
Hastings Banda
age 99
President
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Malawi
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
age 51
President
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Maldives
Moussa Traoré
age 52
President
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Mali
Ċensu Tabone
age 76
President
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Malta
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
age 47
President
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Mauritania
Joaquim Chissano
age 49
President
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Mozambique
Hammer DeRoburt
age 66
President
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Nauru
Daniel Ortega
age 43
President
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Nicaragua
Ibrahim Babangida
age 47
President
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Nigeria
Ghulam Ishaq Khan
age 74
President
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Pakistan
Ngiratkel Etpison
age 64
President
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Palau
Mário Soares
age 64
President
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Portugal
Nicolae Ceaușescu
age 71
President
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Romania
Juvénal Habyarimana
age 52
President
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Rwanda
Abdou Diouf
age 53
President
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Senegal
Slobodan Milošević
age 47
President
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Serbia
France-Albert René
age 53
President
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Seychelles
Joseph Saidu Momoh
age 52
President
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Sierra Leone
Wee Kim Wee
age 73
President
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Singapore
Janez Stanovnik
age 66
President
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Slovenia
Ramsewak Shankar
age 51
President
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Suriname
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz
age 53
President
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Switzerland
Manuel Pinto da Costa
age 51
President
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São Tomé and Príncipe
Ali Hassan Mwinyi
age 64
President
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Tanzania
Dawda Kairaba Jawara
age 65
President
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The Gambia
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma
age 53
President
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Togo
Noor Hassanali
age 70
President
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Trinidad and Tobago
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
age 52
President
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Tunisia
Kenan Evren
age 71
President
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Turkey
Yoweri Museveni
age 44
President
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Uganda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
age 71
President
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United Arab Emirates
Julio María Sanguinetti
age 53
President
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Uruguay
Carlos Andrés Pérez
age 66
President
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Venezuela
Kenneth Kaunda
age 65
President
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Zambia
Robert Mugabe
age 65
President
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Zimbabwe
Kazimierz Sabbat
age 76
President
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Poland
Alan García
age 40
President
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Peru
Corazon Aquino
age 56
President
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Philippines
Siad Barre
age 69
President
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Somalia
Roh Tae-woo
age 56
President
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South Korea
Ranasinghe Premadasa
age 64
President
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Sri Lanka
Ahmed al-Mirghani
age 47
President
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Sudan
Sebastiano Baggio
age 76
President
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Vatican City
Ali Saibou
age 48
President
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Niger
Andrés Rodríguez
age 65
President
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Paraguay
Adil Çarçani
age 67
Prime Minister
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Albania
Qasdi Mirbah
age 51
Prime Minister
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Algeria
Josep Pintat-Solans
age 64
Prime Minister
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Andorra
Vere Bird
age 78
Prime Minister
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Antigua and Barbuda
Bob Hawke
age 59
Prime Minister
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Australia
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa
age 53
Prime Minister
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Bahrain
Moudud Ahmed
age 49
Prime Minister
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Bangladesh
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford
age 52
Prime Minister
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Barbados
Wilfried Martens
age 53
Prime Minister
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Belgium
Manuel Esquivel
age 49
Prime Minister
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Belize
Hassanal Bolkiah I of Brunei
age 42
Prime Minister
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Brunei
Adrien Sibomana
age 35
Prime Minister
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Burundi
Hun Sen
age 36
Prime Minister
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Cambodia
Brian Mulroney
age 50
Prime Minister
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Canada
Barkat Gourad Hamadou
age 59
Prime Minister
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Djibouti
Eugenia Charles
age 70
Prime Minister
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Dominica
Cristino Seriche Bioko
age 48
Prime Minister
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Equatorial Guinea
Fikre Selassie Wogderess
age 43
Prime Minister
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Ethiopia
Kamisese Mara
age 69
Prime Minister
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Fiji
Harri Holkeri
age 52
Prime Minister
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Finland
Léon Mébiame
age 54
Prime Minister
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Gabon
Andreas Papandreou
age 70
Prime Minister
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Greece
Herbert Blaize
age 71
Prime Minister
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Grenada
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