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Events

Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Siege of Dubrovnik 1991-10-01 - 1992-05-31

People

Elizabeth II age 65
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 65
President - Cuba
George H. W. Bush age 67
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 54
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 61
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 52
Supreme Leader - Iran
Hosni Mubarak age 63
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 75
President - France
Akihito age 58
Emperor - Japan
Jiang Zemin age 65
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Hafez al-Assad age 61
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 71
President - Germany
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 57
President - Iran
Baudouin of Belgium age 61
King - Belgium
Lee Teng-hui age 69
President - Republic of China
Fernando Collor de Mello age 42
President - Brazil
Yang Shangkun age 84
President - People's Republic of China
Vo Chi Cong age 79
President - Vietnam
Jorge Serrano Elías age 46
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 79
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 43
President - Mexico
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 69
Secretary-General - United Nations
Helmut Kohl age 61
Chancellor - Germany
John Major age 48
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giulio Andreotti age 73
Prime Minister - Italy
Isaac Shamir age 76
Prime Minister - Israel
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 71
President - International Olympic Committee
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 70
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Delors age 66
President - European Commission
Édith Cresson age 58
Prime Minister - France
Li Peng age 63
Premier - People's Republic of China
Kiichi Miyazawa age 72
Prime Minister - Japan
Khamtai Siphandone age 68
Prime Minister - Laos
Manfred Wörner age 57
Secretary General - NATO
Jan Olszewski age 61
Prime Minister - Poland
Charles Haughey age 66
Taoiseach - Ireland
Vo Van Kiet age 69
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Hau Pei-tsun age 72
Premier - Republic of China
Atef Sedki age 61
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hiroshi Nakajima age 63
Director-General - World Health Organization
Yon Hyong-muk age 60
Premier - North Korea
Mahmoud Zuabi age 57
Prime Minister - Syria
Lewis Thompson Preston age 65
President - World Bank
William Rehnquist age 67
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Kim Jong-il age 50
Supreme Commander, Korean People's Army - North Korea
Dan Quayle age 45
Vice President - United States
Wang Zhen (general) age 83
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Lee Yuan-tsu age 68
Vice President - Republic of China
Colin Powell age 54
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Dick Cheney age 51
Secretary Of Defense - United States
James Baker age 61
Secretary Of State - United States
William Barr age 41
Attorney General - United States
Norman Lamont age 49
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Nicholas F. Brady age 61
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Gordon R. Sullivan age 54
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William S. Sessions age 61
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Nelson Mandela age 73
President - African National Congress
Antonin Scalia age 55
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 43
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 55
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 71
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 52
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 74
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 61
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Neil Kinnock age 49
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Gerry Adams age 43
President - Sinn Féin
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 58
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 53
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 49
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 43
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 48
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 67
Senate - United States
Margaret Thatcher age 66
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Bill Clinton age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Paul II age 71
Pope - Vatican City
Lech Wałęsa age 48
President - Poland
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 64
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 67
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 54
King - Spain
Suharto age 70
President - Indonesia
Nūrsūltan Nazarbaev age 51
President - Kazakhstan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 51
Queen - Denmark
Corazon Aquino age 59
President - Philippines
Harald V of Norway age 54
King - Norway
Slobodan Milošević age 50
President - Serbia
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 45
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 54
Queen - Netherlands
Islam Karimov age 54
President - Uzbekistan
Omar al-Bashir age 48
President - Sudan
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 51
Sultan - Oman
F. W. de Klerk age 55
State President - South Africa
Kurt Waldheim age 73
President - Austria
Mobutu Sese Seko age 61
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Saparmyrat Nyýazow age 51
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 47
President - Uganda
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 55
President - Tunisia
Francesco Cossiga age 63
President - Italy
Leonid Kravchuk age 58
President - Ukraine
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 44
President - Yemen
Alberto Fujimori age 53
President - Peru
José Eduardo dos Santos age 49
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 39
President - Chad
Turgut Özal age 64
President - Turkey
Mswati III age 23
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 59
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 56
King - Jordan
Teodoro Obiang age 49
President - Equatorial Guinea
Mary Robinson age 47
President - Ireland
Hastings Banda age 102
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 61
President - Iceland
Alija Izetbegović age 66
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hassan II age 62
King - Morocco
Carlos Menem age 61
President - Argentina
Letsie III of Lesotho age 28
King - Lesotho
Meles Zenawi age 36
President - Ethiopia
Ion Iliescu age 61
President - Romania
Mauno Koivisto age 68
President - Finland
Blaise Compaoré age 41
President - Burkina Faso
Mohammad Najibullah age 44
President - Afghanistan
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 86
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 67
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 68
Prince - Monaco
Mário Soares age 67
President - Portugal
Amadou Toumani Touré age 43
President - Mali
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 36
King - Bhutan
Violeta Chamorro age 62
President - Nicaragua
R. Venkataraman age 81
President - India
Joaquim Chissano age 52
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 62
President - Namibia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 54
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 73
President - United Arab Emirates
Jerry Rawlings age 44
President - Ghana
João Bernardo Vieira age 52
President - Guinea-Bissau
Chaim Herzog age 73
President - Israel
Askar Akayev age 47
President - Kyrgyzstan
Roh Tae-woo age 59
President - South Korea
Ramiz Alia age 66
President - Albania
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 47
President - Armenia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 54
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 56
President - Togo
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 84
President - Greece
Lansana Conté age 57
President - Guinea
Kiro Gligorov age 74
President - North Macedonia
Abdou Diouf age 56
President - Senegal
Milan Kučan age 51
President - Slovenia
Zhelyu Zhelev age 56
President - Bulgaria
Árpád Göncz age 70
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 48
President - Zambia
Ayaz Mutallibov age 53
President - Azerbaijan
Quett Masire age 66
President - Botswana
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 71
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 77
President - Pakistan
Patricio Aylwin age 73
President - Chile
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 75
President - Djibouti
Ibrahim Babangida age 50
President - Nigeria
Ronald Venetiaan age 55
President - Suriname
Mircea Snegur age 52
President - Moldova
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 67
President - The Gambia
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 69
President - Venezuela
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 65
Emir - Kuwait
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 66
President - Tanzania
César Gaviria age 44
President - Colombia
Didier Ratsiraka age 55
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 73
King - Tonga
Mohamed Boudiaf age 72
President - Algeria
Joaquín Balaguer age 85
President - Dominican Republic
France-Albert René age 56
President - Seychelles
Pierre Buyoya age 42
President - Burundi
Nicéphore Soglo age 57
President - Benin
Kaysone Phomvihane age 71
President - Laos
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 50
President - Uruguay
Isa II of Bahrain age 58
Emir - Bahrain
Giorgos Vasiliou age 60
President - Cyprus
Wee Kim Wee age 76
President - Singapore
Rahmon Nabiyev age 61
President - Tajikistan
Elias Hrawi age 65
President - Lebanon
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 59
Emir - Qatar
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 47
President - Cape Verde
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 50
President - Mauritania
Momir Bulatović age 35
President - Montenegro
André Kolingba age 55
President - Central African Republic
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 50
President - Mongolia
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 65
President - Bangladesh
Jaime Paz Zamora age 52
President - Bolivia
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 56
President - Ecuador
Ċensu Tabone age 78
President - Malta
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 67
President - Sri Lanka
Alfredo Cristiani age 44
President - El Salvador
Miguel Trovoada age 55
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Ali Saibou age 51
President - Niger
Andrés Rodríguez age 68
President - Paraguay
Guillermo Endara age 55
President - Panama
Desmond Hoyte age 62
President - Guyana
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 42
President - Costa Rica
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 53
President - Somalia
Said Mohamed Djohar age 73
President - Comoros
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 48
President - Honduras
Amos Sawyer age 46
President - Liberia