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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
Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
First Ivorian Civil War 2002-09-19 - 2007-03-04
2002–2004 SARS outbreak 2002-11 - 2004-05
War in Darfur 2003-02-26 - 2020-08-31
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18

People

Vladimir Putin age 51
President - Russia
George W. Bush age 57
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 77
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 77
President - Cuba
Ali Khamenei age 64
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 71
President - France
Bashar al-Assad age 38
President - Syria
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 58
President - Brazil
Hosni Mubarak age 75
President - Egypt
Akihito age 70
Emperor - Japan
Hu Jintao age 61
President - People's Republic of China
Mohammad Khatami age 60
President - Iran
Albert II of Belgium age 69
King - Belgium
Johannes Rau age 72
President - Germany
Vicente Fox age 61
President - Mexico
Chen Shui-bian age 53
President - Republic of China
Trần Đức Lương age 66
President - Vietnam
Alfonso Portillo age 52
President - Guatemala
Kim Jong-il age 62
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Kofi Annan age 65
Secretary-General - United Nations
Silvio Berlusconi age 67
Prime Minister - Italy
Tony Blair age 50
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Gerhard Schröder age 59
Chancellor - Germany
Ariel Sharon age 75
Prime Minister - Israel
Jiang Zemin age 77
Chairman of the Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Romano Prodi age 64
President - European Commission
Junichiro Koizumi age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Wen Jiabao age 61
Premier - People's Republic of China
Jacques Rogge age 61
President - International Olympic Committee
Bertie Ahern age 52
Taoiseach - Ireland
Bounnhang Vorachit age 66
Prime Minister - Laos
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 55
Prime Minister - France
Leszek Miller age 57
Prime Minister - Poland
Phan Văn Khải age 70
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Pak Pong-ju age 64
Premier - North Korea
Lee Jong-wook age 58
Director-General - World Health Organization
James Wolfensohn age 70
President - World Bank
Atef Ebeid age 71
Prime Minister - Egypt
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 60
Prime Minister - Syria
Yu Shyi-kun age 55
Premier - Republic of China
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 79
Prime Minister - India
William Rehnquist age 79
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Dick Cheney age 62
Vice President - United States
Zeng Qinghong age 64
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Richard Myers age 61
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Gordon Brown age 52
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Donald Rumsfeld age 71
Secretary of Defense - United States
Colin Powell age 66
Secretary of State - United States
John Ashcroft age 61
Attorney General - United States
David Blunkett age 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John W. Snow age 64
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Peter Schoomaker age 57
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Mueller age 59
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Thabo Mbeki age 61
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 70
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 67
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Comey age 43
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Clarence Thomas age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 65
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 67
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Michael Howard age 62
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
John Paul Stevens age 83
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 64
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lien Chan age 67
Chairman - Kuomintang
Sandra Day O'Connor age 73
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Gerry Adams age 55
President - Sinn Féin
Theodore Olson age 63
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Christopher Wray age 37
Assistant Attorney General - Department of Justice
Joe Biden age 61
Senate - United States
Hillary Clinton age 56
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 60
Senate - United States
Jeff Sessions age 57
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 79
Senate - United States
Chuck Hagel age 57
Senate - United States
John McCain age 67
Senate - United States
David Cameron age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Boris Johnson age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Theresa May age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mike Pence age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Andy Burnham age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 63
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Hammond age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Osborne age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jack Straw age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Yvette Cooper age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jacqui Smith age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Healey age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alan Johnson age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Frank Underwood age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Clarke age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Hague age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Duncan Smith age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ian Liddell-Grainger age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 56
Governor of California - United States
Mitt Romney age 56
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Mike Huckabee age 48
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Rick Perry age 53
Governor of Texas - United States
Mark Warner age 49
Governor of Virginia - United States
George Pataki age 58
Governor of New York - United States
Sonny Perdue age 57
Governor of Georgia - United States
Phil Bredesen age 60
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Bob Ehrlich age 46
Governor of Maryland - United States
Jim McGreevey age 46
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Bob Taft age 61
Governor of Ohio - United States
Joe Kernan age 57
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Paul II age 83
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 49
President - Venezuela
Alexander Lukashenko age 49
President - Belarus
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 76
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 79
President - Zimbabwe
Ilham Aliyev age 42
President - Azerbaijan
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 65
King - Spain
Pervez Musharraf age 60
President - Pakistan
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 63
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 41
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 63
Queen - Denmark
Harald V of Norway age 66
King - Norway
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 66
President - Algeria
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 40
King - Morocco
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 57
King - Sweden
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 72
President - India
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 65
Queen - Netherlands
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 56
President - Indonesia
Tarja Halonen age 60
President - Finland
Islam Karimov age 65
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 46
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 60
President - Sudan
Norodom Sihanouk age 81
King - Cambodia
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 63
Sultan - Oman
Emomali Rahmon age 51
President - Tajikistan
Saparmurat Niyazov age 63
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 59
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 65
President - Ukraine
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 56
President - Philippines
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 67
President - Tunisia
Václav Klaus age 62
President - Czech Republic
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 56
President - Yemen
Roh Moo-hyun age 57
President - South Korea
José Eduardo dos Santos age 61
President - Angola
Néstor Kirchner age 53
President - Argentina
Idriss Déby age 51
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 32
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 35
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 70
President - Cameroon
Teodoro Obiang age 61
President - Equatorial Guinea
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 83
President - Italy
Hamad II of Bahrain age 53
King - Bahrain
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 60
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 49
President - Poland
Omar Bongo age 68
President - Gabon
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 48
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 62
President - Turkey
Robert Kocharyan age 49
President - Armenia
Laurent Gbagbo age 58
President - Ivory Coast
Stjepan Mesić age 69
President - Croatia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 40
King - Lesotho
Isaias Afwerki age 57
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 49
President - Montenegro
Ion Iliescu age 73
President - Romania
Olusegun Obasanjo age 66
President - Nigeria
Yahya Jammeh age 38
President - The Gambia
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 60
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 52
President - Ireland
Blaise Compaoré age 52
President - Burkina Faso
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 58
President - Sri Lanka
Georgi Parvanov age 46
President - Bulgaria
Mwai Kibaki age 72
President - Kenya
John Kufuor age 65
President - Ghana
Janez Drnovšek age 53
President - Slovenia
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 80
Prince - Monaco
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 52
Emir - Qatar
Mathieu Kérékou age 70
President - Benin
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 56
President - Djibouti
Arnold Rüütel age 75
President - Estonia
Moshe Katsav age 58
President - Israel
Ibrahim Rugova age 59
President - Kosovo
Amadou Toumani Touré age 55
President - Mali
Xanana Gusmão age 57
President - Timor-Leste
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 48
King - Bhutan
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 51
President - Colombia
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 66
President - Latvia
Joaquim Chissano age 64
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 74
President - Namibia
Abdoulaye Wade age 77
President - Senegal
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 85
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 71
President - Austria
Tassos Papadopoulos age 69
President - Cyprus
Askar Akayev age 59
President - Kyrgyzstan
Festus Mogae age 64
President - Botswana
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 66
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 68
President - Togo
Alfred Moisiu age 74
President - Albania
François Bozizé age 57
President - Central African Republic
Than Shwe age 70
President - Myanmar