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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
Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08
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
Battle of Najaf (2004) 2004-08-05 - 2004-08-27

People

Vladimir Putin age 51
President - Russia
George W. Bush age 58
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 78
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 78
President - Cuba
Ali Khamenei age 65
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 76
President - Egypt
Akihito age 70
Emperor - Japan
Hu Jintao age 61
President - People's Republic of China
Mohammad Khatami age 60
President - Iran
Horst Köhler age 61
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 70
Monarch - Belgium
Vicente Fox age 62
President - Mexico
Chen Shui-bian age 53
President - Republic of China
Trần Đức Lương age 67
President - Vietnam
Óscar Berger age 58
President - Guatemala
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 46
President - Iraq
Kim Jong-il age 63
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Kofi Annan age 66
Secretary-General - United Nations
Silvio Berlusconi age 67
Prime Minister - Italy
Tony Blair age 51
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Gerhard Schröder age 60
Chancellor - Germany
Ariel Sharon age 76
Prime Minister - Israel
Manmohan Singh age 71
Prime Minister - India
Jiang Zemin age 78
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Romano Prodi age 65
President - European Commission
Junichiro Koizumi age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
Wen Jiabao age 61
Premier - People's Republic of China
Jacques Rogge age 62
President - International Olympic Committee
Bertie Ahern age 52
Taoiseach - Ireland
Bounnhang Vorachit age 67
Prime Minister - Laos
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 56
Prime Minister - France
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 56
Secretary General - NATO
Marek Belka age 52
Prime Minister - Poland
Ahmed Nazif age 52
Prime Minister - Egypt
Phan Văn Khải age 70
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Pak Pong-ju age 65
Premier - North Korea
Lee Jong-wook age 59
Director-General - World Health Organization
James Wolfensohn age 70
President - World Bank
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 60
Prime Minister - Syria
Yu Shyi-kun age 56
Premier - Republic of China
William Rehnquist age 79
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Dick Cheney age 63
Vice President - United States
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 57
Vice President - Iraq
Zeng Qinghong age 65
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Roj Shaweis age 56
Vice President - Iraq
Richard Myers age 62
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Gordon Brown age 53
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Donald Rumsfeld age 72
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Colin Powell age 67
Secretary Of State - United States
John Ashcroft age 62
Attorney General - United States
David Blunkett age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John W. Snow age 65
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Peter Schoomaker age 58
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Mueller age 60
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Thabo Mbeki age 62
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 71
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 68
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Comey age 43
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Clarence Thomas age 56
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 66
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 68
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Michael Howard age 63
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
John Paul Stevens age 84
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 64
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lien Chan age 68
Chairman - Kuomintang
Sandra Day O'Connor age 74
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Gerry Adams age 55
President - Sinn Féin
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
Daniel Inouye age 80
Senate - United States
Mike Pence age 45
House of Representatives - United States
John Lewis age 64
House of Representatives - United States
John Paul II age 84
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 50
President - Venezuela
Alexander Lukashenka age 50
President - Belarus
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 76
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 80
President - Zimbabwe
Ilham Aliyev age 42
President - Azerbaijan
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 66
Monarch - Spain
Mikheil Saakashvili age 36
President - Georgia
Pervez Musharraf age 61
President - Pakistan
Nūrsūltan Nazarbaev age 64
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 42
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 64
Monarch - Denmark
Harald V of Norway age 67
Monarch - Norway
Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa age 67
President - Algeria
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 41
King - Morocco
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 58
Monarch - Sweden
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 72
President - India
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 66
King - Netherlands
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 57
President - Indonesia
Tarja Halonen age 60
President - Finland
Islam Karimov age 66
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
Saparmyrat Nyýazow age 64
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 59
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 66
President - Ukraine
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 57
President - Philippines
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 68
President - Tunisia
Václav Klaus age 63
President - Czech Republic
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 57
President - Yemen
Heinz Fischer age 65
President - Austria
Roh Moo-hyun age 58
President - South Korea
José Eduardo dos Santos age 62
President - Angola
Néstor Kirchner age 54
President - Argentina
Idriss Déby age 52
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 33
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 36
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 71
President - Cameroon
Teodoro Obiang age 62
President - Equatorial Guinea
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 83
President - Italy
Hamad II of Bahrain age 54
King - Bahrain
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 60
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 49
President - Poland
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 49
Monarch - Luxembourg
Boris Tadić age 46
President - Serbia
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 62
President - Turkey
Robert Kocharyan age 50
President - Armenia
Laurent Gbagbo age 59
President - Ivory Coast
Stjepan Mesić age 69
President - Croatia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 41
King - Lesotho
Isaias Afwerki age 58
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 50
President - Montenegro
Ion Iliescu age 74
President - Romania
Olusegun Obasanjo age 67
President - Nigeria
Yahya Jammeh age 39
President - The Gambia
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 61
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 53
President - Ireland
Blaise Compaoré age 53
President - Burkina Faso
Valdas Adamkus age 77
President - Lithuania
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 59
President - Sri Lanka
Georgi Parvanov age 47
President - Bulgaria
Mwai Kibaki age 72
President - Kenya
John Kufuor age 65
President - Ghana
Janez Drnovšek age 54
President - Slovenia
Ivan Gašparovič age 63
President - Slovakia
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 81
Prince - Monaco
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 52
Emir - Qatar
Mathieu Kérékou age 71
President - Benin
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 56
President - Djibouti
Arnold Rüütel age 76
President - Estonia
Moshe Katsav age 58
President - Israel
Ibrahim Rugova age 59
President - Kosovo
Amadou Toumani Touré age 55
President - Mali
Xanana Gusmão age 58
President - Timor-Leste
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 48
King - Bhutan
Bingu wa Mutharika age 70
President - Malawi
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 52
President - Colombia
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 66
President - Latvia
Joaquim Chissano age 64
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 75
President - Namibia
Abdoulaye Wade age 78
President - Senegal
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 86
President - United Arab Emirates
Tassos Papadopoulos age 70
President - Cyprus
Askar Akayev age 59
President - Kyrgyzstan
Festus Mogae age 65
President - Botswana
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 66
President - Maldives
Branko Crvenkovski age 41
President - North Macedonia
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 68
President - Togo
Alfred Moisiu age 74
President - Albania
François Bozizé age 57
President - Central African Republic
Than Shwe age 71
President - Myanmar
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 79
President - Ethiopia
Lansana Conté age 69
President - Guinea
Vladimir Voronin age 63
President - Moldova
Jorge Sampaio age 64
President - Portugal
Ricardo Lagos age 66
President - Chile
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 78
President - Greece
Levy Mwanawasa age 56
President - Zambia
Ferenc Mádl age 73
President - Hungary
Alejandro Toledo age 59
President - Peru
Iajuddin Ahmed age 73
President - Bangladesh
Émile Lahoud age 68
President - Lebanon
Marc Ravalomanana age 54
President - Madagascar
Benjamin Mkapa age 65
President - Tanzania
Leonel Fernández age 50
President - Dominican Republic
Mamadou Tandja age 66
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 80
President - Singapore
Azali Assoumani age 45
President - Comoros
Carlos Mesa age 51
President - Bolivia
Anote Tong age 52
President - Kiribati
Anerood Jugnauth age 74
President - Mauritius
Pedro Pires age 70
President - Cape Verde
Eddie Fenech Adami age 70
President - Malta
Ronald Venetiaan age 68
President - Suriname
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 48
President - Palau
Nicanor Duarte age 47
President - Paraguay
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 78
Emir - Kuwait
James Michel age 60
President - Seychelles
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 76
President - Uruguay
Mireya Moscoso age 58
President - Panama