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Events

Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Casamance conflict 1982 - 2014-05-01
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Russian–Ukrainian Friendship Treaty 1997-05-31 - 2019-04-01
Operation Active Endeavour 2001-10 - 2016-11
Operation Enduring Freedom 2001-10-07 - 2014-12-28
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
Taliban insurgency 2001-12-17 - 2021-08-15
Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty 2002-05-24 - 2011-02-05
Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011) 2003 - 2011-12-18
War in Darfur 2003-02-26 - 2020-08-31
Anbar campaign (2003–2011) 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-07
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18
Iraqi conflict 2003-03-20 - 2017-12-09
Houthi insurgency 2004-06 - 2015-02-06
American drone strikes in Pakistan 2004-06-18 - 2018-01-24
Chadian Civil War (2005–2010) 2005-12-18 - 2010-01-15
EPOXI 2007-07-03 - 2013-09-19
Insurgency in Ingushetia 2007-07-21 - 2015-05-19
2008 financial crisis 2007-08-09 - 2009-06-30
2009 swine flu pandemic 2009-01 - 2010-08-10
Insurgency in the North Caucasus 2009-04-16 - 2017-12-19

People

Barack Obama age 47
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 83
Queen - United Kingdom
Nicolas Sarkozy age 54
President - France
Dmitry Medvedev age 43
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 70
Supreme Leader - Iran
Bashar al-Assad age 43
President - Syria
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 63
President - Brazil
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 52
President - Iran
Hosni Mubarak age 81
President - Egypt
Kim Jong-il age 68
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Akihito age 75
Emperor - Japan
Hu Jintao age 66
President - People's Republic of China
Raúl Castro age 77
President - Cuba
Horst Köhler age 66
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 74
King - Belgium
Felipe Calderón age 46
President - Mexico
Jalal Talabani age 75
President - Iraq
Ma Ying-jeou age 58
President - Republic of China
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 66
President - Vietnam
Álvaro Colom age 57
President - Guatemala
Ban Ki-moon age 64
Secretary-General - United Nations
Angela Merkel age 54
Chancellor - Germany
Benjamin Netanyahu age 59
Prime Minister - Israel
Silvio Berlusconi age 72
Prime Minister - Italy
Gordon Brown age 58
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Manmohan Singh age 76
Prime Minister - India
Donald Tusk age 52
Prime Minister - Poland
Tarō Asō age 68
Prime Minister - Japan
Wen Jiabao age 66
Premier - People's Republic of China
José Manuel Barroso age 53
President - European Commission
François Fillon age 55
Prime Minister - France
Jacques Rogge age 67
President - International Olympic Committee
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 59
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Brian Cowen age 49
Taoiseach - Ireland
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 61
Secretary General - NATO
Margaret Chan age 61
Director-General - World Health Organization
Ahmed Nazif age 56
Prime Minister - Egypt
Robert Zoellick age 55
President - World Bank
Kim Yong-il age 65
Premier - North Korea
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 54
Prime Minister - Laos
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 65
Prime Minister - Syria
Liu Chao-shiuan age 66
Premier - Republic of China
John Roberts age 54
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 66
Vice President - United States
Xi Jinping age 55
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 67
Vice President - Iraq
Li Keqiang age 53
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Wang Qishan age 60
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Michael Mullen age 62
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Bantz J. Craddock age 59
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
Hillary Clinton age 61
Secretary of State - United States
Robert Gates age 65
Secretary of Defense - United States
Eric Holder age 58
Attorney General - United States
Timothy Geithner age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Jacqui Smith age 46
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 55
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George W. Casey Jr. age 60
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Mueller age 64
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
David Cameron age 42
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Jacob Zuma age 67
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 76
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 73
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Gerry Adams age 60
President - Sinn Féin
Clarence Thomas age 60
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 70
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 72
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Peter Mandelson age 55
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Paul Stevens age 89
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 69
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Wu Po-hsiung age 69
Chairman - Kuomintang
Liam Byrne age 38
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
David W. Ogden age 55
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Elena Kagan age 49
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Matthew Whitaker age 39
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
John McCain age 72
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 65
Senate - United States
Jeff Sessions age 62
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 84
Senate - United States
Theresa May age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mike Pence age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Andy Burnham age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ed Miliband age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 69
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Hammond age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Hunt age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Osborne age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Hague age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jack Straw age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Howard age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Yvette Cooper age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Duncan Smith age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Grant Shapps age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Blunkett age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Healey age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alan Johnson age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Clarke age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ian Liddell-Grainger age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 61
Governor of California - United States
Rick Perry age 59
Governor of Texas - United States
Tim Kaine age 51
Governor of Virginia - United States
David Paterson age 55
Governor of New York - United States
Martin O'Malley age 46
Governor of Maryland - United States
Deval Patrick age 52
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Mike Beebe age 62
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Jon Corzine age 62
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Sonny Perdue age 62
Governor of Georgia - United States
Mitch Daniels age 60
Governor of Indiana - United States
Ted Strickland age 67
Governor of Ohio - United States
Phil Bredesen age 65
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Benedict XVI age 82
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 54
President - Venezuela
Rafael Correa age 46
President - Ecuador
Alexander Lukashenko age 54
President - Belarus
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 81
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 85
President - Zimbabwe
Ilham Aliyev age 47
President - Azerbaijan
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 70
President - Liberia
Shimon Peres age 85
President - Israel
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 71
King - Spain
Evo Morales age 49
President - Bolivia
Mikheil Saakashvili age 41
President - Georgia
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 56
President - Argentina
Michelle Bachelet age 57
President - Chile
Abdullah Gül age 58
President - Turkey
Lech Kaczyński age 59
President - Poland
Giorgio Napolitano age 83
President - Italy
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 68
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 47
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 69
Queen - Denmark
Hamid Karzai age 51
President - Afghanistan
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 84
King - Saudi Arabia
Harald V of Norway age 72
King - Norway
Viktor Yushchenko age 55
President - Ukraine
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 72
President - Algeria
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 45
King - Morocco
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 63
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 71
Queen - Netherlands
Serzh Sargsyan age 54
President - Armenia
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 29
King - Bhutan
Tarja Halonen age 65
President - Finland
Daniel Ortega age 63
President - Nicaragua
Islam Karimov age 71
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 51
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 65
President - Sudan
Pratibha Patil age 74
President - India
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 59
President - Indonesia
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 68
Sultan - Oman
Asif Ali Zardari age 53
President - Pakistan
Emomali Rahmon age 56
President - Tajikistan
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 51
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 64
President - Uganda
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 51
Prince - Monaco
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 62
President - Philippines
Norodom Sihamoni age 56
King - Cambodia
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 72
President - Tunisia
Václav Klaus age 67
President - Czech Republic
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 62
President - Yemen
Heinz Fischer age 70
President - Austria
José Eduardo dos Santos age 66
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 56
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 37
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 41
King - Eswatini
Traian Băsescu age 57
President - Romania
Paul Biya age 76
President - Cameroon
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 60
President - United Arab Emirates
Teodoro Obiang age 66
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hamad II of Bahrain age 59
King - Bahrain
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 65
President - Republic of the Congo
Pierre Nkurunziza age 44
President - Burundi
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 67
President - Costa Rica
Omar Bongo age 73
President - Gabon
Lee Myung-bak age 67
President - South Korea
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 54
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Boris Tadić age 51
President - Serbia
José Ramos-Horta age 59
President - Timor-Leste
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 55
President - Estonia
John Evans Atta Mills age 64
President - Ghana
Alan García age 59
President - Peru
Laurent Gbagbo age 63
President - Ivory Coast
Stjepan Mesić age 74
President - Croatia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 45
King - Lesotho
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 69
President - Portugal
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 63
President - Sri Lanka
Isaias Afwerki age 63
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 54
President - Montenegro
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 57
President - Nigeria
Tabaré Vázquez age 69
President - Uruguay
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 79
Emir - Kuwait
Yahya Jammeh age 43
President - The Gambia
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 66
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 57
President - Ireland
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 42
President - Togo
Karolos Papoulias age 79
President - Greece
Blaise Compaoré age 58
President - Burkina Faso
Valdas Adamkus age 82
President - Lithuania