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Events

North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
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
2009 swine flu pandemic 2009-01 - 2010-08-10

People

Barack Obama age 48
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
Akihito age 75
Emperor - Japan
Hu Jintao age 66
President - People's Republic of China
Raúl Castro age 78
President - Cuba
Horst Köhler age 66
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 75
King - Belgium
Jalal Talabani age 75
President - Iraq
Ma Ying-jeou age 59
President - Republic of China
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 66
President - Vietnam
Álvaro Colom age 58
President - Guatemala
Kim Jong-il age 68
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Felipe Calderón age 47
President - Mexico
Ban Ki-moon age 65
Secretary-General - United Nations
Angela Merkel age 55
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
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 56
Secretary General - NATO
Wen Jiabao age 66
Premier - People's Republic of China
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
Margaret Chan age 62
Director-General - World Health Organization
Ahmed Nazif age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Robert Zoellick age 56
President - World Bank
Kim Yong-il age 65
Premier - North Korea
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 55
Prime Minister - Laos
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 65
Prime Minister - Syria
Liu Chao-shiuan age 66
Premier - Republic of China
José Manuel Barroso age 53
President - European Commission
John Roberts age 54
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 66
Vice President - United States
Xi Jinping age 56
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 67
Vice President - Iraq
Li Keqiang age 54
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
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 48
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Alistair Darling age 55
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Alan Johnson age 59
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Mueller age 65
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
Clarence Thomas age 61
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 71
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 73
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 89
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Wu Po-hsiung age 70
Chairman - Kuomintang
Gerry Adams age 60
President - Sinn Féin
John Kerry age 65
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 85
Senate - United States
Mike Pence age 50
House of Representatives - United States
John Lewis age 69
House of Representatives - United States
Benedict XVI age 82
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 55
President - Venezuela
Rafael Correa age 46
President - Ecuador
Alexander Lukashenka age 55
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 86
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 60
President - Poland
Giorgio Napolitano age 84
President - Italy
Nūrsūltan Nazarbaev age 69
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 85
King - Saudi Arabia
Harald V of Norway age 72
King - Norway
Viktor Yushchenko age 55
President - Ukraine
Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa age 72
President - Algeria
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 46
King - Morocco
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 63
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 71
Queen - Netherlands
Serzh Sargsyan age 55
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 54
President - Pakistan
Emomali Rahmon age 56
President - Tajikistan
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 52
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 73
President - Tunisia
Václav Klaus age 68
President - Czech Republic
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 53
President - Lithuania
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 62
President - Yemen
Heinz Fischer age 70
President - Austria
José Eduardo dos Santos age 67
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 57
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 38
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 67
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
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 65
President - Ghana
Alan García age 60
President - Peru
Laurent Gbagbo age 64
President - Ivory Coast
Stjepan Mesić age 74
President - Croatia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 46
King - Lesotho
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 70
President - Portugal
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 63
President - Sri Lanka
Isaias Afwerki age 63
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 55
President - Montenegro
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 58
President - Nigeria
Gjorge Ivanov age 49
President - North Macedonia
Tabaré Vázquez age 69
President - Uruguay
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 80
Emir - Kuwait
Yahya Jammeh age 44
President - The Gambia
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 66
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 58
President - Ireland
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 43
President - Togo
Karolos Papoulias age 80
President - Greece
Blaise Compaoré age 58
President - Burkina Faso
Thomas Boni Yayi age 57
President - Benin
Georgi Parvanov age 52
President - Bulgaria
Mwai Kibaki age 77
President - Kenya
Dimitris Christofias age 63
President - Cyprus
Ivan Gašparovič age 68
President - Slovakia
Bamir Topi age 52
President - Albania
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 60
President - Kyrgyzstan
Andry Rajoelina age 35
President - Madagascar
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 46
President - Mongolia
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 57
Emir - Qatar
Fernando Lugo age 58
President - Paraguay
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 61
President - Djibouti
Amadou Toumani Touré age 60
President - Mali
Ram Baran Yadav age 61
President - Nepal
László Sólyom age 67
President - Hungary
Valdis Zatlers age 54
President - Latvia
Bingu wa Mutharika age 75
President - Malawi
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 57
President - Colombia
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 52
President - Mauritania
Danilo Türk age 57
President - Slovenia
Abdoulaye Wade age 83
President - Senegal
Mauricio Funes age 49
President - El Salvador
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 56
President - Botswana
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 58
President - Tanzania
Zillur Rahman age 80
President - Bangladesh
François Bozizé age 62
President - Central African Republic
Mohamed Nasheed age 42
President - Maldives
Than Shwe age 76
President - Myanmar
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 84
President - Ethiopia
René Préval age 66
President - Haiti
Vladimir Voronin age 68
President - Moldova
George Tupou V of Tonga age 61
King - Tonga
Fatmir Sejdiu age 57
President - Kosovo
Choummaly Sayasone age 73
President - Laos
Michel Suleiman age 60
President - Lebanon
George Abela age 61
President - Malta
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 74
President - Namibia
Ernest Bai Koroma age 55
President - Sierra Leone
Željko Komšić age 45
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ricardo Martinelli age 57
President - Panama
Haris Silajdžić age 63
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Leonel Fernández age 55
President - Dominican Republic
Mamadou Tandja age 71
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 85
President - Singapore
Rupiah Banda age 72
President - Zambia