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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Gulf War 1990-08-02 - 1991-02-28
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14

People

Noor Hassanali age 72
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Rosalio Lara age 68
President - Vatican City
Cesare Gasperoni age 46
Captain Regent - San Marino
Roberto Bucci age 40
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 69
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 65
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 51
Prime Minister - Norway
Hassanal Bolkiah age 44
Prime Minister - Brunei
Nawaz Sharif age 40
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 51
Prime Minister - Portugal
Hun Sen age 38
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Felipe González age 48
Prime Minister - Spain
Brian Mulroney age 51
Prime Minister - Canada
Bob Hawke age 61
Prime Minister - Australia
Hage Geingob age 49
Prime Minister - Namibia
Ruud Lubbers age 51
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Goh Chok Tong age 49
Prime Minister - Singapore
Ingvar Carlsson age 56
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacques Santer age 53
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 55
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 72
Prime Minister - Greece
Anerood Jugnauth age 60
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Franz Vranitzky age 53
Chancellor - Austria
Wilfried Martens age 54
Prime Minister - Belgium
Eddie Fenech Adami age 56
Prime Minister - Malta
Vladimír Mečiar age 48
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Harri Holkeri age 53
Prime Minister - Finland
Poul Schlüter age 61
Prime Minister - Denmark
Eugenia Charles age 71
Prime Minister - Dominica
Kazimira Prunskienė age 47
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Nicéphore Soglo age 56
Prime Minister - Benin
Ivars Godmanis age 39
Prime Minister - Latvia
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 47
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
József Antall age 58
Prime Minister - Hungary
Petre Roman age 44
Prime Minister - Romania
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 66
Prime Minister - Nepal
George Cadle Price age 71
Prime Minister - Belize
Yıldırım Akbulut age 55
Prime Minister - Turkey
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 62
Prime Minister - Iceland
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 60
Prime Minister - Kuwait
A. N. R. Robinson age 64
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Kamisese Mara age 70
Prime Minister - Fiji
Lojze Peterle age 42
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Vitold Fokin age 58
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Jim Bolger age 55
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Salim al-Huss age 61
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Chatchai Chunhawan age 70
Prime Minister - Thailand
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 74
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Lynden Pindling age 60
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Andrey Lukanov age 52
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
John Compton age 65
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Vazgen Manukyan age 44
Prime Minister - Armenia
Josip Manolić age 70
Prime Minister - Croatia
Adil Çarçani age 68
Prime Minister - Albania
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 60
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Saw Maung age 61
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Òscar Ribas Reig age 54
Prime Minister - Andorra
Vere Bird age 80
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Azzeddine Laraki age 61
Prime Minister - Morocco
Walter Lini age 48
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Casimir Oyé-Mba age 48
Prime Minister - Gabon
Mudar Badran age 56
Prime Minister - Jordan
Mário da Graça Machungo age 50
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Hamed Karoui age 62
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 53
Prime Minister - Barbados
Nicholas Brathwaite age 65
Prime Minister - Grenada
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 59
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas age 51
Prime Minister - Yemen
Mulud Hamroush age 47
Prime Minister - Algeria
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 50
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Abuzed Omar Dorda age 46
Prime Minister - Libya
Kennedy Simmonds age 54
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 34
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Solomon Mamaloni age 47
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
John Malecela age 56
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Obed Dlamini age 53
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Tu'i Pelehake age 68
Prime Minister - Tonga
Dashiin Byambasüren age 48
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Aliou Mahamidou age 43
Prime Minister - Niger
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 66
Prime Minister - Samoa
Radoje Kontić age 53
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Malimba Masheke age 49
Prime Minister - Zambia
Muhammad Hawadle Madar age 51
Prime Minister - Somalia
Fazal khaliq age 56
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Mircea Druc age 49
Prime Minister - Moldova
Adrien Sibomana age 37
Prime Minister - Burundi
Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller age 50
Prime Minister - Peru
Bill Hayden age 57
Governor-General - Australia
Elmira Minita Gordon age 59
Governor-General - Belize
Toaripi Lauti age 62
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Nita Barrow age 74
Governor-General - Barbados
Florizel Glasspole age 81
Governor-General - Jamaica
Vincent Eri age 54
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 29
Donald Trump age 44
Michael Jackson age 32
Vladimir Putin age 38
Ronald Reagan age 79
Nelson Mandela age 72
George W. Bush age 44
Bill Gates age 35
Pope Francis age 54
Steve Jobs age 35
Angela Merkel age 36
Neil Armstrong age 60
François Hollande age 36
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 12
Gabriel García Márquez age 63
Elon Musk age 19
Stephen Hawking age 48
Jimmy Carter age 66
Emmanuel Macron age 12
Benedict XVI age 63
Mother Teresa age 80
Hillary Clinton age 43
Kamala Harris age 26
Nicolas Sarkozy age 35
Richard Nixon age 77
Xi Jinping age 37
Naruhito age 30
Hugo Chávez age 36
Muammar Gaddafi age 48
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 36
Muhammad Ali age 48
Kofi Annan age 52
Charles III age 42
Osama bin Laden age 33
Lech Wałęsa age 47
Gerald Ford age 77
Leo XIV age 35
Diego Maradona age 30
Narendra Modi age 40
Rafael Correa age 27
Aung San Suu Kyi age 45
Benjamin Netanyahu age 41
Dmitry Medvedev age 25
14th Dalai Lama age 55
Mark Zuckerberg age 6
Silvio Berlusconi age 54
Shinzo Abe age 36
Tim Berners-Lee age 35
Boris Yeltsin age 59
Jacques Chirac age 58
Guillermo Lasso age 35
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 72
Alexander Lukashenko age 36
Tony Blair age 37
Yasser Arafat age 61
David Cameron age 24
Linus Torvalds age 20
Ban Ki-moon age 46
Boris Johnson age 26
Diana, Princess of Wales age 29
Bashar al-Assad age 25
Benazir Bhutto age 37
Jair Bolsonaro age 35
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 45
Theresa May age 34
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 34
Henry Kissinger age 67
Václav Havel age 54
Rishi Sunak age 10
Justin Trudeau age 18
Nicolás Maduro age 28
Dilma Rousseff age 43
Deng Xiaoping age 86
Milton Friedman age 78
Valentina Tereshkova age 53
Pol Pot age 65
Ilham Aliyev age 28
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 52
António Guterres age 41
Rosa Parks age 77
Gordon Brown age 39
Shimon Peres age 67
Giorgia Meloni age 13
Olaf Scholz age 32
Keir Starmer age 28
Willy Brandt age 77
Gerhard Schröder age 46
Hassan Rouhani age 42
Hu Jintao age 47
Evo Morales age 31
Joko Widodo age 29
Petro Poroshenko age 25
Mikheil Saakashvili age 22
Liz Truss age 15
Augusto Pinochet age 75
Lee Kuan Yew age 67
Ursula von der Leyen age 32
Mike Pence age 31
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 37
Michelle Bachelet age 39
Ariel Sharon age 62
Felipe VI of Spain age 22
Desmond Tutu age 59
Viktor Yanukovych age 40
Mohamed Morsi age 39
Viktor Orbán age 27
Sergio Mattarella age 49