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Events

Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Siege of Sarajevo 1992-04-05 - 1996-02-29
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
First Chechen War 1994-12-11 - 1996-08-31
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis 1995-07-21 - 1996-03-23

People

Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 56
President - Somalia
Kuniwo Nakamura age 52
President - Palau
Carlos Roberto Reina age 69
President - Honduras
Valentine Strasser age 28
President - Sierra Leone
Kaspar Villiger age 54
President - Switzerland
Teburoro Tito age 42
President - Kiribati
Bailey Olter age 63
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Noor Hassanali age 77
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Rosalio Lara age 73
President - Vatican City
Lagumot Harris age 56
President - Nauru
Cassam Uteem age 54
President - Mauritius
Caabi El-Yachroutu Mohamed age 45
President - Comoros
Wilton G. S. Sankawulo age 58
President - Liberia
Jean-Marie Léyé age 63
President - Vanuatu
Marino Venturini age 51
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pasteur Bizimungu age 45
President - Rwanda
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 74
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 70
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Benazir Bhutto age 42
Prime Minister - Pakistan
António Guterres age 46
Prime Minister - Portugal
Jean-Claude Juncker age 41
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 56
Prime Minister - Norway
Hassanal Bolkiah age 49
Prime Minister - Brunei
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 79
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Václav Klaus age 54
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Tansu Çiller age 49
Prime Minister - Turkey
Victor Chernomyrdin age 57
Prime Minister - Russia
Meles Zenawi age 40
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Milo Đukanović age 33
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hun Sen age 43
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Rafiq Hariri age 51
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Jean Chrétien age 61
Prime Minister - Canada
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 50
Prime Minister - Mali
Janez Drnovšek age 45
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Felipe González age 53
Prime Minister - Spain
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 38
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Paul Keating age 51
Prime Minister - Australia
Wim Kok age 57
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Andreas Papandreou age 76
Prime Minister - Greece
Hage Geingob age 54
Prime Minister - Namibia
Gyula Horn age 63
Prime Minister - Hungary
Goh Chok Tong age 54
Prime Minister - Singapore
Ingvar Carlsson age 61
Prime Minister - Sweden
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 49
Prime Minister - Nepal
Haris Silajdžić age 50
Prime Minister - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 60
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 52
Prime Minister - Denmark
Davíð Oddsson age 47
Prime Minister - Iceland
Anerood Jugnauth age 65
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Franz Vranitzky age 58
Chancellor - Austria
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 55
Prime Minister - Belgium
Eddie Fenech Adami age 61
Prime Minister - Malta
Vladimír Mečiar age 53
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Paavo Lipponen age 54
Prime Minister - Finland
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 52
Prime Minister - Romania
Sam Hinds age 51
Prime Minister - Guyana
Sitiveni Rabuka age 47
Prime Minister - Fiji
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 52
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Keith Mitchell age 49
Prime Minister - Grenada
Owen Arthur age 46
Prime Minister - Barbados
Denzil Douglas age 42
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 65
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Tiit Vähi age 48
Prime Minister - Estonia
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 52
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Jim Bolger age 60
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Norodom Ranariddh age 51
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 56
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 63
Prime Minister - Thailand
Hubert Ingraham age 48
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
P. J. Patterson age 60
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Yevhen Marchuk age 54
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Lester Bird age 57
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Claudette Werleigh age 49
Prime Minister - Haiti
Julius Chan age 56
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Edem Kodjo age 57
Prime Minister - Togo
Abdellatif Filali age 67
Prime Minister - Morocco
Pascoal Mocumbi age 54
Prime Minister - Mozambique
John Compton age 70
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Marc Forné Molné age 48
Prime Minister - Andorra
Manuel Esquivel age 55
Prime Minister - Belize
Bujar Bukoshi age 48
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Basdeo Panday age 62
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Zlatko Mateša age 46
Prime Minister - Croatia
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 65
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Māris Gailis age 44
Prime Minister - Latvia
Habib Thiam age 62
Prime Minister - Senegal
Hrant Bagratyan age 37
Prime Minister - Armenia
Zhan Videnov age 36
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Akejan Kajegeldin age 43
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Mikhail Chyhir age 47
Prime Minister - Belarus
Zeid bin Shaker age 61
Prime Minister - Jordan
Hamed Karoui age 67
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 48
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
Lee Hong-koo age 61
Prime Minister - South Korea
Marcolino Moco age 42
Prime Minister - Angola
Adolfas Šleževičius age 47
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Maxime Carlot Korman age 54
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Simon Achidi Achu age 61
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 60
Prime Minister - Gabon
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 64
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Kamuta Latasi age 59
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Umar Arteh Ghalib age 65
Prime Minister - Somalia
Manuel Saturnino da Costa age 53
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Apas Jumagulov age 61
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Andrei Sangheli age 51
Prime Minister - Moldova
Solomon Mamaloni age 52
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Frederick Sumaye age 45
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani age 56
Prime Minister - Yemen
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 57
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Baron Vaea age 74
Prime Minister - Tonga
Fuad Guliyev age 54
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 71
Prime Minister - Samoa
Mokdad Sifi age 55
Prime Minister - Algeria
Edison James age 52
Prime Minister - Dominica
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 56
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Puntsagiin Jasrai age 62
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 42
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Gabriel Koyambounou age 48
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Antoine Nduwayo age 53
Prime Minister - Burundi
Dante Córdova age 52
Prime Minister - Peru
Khaleda Zia age 49
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Saïd Ali Mohamed age 49
Prime Minister - Comoros
Hama Amadou age 45
Prime Minister - Niger
Bill Hayden age 62
Governor-General - Australia
Colville Young age 63
Governor-General - Belize
Catherine Tizard age 64
Governor-General - New Zealand
James Carlisle age 58
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Howard Cooke age 80
Governor-General - Jamaica
Orville Turnquest age 66
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Nita Barrow age 79
Governor-General - Barbados
Tulaga Manuella age 59
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Wiwa Korowi age 47
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 34
University of Chicago Law
Donald Trump age 49
Michael Jackson age 37
Vladimir Putin age 43
Ronald Reagan age 84
Bill Gates age 40
Pope Francis age 59
Steve Jobs age 40
Angela Merkel age 41
Neil Armstrong age 65
François Hollande age 41
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 17
Margaret Thatcher age 70
Gabriel García Márquez age 68
Mikhail Gorbachev age 64
Elon Musk age 24
Stephen Hawking age 53
Jimmy Carter age 71
Emmanuel Macron age 17
Benedict XVI age 68
Mother Teresa age 85
Hillary Clinton age 48
George H. W. Bush age 71
Kamala Harris age 31
Nicolas Sarkozy age 40
Xi Jinping age 42
Naruhito age 35
Hugo Chávez age 41
Muammar Gaddafi age 53
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 41
Muhammad Ali age 53
Kofi Annan age 57
Charles III age 47
Osama bin Laden age 38
Gerald Ford age 82
Leo XIV age 40
Diego Maradona age 35
Narendra Modi age 45
Rafael Correa age 32
Aung San Suu Kyi age 50
Benjamin Netanyahu age 46
Dmitry Medvedev age 30
14th Dalai Lama age 60
Mark Zuckerberg age 11
Silvio Berlusconi age 59
Shinzo Abe age 41
Tim Berners-Lee age 40
Guillermo Lasso age 40
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 77
Yasser Arafat age 66
David Cameron age 29
Linus Torvalds age 25
Ban Ki-moon age 51
Boris Johnson age 31
Diana, Princess of Wales age 34
Bashar al-Assad age 30
Jair Bolsonaro age 40
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 50
Theresa May age 39
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 39
Henry Kissinger age 72
Rishi Sunak age 15
Justin Trudeau age 23
Nicolás Maduro age 33
Dilma Rousseff age 48
Deng Xiaoping age 91
François Mitterrand age 79
Milton Friedman age 83