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Events

Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08
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

Rafael Caldera age 80
President - Venezuela
Guntis Ulmanis age 56
President - Latvia
Mircea Snegur age 56
President - Moldova
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 53
President - Chile
Henri Konan Bédié age 61
President - Ivory Coast
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 69
Emir - Kuwait
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 74
President - Ecuador
Julio María Sanguinetti age 60
President - Uruguay
Pascal Lissouba age 64
President - Republic of the Congo
Michal Kováč age 65
President - Slovakia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 77
King - Tonga
Ange-Félix Patassé age 59
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 76
President - Cyprus
Joaquín Balaguer age 89
President - Dominican Republic
Bakili Muluzi age 53
President - Malawi
France-Albert René age 60
President - Seychelles
Nicéphore Soglo age 61
President - Benin
Liamine Zéroual age 54
President - Algeria
Isa II of Bahrain age 62
Emir - Bahrain
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 65
President - Bolivia
Elias Hrawi age 69
President - Lebanon
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 52
President - Cape Verde
Ernesto Samper age 45
President - Colombia
Albert Zafy age 68
President - Madagascar
Amata Kabua age 67
President - Marshall Islands
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 54
President - Mauritania
Momir Bulatović age 39
President - Montenegro
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 54
President - Mongolia
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 69
President - Bangladesh
Kamisese Mara age 75
President - Fiji
Negasso Gidada age 52
President - Ethiopia
Ong Teng Cheong age 60
President - Singapore
José María Figueres Olsen age 41
President - Costa Rica
Miguel Trovoada age 59
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 39
President - Burundi
Armando Calderón Sol age 47
President - El Salvador
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 63
President - Malta
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 81
President - Laos
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 57
President - Somalia
Said Mohamed Djohar age 77
President - Comoros
Kuniwo Nakamura age 52
President - Palau
Carlos Roberto Reina age 70
President - Honduras
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
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 59
President - Switzerland
Lagumot Harris age 57
President - Nauru
Cassam Uteem age 55
President - Mauritius
Wilton G. S. Sankawulo age 58
President - Liberia
Jean-Marie Léyé age 64
President - Vanuatu
Marino Venturini age 52
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pasteur Bizimungu age 46
President - Rwanda
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 75
King - Saudi Arabia
Zoran Lilić age 42
President - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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
Victor Chernomyrdin age 57
Prime Minister - Russia
Meles Zenawi age 40
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Milo Đukanović age 34
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hun Sen age 43
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Rafiq Hariri age 51
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Jean Chrétien age 62
Prime Minister - Canada
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 51
Prime Minister - Mali
Janez Drnovšek age 45
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Felipe González age 54
Prime Minister - Spain
Paul Keating age 52
Prime Minister - Australia
Wim Kok age 57
Prime Minister - Netherlands
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
Costas Simitis age 59
Prime Minister - Greece
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 49
Prime Minister - Nepal
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 60
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 52
Prime Minister - Denmark
Davíð Oddsson age 48
Prime Minister - Iceland
Franz Vranitzky age 58
Chancellor - Austria
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 55
Prime Minister - Belgium
Eddie Fenech Adami age 62
Prime Minister - Malta
Vladimír Mečiar age 53
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Paavo Lipponen age 54
Prime Minister - Finland
Mesut Yılmaz age 48
Prime Minister - Turkey
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 52
Prime Minister - Romania
Sam Hinds age 52
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 43
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 65
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Tiit Vähi age 49
Prime Minister - Estonia
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 52
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Jim Bolger age 60
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Norodom Ranariddh age 52
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 57
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 55
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Lester Bird age 58
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Julius Chan age 56
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Edem Kodjo age 57
Prime Minister - Togo
Abdellatif Filali age 68
Prime Minister - Morocco
Pascoal Mocumbi age 54
Prime Minister - Mozambique
John Compton age 70
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Marc Forné Molné age 49
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 66
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Habib Thiam age 63
Prime Minister - Senegal
Hrant Bagratyan age 37
Prime Minister - Armenia
Zhan Videnov age 36
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Akejan Kajegeldin age 43
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 56
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
Mikhail Chyhir age 47
Prime Minister - Belarus
Hamed Karoui age 68
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Andris Šķēle age 38
Prime Minister - Latvia
Laurynas Stankevičius age 60
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Marcolino Moco age 42
Prime Minister - Angola
Maxime Carlot Korman age 54
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Hasan Muratović age 55
Prime Minister - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Simon Achidi Achu age 61
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 61
Prime Minister - Gabon
Rosny Smarth age 55
Prime Minister - Haiti
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 64
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Kamuta Latasi age 59
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Umar Arteh Ghalib age 66
Prime Minister - Somalia
Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo age 42
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Caabi El-Yachroutu Mohamed age 45
Prime Minister - Comoros
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 53
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
Boukary Adji age 57
Prime Minister - Niger
Baron Vaea age 74
Prime Minister - Tonga
Fuad Guliyev age 54
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti age 46
Prime Minister - Jordan
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 71
Prime Minister - Samoa
Yahyo Azimov age 48
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Edison James age 52
Prime Minister - Dominica
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 57
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Puntsagiin Jasrai age 62
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 42
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Armindo Vaz d'Almeida age 43
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Gabriel Koyambounou age 49
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 40
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Antoine Nduwayo age 54
Prime Minister - Burundi
Dante Córdova age 52
Prime Minister - Peru
Khaleda Zia age 49
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Mario Frick age 30
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Colville Young age 63
Governor-General - Belize
Cuthbert Sebastian age 74
Governor-General - Saint Kitts and Nevis
William Deane age 65
Governor-General - Australia
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
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 85
Bill Gates age 40
Pope Francis age 59
Steve Jobs age 41
Angela Merkel age 41
Neil Armstrong age 65
François Hollande age 41
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 18
Margaret Thatcher age 70
Gabriel García Márquez age 69
Mikhail Gorbachev age 65
Elon Musk age 24
Stephen Hawking age 54
Jimmy Carter age 71
Emmanuel Macron age 18
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 41
Xi Jinping age 42
Naruhito age 36
Hugo Chávez age 41
Muammar Gaddafi age 53