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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

People

Ronald Venetiaan age 60
President - Suriname
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 62
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 77
President - Cyprus
Joaquín Balaguer age 89
President - Dominican Republic
Bakili Muluzi age 53
President - Malawi
France-Albert René age 60
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 64
President - Sierra Leone
Liamine Zéroual age 54
President - Algeria
Isa II of Bahrain age 63
Emir - Bahrain
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 65
President - Bolivia
Elias Hrawi age 69
President - Lebanon
Pasteur Bizimungu age 46
President - Rwanda
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 52
President - Cape Verde
Ernesto Samper age 45
President - Colombia
Albert Zafy age 69
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 76
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 40
President - Burundi
Armando Calderón Sol age 47
President - El Salvador
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 63
President - Malta
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 82
President - Laos
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 57
President - Somalia
Kuniwo Nakamura age 52
President - Palau
Carlos Roberto Reina age 70
President - Honduras
Teburoro Tito age 42
President - Kiribati
Bailey Olter age 64
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Noor Hassanali age 77
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Rosalio Lara age 73
President - Vatican City
Zoran Lilić age 42
President - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 60
President - Comoros
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 60
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
Pier Paolo Gasperoni age 45
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pietro Bugli age 41
Captain Regent - San Marino
Mahathir Mohamad age 70
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Benazir Bhutto age 42
Prime Minister - Pakistan
António Guterres age 47
Prime Minister - Portugal
Jean-Claude Juncker age 41
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 57
Prime Minister - Norway
Hassanal Bolkiah age 49
Prime Minister - Brunei
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 80
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Václav Klaus age 55
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
John Howard age 56
Prime Minister - Australia
Victor Chernomyrdin age 58
Prime Minister - Russia
José María Aznar age 43
Prime Minister - Spain
Meles Zenawi age 41
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 46
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Göran Persson age 47
Prime Minister - Sweden
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 55
Prime Minister - Singapore
Costas Simitis age 59
Prime Minister - Greece
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 50
Prime Minister - Nepal
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 60
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 53
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 55
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
Pavlo Lazarenko age 43
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 66
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Tiit Vähi age 49
Prime Minister - Estonia
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 52
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Jim Bolger age 61
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 61
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Lester Bird age 58
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Julius Chan age 56
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Edem Kodjo age 58
Prime Minister - Togo
Abdellatif Filali age 68
Prime Minister - Morocco
Pascoal Mocumbi age 55
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Marc Forné Molné age 49
Prime Minister - Andorra
Manuel Esquivel age 56
Prime Minister - Belize
Bujar Bukoshi age 49
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Basdeo Panday age 63
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Zlatko Mateša age 47
Prime Minister - Croatia
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 66
Prime Minister - Djibouti
França Van-Dúnem age 61
Prime Minister - Angola
Habib Thiam age 63
Prime Minister - Senegal
Hrant Bagratyan age 37
Prime Minister - Armenia
Zhan Videnov age 37
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Akejan Kajegeldin age 44
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 56
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
Mikhail Chyhir age 48
Prime Minister - Belarus
Hamed Karoui age 68
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Adrien Houngbédji age 54
Prime Minister - Benin
Andris Šķēle age 38
Prime Minister - Latvia
Laurynas Stankevičius age 60
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Mario Frick age 31
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Maxime Carlot Korman age 55
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Hasan Muratović age 56
Prime Minister - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Simon Achidi Achu age 61
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde age 62
Prime Minister - Comoros
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 61
Prime Minister - Gabon
Rosny Smarth age 55
Prime Minister - Haiti
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 65
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
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 46
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani age 56
Prime Minister - Yemen
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 50
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Boukary Adji age 57
Prime Minister - Niger
Baron Vaea age 75
Prime Minister - Tonga
Fuad Guliyev age 54
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti age 46
Prime Minister - Jordan
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 72
Prime Minister - Samoa
Yahyo Azimov age 48
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Edison James age 52
Prime Minister - Dominica
Puntsagiin Jasrai age 62
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 42
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Vaughan Lewis age 56
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Sishayi Nxumalo age 60
Prime Minister - Eswatini
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
Alberto Pandolfi age 56
Prime Minister - Peru
Colville Young age 63
Governor-General - Belize
Cuthbert Sebastian age 74
Governor-General - Saint Kitts and Nevis
William Deane age 65
Governor-General - Australia
Clifford Husbands age 69
Governor-General - Barbados
James Carlisle age 58
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Howard Cooke age 80
Governor-General - Jamaica
Michael Hardie Boys age 64
Governor-General - New Zealand
Orville Turnquest age 66
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Tulaga Manuella age 59
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Charles Antrobus age 63
Governor-General - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Wiwa Korowi age 47
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 34
University of Chicago Law
Donald Trump age 50
Michael Jackson age 37
Vladimir Putin age 43
Ronald Reagan age 85
Bill Gates age 40
Jimmy Wales age 29
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 69
Mother Teresa age 85
Hillary Clinton age 48
George H. W. Bush age 72
Kamala Harris age 31
Nicolas Sarkozy age 41