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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
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

Bakili Muluzi age 53
President - Malawi
France-Albert René age 60
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 64
President - Sierra Leone
Pierre Buyoya age 46
President - Burundi
Liamine Zéroual age 55
President - Algeria
Isa II of Bahrain age 63
Emir - Bahrain
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 66
President - Bolivia
Elias Hrawi age 70
President - Lebanon
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 52
President - Cape Verde
Ernesto Samper age 46
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 70
President - Bangladesh
Kamisese Mara age 76
President - Fiji
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 44
President - Ecuador
Negasso Gidada age 53
President - Ethiopia
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 47
President - Niger
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
Armando Calderón Sol age 48
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 43
President - Kiribati
Bailey Olter age 64
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Noor Hassanali age 78
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Rosalio Lara age 74
President - Vatican City
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
Hussein Farrah Aidid age 34
President - Somalia
Wilton G. S. Sankawulo age 59
President - Liberia
Jean-Marie Léyé age 64
President - Vanuatu
Pasteur Bizimungu age 46
President - Rwanda
Pier Paolo Gasperoni age 46
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pietro Bugli age 41
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 75
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 71
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Benazir Bhutto age 43
Prime Minister - Pakistan
António Guterres age 47
Prime Minister - Portugal
Sheikh Hasina age 48
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Jean-Claude Juncker age 41
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 57
Prime Minister - Norway
Hassanal Bolkiah age 50
Prime Minister - Brunei
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 80
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Václav Klaus age 55
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
John Howard age 57
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 44
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
Necmettin Erbakan age 69
Prime Minister - Turkey
Göran Persson age 47
Prime Minister - Sweden
Wim Kok age 57
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Hage Geingob age 55
Prime Minister - Namibia
Artur Rasizade age 61
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Gyula Horn age 64
Prime Minister - Hungary
Goh Chok Tong age 55
Prime Minister - Singapore
Costas Simitis age 60
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 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Eddie Fenech Adami age 62
Prime Minister - Malta
Vladimír Mečiar age 54
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Paavo Lipponen age 55
Prime Minister - Finland
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 53
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
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 54
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 53
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Jim Bolger age 61
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Norodom Ranariddh age 52
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 64
Prime Minister - Thailand
Hubert Ingraham age 49
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
P. J. Patterson age 61
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Lester Bird age 58
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Julius Chan age 57
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
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 62
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 57
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 61
Prime Minister - Lithuania
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 60
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 52
Prime Minister - Moldova
Solomon Mamaloni age 53
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Frederick Sumaye age 46
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani age 57
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
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti age 46
Prime Minister - Jordan
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 72
Prime Minister - Samoa
Yahyo Azimov age 48
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Pascal-Firmin Ndimira age 40
Prime Minister - Burundi
Edison James age 52
Prime Minister - Dominica
Charles David Ganao age 69
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Jean-Paul Ngoupandé age 38
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 43
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Vaughan Lewis age 56
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Armindo Vaz d'Almeida age 43
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Kwassi Klutse age 51
Prime Minister - Togo
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 40
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Alberto Pandolfi age 56
Prime Minister - Peru
Sidya Touré age 51
Prime Minister - Guinea
Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan age 41
Prime Minister - Mongolia
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 70
Governor-General - Barbados
James Carlisle age 59
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Howard Cooke age 80
Governor-General - Jamaica
Michael Hardie Boys age 64
Governor-General - New Zealand
Orville Turnquest age 67
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Tulaga Manuella age 60
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Charles Antrobus age 63
Governor-General - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Wiwa Korowi age 48
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 35
University of Chicago Law
Donald Trump age 50
Michael Jackson age 38
Vladimir Putin age 43
Ronald Reagan age 85
Bill Gates age 40
Pope Francis age 59
Steve Jobs age 41
Angela Merkel age 42
Neil Armstrong age 66
François Hollande age 42
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 18
Margaret Thatcher age 70
Gabriel García Márquez age 69
Mikhail Gorbachev age 65
Elon Musk age 25
Stephen Hawking age 54
Jimmy Carter age 71
Emmanuel Macron age 18
Benedict XVI age 69
Mother Teresa age 86
Hillary Clinton age 48
George H. W. Bush age 72
Kamala Harris age 31
Nicolas Sarkozy age 41
Xi Jinping age 43
Naruhito age 36
Hugo Chávez age 42
Muammar Gaddafi age 54
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 42
Muhammad Ali age 54
Kofi Annan age 58
Charles III age 47
Osama bin Laden age 39
Lech Wałęsa age 52
Gerald Ford age 83
Leo XIV age 40