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Events

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
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
First Congo War 1996-10-24 - 1997-05-16
1997 Albanian civil unrest 1997-01-16 - 1997-08-11

People

Guntis Ulmanis age 57
President - Latvia
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 54
President - Chile
Henri Konan Bédié age 62
President - Ivory Coast
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 70
Emir - Kuwait
Julio María Sanguinetti age 61
President - Uruguay
Didier Ratsiraka age 60
President - Madagascar
Pascal Lissouba age 65
President - Republic of the Congo
Michal Kováč age 66
President - Slovakia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 78
King - Tonga
Ange-Félix Patassé age 60
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 77
President - Cyprus
Bakili Muluzi age 53
President - Malawi
France-Albert René age 61
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 65
President - Sierra Leone
Pierre Buyoya age 47
President - Burundi
Liamine Zéroual age 55
President - Algeria
Isa II of Bahrain age 63
Emir - Bahrain
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 67
President - Bangladesh
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 66
President - Bolivia
Elias Hrawi age 70
President - Lebanon
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 53
President - Cape Verde
Ernesto Samper age 46
President - Colombia
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 55
President - Mauritania
Petru Lucinschi age 57
President - Moldova
Momir Bulatović age 40
President - Montenegro
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 55
President - Mongolia
Ruth Perry age 57
President - Liberia
Jules Wijdenbosch age 55
President - Suriname
Kamisese Mara age 76
President - Fiji
Negasso Gidada age 53
President - Ethiopia
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 47
President - Niger
Ong Teng Cheong age 61
President - Singapore
José María Figueres Olsen age 42
President - Costa Rica
Arnoldo Alemán age 51
President - Nicaragua
Miguel Trovoada age 60
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Armando Calderón Sol age 48
President - El Salvador
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 64
President - Malta
Momčilo Krajišnik age 52
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 82
President - Laos
Jacob Nena age 55
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Kuniwo Nakamura age 53
President - Palau
Fabián Alarcón age 49
President - Ecuador
Carlos Roberto Reina age 71
President - Honduras
Teburoro Tito age 43
President - Kiribati
Imata Kabua age 53
President - Marshall Islands
Arnold Koller age 63
President - Switzerland
Noor Hassanali age 78
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Rosalio Lara age 74
President - Vatican City
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 61
President - Comoros
Kinza Clodumar age 52
President - Nauru
Cassam Uteem age 55
President - Mauritius
Hussein Farrah Aidid age 34
President - Somalia
Krešimir Zubak age 50
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jean-Marie Léyé age 65
President - Vanuatu
Gian Carlo Venturini age 35
Captain Regent - San Marino
Maurizio Rattini age 47
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pasteur Bizimungu age 47
President - Rwanda
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 76
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 71
Prime Minister - Malaysia
António Guterres age 47
Prime Minister - Portugal
Sheikh Hasina age 49
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Jean-Claude Juncker age 42
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Hassanal Bolkiah age 50
Prime Minister - Brunei
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 80
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Václav Klaus age 55
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Nawaz Sharif age 47
Prime Minister - Pakistan
John Howard age 57
Prime Minister - Australia
Armen Sarkissian age 43
Prime Minister - Armenia
Victor Chernomyrdin age 58
Prime Minister - Russia
José María Aznar age 44
Prime Minister - Spain
Meles Zenawi age 41
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Milo Đukanović age 35
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hun Sen age 44
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Rafiq Hariri age 52
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Jean Chrétien age 63
Prime Minister - Canada
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 52
Prime Minister - Mali
Janez Drnovšek age 46
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Necmettin Erbakan age 70
Prime Minister - Turkey
Göran Persson age 48
Prime Minister - Sweden
Wim Kok age 58
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Hage Geingob age 55
Prime Minister - Namibia
Thorbjørn Jagland age 46
Prime Minister - Norway
Artur Rasizade age 62
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 61
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 53
Prime Minister - Denmark
Davíð Oddsson age 49
Prime Minister - Iceland
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Vladimír Mečiar age 54
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Paavo Lipponen age 55
Prime Minister - Finland
Sam Hinds age 53
Prime Minister - Guyana
Sitiveni Rabuka age 48
Prime Minister - Fiji
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 53
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Viktor Klima age 49
Chancellor - Austria
Keith Mitchell age 50
Prime Minister - Grenada
Owen Arthur age 47
Prime Minister - Barbados
Denzil Douglas age 44
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Pavlo Lazarenko age 44
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 66
Prime Minister - Kuwait
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 53
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Hubert Ingraham age 49
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
P. J. Patterson age 61
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Victor Ciorbea age 42
Prime Minister - Romania
Lester Bird age 59
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Julius Chan age 57
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Abdellatif Filali age 69
Prime Minister - Morocco
Alfred Sant age 49
Prime Minister - Malta
Pascoal Mocumbi age 55
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Marc Forné Molné age 50
Prime Minister - Andorra
Manuel Esquivel age 56
Prime Minister - Belize
Bujar Bukoshi age 49
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 64
Prime Minister - Thailand
Basdeo Panday age 63
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Zlatko Mateša age 47
Prime Minister - Croatia
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 67
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Serge Vohor age 41
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
França Van-Dúnem age 62
Prime Minister - Angola
Ion Ciubuc age 53
Prime Minister - Moldova
Habib Thiam age 64
Prime Minister - Senegal
Mohammad Rabbani age 41
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Stefan Sofiyanski age 45
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Akejan Kajegeldin age 44
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani age 39
Prime Minister - Qatar
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 57
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
Syarhei Linh age 59
Prime Minister - Belarus
Hamed Karoui age 69
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Adrien Houngbédji age 55
Prime Minister - Benin
Andris Šķēle age 39
Prime Minister - Latvia
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 62
Prime Minister - Gabon
Rosny Smarth age 56
Prime Minister - Haiti
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 65
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Peter Mafany Musonge age 54
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 40
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo age 43
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Manuel Saturnino da Costa age 54
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Apas Jumagulov age 62
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Solomon Mamaloni age 54
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 51
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Baron Vaea age 75
Prime Minister - Tonga
Ahmed Abdou age 61
Prime Minister - Comoros
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti age 47
Prime Minister - Jordan
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 72
Prime Minister - Samoa
Yahyo Azimov age 49
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Pascal-Firmin Ndimira age 40
Prime Minister - Burundi
Edison James age 53
Prime Minister - Dominica
Amadou Cissé age 48
Prime Minister - Niger
Charles David Ganao age 69
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Raul Bragança Neto age 57
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 43
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Vaughan Lewis age 56
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Kwassi Klutse age 51
Prime Minister - Togo
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 41
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Michel Gbezera-Bria age 51
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Alberto Pandolfi age 56
Prime Minister - Peru
Sidya Touré age 52
Prime Minister - Guinea
Gediminas Vagnorius age 39
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan age 42
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Colville Young age 64
Governor-General - Belize
Cuthbert Sebastian age 75
Governor-General - Saint Kitts and Nevis
William Deane age 66
Governor-General - Australia
Clifford Husbands age 70
Governor-General - Barbados
James Carlisle age 59
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Howard Cooke age 81
Governor-General - Jamaica
Michael Hardie Boys age 65
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
Illinois Senate
Donald Trump age 50
Michael Jackson age 38
Vladimir Putin age 44
Ronald Reagan age 86
Bill Gates age 41
Pope Francis age 60
Steve Jobs age 42
Angela Merkel age 42
Neil Armstrong age 66
François Hollande age 42
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 19
Margaret Thatcher age 71
Gabriel García Márquez age 70
Mikhail Gorbachev age 66
Elon Musk age 25
Stephen Hawking age 55
Jimmy Carter age 72
Emmanuel Macron age 19
Benedict XVI age 69
Mother Teresa age 86
Hillary Clinton age 49
George H. W. Bush age 72
Kamala Harris age 32