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Events

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
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998-12-31

People

Miguel Trovoada age 60
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Armando Calderón Sol age 49
President - El Salvador
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 64
President - Malta
Momčilo Krajišnik age 52
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 83
President - Laos
Jacob Nena age 55
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Kuniwo Nakamura age 53
President - Palau
Fabián Alarcón age 50
President - Ecuador
Carlos Roberto Reina age 71
President - Honduras
Teburoro Tito age 44
President - Kiribati
Imata Kabua age 54
President - Marshall Islands
Arnold Koller age 64
President - Switzerland
Johnny Paul Koroma age 37
President - Sierra Leone
Dragan Tomić age 61
President - Serbia
Rosalio Lara age 75
President - Vatican City
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 61
President - Comoros
Kinza Clodumar age 52
President - Nauru
Cassam Uteem age 56
President - Mauritius
Hussein Farrah Aidid age 35
President - Somalia
Krešimir Zubak age 50
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jean-Marie Léyé age 65
President - Vanuatu
Pasteur Bizimungu age 47
President - Rwanda
Paride Andreoli age 41
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pier Marino Mularoni age 35
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 76
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 72
Prime Minister - Malaysia
António Guterres age 48
Prime Minister - Portugal
Sheikh Hasina age 49
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Jean-Claude Juncker age 42
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Hassanal Bolkiah age 51
Prime Minister - Brunei
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 81
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Václav Klaus age 56
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Nawaz Sharif age 47
Prime Minister - Pakistan
John Howard age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Victor Chernomyrdin age 59
Prime Minister - Russia
José María Aznar age 44
Prime Minister - Spain
Robert Kocharyan age 43
Prime Minister - Armenia
Meles Zenawi age 42
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Milo Đukanović age 35
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hun Sen age 45
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 47
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Göran Persson age 48
Prime Minister - Sweden
Wim Kok age 58
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Hage Geingob age 56
Prime Minister - Namibia
Thorbjørn Jagland age 46
Prime Minister - Norway
Artur Rasizade age 62
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Gyula Horn age 65
Prime Minister - Hungary
Goh Chok Tong age 56
Prime Minister - Singapore
Costas Simitis age 61
Prime Minister - Greece
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 61
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 54
Prime Minister - Denmark
Fatos Nano age 45
Prime Minister - Albania
Davíð Oddsson age 49
Prime Minister - Iceland
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Vladimír Mečiar age 55
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Paavo Lipponen age 56
Prime Minister - Finland
Mesut Yılmaz age 49
Prime Minister - Turkey
Janet Jagan age 76
Prime Minister - Guyana
Sitiveni Rabuka age 49
Prime Minister - Fiji
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 54
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Viktor Klima age 50
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
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 67
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Mart Siimann age 50
Prime Minister - Estonia
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 55
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 54
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Jim Bolger age 62
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Kenny Anthony age 46
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Goh Kun age 59
Prime Minister - South Korea
Hubert Ingraham age 50
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Ivan Kostov age 47
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
P. J. Patterson age 62
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Victor Ciorbea age 42
Prime Minister - Romania
Lester Bird age 59
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Abdellatif Filali age 69
Prime Minister - Morocco
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 57
Prime Minister - Nepal
Alfred Sant age 49
Prime Minister - Malta
Pascoal Mocumbi age 56
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Marc Forné Molné age 50
Prime Minister - Andorra
Manuel Esquivel age 57
Prime Minister - Belize
Bujar Bukoshi age 50
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 65
Prime Minister - Thailand
Basdeo Panday age 64
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 50
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Zlatko Mateša age 48
Prime Minister - Croatia
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 67
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Carlos Correia age 63
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Serge Vohor age 42
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
França Van-Dúnem age 63
Prime Minister - Angola
Ion Ciubuc age 54
Prime Minister - Moldova
Habib Thiam age 64
Prime Minister - Senegal
Mohammad Rabbani age 42
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Akejan Kajegeldin age 45
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Guntars Krasts age 39
Prime Minister - Latvia
Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani age 39
Prime Minister - Qatar
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 58
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
Syarhei Linh age 60
Prime Minister - Belarus
Hamed Karoui age 69
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Adrien Houngbédji age 55
Prime Minister - Benin
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 62
Prime Minister - Gabon
Rosny Smarth age 56
Prime Minister - Haiti
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 66
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Peter Mafany Musonge age 54
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 41
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo age 43
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Apas Jumagulov age 63
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Frederick Sumaye age 47
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Bill Skate age 43
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Ung Huot age 52
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 51
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 57
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Baron Vaea age 76
Prime Minister - Tonga
Ahmed Abdou age 61
Prime Minister - Comoros
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 73
Prime Minister - Samoa
Yahyo Azimov age 49
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Pascal-Firmin Ndimira age 41
Prime Minister - Burundi
Edison James age 53
Prime Minister - Dominica
Amadou Cissé age 49
Prime Minister - Niger
Charles David Ganao age 70
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Raul Bragança Neto age 58
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 44
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido age 50
Prime Minister - Chad
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 59
Prime Minister - Yemen
Kwassi Klutse age 52
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 57
Prime Minister - Peru
Sidya Touré age 52
Prime Minister - Guinea
Gediminas Vagnorius age 40
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 71
Governor-General - Barbados
James Carlisle age 60
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Howard Cooke age 81
Governor-General - Jamaica
Michael Hardie Boys age 65
Governor-General - New Zealand
Orville Turnquest age 68
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Tulaga Manuella age 61
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Charles Antrobus age 64
Governor-General - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Wiwa Korowi age 49
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 36
Illinois Senate
Donald Trump age 51
Michael Jackson age 39
Vladimir Putin age 44
Ronald Reagan age 86
Bill Gates age 41
Pope Francis age 60
Steve Jobs age 42
Angela Merkel age 43
Neil Armstrong age 67
François Hollande age 43
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 19
Margaret Thatcher age 71
Gabriel García Márquez age 70
Mikhail Gorbachev age 66
Elon Musk age 26
Stephen Hawking age 55
Jimmy Carter age 72
Emmanuel Macron age 19
Benedict XVI age 70
Mother Teresa age 87
Hillary Clinton age 49
George H. W. Bush age 73
Kamala Harris age 32
Nicolas Sarkozy age 42
Xi Jinping age 44
Naruhito age 37
Hugo Chávez age 43
Muammar Gaddafi age 55
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 43
Muhammad Ali age 55
Charles III age 48
Osama bin Laden age 40
Lech Wałęsa age 53
Gerald Ford age 84
Leo XIV age 42
Diego Maradona age 36
Narendra Modi age 47
Rafael Correa age 34
Aung San Suu Kyi age 52
Dmitry Medvedev age 31
14th Dalai Lama age 62
Mark Zuckerberg age 13
Silvio Berlusconi age 60
Shinzo Abe age 42
Tim Berners-Lee age 42
Guillermo Lasso age 41
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 78
Malala Yousafzai age 1 month
Yasser Arafat age 68
David Cameron age 30
Linus Torvalds age 27
Ban Ki-moon age 53
Boris Johnson age 33