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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

People

Arnoldo Alemán age 52
President - Nicaragua
Miguel Trovoada age 61
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Armando Calderón Sol age 49
President - El Salvador
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 65
President - Malta
Momčilo Krajišnik age 53
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Flavio Cotti age 58
President - Switzerland
Jacob Nena age 56
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Kuniwo Nakamura age 54
President - Palau
Fabián Alarcón age 50
President - Ecuador
Carlos Roberto Flor age 48
President - Honduras
Teburoro Tito age 44
President - Kiribati
Imata Kabua age 54
President - Marshall Islands
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 62
President - Comoros
Kinza Clodumar age 53
President - Nauru
Cassam Uteem age 56
President - Mauritius
Krešimir Zubak age 51
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jean-Marie Léyé age 66
President - Vanuatu
Pasteur Bizimungu age 48
President - Rwanda
Luigi Mazza age 37
Captain Regent - San Marino
Marino Zanotti age 46
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 77
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 72
Prime Minister - Malaysia
António Guterres age 48
Prime Minister - Portugal
Sheikh Hasina age 50
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Jean-Claude Juncker age 43
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Hassanal Bolkiah age 51
Prime Minister - Brunei
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 81
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Nawaz Sharif age 48
Prime Minister - Pakistan
John Howard age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Victor Chernomyrdin age 59
Prime Minister - Russia
José María Aznar age 45
Prime Minister - Spain
Robert Kocharyan age 43
Prime Minister - Armenia
Meles Zenawi age 42
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Filip Vujanović age 43
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hun Sen age 45
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Rafiq Hariri age 53
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Jean Chrétien age 64
Prime Minister - Canada
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 53
Prime Minister - Mali
Janez Drnovšek age 47
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Göran Persson age 49
Prime Minister - Sweden
Wim Kok age 59
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Hage Geingob age 56
Prime Minister - Namibia
Artur Rasizade age 63
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
Jenny Shipley age 46
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 50
Prime Minister - Norway
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 62
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 54
Prime Minister - Denmark
Fatos Nano age 45
Prime Minister - Albania
Davíð Oddsson age 50
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 50
Prime Minister - Turkey
Sam Hinds age 54
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 51
Prime Minister - Grenada
Owen Arthur age 48
Prime Minister - Barbados
Denzil Douglas age 45
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Chuan Leekpai age 59
Prime Minister - Thailand
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 67
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Mart Siimann age 51
Prime Minister - Estonia
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 55
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 54
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Kenny Anthony age 47
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Goh Kun age 60
Prime Minister - South Korea
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 74
Prime Minister - Morocco
Hubert Ingraham age 50
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Ivan Kostov age 48
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Josef Tošovský age 47
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
P. J. Patterson age 62
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Victor Ciorbea age 43
Prime Minister - Romania
Lester Bird age 60
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 48
Prime Minister - Jordan
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 50
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Alfred Sant age 50
Prime Minister - Malta
Pascoal Mocumbi age 56
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Marc Forné Molné age 51
Prime Minister - Andorra
Manuel Esquivel age 57
Prime Minister - Belize
Bujar Bukoshi age 50
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Basdeo Panday age 64
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 51
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Zlatko Mateša age 48
Prime Minister - Croatia
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 68
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Carlos Correia age 64
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 65
Prime Minister - Senegal
Mohammad Rabbani age 42
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Guntars Krasts age 40
Prime Minister - Latvia
Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani age 40
Prime Minister - Qatar
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 58
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
Syarhei Linh age 60
Prime Minister - Belarus
Hamed Karoui age 70
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Adrien Houngbédji age 56
Prime Minister - Benin
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 63
Prime Minister - Gabon
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 66
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Peter Mafany Musonge age 55
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 41
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo age 44
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Apas Jumagulov age 63
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Frederick Sumaye age 47
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Bill Skate age 44
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Ung Huot age 53
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 52
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 58
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Baron Vaea age 76
Prime Minister - Tonga
Mohamed Ahmed Mangush age 30
Prime Minister - Libya
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 73
Prime Minister - Samoa
Yahyo Azimov age 50
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Pascal-Firmin Ndimira age 41
Prime Minister - Burundi
Edison James age 54
Prime Minister - Dominica
Raul Bragança Neto age 58
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Nourdine Bourhane age 48
Prime Minister - Comoros
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki age 46
Prime Minister - Niger
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 44
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido age 50
Prime Minister - Chad
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 60
Prime Minister - Yemen
Kwassi Klutse age 52
Prime Minister - Togo
Mohamed Lemine Ould Guig age 38
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Michel Gbezera-Bria age 52
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Alberto Pandolfi age 57
Prime Minister - Peru
Sidya Touré age 53
Prime Minister - Guinea
Gediminas Vagnorius age 40
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan age 43
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Colville Young age 65
Governor-General - Belize
Cuthbert Sebastian age 76
Governor-General - Saint Kitts and Nevis
William Deane age 67
Governor-General - Australia
Clifford Husbands age 71
Governor-General - Barbados
James Carlisle age 60
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Howard Cooke age 82
Governor-General - Jamaica
Michael Hardie Boys age 66
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
Silas Atopare age 47
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 36
Illinois Senate
Donald Trump age 51
Michael Jackson age 39
Vladimir Putin age 45
Ronald Reagan age 87
Bill Gates age 42
Pope Francis age 61
Steve Jobs age 43
Angela Merkel age 43
Neil Armstrong age 67
François Hollande age 43
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 20
Margaret Thatcher age 72
Gabriel García Márquez age 71
Mikhail Gorbachev age 67
Elon Musk age 26
Stephen Hawking age 56
Jimmy Carter age 73
Emmanuel Macron age 20
Benedict XVI age 70
Hillary Clinton age 50
George H. W. Bush age 73
Kamala Harris age 33
Nicolas Sarkozy age 43
Xi Jinping age 44
Naruhito age 38
Hugo Chávez age 43
Muammar Gaddafi age 55
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 44
Muhammad Ali age 56
Charles III age 49
Osama bin Laden age 40
Lech Wałęsa age 54
Gerald Ford age 84
Leo XIV age 42
Diego Maradona age 37
Narendra Modi age 47
Rafael Correa age 34
Aung San Suu Kyi age 52
Dmitry Medvedev age 32
14th Dalai Lama age 62
Mark Zuckerberg age 13
Silvio Berlusconi age 61
Shinzo Abe age 43
Tim Berners-Lee age 42
Guillermo Lasso age 42
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 79
Malala Yousafzai age 7 months
Yasser Arafat age 68
David Cameron age 31
Linus Torvalds age 28
Ban Ki-moon age 53
Boris Johnson age 33
Bashar al-Assad age 32
Benazir Bhutto age 44
Jair Bolsonaro age 42
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 52
Theresa May age 41
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 41