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Events

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
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998
Kosovo War 1998-02-28 - 1999-06-11
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18

People

Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 77
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 52
President - Mali
Petar Stoyanov age 46
President - Bulgaria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 81
President - Djibouti
Emil Constantinescu age 58
President - Romania
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 68
President - Pakistan
Vladimír Mečiar age 56
President - Slovakia
Rafael Caldera age 82
President - Venezuela
Guntis Ulmanis age 58
President - Latvia
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 56
President - Chile
Henri Konan Bédié age 64
President - Ivory Coast
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 72
Emir - Kuwait
Julio María Sanguinetti age 62
President - Uruguay
Didier Ratsiraka age 61
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 80
King - Tonga
Hugo Banzer age 72
President - Bolivia
Ange-Félix Patassé age 61
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 79
President - Cyprus
Janet Jagan age 77
President - Guyana
Bakili Muluzi age 55
President - Malawi
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 56
President - Nigeria
Milan Milutinović age 55
President - Serbia
France-Albert René age 62
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 66
President - Sierra Leone
Pierre Buyoya age 48
President - Burundi
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 44
President - Colombia
Liamine Zéroual age 57
President - Algeria
Isa II of Bahrain age 65
Emir - Bahrain
Khamtai Siphandone age 74
President - Laos
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 68
President - Bangladesh
Elias Hrawi age 71
President - Lebanon
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 54
President - Cape Verde
Ernesto Samper age 48
President - Colombia
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 56
President - Mauritania
Petru Lucinschi age 58
President - Moldova
Jules Wijdenbosch age 57
President - Suriname
A. N. R. Robinson age 71
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Kamisese Mara age 78
President - Fiji
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 48
President - Mongolia
Jamil Mahuad age 49
President - Ecuador
Negasso Gidada age 54
President - Ethiopia
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 49
President - Niger
Ong Teng Cheong age 62
President - Singapore
Arnoldo Alemán age 52
President - Nicaragua
Miguel Trovoada age 61
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Armando Calderón Sol age 50
President - El Salvador
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 65
President - Malta
Momčilo Krajišnik age 53
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 58
President - Costa Rica
Flavio Cotti age 58
President - Switzerland
Jacob Nena age 56
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Kuniwo Nakamura age 54
President - Palau
Fabián Alarcón age 51
President - Ecuador
Carlos Roberto Flor age 48
President - Honduras
Bernard Dowiyogo age 52
President - Nauru
Teburoro Tito age 44
President - Kiribati
Imata Kabua age 55
President - Marshall Islands
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 62
President - Comoros
Cassam Uteem age 57
President - Mauritius
Krešimir Zubak age 51
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jean-Marie Léyé age 66
President - Vanuatu
Loris Francini age 36
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pasteur Bizimungu age 48
President - Rwanda
Alberto Cecchetti age 54
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 77
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 73
Prime Minister - Malaysia
António Guterres age 49
Prime Minister - Portugal
Viktor Orbán age 35
Prime Minister - Hungary
Sheikh Hasina age 50
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Jean-Claude Juncker age 43
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Hassanal Bolkiah age 52
Prime Minister - Brunei
Miloš Zeman age 53
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 82
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Nawaz Sharif age 48
Prime Minister - Pakistan
John Howard age 59
Prime Minister - Australia
José María Aznar age 45
Prime Minister - Spain
Meles Zenawi age 43
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Filip Vujanović age 43
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hun Sen age 46
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 48
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 35
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Göran Persson age 49
Prime Minister - Sweden
Wim Kok age 59
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Hage Geingob age 57
Prime Minister - Namibia
Artur Rasizade age 63
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Goh Chok Tong age 57
Prime Minister - Singapore
Girija Prasad Koirala age 74
Prime Minister - Nepal
Costas Simitis age 62
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 55
Prime Minister - Denmark
Fatos Nano age 45
Prime Minister - Albania
Davíð Oddsson age 50
Prime Minister - Iceland
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 58
Prime Minister - Belgium
Paavo Lipponen age 57
Prime Minister - Finland
Mesut Yılmaz age 50
Prime Minister - Turkey
Sam Hinds age 54
Prime Minister - Guyana
Jigme Thinley age 45
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Sergei Kirienko age 36
Prime Minister - Russia
Sitiveni Rabuka age 49
Prime Minister - Fiji
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 55
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Pakalitha Mosisili age 53
Prime Minister - Lesotho
Radu Vasile age 55
Prime Minister - Romania
Viktor Klima age 51
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 60
Prime Minister - Thailand
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 68
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Mart Siimann age 51
Prime Minister - Estonia
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 56
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 55
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Kenny Anthony age 47
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 74
Prime Minister - Morocco
Hubert Ingraham age 51
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Ivan Kostov age 48
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
P. J. Patterson age 63
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Lester Bird age 60
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 49
Prime Minister - Jordan
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 50
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Alfred Sant age 50
Prime Minister - Malta
Pascoal Mocumbi age 57
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Marc Forné Molné age 51
Prime Minister - Andorra
Manuel Esquivel age 58
Prime Minister - Belize
Bujar Bukoshi age 51
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Basdeo Panday age 65
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 51
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Zlatko Mateša age 49
Prime Minister - Croatia
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 68
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Carlos Correia age 64
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
França Van-Dúnem age 63
Prime Minister - Angola
Ion Ciubuc age 55
Prime Minister - Moldova
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 59
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
Syarhei Linh age 61
Prime Minister - Belarus
Hamed Karoui age 70
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Donald Kalpokas age 54
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Armen Darbinyan age 33
Prime Minister - Armenia
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 63
Prime Minister - Gabon
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 67
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Peter Mafany Musonge age 55
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 42
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo age 44
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Tantely Andrianarivo age 44
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Frederick Sumaye age 48
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
Mamadou Lamine Loum age 46
Prime Minister - Senegal
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 58
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Baron Vaea age 77
Prime Minister - Tonga
Mohamed Ahmed Mangush age 30
Prime Minister - Libya
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 74
Prime Minister - Samoa
Yahyo Azimov age 50
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Edison James age 54
Prime Minister - Dominica
Raul Bragança Neto age 59
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Javier Valle Riestra age 66
Prime Minister - Peru
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki age 46
Prime Minister - Niger
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 45
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido age 51
Prime Minister - Chad
Kubanychbek Jumaliyev age 42
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Kwassi Klutse age 53
Prime Minister - Togo
Mohamed Lemine Ould Guig age 39
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 63
Prime Minister - Yemen
Michel Gbezera-Bria age 52
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Sidya Touré age 53
Prime Minister - Guinea
Gediminas Vagnorius age 41
Prime Minister - Lithuania
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 72
Governor-General - Barbados
James Carlisle age 61
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Howard Cooke age 82
Governor-General - Jamaica
Michael Hardie Boys age 66
Governor-General - New Zealand
Tomasi Puapua age 59
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Orville Turnquest age 69
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Charles Antrobus age 65
Governor-General - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Silas Atopare age 47
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 37
Illinois Senate
Donald Trump age 52
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 44
Neil Armstrong age 68
François Hollande age 44
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 20
Margaret Thatcher age 72
Gabriel García Márquez age 71
Mikhail Gorbachev age 67
Elon Musk age 27