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Events

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
Kosovo War 1998-02-28 - 1999-06-11
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18

People

Jamil Mahuad age 49
President - Ecuador
Negasso Gidada age 55
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 62
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Armando Calderón Sol age 50
President - El Salvador
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 66
President - Malta
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 59
President - Costa Rica
Jacob Nena age 57
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Kuniwo Nakamura age 55
President - Palau
Carlos Roberto Flor age 48
President - Honduras
Bernard Dowiyogo age 52
President - Nauru
Teburoro Tito age 45
President - Kiribati
Imata Kabua age 55
President - Marshall Islands
Vernon Shaw age 68
President - Dominica
Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde age 65
President - Comoros
Cassam Uteem age 57
President - Mauritius
Jean-Marie Léyé age 67
President - Vanuatu
Živko Radišić age 61
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ante Jelavić age 35
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Paolo Bollini age 39
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pasteur Bizimungu age 49
President - Rwanda
Pietro Berti age 32
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 51
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Jean-Claude Juncker age 44
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Hassanal Bolkiah age 52
Prime Minister - Brunei
Miloš Zeman age 54
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 82
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Nawaz Sharif age 49
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 44
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hun Sen age 46
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Jean Chrétien age 65
Prime Minister - Canada
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 53
Prime Minister - Mali
Janez Drnovšek age 48
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Göran Persson age 49
Prime Minister - Sweden
Evgeny Primakov age 69
Prime Minister - Russia
Wim Kok age 60
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 51
Prime Minister - Norway
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 63
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 55
Prime Minister - Denmark
Davíð Oddsson age 51
Prime Minister - Iceland
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 58
Prime Minister - Belgium
Eddie Fenech Adami age 64
Prime Minister - Malta
Paavo Lipponen age 57
Prime Minister - Finland
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 53
Prime Minister - Samoa
Mesut Yılmaz age 51
Prime Minister - Turkey
Sam Hinds age 55
Prime Minister - Guyana
Jigme Thinley age 46
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Sitiveni Rabuka age 50
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 56
Prime Minister - Romania
Viktor Klima age 51
Chancellor - Austria
Keith Mitchell age 52
Prime Minister - Grenada
Owen Arthur age 49
Prime Minister - Barbados
Denzil Douglas age 46
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 52
Prime Minister - Estonia
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 56
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 55
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Kenny Anthony age 48
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Pandeli Majko age 31
Prime Minister - Albania
Said Musa age 54
Prime Minister - Belize
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 74
Prime Minister - Morocco
Hubert Ingraham age 51
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Ivan Kostov age 49
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
P. J. Patterson age 63
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Lester Bird age 60
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Salim al-Huss age 69
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 49
Prime Minister - Jordan
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 51
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Pascoal Mocumbi age 57
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Marc Forné Molné age 52
Prime Minister - Andorra
Bujar Bukoshi age 51
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Ljubčo Georgievski age 32
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
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 69
Prime Minister - Djibouti
França Van-Dúnem age 64
Prime Minister - Angola
Ion Ciubuc age 55
Prime Minister - Moldova
Mohammad Rabbani age 43
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
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 71
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Ismail Hamdani age 68
Prime Minister - Algeria
Vilis Krištopans age 44
Prime Minister - Latvia
Donald Kalpokas age 55
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Armen Darbinyan age 33
Prime Minister - Armenia
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 64
Prime Minister - Gabon
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 67
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Peter Mafany Musonge age 56
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 42
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo age 45
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Francisco Fadul age 45
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Tantely Andrianarivo age 44
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Guilherme Posser da Costa age 45
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Frederick Sumaye age 48
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Bill Skate age 45
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 53
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Jumabek Ibraimov age 55
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Mamadou Lamine Loum age 46
Prime Minister - Senegal
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 59
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Baron Vaea age 77
Prime Minister - Tonga
Mohamed Ahmed Mangush age 31
Prime Minister - Libya
Yahyo Azimov age 51
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Anicet-Georges Dologuélé age 41
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Edison James age 55
Prime Minister - Dominica
Raul Bragança Neto age 59
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Abbas Djoussouf age 56
Prime Minister - Comoros
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki age 47
Prime Minister - Niger
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 45
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Víctor Joy Way age 53
Prime Minister - Peru
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido age 51
Prime Minister - Chad
Janlavyn Narantsatsralt age 41
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Kwassi Klutse age 53
Prime Minister - Togo
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 43
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 64
Prime Minister - Yemen
Sidya Touré age 54
Prime Minister - Guinea
Gediminas Vagnorius age 41
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Colville Young age 66
Governor-General - Belize
Cuthbert Sebastian age 77
Governor-General - Saint Kitts and Nevis
William Deane age 68
Governor-General - Australia
Clifford Husbands age 72
Governor-General - Barbados
James Carlisle age 61
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Howard Cooke age 83
Governor-General - Jamaica
Michael Hardie Boys age 67
Governor-General - New Zealand
Tomasi Puapua age 60
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 48
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 37
Illinois Senate
Donald Trump age 52
Michael Jackson age 40
Vladimir Putin age 46
Ronald Reagan age 87
Bill Gates age 43
Pope Francis age 62
Steve Jobs age 43
Angela Merkel age 44
Neil Armstrong age 68
François Hollande age 44
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 20
Margaret Thatcher age 73
Gabriel García Márquez age 71
Mikhail Gorbachev age 67
Elon Musk age 27
Stephen Hawking age 57
Jimmy Carter age 74
Emmanuel Macron age 21
Benedict XVI age 71
Hillary Clinton age 51
George H. W. Bush age 74
Kamala Harris age 34
Nicolas Sarkozy age 43
Xi Jinping age 45
Naruhito age 38
Hugo Chávez age 44
Muammar Gaddafi age 56
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 44
Muhammad Ali age 57
Charles III age 50
Osama bin Laden age 41
Lech Wałęsa age 55
Gerald Ford age 85
Leo XIV age 43
Diego Maradona age 38
Narendra Modi age 48
Rafael Correa age 35
Aung San Suu Kyi age 53
Dmitry Medvedev age 33
14th Dalai Lama age 63
Mark Zuckerberg age 14
Silvio Berlusconi age 62
Shinzo Abe age 44
Tim Berners-Lee age 43
Guillermo Lasso age 43
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 80
Malala Yousafzai age 1
Yasser Arafat age 69
David Cameron age 32
Linus Torvalds age 29
Ban Ki-moon age 54
Boris Johnson age 34