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Events

Mexican Dirty War 1954 - 2000
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Operation Banner 1969-08-14 - 2007-07-31
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Syrian occupation of Lebanon 1976-05-31 - 2005-04-30
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000) 1985-02-16 - 2000-05-25
Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon 1985-02-16 - 2000-05-25
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Sierra Leone Civil War 1991-03-23 - 2002-01-18
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08
Burundian Civil War 1993-10-21 - 2005-05-15
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) 1996-09-27 - 2001-10-07
Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999) 1997-06-05 - 1999-12-29
Eritrean–Ethiopian War 1998-05-06 - 2000-06-18
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18
Second Liberian Civil War 1999-04-21 - 2003-08-18
Second Chechen War 1999-08-26 - 2009-04-16

People

Árpád Göncz age 77
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 56
President - Zambia
Ezer Weizman age 75
President - Israel
Émile Lahoud age 63
President - Lebanon
Benjamin Mkapa age 60
President - Tanzania
Rexhep Meidani age 55
President - Albania
Leonel Fernández age 45
President - Dominican Republic
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 78
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
S. R. Nathan age 75
President - Singapore
Azali Assoumani age 40
President - Comoros
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 53
President - Mali
Petar Stoyanov age 47
President - Bulgaria
Emil Constantinescu age 59
President - Romania
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 69
President - Pakistan
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 52
President - Guinea-Bissau
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 57
President - Chile
Henri Konan Bédié age 65
President - Ivory Coast
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 73
Emir - Kuwait
Rudolf Schuster age 65
President - Slovakia
Julio María Sanguinetti age 63
President - Uruguay
Mireya Moscoso age 53
President - Panama
Bharrat Jagdeo age 35
President - Guyana
Didier Ratsiraka age 62
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 81
King - Tonga
Hugo Banzer age 73
President - Bolivia
Ange-Félix Patassé age 62
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 80
President - Cyprus
Bakili Muluzi age 56
President - Malawi
Milan Milutinović age 56
President - Serbia
France-Albert René age 63
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 67
President - Sierra Leone
Ruth Dreifuss age 59
President - Switzerland
Pierre Buyoya age 49
President - Burundi
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 45
President - Colombia
Guido de Marco age 68
President - Malta
Khamtai Siphandone age 75
President - Laos
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 69
President - Bangladesh
Pasteur Bizimungu age 49
President - Rwanda
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 55
President - Cape Verde
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 57
President - Mauritania
Petru Lucinschi age 59
President - Moldova
Jules Wijdenbosch age 58
President - Suriname
A. N. R. Robinson age 72
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Kamisese Mara age 79
President - Fiji
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 49
President - Mongolia
Jamil Mahuad age 50
President - Ecuador
Negasso Gidada age 56
President - Ethiopia
Daouda Malam Wanké age 53
President - Niger
Arnoldo Alemán age 53
President - Nicaragua
Miguel Trovoada age 62
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Luis González Macchi age 51
President - Paraguay
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 59
President - Costa Rica
Francisco Flores age 39
President - El Salvador
René Harris age 51
President - Nauru
Leo Falcam age 63
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Kuniwo Nakamura age 55
President - Palau
Carlos Roberto Flor age 49
President - Honduras
Teburoro Tito age 46
President - Kiribati
Imata Kabua age 56
President - Marshall Islands
John Bani age 58
President - Vanuatu
Vernon Shaw age 69
President - Dominica
Cassam Uteem age 58
President - Mauritius
Živko Radišić age 62
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Rosa Zafferani age 39
Captain Regent - San Marino
Antonello Bacciocchi age 41
Captain Regent - San Marino
Ante Jelavić age 36
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Vladimir Putin age 46
Prime Minister - Russia
Mahathir Mohamad age 74
Prime Minister - Malaysia
António Guterres age 50
Prime Minister - Portugal
Viktor Orbán age 36
Prime Minister - Hungary
Sheikh Hasina age 51
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Jean-Claude Juncker age 44
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Hassanal Bolkiah age 53
Prime Minister - Brunei
Miloš Zeman age 54
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 83
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Nawaz Sharif age 49
Prime Minister - Pakistan
John Howard age 60
Prime Minister - Australia
Hashim Thaçi age 31
Prime Minister - Kosovo
José María Aznar age 46
Prime Minister - Spain
Meles Zenawi age 44
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Filip Vujanović age 45
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Bülent Ecevit age 74
Prime Minister - Turkey
Hun Sen age 47
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Jean Chrétien age 65
Prime Minister - Canada
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 54
Prime Minister - Mali
Janez Drnovšek age 49
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Guy Verhofstadt age 46
Prime Minister - Belgium
Göran Persson age 50
Prime Minister - Sweden
Wim Kok age 60
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Hage Geingob age 58
Prime Minister - Namibia
Artur Rasizade age 64
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Goh Chok Tong age 58
Prime Minister - Singapore
Costas Simitis age 63
Prime Minister - Greece
Jenny Shipley age 47
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 52
Prime Minister - Norway
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 63
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 56
Prime Minister - Denmark
Davíð Oddsson age 51
Prime Minister - Iceland
Rolandas Paksas age 43
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Eddie Fenech Adami age 65
Prime Minister - Malta
Paavo Lipponen age 58
Prime Minister - Finland
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 54
Prime Minister - Samoa
Mart Laar age 39
Prime Minister - Estonia
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 44
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Sam Hinds age 55
Prime Minister - Guyana
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 56
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Pakalitha Mosisili age 54
Prime Minister - Lesotho
Radu Vasile age 56
Prime Minister - Romania
Viktor Klima age 52
Chancellor - Austria
Keith Mitchell age 52
Prime Minister - Grenada
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 74
Prime Minister - Nepal
Vazgen Sargsyan age 40
Prime Minister - Armenia
Owen Arthur age 49
Prime Minister - Barbados
Denzil Douglas age 46
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Chuan Leekpai age 61
Prime Minister - Thailand
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 69
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 57
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 56
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Kenny Anthony age 48
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Pandeli Majko age 31
Prime Minister - Albania
Said Musa age 55
Prime Minister - Belize
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 75
Prime Minister - Morocco
Hubert Ingraham age 52
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Apolo Nsibambi age 58
Prime Minister - Uganda
Ivan Kostov age 49
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
P. J. Patterson age 64
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Lester Bird age 61
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Salim al-Huss age 69
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 51
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Pascoal Mocumbi age 58
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Marc Forné Molné age 52
Prime Minister - Andorra
Sangay Ngedup age 46
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Bujar Bukoshi age 52
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Ljubčo Georgievski age 33
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Basdeo Panday age 66
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 52
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Zlatko Mateša age 50
Prime Minister - Croatia
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 69
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Mohammad Rabbani age 44
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Jacques-Édouard Alexis age 52
Prime Minister - Haiti
Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani age 41
Prime Minister - Qatar
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 60
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
Syarhei Linh age 62
Prime Minister - Belarus
Mahendra Chaudhry age 57
Prime Minister - Fiji
Hamed Karoui age 71
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Ismail Hamdani age 69
Prime Minister - Algeria
Andris Šķēle age 41
Prime Minister - Latvia
Ion Sturza age 39
Prime Minister - Moldova
Donald Kalpokas age 56
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Mario Frick age 34
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 68
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Peter Mafany Musonge age 56
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Ionatana Ionatana age 60
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Mekere Morauta age 53
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo age 45
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Francisco Fadul age 45
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh age 60
Prime Minister - Jordan
Tantely Andrianarivo age 45
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Guilherme Posser da Costa age 46
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Frederick Sumaye age 49
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 53
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Rinchinnyamyn Amarjargal age 38
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Mamadou Lamine Loum age 47
Prime Minister - Senegal
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 59
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Baron Vaea age 78
Prime Minister - Tonga
Mohamed Ahmed Mangush age 31
Prime Minister - Libya
Yahyo Azimov age 51
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 64
Prime Minister - Togo
Anicet-Georges Dologuélé age 42
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Edison James age 55
Prime Minister - Dominica
Lamine Sidimé age 55
Prime Minister - Guinea
Amangeldy Muraliyev age 52
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki age 47
Prime Minister - Niger
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 46
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Víctor Joy Way age 54
Prime Minister - Peru
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido age 52
Prime Minister - Chad
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 43
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 64
Prime Minister - Yemen
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 73
Governor-General - Barbados
James Carlisle age 62
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Howard Cooke age 83
Governor-General - Jamaica
Michael Hardie Boys age 67
Governor-General - New Zealand
Tomasi Puapua age 61
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Orville Turnquest age 70
Governor-General - The Bahamas
John Lapli age 44
Governor-General - Solomon Islands
Charles Antrobus age 66
Governor-General - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Silas Atopare age 48
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 38
Illinois Senate
Donald Trump age 53
Michael Jackson age 41
Ronald Reagan age 88
Nelson Mandela age 81
Bill Gates age 43
Jimmy Wales age 33
Pope Francis age 62
Steve Jobs age 44
Angela Merkel age 45