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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
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18
Second Chechen War 1999-08-26 - 2009-04-16

People

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 60
President - Romania
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 70
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 63
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 64
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 67
President - Sierra Leone
Ruth Dreifuss age 59
President - Switzerland
Pierre Buyoya age 50
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
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 55
President - Cape Verde
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 58
President - Mauritania
Petru Lucinschi age 59
President - Moldova
Jules Wijdenbosch age 58
President - Suriname
A. N. R. Robinson age 73
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 52
President - Paraguay
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 59
President - Costa Rica
Francisco Flores age 40
President - El Salvador
René Harris age 52
President - Nauru
Leo Falcam age 64
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Kuniwo Nakamura age 56
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
Ante Jelavić age 36
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Giuseppe Arzilli age 58
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pasteur Bizimungu age 49
President - Rwanda
Marino Bollini age 66
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 78
King - Saudi Arabia
Vladimir Putin age 47
Prime Minister - Russia
Mahathir Mohamad age 74
Prime Minister - Malaysia
António Guterres age 50
Prime Minister - Portugal
Viktor Orbán age 36
Prime Minister - Hungary
Pervez Musharraf age 56
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Sheikh Hasina age 52
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Jean-Claude Juncker age 45
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Hassanal Bolkiah age 53
Prime Minister - Brunei
Miloš Zeman age 55
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 46
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 83
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
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
Ilir Meta age 30
Prime Minister - Albania
Göran Persson age 50
Prime Minister - Sweden
Wim Kok age 61
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Andrius Kubilius age 43
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Hage Geingob age 58
Prime Minister - Namibia
Artur Rasizade age 64
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Goh Chok Tong age 58
Prime Minister - Singapore
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 58
Prime Minister - Tunisia
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 64
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 56
Prime Minister - Denmark
Davíð Oddsson age 51
Prime Minister - Iceland
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 57
Prime Minister - Romania
Viktor Klima age 52
Chancellor - Austria
Keith Mitchell age 53
Prime Minister - Grenada
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 74
Prime Minister - Nepal
Owen Arthur age 50
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
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 59
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 70
Prime Minister - Lebanon
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
Zlatko Mateša age 50
Prime Minister - Croatia
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 69
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Aram Sargsyan age 38
Prime Minister - Armenia
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
Ismail Hamdani age 69
Prime Minister - Algeria
Andris Šķēle age 41
Prime Minister - Latvia
Ion Sturza age 39
Prime Minister - Moldova
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 68
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Peter Mafany Musonge age 57
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Ionatana Ionatana age 61
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Mekere Morauta age 53
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo age 45
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Francisco Fadul age 46
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 52
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Barak Sopé age 44
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 65
Prime Minister - Togo
Anicet-Georges Dologuélé age 42
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Edison James age 56
Prime Minister - Dominica
Lamine Sidimé age 55
Prime Minister - Guinea
Amangeldy Muraliyev age 52
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki age 48
Prime Minister - Niger
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 46
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido age 52
Prime Minister - Chad
Alberto Bustamante Belaunde age 49
Prime Minister - Peru
Bianrifi Tarmidi age 41
Prime Minister - Comoros
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 43
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 65
Prime Minister - Yemen
Colville Young age 67
Governor-General - Belize
Cuthbert Sebastian age 78
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 84
Governor-General - Jamaica
Michael Hardie Boys age 68
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 44
Pope Francis age 63
Steve Jobs age 44
Angela Merkel age 45
Neil Armstrong age 69
François Hollande age 45
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 21
Margaret Thatcher age 74
Gabriel García Márquez age 72
Mikhail Gorbachev age 68