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

People

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
Negasso Gidada age 56
President - Ethiopia
Arnoldo Alemán age 54
President - Nicaragua
Miguel Trovoada age 63
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Luis González Macchi age 52
President - Paraguay
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 60
President - Costa Rica
Francisco Flores age 40
President - El Salvador
Kessai Note age 49
President - Marshall Islands
René Harris age 52
President - Nauru
Leo Falcam age 64
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Kuniwo Nakamura age 56
President - Palau
Adolf Ogi age 57
President - Switzerland
Carlos Roberto Flor age 50
President - Honduras
Teburoro Tito age 46
President - Kiribati
John Bani age 58
President - Vanuatu
Vernon Shaw age 69
President - Dominica
Cassam Uteem age 59
President - Mauritius
Živko Radišić age 62
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ante Jelavić age 36
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Giuseppe Arzilli age 59
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fernando de la Rúa age 62
President - Argentina
Pasteur Bizimungu age 50
President - Rwanda
Marino Bollini age 67
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 79
King - Saudi Arabia
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
Viktor Yushchenko age 46
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Jens Stoltenberg age 41
Prime Minister - Norway
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
Helen Clark age 50
Prime Minister - New Zealand
José María Aznar age 47
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 66
Prime Minister - Canada
Janez Drnovšek age 49
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Guy Verhofstadt age 46
Prime Minister - Belgium
Ilir Meta age 31
Prime Minister - Albania
Göran Persson age 51
Prime Minister - Sweden
Tupou VI of Tonga age 40
Prime Minister - Tonga
Wim Kok age 61
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Andrius Kubilius age 43
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Hage Geingob age 58
Prime Minister - Namibia
Wolfgang Schüssel age 54
Chancellor - Austria
Artur Rasizade age 65
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
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 64
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 56
Prime Minister - Denmark
Davíð Oddsson age 52
Prime Minister - Iceland
Eddie Fenech Adami age 66
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 45
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Sam Hinds age 56
Prime Minister - Guyana
Oqil Oqilov age 56
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 56
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Pakalitha Mosisili age 55
Prime Minister - Lesotho
Keith Mitchell age 53
Prime Minister - Grenada
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 75
Prime Minister - Nepal
Owen Arthur age 50
Prime Minister - Barbados
Denzil Douglas age 47
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Chuan Leekpai age 61
Prime Minister - Thailand
Ivica Račan age 56
Prime Minister - Croatia
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 69
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 57
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Bernard Makuza age 37
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Kenny Anthony age 49
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Said Musa age 56
Prime Minister - Belize
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 76
Prime Minister - Morocco
Hubert Ingraham age 52
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Apolo Nsibambi age 59
Prime Minister - Uganda
Ivan Kostov age 50
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
P. J. Patterson age 64
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Mugur Isărescu age 50
Prime Minister - Romania
Lester Bird age 62
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Salim al-Huss age 70
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Pascoal Mocumbi age 58
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Marc Forné Molné age 53
Prime Minister - Andorra
Sangay Ngedup age 46
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Ljubčo Georgievski age 34
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Basdeo Panday age 66
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 70
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Aram Sargsyan age 39
Prime Minister - Armenia
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 57
Prime Minister - Belarus
Mohammad Rabbani age 44
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Jacques-Édouard Alexis age 52
Prime Minister - Haiti
Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani age 42
Prime Minister - Qatar
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 60
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
Mahendra Chaudhry age 58
Prime Minister - Fiji
Andris Šķēle age 42
Prime Minister - Latvia
Dumitru Braghiș age 42
Prime Minister - Moldova
Mandé Sidibé age 60
Prime Minister - Mali
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 68
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Ahmed ibn Bitour age 53
Prime Minister - Algeria
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 46
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh age 61
Prime Minister - Jordan
Imbarek Shamekh age 47
Prime Minister - Libya
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
Nagoum Yamassoum age 46
Prime Minister - Chad
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 54
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Rinchinnyamyn Amarjargal age 39
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Mamadou Lamine Loum age 48
Prime Minister - Senegal
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 60
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Barak Sopé age 45
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 65
Prime Minister - Togo
Anicet-Georges Dologuélé age 42
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Lamine Sidimé age 56
Prime Minister - Guinea
Caetano N'Tchama age 45
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Amangeldy Muraliyev age 52
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Rosie Douglas age 58
Prime Minister - Dominica
Alberto Bustamante Belaunde age 49
Prime Minister - Peru
Bianrifi Tarmidi age 42
Prime Minister - Comoros
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 44
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 65
Prime Minister - Yemen
Hama Amadou age 50
Prime Minister - Niger
Colville Young age 67
Governor-General - Belize
Cuthbert Sebastian age 78
Governor-General - Saint Kitts and Nevis
William Deane age 69
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 49
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 38
Illinois Senate
Donald Trump age 53
Michael Jackson age 41
Ronald Reagan age 89
Nelson Mandela age 81
Bill Gates age 44
Pope Francis age 63
Steve Jobs age 45
Angela Merkel age 45
Neil Armstrong age 69
François Hollande age 45
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 22
Margaret Thatcher age 74
Gabriel García Márquez age 73
Mikhail Gorbachev age 69
Elon Musk age 28
Stephen Hawking age 58
Jimmy Carter age 75
Emmanuel Macron age 22
Benedict XVI age 72
Hillary Clinton age 52
George H. W. Bush age 75
Kamala Harris age 35
Nicolas Sarkozy age 45
Xi Jinping age 46
Naruhito age 40
Muammar Gaddafi age 57
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 46
Muhammad Ali age 58
Charles III age 51
Osama bin Laden age 43
Lech Wałęsa age 56
Gerald Ford age 86
Leo XIV age 44
Diego Maradona age 39
Narendra Modi age 49
Rafael Correa age 36
Aung San Suu Kyi age 54
Benjamin Netanyahu age 50
Dmitry Medvedev age 34
14th Dalai Lama age 64
Mark Zuckerberg age 15
Silvio Berlusconi age 63
Shinzo Abe age 45
Tim Berners-Lee age 44
Boris Yeltsin age 69
Guillermo Lasso age 44
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 81
Malala Yousafzai age 2
Yasser Arafat age 70
David Cameron age 33
Linus Torvalds age 30
Ban Ki-moon age 55