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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
Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08

People

A. N. R. Robinson age 74
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 50
President - Mongolia
Negasso Gidada age 57
President - Ethiopia
Arnoldo Alemán age 55
President - Nicaragua
Miguel Trovoada age 64
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Luis González Macchi age 53
President - Paraguay
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 61
President - Costa Rica
Francisco Flores age 41
President - El Salvador
Kessai Note age 50
President - Marshall Islands
Hipólito Mejía age 60
President - Dominican Republic
Leo Falcam age 65
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Carlos Roberto Flor age 51
President - Honduras
Bernard Dowiyogo age 55
President - Nauru
Teburoro Tito age 47
President - Kiribati
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 60
President - Somalia
John Bani age 59
President - Vanuatu
Vernon Shaw age 70
President - Dominica
Cassam Uteem age 59
President - Mauritius
Gianfranco Terenzi age 60
Captain Regent - San Marino
Živko Radišić age 63
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Halid Genjac age 43
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ante Jelavić age 37
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Enzo Colombini age 42
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fernando de la Rúa age 63
President - Argentina
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 80
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 75
Prime Minister - Malaysia
António Guterres age 51
Prime Minister - Portugal
Viktor Orbán age 37
Prime Minister - Hungary
Pervez Musharraf age 57
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Sheikh Hasina age 53
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Viktor Yushchenko age 47
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Jens Stoltenberg age 41
Prime Minister - Norway
Jean-Claude Juncker age 46
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Hassanal Bolkiah age 54
Prime Minister - Brunei
Miloš Zeman age 56
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 47
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
John Howard age 61
Prime Minister - Australia
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 81
Prime Minister - Peru
Thaksin Shinawatra age 51
Prime Minister - Thailand
Helen Clark age 51
Prime Minister - New Zealand
José María Aznar age 48
Prime Minister - Spain
Meles Zenawi age 45
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Filip Vujanović age 46
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Bülent Ecevit age 75
Prime Minister - Turkey
Mohammed Omar age 41
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Hun Sen age 48
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Rafiq Hariri age 56
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Jean Chrétien age 67
Prime Minister - Canada
Janez Drnovšek age 50
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Guy Verhofstadt age 47
Prime Minister - Belgium
Ilir Meta age 31
Prime Minister - Albania
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 51
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Zoran Đinđić age 48
Prime Minister - Serbia
Göran Persson age 52
Prime Minister - Sweden
Tupou VI of Tonga age 41
Prime Minister - Tonga
Wim Kok age 62
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Hage Geingob age 59
Prime Minister - Namibia
Andris Bērziņš age 56
Prime Minister - Latvia
Wolfgang Schüssel age 55
Chancellor - Austria
Artur Rasizade age 66
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Goh Chok Tong age 59
Prime Minister - Singapore
Girija Prasad Koirala age 76
Prime Minister - Nepal
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 59
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Costas Simitis age 64
Prime Minister - Greece
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 65
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 57
Prime Minister - Denmark
Mikhail Kasianov age 43
Prime Minister - Russia
Davíð Oddsson age 53
Prime Minister - Iceland
Anerood Jugnauth age 70
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Rolandas Paksas age 44
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Eddie Fenech Adami age 67
Prime Minister - Malta
Paavo Lipponen age 59
Prime Minister - Finland
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 42
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 55
Prime Minister - Samoa
Mart Laar age 40
Prime Minister - Estonia
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 46
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Adrian Năstase age 50
Prime Minister - Romania
Sam Hinds age 57
Prime Minister - Guyana
Andranik Margaryan age 49
Prime Minister - Armenia
Oqil Oqilov age 57
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 57
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Pakalitha Mosisili age 55
Prime Minister - Lesotho
Manasseh Sogavare age 46
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 67
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Keith Mitchell age 54
Prime Minister - Grenada
Owen Arthur age 51
Prime Minister - Barbados
Denzil Douglas age 48
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Ivica Račan age 57
Prime Minister - Croatia
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 70
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 58
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Bernard Makuza age 38
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Kenny Anthony age 50
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Said Musa age 56
Prime Minister - Belize
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 77
Prime Minister - Morocco
Hubert Ingraham age 53
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Apolo Nsibambi age 60
Prime Minister - Uganda
Ivan Kostov age 51
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
P. J. Patterson age 65
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Lester Bird age 63
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Pascoal Mocumbi age 59
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Marc Forné Molné age 54
Prime Minister - Andorra
Ljubčo Georgievski age 35
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Basdeo Panday age 67
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 71
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 58
Prime Minister - Belarus
Mohammad Rabbani age 45
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Ali ibn Flais age 56
Prime Minister - Algeria
Paramanga Ernest Yonli age 44
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Jacques-Édouard Alexis age 53
Prime Minister - Haiti
Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani age 43
Prime Minister - Qatar
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 61
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
Yeshey Zimba age 50
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Faimalaga Luka age 60
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Ali Khalif Galaydh age 59
Prime Minister - Somalia
Ali Abu al-Ragheb age 55
Prime Minister - Jordan
Dumitru Braghiș age 43
Prime Minister - Moldova
Mandé Sidibé age 61
Prime Minister - Mali
Peter Mafany Musonge age 58
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Hamada Madi age 36
Prime Minister - Comoros
Pierre Charles age 46
Prime Minister - Dominica
Moustapha Niasse age 61
Prime Minister - Senegal
Mekere Morauta age 54
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Imbarek Shamekh age 48
Prime Minister - Libya
Tantely Andrianarivo age 46
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Guilherme Posser da Costa age 47
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Frederick Sumaye age 50
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Nagoum Yamassoum age 47
Prime Minister - Chad
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 55
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Pascal Affi N'Guessan age 48
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Arnhim Eustace age 56
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Kodjo Agbéyomé age 46
Prime Minister - Togo
Barak Sopé age 46
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Anicet-Georges Dologuélé age 43
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Lamine Sidimé age 57
Prime Minister - Guinea
Caetano N'Tchama age 46
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 45
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 66
Prime Minister - Yemen
Božidar Matić age 63
Prime Minister - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hama Amadou age 51
Prime Minister - Niger
Colville Young age 68
Governor-General - Belize
Cuthbert Sebastian age 79
Governor-General - Saint Kitts and Nevis
William Deane age 70
Governor-General - Australia
Clifford Husbands age 74
Governor-General - Barbados
James Carlisle age 63
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Howard Cooke age 85
Governor-General - Jamaica
Michael Hardie Boys age 69
Governor-General - New Zealand
Tomasi Puapua age 62
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Orville Turnquest age 71
Governor-General - The Bahamas
John Lapli age 45
Governor-General - Solomon Islands
Charles Antrobus age 67
Governor-General - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Silas Atopare age 50
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 39
Illinois Senate
Donald Trump age 54
Michael Jackson age 42
Ronald Reagan age 90
Nelson Mandela age 82
Bill Gates age 45
Pope Francis age 64
Steve Jobs age 46
Bill Clinton age 54
Angela Merkel age 46
Neil Armstrong age 70
François Hollande age 46
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 23
Margaret Thatcher age 75
Gabriel García Márquez age 74
Mikhail Gorbachev age 70
Elon Musk age 29
Stephen Hawking age 59
Jimmy Carter age 76
Emmanuel Macron age 23
Benedict XVI age 73
George H. W. Bush age 76
Kamala Harris age 36
Nicolas Sarkozy age 46
Xi Jinping age 47
Naruhito age 41
Muammar Gaddafi age 58
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 47
Muhammad Ali age 59
Charles III age 52
Osama bin Laden age 43
Lech Wałęsa age 57
Gerald Ford age 87
Leo XIV age 45
Diego Maradona age 40
Narendra Modi age 50
Rafael Correa age 37
Aung San Suu Kyi age 55
Benjamin Netanyahu age 51
Dmitry Medvedev age 35
14th Dalai Lama age 65
Mark Zuckerberg age 16
Silvio Berlusconi age 64
Shinzo Abe age 46
Tim Berners-Lee age 45
Boris Yeltsin age 70
Guillermo Lasso age 45
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 82
Malala Yousafzai age 3