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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

Jorge Quiroga age 41
President - Bolivia
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 51
President - Marshall Islands
Hipólito Mejía age 60
President - Dominican Republic
René Harris age 53
President - Nauru
Leo Falcam age 65
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Carlos Roberto Flor age 51
President - Honduras
Teburoro Tito age 48
President - Kiribati
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 60
President - Somalia
John Bani age 60
President - Vanuatu
Vernon Shaw age 71
President - Dominica
Cassam Uteem age 60
President - Mauritius
Živko Radišić age 64
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Fabio Berardi age 42
Captain Regent - San Marino
Beriz Belkić age 54
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jozo Križanović age 57
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Luigi Lonfernini age 63
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 76
Prime Minister - Malaysia
António Guterres age 52
Prime Minister - Portugal
Viktor Orbán age 38
Prime Minister - Hungary
Jens Stoltenberg age 42
Prime Minister - Norway
Jean-Claude Juncker age 46
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Hassanal Bolkiah age 55
Prime Minister - Brunei
Miloš Zeman age 56
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 48
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
John Howard age 62
Prime Minister - Australia
Thaksin Shinawatra age 52
Prime Minister - Thailand
Helen Clark age 51
Prime Minister - New Zealand
José María Aznar age 48
Prime Minister - Spain
Meles Zenawi age 46
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Filip Vujanović age 46
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Bülent Ecevit age 76
Prime Minister - Turkey
Mohammed Omar age 41
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Hun Sen age 49
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Rafiq Hariri age 56
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Jean Chrétien age 67
Prime Minister - Canada
Janez Drnovšek age 51
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Guy Verhofstadt age 48
Prime Minister - Belgium
Ilir Meta age 32
Prime Minister - Albania
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 64
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 52
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Zoran Đinđić age 49
Prime Minister - Serbia
Göran Persson age 52
Prime Minister - Sweden
Tupou VI of Tonga age 42
Prime Minister - Tonga
Algirdas Brazauskas age 68
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Wim Kok age 62
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Hage Geingob age 60
Prime Minister - Namibia
Andris Bērziņš age 56
Prime Minister - Latvia
Wolfgang Schüssel age 56
Chancellor - Austria
Artur Rasizade age 66
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Goh Chok Tong age 60
Prime Minister - Singapore
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 60
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Costas Simitis age 65
Prime Minister - Greece
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 55
Prime Minister - Nepal
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 65
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 58
Prime Minister - Denmark
Mikhail Kasianov age 43
Prime Minister - Russia
Davíð Oddsson age 53
Prime Minister - Iceland
Anerood Jugnauth age 71
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Eddie Fenech Adami age 67
Prime Minister - Malta
Paavo Lipponen age 60
Prime Minister - Finland
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 43
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 56
Prime Minister - Samoa
Mart Laar age 41
Prime Minister - Estonia
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 46
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Adrian Năstase age 51
Prime Minister - Romania
Sam Hinds age 57
Prime Minister - Guyana
Andranik Margaryan age 50
Prime Minister - Armenia
Ralph Gonsalves age 55
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Oqil Oqilov age 57
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 58
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Pakalitha Mosisili age 56
Prime Minister - Lesotho
Mame Madior Boye age 60
Prime Minister - Senegal
Manasseh Sogavare age 46
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 68
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Keith Mitchell age 54
Prime Minister - Grenada
Owen Arthur age 51
Prime Minister - Barbados
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 43
Prime Minister - Djibouti
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 71
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Vasile Tarlev age 37
Prime Minister - Moldova
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 59
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Bernard Makuza age 38
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Kenny Anthony age 50
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Said Musa age 57
Prime Minister - Belize
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 77
Prime Minister - Morocco
Hubert Ingraham age 54
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Apolo Nsibambi age 60
Prime Minister - Uganda
P. J. Patterson age 66
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Anatolii Kinakh age 47
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Lester Bird age 63
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Laisenia Qarase age 60
Prime Minister - Fiji
Pascoal Mocumbi age 60
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Marc Forné Molné age 54
Prime Minister - Andorra
Ljubčo Georgievski age 35
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Basdeo Panday age 68
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 55
Prime Minister - Yemen
Abdul Kabir age 43
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Khandu Wangchuk age 50
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 58
Prime Minister - Belarus
Ali ibn Flais age 56
Prime Minister - Algeria
Paramanga Ernest Yonli age 44
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani age 43
Prime Minister - Qatar
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 62
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
Zlatko Lagumdžija age 45
Prime Minister - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Faimalaga Luka age 61
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Ali Khalif Galaydh age 59
Prime Minister - Somalia
Ali Abu al-Ragheb age 55
Prime Minister - Jordan
Mandé Sidibé age 61
Prime Minister - Mali
Peter Mafany Musonge age 58
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Martin Ziguélé age 44
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Hamada Madi age 36
Prime Minister - Comoros
Pierre Charles age 47
Prime Minister - Dominica
Faustino Imbali age 45
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Mekere Morauta age 55
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Alamara Nhassé age 44
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Imbarek Shamekh age 49
Prime Minister - Libya
Tantely Andrianarivo age 47
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Guilherme Posser da Costa age 48
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Frederick Sumaye age 51
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Nagoum Yamassoum age 47
Prime Minister - Chad
Pascal Affi N'Guessan age 48
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Kodjo Agbéyomé age 46
Prime Minister - Togo
Cándido Muatetema Rivas age 41
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Jean Marie Chérestal age 54
Prime Minister - Haiti
Lamine Sidimé age 57
Prime Minister - Guinea
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 45
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Roberto Dañino age 50
Prime Minister - Peru
Hama Amadou age 51
Prime Minister - Niger
Colville Young age 68
Governor-General - Belize
Cuthbert Sebastian age 79
Governor-General - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Clifford Husbands age 75
Governor-General - Barbados
Silvia Cartwright age 57
Governor-General - New Zealand
Peter Hollingworth age 66
Governor-General - Australia
James Carlisle age 64
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Howard Cooke age 85
Governor-General - Jamaica
Tomasi Puapua age 62
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Orville Turnquest age 72
Governor-General - The Bahamas
John Lapli age 46
Governor-General - Solomon Islands
Charles Antrobus age 68
Governor-General - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Silas Atopare age 50
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 40
Illinois Senate
Donald Trump age 55
Michael Jackson age 43
Ronald Reagan age 90
Nelson Mandela age 83
Bill Gates age 45
Pope Francis age 64
Steve Jobs age 46
Bill Clinton age 55
Angela Merkel age 47
Neil Armstrong age 71
François Hollande age 47
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 23
Margaret Thatcher age 75
Gabriel García Márquez age 74
Mikhail Gorbachev age 70
Elon Musk age 30
Stephen Hawking age 59
Jimmy Carter age 76
Emmanuel Macron age 23
Benedict XVI age 74
George H. W. Bush age 77
Kamala Harris age 36
Nicolas Sarkozy age 46
Xi Jinping age 48
Naruhito age 41
Muammar Gaddafi age 59
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 47
Muhammad Ali age 59
Charles III age 52
Osama bin Laden age 44
Lech Wałęsa age 57
Gerald Ford age 88
Leo XIV age 45
Diego Maradona age 40
Narendra Modi age 50
Rafael Correa age 38
Aung San Suu Kyi age 56
Benjamin Netanyahu age 51
Dmitry Medvedev age 35
14th Dalai Lama age 66
Mark Zuckerberg age 17
Shinzo Abe age 46
Tim Berners-Lee age 46
Boris Yeltsin age 70
Guillermo Lasso age 45
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 82
Malala Yousafzai age 4
Yasser Arafat age 72
David Cameron age 34
Linus Torvalds age 31