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Events

Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
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
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30

People

Lansana Conté age 67
President - Guinea
Vladimir Voronin age 60
President - Moldova
Jorge Sampaio age 62
President - Portugal
Eduardo Duhalde age 60
President - Argentina
Ricardo Lagos age 63
President - Chile
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 75
President - Greece
Milan Kučan age 61
President - Slovenia
Levy Mwanawasa age 53
President - Zambia
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 48
President - Haiti
Ferenc Mádl age 71
President - Hungary
Alejandro Toledo age 56
President - Peru
Émile Lahoud age 66
President - Lebanon
Benjamin Mkapa age 63
President - Tanzania
Rexhep Meidani age 57
President - Albania
Mamadou Tandja age 63
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 77
President - Singapore
Azali Assoumani age 43
President - Comoros
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 56
President - Mali
Boris Trajkovski age 45
President - North Macedonia
Pedro Pires age 67
President - Cape Verde
Ronald Venetiaan age 65
President - Suriname
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 45
President - Palau
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 75
Emir - Kuwait
Rudolf Schuster age 68
President - Slovakia
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 74
President - Uruguay
Mireya Moscoso age 55
President - Panama
Bharrat Jagdeo age 38
President - Guyana
Didier Ratsiraka age 65
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 83
King - Tonga
Ange-Félix Patassé age 65
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 82
President - Cyprus
Josefa Iloilo age 81
President - Fiji
Bakili Muluzi age 58
President - Malawi
Milan Milutinović age 59
President - Serbia
France-Albert René age 66
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 70
President - Sierra Leone
Fradique de Menezes age 59
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Pierre Buyoya age 52
President - Burundi
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 47
President - Colombia
Guido de Marco age 70
President - Malta
Kumba Ialá age 48
President - Guinea-Bissau
Khamtai Siphandone age 78
President - Laos
Enrique Bolaños age 73
President - Nicaragua
Gustavo Noboa age 64
President - Ecuador
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 60
President - Mauritania
Ricardo Maduro age 55
President - Honduras
A. N. R. Robinson age 75
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 51
President - Mongolia
Jorge Quiroga age 41
President - Bolivia
Luis González Macchi age 54
President - Paraguay
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 62
President - Costa Rica
Francisco Flores age 42
President - El Salvador
Kessai Note age 51
President - Marshall Islands
Hipólito Mejía age 61
President - Dominican Republic
René Harris age 54
President - Nauru
Leo Falcam age 66
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Kaspar Villiger age 61
President - Switzerland
Teburoro Tito age 48
President - Kiribati
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 61
President - Somalia
A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury age 69
President - Bangladesh
John Bani age 60
President - Vanuatu
Vernon Shaw age 71
President - Dominica
Cassam Uteem age 60
President - Mauritius
Hamada Madi age 37
President - Comoros
Živko Radišić age 64
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Beriz Belkić age 55
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jozo Križanović age 57
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Alberto Cecchetti age 58
Captain Regent - San Marino
Gino Giovagnoli age 50
Captain Regent - San Marino
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
Jean-Claude Juncker age 47
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Hassanal Bolkiah age 55
Prime Minister - Brunei
Miloš Zeman age 57
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 49
Prime Minister - Denmark
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 47
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Bülent Ecevit age 76
Prime Minister - Turkey
Hun Sen age 49
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Rafiq Hariri age 57
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Jean Chrétien age 68
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 53
Prime Minister - Sweden
Tupou VI of Tonga age 42
Prime Minister - Tonga
Algirdas Brazauskas age 69
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 52
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Wim Kok age 63
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Hage Geingob age 60
Prime Minister - Namibia
Andris Bērziņš age 57
Prime Minister - Latvia
Wolfgang Schüssel age 56
Chancellor - Austria
Artur Rasizade age 67
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
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 54
Prime Minister - Norway
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 66
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Mikhail Kasianov age 44
Prime Minister - Russia
Davíð Oddsson age 54
Prime Minister - Iceland
Anerood Jugnauth age 71
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Evaristo Carvalho age 60
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Eddie Fenech Adami age 68
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
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 47
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Adrian Năstase age 51
Prime Minister - Romania
Sam Hinds age 58
Prime Minister - Guyana
Andranik Margaryan age 50
Prime Minister - Armenia
Ralph Gonsalves age 55
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Oqil Oqilov age 58
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 61
Prime Minister - Senegal
Keith Mitchell age 55
Prime Minister - Grenada
Owen Arthur age 52
Prime Minister - Barbados
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 43
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Denzil Douglas age 49
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Ivica Račan age 58
Prime Minister - Croatia
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 71
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Vasile Tarlev age 38
Prime Minister - Moldova
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 59
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Bernard Makuza age 39
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Kenny Anthony age 51
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Said Musa age 57
Prime Minister - Belize
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 50
Prime Minister - Latvia
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 77
Prime Minister - Morocco
Hubert Ingraham age 54
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Apolo Nsibambi age 61
Prime Minister - Uganda
P. J. Patterson age 66
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Anatolii Kinakh age 47
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Lester Bird age 64
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 45
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Laisenia Qarase age 61
Prime Minister - Fiji
Pascoal Mocumbi age 60
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Patrick Manning age 55
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Marc Forné Molné age 55
Prime Minister - Andorra
Ljubčo Georgievski age 36
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 56
Prime Minister - Yemen
Khandu Wangchuk age 51
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Ali ibn Flais age 57
Prime Minister - Algeria
Hyenadz Navitski age 53
Prime Minister - Belarus
Paramanga Ernest Yonli age 45
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani age 44
Prime Minister - Qatar
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 62
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
Zlatko Lagumdžija age 46
Prime Minister - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ali Abu al-Ragheb age 56
Prime Minister - Jordan
Mandé Sidibé age 62
Prime Minister - Mali
Hassan Abshir Farah age 56
Prime Minister - Somalia
Peter Mafany Musonge age 59
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Martin Ziguélé age 45
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Pierre Charles age 47
Prime Minister - Dominica
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
Allan Kemakeza age 53
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Frederick Sumaye age 51
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Koloa Talake age 67
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Nagoum Yamassoum age 48
Prime Minister - Chad
Pascal Affi N'Guessan age 49
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Kodjo Agbéyomé age 47
Prime Minister - Togo
Cándido Muatetema Rivas age 42
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Jean Marie Chérestal age 54
Prime Minister - Haiti
Lamine Sidimé age 58
Prime Minister - Guinea
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 46
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Roberto Dañino age 50
Prime Minister - Peru
Khaleda Zia age 55
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Siim Kallas age 53
Prime Minister - Estonia
Hama Amadou age 52
Prime Minister - Niger
Otmar Hasler age 48
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Colville Young age 69
Governor-General - Belize
Cuthbert Sebastian age 80
Governor-General - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Clifford Husbands age 75
Governor-General - Barbados
Silvia Cartwright age 58
Governor-General - New Zealand
Peter Hollingworth age 66
Governor-General - Australia
James Carlisle age 64
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Howard Cooke age 86
Governor-General - Jamaica
Ivy Dumont age 71
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Tomasi Puapua age 63
Governor-General - Tuvalu
John Lapli age 46
Governor-General - Solomon Islands
Charles Antrobus age 68
Governor-General - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Silas Atopare age 51
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 40
Illinois Senate
Donald Trump age 55
Michael Jackson age 43
Ronald Reagan age 91
Nelson Mandela age 83
Bill Gates age 46