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Events

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

Jorge Sampaio age 62
President - Portugal
Eduardo Duhalde age 60
President - Argentina
Ricardo Lagos age 64
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 57
President - Peru
Émile Lahoud age 66
President - Lebanon
Marc Ravalomanana age 52
President - Madagascar
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 68
President - Cape Verde
Ronald Venetiaan age 65
President - Suriname
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 46
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 83
President - Cyprus
Josefa Iloilo age 81
President - Fiji
Bakili Muluzi age 59
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 60
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 49
President - Guinea-Bissau
Abel Pacheco age 68
President - Costa Rica
Khamtai Siphandone age 78
President - Laos
Enrique Bolaños age 74
President - Nicaragua
Gustavo Noboa age 64
President - Ecuador
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 60
President - Mauritania
Ricardo Maduro age 56
President - Honduras
A. N. R. Robinson age 75
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 52
President - Mongolia
Jorge Quiroga age 42
President - Bolivia
Luis González Macchi age 54
President - Paraguay
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 72
President - Dominica
Hamada Madi age 37
President - Comoros
Karl Offmann age 61
President - Mauritius
Živko Radišić age 64
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Giovanni Francesco Ugolini age 49
Captain Regent - San Marino
Beriz Belkić age 55
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jozo Križanović age 57
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Antonio Lazzaro Volpinari age 58
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 81
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 76
Prime Minister - Malaysia
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 52
Prime Minister - New Zealand
José María Aznar age 49
Prime Minister - Spain
Meles Zenawi age 47
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Filip Vujanović age 47
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Bülent Ecevit age 77
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 52
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Guy Verhofstadt age 49
Prime Minister - Belgium
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 53
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 61
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 72
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Eddie Fenech Adami age 68
Prime Minister - Malta
Paavo Lipponen age 61
Prime Minister - Finland
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 43
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 57
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 57
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 44
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Denzil Douglas age 49
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Perry Christie age 58
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Ivica Račan age 58
Prime Minister - Croatia
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 72
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Vasile Tarlev age 38
Prime Minister - Moldova
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 60
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Bernard Makuza age 39
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Kenny Anthony age 51
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Pandeli Majko age 34
Prime Minister - Albania
Said Musa age 58
Prime Minister - Belize
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 50
Prime Minister - Latvia
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 78
Prime Minister - Morocco
Apolo Nsibambi age 61
Prime Minister - Uganda
P. J. Patterson age 67
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 61
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
Bajram Rexhepi age 47
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Modibo Keita age 59
Prime Minister - Mali
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
Ali Abu al-Ragheb age 56
Prime Minister - Jordan
Gabriel Costa age 47
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
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
Yvon Neptune age 55
Prime Minister - Haiti
Mekere Morauta age 55
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Alamara Nhassé age 44
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Imbarek Shamekh age 50
Prime Minister - Libya
Tantely Andrianarivo age 48
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Allan Kemakeza age 53
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Frederick Sumaye age 52
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
Lamine Sidimé age 58
Prime Minister - Guinea
Dragan Mikerević age 47
Prime Minister - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 46
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Roberto Dañino age 51
Prime Minister - Peru
Khaleda Zia age 55
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Siim Kallas age 53
Prime Minister - Estonia
Hama Amadou age 52
Prime Minister - Niger
José Manuel Barroso age 46
Prime Minister - Portugal
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 67
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 69
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
Pope Francis age 65