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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
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
First Ivorian Civil War 2002-09-19 - 2007-03-04
2002–2004 SARS outbreak 2002-11 - 2004-05

People

Alfred Moisiu age 73
President - Albania
Than Shwe age 69
President - Myanmar
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 77
President - Ethiopia
Lansana Conté age 68
President - Guinea
Vladimir Voronin age 61
President - Moldova
Jorge Sampaio age 63
President - Portugal
Eduardo Duhalde age 61
President - Argentina
Ricardo Lagos age 64
President - Chile
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 76
President - Greece
Milan Kučan age 61
President - Slovenia
Levy Mwanawasa age 54
President - Zambia
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 49
President - Haiti
Ferenc Mádl age 71
President - Hungary
Alejandro Toledo age 57
President - Peru
Iajuddin Ahmed age 71
President - Bangladesh
Émile Lahoud age 66
President - Lebanon
Marc Ravalomanana age 53
President - Madagascar
Benjamin Mkapa age 64
President - Tanzania
Mamadou Tandja age 64
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 78
President - Singapore
Azali Assoumani age 43
President - Comoros
Boris Trajkovski age 46
President - North Macedonia
Pedro Pires age 68
President - Cape Verde
Ronald Venetiaan age 66
President - Suriname
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 46
President - Palau
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 76
Emir - Kuwait
Rudolf Schuster age 68
President - Slovakia
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 75
President - Uruguay
Mireya Moscoso age 56
President - Panama
Bharrat Jagdeo age 38
President - Guyana
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 84
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 60
President - Serbia
France-Albert René age 67
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 70
President - Sierra Leone
Fradique de Menezes age 60
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Pierre Buyoya age 53
President - Burundi
Guido de Marco age 71
President - Malta
Kumba Ialá age 49
President - Guinea-Bissau
Abel Pacheco age 69
President - Costa Rica
Khamtai Siphandone age 78
President - Laos
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 72
President - Bolivia
Enrique Bolaños age 74
President - Nicaragua
Gustavo Noboa age 65
President - Ecuador
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 61
President - Mauritania
Ricardo Maduro age 56
President - Honduras
A. N. R. Robinson age 76
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Dragan Čović age 46
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 52
President - Mongolia
Sulejman Tihić age 51
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Luis González Macchi age 55
President - Paraguay
Francisco Flores age 43
President - El Salvador
Kessai Note age 52
President - Marshall Islands
Hipólito Mejía age 61
President - Dominican Republic
René Harris age 55
President - Nauru
Leo Falcam age 67
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Kaspar Villiger age 61
President - Switzerland
Teburoro Tito age 49
President - Kiribati
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 61
President - Somalia
John Bani age 61
President - Vanuatu
Vernon Shaw age 72
President - Dominica
Mirko Šarović age 46
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Karl Offmann age 62
President - Mauritius
Giuseppe Maria Morganti age 47
Captain Regent - San Marino
Mauro Chiaruzzi age 50
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 81
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 77
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Viktor Yanukovych age 52
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Abdullah Gül age 52
Prime Minister - Turkey
Jean-Claude Juncker age 48
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Hassanal Bolkiah age 56
Prime Minister - Brunei
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 49
Prime Minister - Denmark
John Howard age 63
Prime Minister - Australia
Thaksin Shinawatra age 53
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
Jan Peter Balkenende age 46
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Hun Sen age 50
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Rafiq Hariri age 58
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 65
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Zoran Đinđić age 50
Prime Minister - Serbia
Göran Persson age 53
Prime Minister - Sweden
Tupou VI of Tonga age 43
Prime Minister - Tonga
Algirdas Brazauskas age 70
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 53
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Branko Crvenkovski age 40
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Wolfgang Schüssel age 57
Chancellor - Austria
Artur Rasizade age 67
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Goh Chok Tong age 61
Prime Minister - Singapore
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 61
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Costas Simitis age 66
Prime Minister - Greece
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 55
Prime Minister - Norway
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 67
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Mikhail Kasianov age 45
Prime Minister - Russia
Fatos Nano age 50
Prime Minister - Albania
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 44
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 57
Prime Minister - Samoa
Michael Somare age 66
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Péter Medgyessy age 60
Prime Minister - Hungary
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 47
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Vladimír Špidla age 51
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Adrian Năstase age 52
Prime Minister - Romania
Sam Hinds age 58
Prime Minister - Guyana
Andranik Margaryan age 51
Prime Minister - Armenia
Ralph Gonsalves age 56
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Oqil Oqilov age 58
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Nandó dos Santos age 52
Prime Minister - Angola
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 59
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Pakalitha Mosisili age 57
Prime Minister - Lesotho
Keith Mitchell age 56
Prime Minister - Grenada
Owen Arthur age 53
Prime Minister - Barbados
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 44
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 58
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Denzil Douglas age 49
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Perry Christie age 59
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Mari Alkatiri age 53
Prime Minister - Timor-Leste
Ivica Račan age 58
Prime Minister - Croatia
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 72
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Driss Jettou age 57
Prime Minister - Morocco
Vasile Tarlev age 39
Prime Minister - Moldova
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 60
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Bernard Makuza age 40
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Kenny Anthony age 51
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Maria das Neves age 44
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Said Musa age 58
Prime Minister - Belize
Apolo Nsibambi age 62
Prime Minister - Uganda
P. J. Patterson age 67
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 64
Prime Minister - Namibia
Lester Bird age 64
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 46
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 62
Prime Minister - Nepal
Laisenia Qarase age 61
Prime Minister - Fiji
Pascoal Mocumbi age 61
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Patrick Manning age 56
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Marc Forné Molné age 55
Prime Minister - Andorra
Nikolai Tanayev age 57
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Jacques Sylla age 56
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 56
Prime Minister - Yemen
Einars Repše age 41
Prime Minister - Latvia
Bajram Rexhepi age 48
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Ali ibn Flais age 58
Prime Minister - Algeria
Hyenadz Navitski age 53
Prime Minister - Belarus
Kinzang Dorji age 51
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Paramanga Ernest Yonli age 45
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani age 44
Prime Minister - Qatar
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 63
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
Saufatu Sopoanga age 50
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Haroun Kabadi age 53
Prime Minister - Chad
Ali Abu al-Ragheb age 56
Prime Minister - Jordan
Hassan Abshir Farah age 57
Prime Minister - Somalia
Peter Mafany Musonge age 60
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Martin Ziguélé age 45
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Pierre Charles age 48
Prime Minister - Dominica
Yvon Neptune age 56
Prime Minister - Haiti
Imbarek Shamekh age 50
Prime Minister - Libya
Ahmed Mohamed ag Hamani age 60
Prime Minister - Mali
Idrissa Seck age 43
Prime Minister - Senegal
Allan Kemakeza age 54
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Frederick Sumaye age 52
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Pascal Affi N'Guessan age 49
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Cándido Muatetema Rivas age 42
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Koffi Sama age 58
Prime Minister - Togo
Lamine Sidimé age 58
Prime Minister - Guinea
Mário Pires age 53
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Dragan Mikerević age 47
Prime Minister - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 46
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Luis Solari age 54
Prime Minister - Peru
Khaleda Zia age 56
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Siim Kallas age 54
Prime Minister - Estonia
Hama Amadou age 52
Prime Minister - Niger
José Manuel Barroso age 46
Prime Minister - Portugal
Frederick Ballantyne age 66
Governor-General - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Colville Young age 70
Governor-General - Belize
Cuthbert Sebastian age 81
Governor-General - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Clifford Husbands age 76
Governor-General - Barbados
Silvia Cartwright age 59
Governor-General - New Zealand
Peter Hollingworth age 67
Governor-General - Australia
James Carlisle age 65
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Howard Cooke age 87
Governor-General - Jamaica
Ivy Dumont age 72
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Tomasi Puapua age 64
Governor-General - Tuvalu
John Lapli age 47
Governor-General - Solomon Islands
Silas Atopare age 51
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 41
Illinois Senate
Donald Trump age 56
Michael Jackson age 44
Ronald Reagan age 91
Nelson Mandela age 84
Bill Gates age 47