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Events

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

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 69
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 82
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 62
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 59
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 59
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
Anton Rop age 42
Prime Minister - Slovenia
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 56
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 57
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 61
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 59
Prime Minister - Togo
Lamine Sidimé age 59
Prime Minister - Guinea
Mário Pires age 54
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 53
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 52
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
Pope Francis age 66
Steve Jobs age 47
Bill Clinton age 56
Angela Merkel age 48
Neil Armstrong age 72
François Hollande age 48
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 24
Margaret Thatcher age 77
Gabriel García Márquez age 75
Mikhail Gorbachev age 71
Elon Musk age 31
Stephen Hawking age 60