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Events

North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
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
2002–2004 SARS outbreak 2002-11 - 2004-05
War in Darfur 2003-02-26 - 2020-08-31
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18
First Battle of Fallujah 2004-04-04 - 2004-05-01
2004 enlargement of the European Union 2004-05-01

People

Abel Pacheco age 70
President - Costa Rica
Khamtai Siphandone age 80
President - Laos
Artūras Paulauskas age 50
President - Lithuania
Boniface Alexandre age 67
President - Haiti
Enrique Bolaños age 76
President - Nicaragua
Domitien Ndayizeye age 51
President - Burundi
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 62
President - Mauritania
Ricardo Maduro age 58
President - Honduras
Dragan Čović age 47
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Lucio Gutiérrez age 47
President - Ecuador
Henrique Rosa age 58
President - Guinea-Bissau
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 54
President - Mongolia
Joseph Deiss age 58
President - Switzerland
Sulejman Tihić age 52
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Gyude Bryant age 55
President - Liberia
Kessai Note age 53
President - Marshall Islands
Joseph Urusemal age 52
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Hipólito Mejía age 63
President - Dominican Republic
René Harris age 56
President - Nauru
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 63
President - Somalia
Borislav Paravac age 61
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Marino Riccardi age 45
Captain Regent - San Marino
Predrag Marković age 48
President - Serbia
Ljupčo Jordanovski age 51
President - North Macedonia
Paolo Bollini age 44
Captain Regent - San Marino
Alfred Maseng age 55
President - Vanuatu
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 83
King - Saudi Arabia
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 50
Prime Minister - Turkey
Viktor Yanukovych age 53
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Jean-Claude Juncker age 49
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 46
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 43
Prime Minister - Spain
Hassanal Bolkiah age 57
Prime Minister - Brunei
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 51
Prime Minister - Denmark
John Howard age 64
Prime Minister - Australia
Thaksin Shinawatra age 54
Prime Minister - Thailand
Helen Clark age 54
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Macky Sall age 42
Prime Minister - Senegal
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 58
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Meles Zenawi age 49
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Jan Peter Balkenende age 48
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Milo Đukanović age 42
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 74
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Hun Sen age 51
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Rafiq Hariri age 59
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Paul Martin age 65
Prime Minister - Canada
Guy Verhofstadt age 51
Prime Minister - Belgium
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 66
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Ivo Sanader age 50
Prime Minister - Croatia
Göran Persson age 55
Prime Minister - Sweden
Matti Vanhanen age 48
Prime Minister - Finland
Tupou VI of Tonga age 44
Prime Minister - Tonga
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 64
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Vojislav Koštunica age 60
Prime Minister - Serbia
Algirdas Brazauskas age 71
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Branko Crvenkovski age 41
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Mikhhail Fradkov age 53
Prime Minister - Russia
Wolfgang Schüssel age 58
Chancellor - Austria
Artur Rasizade age 69
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Luísa Diogo age 46
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Goh Chok Tong age 62
Prime Minister - Singapore
Kostas Karamanlis age 47
Prime Minister - Greece
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 62
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 56
Prime Minister - Norway
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 68
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Fatos Nano age 51
Prime Minister - Albania
Davíð Oddsson age 56
Prime Minister - Iceland
Roosevelt Skerrit age 31
Prime Minister - Dominica
Lawrence Gonzi age 50
Prime Minister - Malta
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 45
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Zurab Zhvania age 40
Prime Minister - Georgia
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 59
Prime Minister - Samoa
Michael Somare age 68
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Péter Medgyessy age 61
Prime Minister - Hungary
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 49
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Ahmad Uyahya age 51
Prime Minister - Algeria
Vladimír Špidla age 53
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Adrian Năstase age 53
Prime Minister - Romania
Sam Hinds age 60
Prime Minister - Guyana
Andranik Margaryan age 52
Prime Minister - Armenia
Jigme Thinley age 51
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Ralph Gonsalves age 57
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Oqil Oqilov age 60
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Nandó dos Santos age 54
Prime Minister - Angola
Baldwin Spencer age 55
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Syarhiey Sidorski age 50
Prime Minister - Belarus
Juhan Parts age 37
Prime Minister - Estonia
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 60
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Pakalitha Mosisili age 59
Prime Minister - Lesotho
Keith Mitchell age 57
Prime Minister - Grenada
Owen Arthur age 54
Prime Minister - Barbados
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 46
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 60
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Denzil Douglas age 51
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Perry Christie age 60
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Mari Alkatiri age 54
Prime Minister - Timor-Leste
Driss Jettou age 58
Prime Minister - Morocco
Vasile Tarlev age 40
Prime Minister - Moldova
Moussa Faki age 43
Prime Minister - Chad
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 76
Prime Minister - Nepal
Bernard Makuza age 41
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Kenny Anthony age 53
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Maria das Neves age 45
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Said Musa age 60
Prime Minister - Belize
Apolo Nsibambi age 63
Prime Minister - Uganda
Gérard Latortue age 69
Prime Minister - Haiti
P. J. Patterson age 69
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 66
Prime Minister - Namibia
Anton Rop age 43
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Laisenia Qarase age 63
Prime Minister - Fiji
Patrick Manning age 57
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Marc Forné Molné age 57
Prime Minister - Andorra
Nikolai Tanayev age 58
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Indulis Emsis age 52
Prime Minister - Latvia
Jacques Sylla age 57
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 58
Prime Minister - Yemen
Themba Dlamini age 53
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Shukri Ghanem age 61
Prime Minister - Libya
Seydou Diarra age 70
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Bajram Rexhepi age 49
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Adnan Terzić age 44
Prime Minister - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Paramanga Ernest Yonli age 47
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani age 46
Prime Minister - Qatar
Khin Nyunt age 64
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Saufatu Sopoanga age 52
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga age 58
Prime Minister - Mali
Paul Bérenger age 59
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Peter Mafany Musonge age 61
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Ezzedine Salim age 61
Prime Minister - Iraq
Carlos Ferrero age 63
Prime Minister - Peru
Faisal al-Fayez age 51
Prime Minister - Jordan
Allan Kemakeza age 55
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Frederick Sumaye age 53
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Muhammad Abdi Yusuf age 62
Prime Minister - Somalia
Célestin Gaombalet age 62
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Cándido Muatetema Rivas age 44
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Sghair Ould M'Bareck age 50
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Koffi Sama age 60
Prime Minister - Togo
Artur Sanhá age 39
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Khaleda Zia age 57
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Hama Amadou age 54
Prime Minister - Niger
José Manuel Barroso age 48
Prime Minister - Portugal
Michael Jeffery age 66
Governor-General - Australia
Frederick Ballantyne age 67
Governor-General - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Colville Young age 71
Governor-General - Belize
Cuthbert Sebastian age 82
Governor-General - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Clifford Husbands age 77
Governor-General - Barbados
Silvia Cartwright age 60
Governor-General - New Zealand
James Carlisle age 66
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Howard Cooke age 88
Governor-General - Jamaica
Ivy Dumont age 73
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Faimalaga Luka age 64
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Bill Skate age 50
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
John Lapli age 48
Governor-General - Solomon Islands
Barack Obama age 42
Illinois Senate
Donald Trump age 57
Michael Jackson age 45
Ronald Reagan age 93
Nelson Mandela age 85
Bill Gates age 48
Pope Francis age 67
Steve Jobs age 49
Bill Clinton age 57
Angela Merkel age 49
Neil Armstrong age 73
François Hollande age 49
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 26
Margaret Thatcher age 78
Gabriel García Márquez age 77
Mikhail Gorbachev age 73
Elon Musk age 32
Stephen Hawking age 62
Jimmy Carter age 79
Emmanuel Macron age 26
Benedict XVI age 77
George H. W. Bush age 79
Kamala Harris age 39
Nicolas Sarkozy age 49
Xi Jinping age 50
Naruhito age 44
Muammar Gaddafi age 61
Muhammad Ali age 62
Charles III age 55
Osama bin Laden age 47
Lech Wałęsa age 60
Gerald Ford age 90
Leo XIV age 48
Diego Maradona age 43
Narendra Modi age 53
Rafael Correa age 41
Saddam Hussein age 67
Aung San Suu Kyi age 58
Benjamin Netanyahu age 54
Dmitry Medvedev age 38
14th Dalai Lama age 68
Mark Zuckerberg age 19
Shinzo Abe age 49
Tim Berners-Lee age 48
Mahathir Mohamad age 78
Boris Yeltsin age 73