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Events

Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
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
First Ivorian Civil War 2002-09-19 - 2007-03-04
War in Darfur 2003-02-26 - 2020-08-31
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18

People

Sam Nujoma age 75
President - Namibia
Abdoulaye Wade age 78
President - Senegal
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 86
President - United Arab Emirates
Tassos Papadopoulos age 70
President - Cyprus
Askar Akayev age 59
President - Kyrgyzstan
Festus Mogae age 65
President - Botswana
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 66
President - Maldives
Branko Crvenkovski age 41
President - North Macedonia
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 68
President - Togo
Alfred Moisiu age 74
President - Albania
François Bozizé age 57
President - Central African Republic
Than Shwe age 71
President - Myanmar
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 79
President - Ethiopia
Lansana Conté age 69
President - Guinea
Vladimir Voronin age 63
President - Moldova
Jorge Sampaio age 65
President - Portugal
Ricardo Lagos age 66
President - Chile
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 78
President - Greece
Levy Mwanawasa age 56
President - Zambia
Ferenc Mádl age 73
President - Hungary
Alejandro Toledo age 59
President - Peru
Iajuddin Ahmed age 73
President - Bangladesh
Émile Lahoud age 68
President - Lebanon
Marc Ravalomanana age 54
President - Madagascar
Benjamin Mkapa age 65
President - Tanzania
Leonel Fernández age 50
President - Dominican Republic
Mamadou Tandja age 66
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 80
President - Singapore
Azali Assoumani age 45
President - Comoros
Carlos Mesa age 51
President - Bolivia
Anote Tong age 52
President - Kiribati
Anerood Jugnauth age 74
President - Mauritius
Pedro Pires age 70
President - Cape Verde
Eddie Fenech Adami age 70
President - Malta
Ronald Venetiaan age 68
President - Suriname
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 48
President - Palau
Nicanor Duarte age 47
President - Paraguay
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 78
Emir - Kuwait
James Michel age 60
President - Seychelles
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 76
President - Uruguay
Nicholas Liverpool age 70
President - Dominica
Bharrat Jagdeo age 40
President - Guyana
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 86
King - Tonga
Josefa Iloilo age 83
President - Fiji
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 72
President - Sierra Leone
Fradique de Menezes age 62
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
George Maxwell Richards age 72
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Antonio Saca age 39
President - El Salvador
Martín Torrijos age 41
President - Panama
Abel Pacheco age 70
President - Costa Rica
Khamtai Siphandone age 80
President - Laos
Ludwig Scotty age 56
President - Nauru
Boniface Alexandre age 68
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
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 55
President - Vanuatu
Dragan Čović age 48
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 54
President - Marshall Islands
Joseph Urusemal age 52
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 63
President - Somalia
Borislav Paravac age 61
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Marino Riccardi age 46
Captain Regent - San Marino
Paolo Bollini age 44
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 83
King - Saudi Arabia
Svetozar Marović age 49
President - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 50
Prime Minister - Turkey
Viktor Yanukovych age 54
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Jean-Claude Juncker age 49
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 47
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 44
Prime Minister - Spain
Hassanal Bolkiah age 58
Prime Minister - Brunei
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 51
Prime Minister - Denmark
John Howard age 65
Prime Minister - Australia
Thaksin Shinawatra age 55
Prime Minister - Thailand
Helen Clark age 54
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Lee Hsien Loong age 52
Prime Minister - Singapore
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 75
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Hun Sen age 52
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Rafiq Hariri age 59
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Paul Martin age 66
Prime Minister - Canada
Guy Verhofstadt age 51
Prime Minister - Belgium
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 67
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 41
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Ivo Sanader age 51
Prime Minister - Croatia
Göran Persson age 55
Prime Minister - Sweden
Matti Vanhanen age 48
Prime Minister - Finland
Tupou VI of Tonga age 45
Prime Minister - Tonga
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 64
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Vojislav Koštunica age 60
Prime Minister - Serbia
Algirdas Brazauskas age 72
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Mikhhail Fradkov age 54
Prime Minister - Russia
Wolfgang Schüssel age 59
Chancellor - Austria
Artur Rasizade age 69
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Luísa Diogo age 46
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Kostas Karamanlis age 48
Prime Minister - Greece
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 63
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 58
Prime Minister - Nepal
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 57
Prime Minister - Norway
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 68
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Fatos Nano age 52
Prime Minister - Albania
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 57
Prime Minister - Iceland
Roosevelt Skerrit age 32
Prime Minister - Dominica
Lawrence Gonzi age 51
Prime Minister - Malta
Shaukat Aziz age 55
Prime Minister - Pakistan
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 52
Prime Minister - Algeria
Adrian Năstase age 54
Prime Minister - Romania
Sam Hinds age 60
Prime Minister - Guyana
Andranik Margaryan age 53
Prime Minister - Armenia
Pedro Santana Lopes age 48
Prime Minister - Portugal
Ralph Gonsalves age 58
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 38
Prime Minister - Estonia
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 61
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Ayad Allawi age 60
Prime Minister - Iraq
Stanislav Gross age 34
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
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
Denzil Douglas age 51
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Perry Christie age 61
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Mari Alkatiri age 54
Prime Minister - Timor-Leste
Driss Jettou age 59
Prime Minister - Morocco
Lee Hae Chan age 52
Prime Minister - South Korea
Vasile Tarlev age 40
Prime Minister - Moldova
Moussa Faki age 44
Prime Minister - Chad
Bernard Makuza age 42
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Kenny Anthony age 53
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Said Musa age 60
Prime Minister - Belize
Apolo Nsibambi age 63
Prime Minister - Uganda
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 54
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Gérard Latortue age 70
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 58
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 58
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Hari Kostov age 44
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Maatia Toafa age 50
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 58
Prime Minister - Yemen
Themba Dlamini age 53
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Shukri Ghanem age 62
Prime Minister - Libya
Serge Vohor age 49
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Seydou Diarra age 70
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Bajram Rexhepi age 50
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
Yeshey Zimba age 53
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Miguel Abia Biteo age 43
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga age 58
Prime Minister - Mali
Paul Bérenger age 59
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Peter Mafany Musonge age 61
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Carlos Ferrero age 63
Prime Minister - Peru
Faisal al-Fayez age 51
Prime Minister - Jordan
Allan Kemakeza age 56
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Frederick Sumaye age 54
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Damião Vaz d'Almeida age 53
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Muhammad Abdi Yusuf age 63
Prime Minister - Somalia
Célestin Gaombalet age 62
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Sghair Ould M'Bareck age 50
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Koffi Sama age 60
Prime Minister - Togo
Khaleda Zia age 58
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Hama Amadou age 54
Prime Minister - Niger
Otmar Hasler age 51
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Michael Jeffery age 66
Governor-General - Australia
Frederick Ballantyne age 68
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 78
Governor-General - Barbados
Silvia Cartwright age 60
Governor-General - New Zealand
Paulias Matane age 73
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
James Carlisle age 67
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Howard Cooke age 88
Governor-General - Jamaica