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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
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
Battle of Ramadi (2006) 2006-06-17 - 2006-11-15

People

Janez Drnovšek age 56
President - Slovenia
Ivan Gašparovič age 65
President - Slovakia
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 57
President - Kyrgyzstan
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 54
Emir - Qatar
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 58
President - Djibouti
Arnold Rüütel age 78
President - Estonia
Moshe Katsav age 60
President - Israel
Amadou Toumani Touré age 57
President - Mali
Xanana Gusmão age 60
President - Timor-Leste
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 50
King - Bhutan
László Sólyom age 64
President - Hungary
Bingu wa Mutharika age 72
President - Malawi
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 54
President - Colombia
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 68
President - Latvia
Abdoulaye Wade age 80
President - Senegal
Manuel Zelaya age 53
President - Honduras
Tassos Papadopoulos age 72
President - Cyprus
João Bernardo Vieira age 67
President - Guinea-Bissau
Festus Mogae age 67
President - Botswana
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 68
President - Maldives
Branko Crvenkovski age 43
President - North Macedonia
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 55
President - Tanzania
Alfred Moisiu age 76
President - Albania
François Bozizé age 59
President - Central African Republic
Than Shwe age 73
President - Myanmar
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 81
President - Ethiopia
Lansana Conté age 71
President - Guinea
René Préval age 63
President - Haiti
Vladimir Voronin age 65
President - Moldova
Choummaly Sayasone age 70
President - Laos
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 71
President - Namibia
Levy Mwanawasa age 57
President - Zambia
Iajuddin Ahmed age 75
President - Bangladesh
Émile Lahoud age 70
President - Lebanon
Marc Ravalomanana age 56
President - Madagascar
Leonel Fernández age 52
President - Dominican Republic
Mamadou Tandja age 68
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 82
President - Singapore
Alfredo Palacio age 67
President - Ecuador
Anote Tong age 54
President - Kiribati
Anerood Jugnauth age 76
President - Mauritius
Armando Guebuza age 63
President - Mozambique
Pedro Pires age 72
President - Cape Verde
Eddie Fenech Adami age 72
President - Malta
Ronald Venetiaan age 70
President - Suriname
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 48
President - Mongolia
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 50
President - Palau
Nicanor Duarte age 49
President - Paraguay
James Michel age 62
President - Seychelles
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 71
President - Somalia
Nicholas Liverpool age 71
President - Dominica
Bharrat Jagdeo age 42
President - Guyana
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 88
King - Tonga
Josefa Iloilo age 85
President - Fiji
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 74
President - Sierra Leone
Fradique de Menezes age 64
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
George Maxwell Richards age 74
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Antonio Saca age 41
President - El Salvador
Moritz Leuenberger age 59
President - Switzerland
Martín Torrijos age 43
President - Panama
Ludwig Scotty age 58
President - Nauru
Enrique Bolaños age 78
President - Nicaragua
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 48
President - Comoros
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 57
President - Vanuatu
Sulejman Tihić age 54
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kessai Note age 56
President - Marshall Islands
Joseph Urusemal age 54
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 53
President - Mauritania
Borislav Paravac age 63
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ivo Miro Jović age 56
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Gianfranco Terenzi age 65
Captain Regent - San Marino
Loris Francini age 44
Captain Regent - San Marino
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 52
Prime Minister - Turkey
Viktor Yanukovych age 56
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Stephen Harper age 47
Prime Minister - Canada
Jens Stoltenberg age 47
Prime Minister - Norway
Jean-Claude Juncker age 51
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 49
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 46
Prime Minister - Spain
Hassanal Bolkiah age 60
Prime Minister - Brunei
Robert Fico age 41
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 53
Prime Minister - Denmark
John Howard age 67
Prime Minister - Australia
Helen Clark age 56
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Lee Hsien Loong age 54
Prime Minister - Singapore
José Ramos-Horta age 56
Prime Minister - Timor-Leste
Macky Sall age 44
Prime Minister - Senegal
Sali Berisha age 61
Prime Minister - Albania
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 57
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Meles Zenawi age 51
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Jan Peter Balkenende age 50
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Milo Đukanović age 44
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Janez Janša age 47
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Hun Sen age 54
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Guy Verhofstadt age 53
Prime Minister - Belgium
Ivo Sanader age 53
Prime Minister - Croatia
Andrus Ansip age 49
Prime Minister - Estonia
Göran Persson age 57
Prime Minister - Sweden
Matti Vanhanen age 50
Prime Minister - Finland
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 66
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 45
Prime Minister - Hungary
Vojislav Koštunica age 62
Prime Minister - Serbia
José Sócrates age 48
Prime Minister - Portugal
Mikhhail Fradkov age 56
Prime Minister - Russia
Mirek Topolánek age 50
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Wolfgang Schüssel age 61
Chancellor - Austria
Artur Rasizade age 71
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Luísa Diogo age 48
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Kostas Karamanlis age 49
Prime Minister - Greece
Girija Prasad Koirala age 82
Prime Minister - Nepal
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 65
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Portia Simpson-Miller age 60
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 70
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Sergey Stanishev age 40
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 54
Prime Minister - Romania
Roosevelt Skerrit age 34
Prime Minister - Dominica
Geir Haarde age 55
Prime Minister - Iceland
Gediminas Kirkilas age 55
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Lawrence Gonzi age 53
Prime Minister - Malta
Shaukat Aziz age 57
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 61
Prime Minister - Samoa
Michael Somare age 70
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Fouad Siniora age 63
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Aigars Kalvītis age 40
Prime Minister - Latvia
Sam Hinds age 62
Prime Minister - Guyana
Andranik Margaryan age 55
Prime Minister - Armenia
Ralph Gonsalves age 60
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Oqil Oqilov age 62
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Nandó dos Santos age 56
Prime Minister - Angola
Baldwin Spencer age 57
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Syarhiey Sidorski age 52
Prime Minister - Belarus
Marouf al-Bakhit age 59
Prime Minister - Jordan
Pakalitha Mosisili age 61
Prime Minister - Lesotho
Vlado Bučkovski age 43
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Manasseh Sogavare age 51
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 73
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Zurab Noghaideli age 41
Prime Minister - Georgia
Keith Mitchell age 59
Prime Minister - Grenada
Navin Ramgoolam age 59
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Owen Arthur age 56
Prime Minister - Barbados
Jiří Paroubek age 54
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 48
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Denzil Douglas age 53
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Perry Christie age 63
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Driss Jettou age 61
Prime Minister - Morocco
Felix Kulov age 57
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Vasile Tarlev age 42
Prime Minister - Moldova
Charles Konan Banny age 63
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Agim Çeku age 45
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Nahas Angula age 63
Prime Minister - Namibia
Bernard Makuza age 43
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Kenny Anthony age 55
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Said Musa age 62
Prime Minister - Belize
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 65
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 61
Prime Minister - Libya
Edward Lowassa age 53
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Apolo Nsibambi age 65
Prime Minister - Uganda
Albert Pintat age 63
Prime Minister - Andorra
Apisai Ielemia age 51
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 60
Prime Minister - Algeria
Edem Kodjo age 68
Prime Minister - Togo
Feleti Sevele age 62
Prime Minister - Tonga
Laisenia Qarase age 65
Prime Minister - Fiji
Soe Win age 59
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Patrick Manning age 60
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Ham Lini age 54
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Sangay Ngedup age 53
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Ephraïm Inoni age 59
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Aristides Gomes age 51
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Jacques Sylla age 60
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 60
Prime Minister - Yemen
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 53
Prime Minister - Somalia
Pascal Yoadimnadji age 56
Prime Minister - Chad
Themba Dlamini age 55
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Jorge del Castillo age 56
Prime Minister - Peru
Adnan Terzić age 46
Prime Minister - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Paramanga Ernest Yonli age 49
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Ricardo Mangue Obama Nfubea age 45
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Jacques-Édouard Alexis age 58
Prime Minister - Haiti
Miyeegombyn Enkhbold age 42
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani age 48
Prime Minister - Qatar
Isidore Mvouba age 52
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar age 49
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga age 60
Prime Minister - Mali
Élie Doté age 58
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Tomé Vera Cruz age 53
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Khaleda Zia age 60
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Hama Amadou age 56
Prime Minister - Niger
Otmar Hasler age 52
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Michael Jeffery age 68
Governor-General - Australia
Frederick Ballantyne age 70
Governor-General - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Colville Young age 73
Governor-General - Belize
Cuthbert Sebastian age 84
Governor-General - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Clifford Husbands age 80
Governor-General - Barbados
Paulias Matane age 74
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
James Carlisle age 69
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Filoimea Telito age 61
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Kenneth O. Hall age 65
Governor-General - Jamaica
Arthur Dion Hanna age 78
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Nathaniel Waena age 60
Governor-General - Solomon Islands