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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
War in Darfur 2003-02-26 - 2020-08-31
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18

People

Valdas Adamkus age 80
President - Lithuania
Thomas Boni Yayi age 54
President - Benin
Georgi Parvanov age 49
President - Bulgaria
Mwai Kibaki age 75
President - Kenya
John Kufuor age 68
President - Ghana
Janez Drnovšek age 57
President - Slovenia
Ivan Gašparovič age 66
President - Slovakia
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 57
President - Kyrgyzstan
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 55
Emir - Qatar
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 59
President - Djibouti
Moshe Katsav age 61
President - Israel
Amadou Toumani Touré age 58
President - Mali
Xanana Gusmão age 60
President - Timor-Leste
László Sólyom age 65
President - Hungary
Bingu wa Mutharika age 73
President - Malawi
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 54
President - Colombia
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 69
President - Latvia
Abdoulaye Wade age 81
President - Senegal
Manuel Zelaya age 54
President - Honduras
Tassos Papadopoulos age 73
President - Cyprus
João Bernardo Vieira age 68
President - Guinea-Bissau
Festus Mogae age 67
President - Botswana
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 69
President - Maldives
Branko Crvenkovski age 44
President - North Macedonia
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 56
President - Tanzania
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 61
President - Switzerland
Alfred Moisiu age 77
President - Albania
François Bozizé age 60
President - Central African Republic
Than Shwe age 74
President - Myanmar
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 82
President - Ethiopia
Lansana Conté age 72
President - Guinea
René Préval age 64
President - Haiti
Vladimir Voronin age 66
President - Moldova
George Tupou V of Tonga age 59
King - Tonga
Choummaly Sayasone age 71
President - Laos
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 71
President - Namibia
Girija Prasad Koirala age 82
President - Nepal
Levy Mwanawasa age 58
President - Zambia
Željko Komšić age 43
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Iajuddin Ahmed age 76
President - Bangladesh
Émile Lahoud age 71
President - Lebanon
Marc Ravalomanana age 57
President - Madagascar
Haris Silajdžić age 61
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Leonel Fernández age 53
President - Dominican Republic
Mamadou Tandja age 68
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 82
President - Singapore
Anote Tong age 54
President - Kiribati
Anerood Jugnauth age 77
President - Mauritius
Armando Guebuza age 64
President - Mozambique
Pedro Pires age 73
President - Cape Verde
Eddie Fenech Adami age 73
President - Malta
Ronald Venetiaan age 70
President - Suriname
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 48
President - Mongolia
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 51
President - Palau
Nicanor Duarte age 50
President - Paraguay
James Michel age 62
President - Seychelles
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 72
President - Somalia
Nicholas Liverpool age 72
President - Dominica
Bharrat Jagdeo age 43
President - Guyana
Josefa Iloilo age 86
President - Fiji
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 75
President - Sierra Leone
Fradique de Menezes age 65
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
George Maxwell Richards age 75
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Antonio Saca age 42
President - El Salvador
Martín Torrijos age 43
President - Panama
Ludwig Scotty age 58
President - Nauru
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 69
President - Mauritania
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 48
President - Comoros
Manny Mori age 58
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 58
President - Vanuatu
Nebojša Radmanović age 57
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Giovanni Lajolo age 72
President - Vatican City
Kessai Note age 56
President - Marshall Islands
Alessandro Mancini age 31
Captain Regent - San Marino
Alessandro Rossi age 39
Captain Regent - San Marino
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 53
Prime Minister - Turkey
Viktor Yanukovych age 56
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Stephen Harper age 48
Prime Minister - Canada
Jens Stoltenberg age 48
Prime Minister - Norway
Serzh Sargsyan age 52
Prime Minister - Armenia
Jean-Claude Juncker age 52
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 42
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 54
Prime Minister - Denmark
John Howard age 67
Prime Minister - Australia
Helen Clark age 57
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Lee Hsien Loong age 55
Prime Minister - Singapore
José Ramos-Horta age 57
Prime Minister - Timor-Leste
Almazbek Atambaev age 50
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Macky Sall age 45
Prime Minister - Senegal
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 41
Prime Minister - Sweden
Sali Berisha age 62
Prime Minister - Albania
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 57
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Meles Zenawi age 52
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Jan Peter Balkenende age 51
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Janez Janša age 48
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Hun Sen age 54
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Guy Verhofstadt age 54
Prime Minister - Belgium
Ivo Sanader age 53
Prime Minister - Croatia
Andrus Ansip age 50
Prime Minister - Estonia
Nikola Gruevski age 36
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Matti Vanhanen age 51
Prime Minister - Finland
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 67
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 45
Prime Minister - Hungary
Vojislav Koštunica age 63
Prime Minister - Serbia
José Sócrates age 49
Prime Minister - Portugal
Mikhhail Fradkov age 56
Prime Minister - Russia
Mirek Topolánek age 51
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Alfred Gusenbauer age 47
Chancellor - Austria
Artur Rasizade age 72
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Luísa Diogo age 49
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Kostas Karamanlis age 50
Prime Minister - Greece
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 65
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Portia Simpson-Miller age 61
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Han Duck-soo age 57
Prime Minister - South Korea
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 71
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Frank Bainimarama age 53
Prime Minister - Fiji
Sergey Stanishev age 41
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 55
Prime Minister - Romania
Roosevelt Skerrit age 34
Prime Minister - Dominica
Geir Haarde age 56
Prime Minister - Iceland
Gediminas Kirkilas age 55
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Lawrence Gonzi age 53
Prime Minister - Malta
Shaukat Aziz age 58
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 62
Prime Minister - Samoa
Michael Somare age 71
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Fouad Siniora age 63
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Antoine Gizenga age 81
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Aigars Kalvītis age 40
Prime Minister - Latvia
Sam Hinds age 63
Prime Minister - Guyana
Ralph Gonsalves age 60
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Oqil Oqilov age 63
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Nandó dos Santos age 57
Prime Minister - Angola
Baldwin Spencer age 58
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Syarhiey Sidorski age 53
Prime Minister - Belarus
Surayud Chulanont age 63
Prime Minister - Thailand
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro age 35
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Marouf al-Bakhit age 60
Prime Minister - Jordan
Pakalitha Mosisili age 62
Prime Minister - Lesotho
Manasseh Sogavare age 52
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 74
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Zurab Noghaideli age 42
Prime Minister - Georgia
Keith Mitchell age 60
Prime Minister - Grenada
Navin Ramgoolam age 59
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Owen Arthur age 57
Prime Minister - Barbados
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 49
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Denzil Douglas age 54
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Driss Jettou age 62
Prime Minister - Morocco
Vasile Tarlev age 43
Prime Minister - Moldova
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani age 47
Prime Minister - Qatar
Agim Çeku age 46
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Željko Šturanović age 47
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Nahas Angula age 63
Prime Minister - Namibia
Bernard Makuza age 44
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Said Musa age 63
Prime Minister - Belize
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 66
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 61
Prime Minister - Libya
Nikola Špirić age 50
Prime Minister - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Edward Lowassa age 53
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Hubert Ingraham age 59
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Apolo Nsibambi age 66
Prime Minister - Uganda
Albert Pintat age 63
Prime Minister - Andorra
Apisai Ielemia age 51
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 61
Prime Minister - Algeria
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 67
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Feleti Sevele age 62
Prime Minister - Tonga
Soe Win age 60
Prime Minister - Myanmar
John Compton age 82
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Patrick Manning age 60
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Ham Lini age 55
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Ephraïm Inoni age 59
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 54
Prime Minister - Yemen
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 54
Prime Minister - Somalia
Khandu Wangchuk age 56
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Themba Dlamini age 56
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Charles Rabemananjara age 59
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Jorge del Castillo age 56
Prime Minister - Peru
Paramanga Ernest Yonli age 50
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye age 57
Prime Minister - Chad
Ricardo Mangue Obama Nfubea age 46
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Jacques-Édouard Alexis age 59
Prime Minister - Haiti
Miyeegombyn Enkhbold age 42
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Isidore Mvouba age 53
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga age 61
Prime Minister - Mali
Stephenson King age 48
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Élie Doté age 58
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Lansana Kouyaté age 56
Prime Minister - Guinea
Martinho Ndafa Kabi age 49
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Yawovi Agboyibo age 63
Prime Minister - Togo
Zeine Ould Zeidane age 40
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Tomé Vera Cruz age 54
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Hama Amadou age 57
Prime Minister - Niger
Otmar Hasler age 53
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Michael Jeffery age 69
Governor-General - Australia
Anand Satyanand age 62
Governor-General - New Zealand
Frederick Ballantyne age 70
Governor-General - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Colville Young age 74
Governor-General - Belize
Cuthbert Sebastian age 85
Governor-General - Saint Kitts and Nevis