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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
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
2008 financial crisis 2007-08-09 - 2009-06-30

People

Valdis Zatlers age 53
President - Latvia
Bingu wa Mutharika age 74
President - Malawi
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 56
President - Colombia
Danilo Türk age 56
President - Slovenia
Abdoulaye Wade age 82
President - Senegal
Manuel Zelaya age 55
President - Honduras
João Bernardo Vieira age 69
President - Guinea-Bissau
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 55
President - Botswana
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 70
President - Maldives
Branko Crvenkovski age 45
President - North Macedonia
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 57
President - Tanzania
François Bozizé age 61
President - Central African Republic
Than Shwe age 75
President - Myanmar
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 83
President - Ethiopia
Lansana Conté age 73
President - Guinea
René Préval age 65
President - Haiti
Vladimir Voronin age 67
President - Moldova
George Tupou V of Tonga age 60
King - Tonga
Fatmir Sejdiu age 56
President - Kosovo
Choummaly Sayasone age 72
President - Laos
Michel Suleiman age 59
President - Lebanon
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 72
President - Namibia
Girija Prasad Koirala age 84
President - Nepal
Ernest Bai Koroma age 54
President - Sierra Leone
Levy Mwanawasa age 59
President - Zambia
Željko Komšić age 44
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Iajuddin Ahmed age 77
President - Bangladesh
Marc Ravalomanana age 58
President - Madagascar
Haris Silajdžić age 62
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Leonel Fernández age 54
President - Dominican Republic
Mamadou Tandja age 70
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 84
President - Singapore
Anote Tong age 56
President - Kiribati
Anerood Jugnauth age 78
President - Mauritius
Armando Guebuza age 65
President - Mozambique
Pedro Pires age 74
President - Cape Verde
Eddie Fenech Adami age 74
President - Malta
Ronald Venetiaan age 72
President - Suriname
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 50
President - Mongolia
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 52
President - Palau
Nicanor Duarte age 51
President - Paraguay
Marcus Stephen age 38
President - Nauru
James Michel age 63
President - Seychelles
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 73
President - Somalia
Nicholas Liverpool age 73
President - Dominica
Bharrat Jagdeo age 44
President - Guyana
Pascal Couchepin age 66
President - Switzerland
Josefa Iloilo age 87
President - Fiji
Fradique de Menezes age 66
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
George Maxwell Richards age 76
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Antonio Saca age 43
President - El Salvador
Martín Torrijos age 45
President - Panama
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 70
President - Mauritania
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 50
President - Comoros
Manny Mori age 59
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 59
President - Vanuatu
Nebojša Radmanović age 58
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Giovanni Lajolo age 73
President - Vatican City
Litokwa Tomeing age 68
President - Marshall Islands
Rosa Zafferani age 47
Captain Regent - San Marino
Federico Pedini Amati age 31
Captain Regent - San Marino
Vladimir Putin age 55
Prime Minister - Russia
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 54
Prime Minister - Turkey
Yulia Tymoshenko age 47
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Stephen Harper age 49
Prime Minister - Canada
Jens Stoltenberg age 49
Prime Minister - Norway
Jean-Claude Juncker age 53
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 50
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 47
Prime Minister - Spain
Kevin Rudd age 50
Prime Minister - Australia
Hassanal Bolkiah age 62
Prime Minister - Brunei
Robert Fico age 43
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 55
Prime Minister - Denmark
Helen Clark age 58
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Lee Hsien Loong age 56
Prime Minister - Singapore
Hashim Thaçi age 40
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 42
Prime Minister - Sweden
Sali Berisha age 63
Prime Minister - Albania
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 59
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Meles Zenawi age 53
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Jan Peter Balkenende age 52
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Milo Đukanović age 46
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Janez Janša age 49
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Yves Leterme age 47
Prime Minister - Belgium
Hun Sen age 55
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 51
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Nouri al-Maliki age 58
Prime Minister - Iraq
Xanana Gusmão age 62
Prime Minister - Timor-Leste
Ivo Sanader age 55
Prime Minister - Croatia
Andrus Ansip age 51
Prime Minister - Estonia
Nikola Gruevski age 37
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Matti Vanhanen age 52
Prime Minister - Finland
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 68
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 47
Prime Minister - Hungary
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 56
Prime Minister - Pakistan
José Sócrates age 50
Prime Minister - Portugal
Mirek Topolánek age 52
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Thein Sein age 63
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Alfred Gusenbauer age 48
Chancellor - Austria
Artur Rasizade age 73
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Luísa Diogo age 50
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Kostas Karamanlis age 51
Prime Minister - Greece
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 66
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Tigran Sargsyan age 48
Prime Minister - Armenia
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 72
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Frank Bainimarama age 54
Prime Minister - Fiji
Sergey Stanishev age 42
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Raila A Odinga age 63
Prime Minister - Kenya
Zinaida Greceanîi age 52
Prime Minister - Moldova
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 56
Prime Minister - Romania
Dean Barrow age 57
Prime Minister - Belize
Roosevelt Skerrit age 36
Prime Minister - Dominica
Geir Haarde age 57
Prime Minister - Iceland
Gediminas Kirkilas age 56
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Lawrence Gonzi age 55
Prime Minister - Malta
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 63
Prime Minister - Samoa
Mirko Cvetković age 57
Prime Minister - Serbia
Michael Somare age 72
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Fouad Siniora age 65
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Ahmad Uyahya age 56
Prime Minister - Algeria
Antoine Gizenga age 82
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Sam Hinds age 64
Prime Minister - Guyana
Samak Sundaravej age 73
Prime Minister - Thailand
Jigme Thinley age 55
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Ralph Gonsalves age 61
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Oqil Oqilov age 64
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Nandó dos Santos age 58
Prime Minister - Angola
Baldwin Spencer age 59
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Syarhiey Sidorski age 54
Prime Minister - Belarus
Ivars Godmanis age 56
Prime Minister - Latvia
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro age 36
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
David Thompson age 46
Prime Minister - Barbados
Pakalitha Mosisili age 63
Prime Minister - Lesotho
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 75
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Keith Mitchell age 61
Prime Minister - Grenada
Navin Ramgoolam age 61
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Abbas El Fassi age 67
Prime Minister - Morocco
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 50
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Denzil Douglas age 55
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani age 48
Prime Minister - Qatar
Nahas Angula age 64
Prime Minister - Namibia
Bernard Makuza age 45
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Nur Hassan Hussein age 70
Prime Minister - Somalia
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 67
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 63
Prime Minister - Libya
Nikola Špirić age 51
Prime Minister - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hubert Ingraham age 60
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Apolo Nsibambi age 67
Prime Minister - Uganda
Albert Pintat age 65
Prime Minister - Andorra
Lado Gurgenidze age 37
Prime Minister - Georgia
Tillman Thomas age 63
Prime Minister - Grenada
Bruce Golding age 60
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Mizengo Pinda age 59
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Apisai Ielemia age 52
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 68
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Modibo Sidibé age 55
Prime Minister - Mali
Feleti Sevele age 64
Prime Minister - Tonga
Patrick Manning age 61
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Ham Lini age 56
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Ephraïm Inoni age 60
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Igor Chudinov age 46
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 55
Prime Minister - Yemen
Ignacio Milam Tang age 68
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Themba Dlamini age 57
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Nader al-Dahabi age 61
Prime Minister - Jordan
Charles Rabemananjara age 61
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Jorge del Castillo age 58
Prime Minister - Peru
Tertius Zongo age 51
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Jacques-Édouard Alexis age 60
Prime Minister - Haiti
Isidore Mvouba age 54
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 57
Prime Minister - Guinea
Stephenson King age 49
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Youssouf Saleh Abbas age 55
Prime Minister - Chad
Martinho Ndafa Kabi age 50
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Seyni Oumarou age 57
Prime Minister - Niger
Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré age 56
Prime Minister - Senegal
Joaquim Rafael Branco age 54
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef age 48
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Komlan Mally age 47
Prime Minister - Togo
Louise Lake-Tack age 63
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Michael Jeffery age 70
Governor-General - Australia
Anand Satyanand age 64
Governor-General - New Zealand
Frederick Ballantyne age 72
Governor-General - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Colville Young age 75
Governor-General - Belize
Cuthbert Sebastian age 86
Governor-General - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Clifford Husbands age 81
Governor-General - Barbados
Paulias Matane age 76
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Filoimea Telito age 63
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Kenneth O. Hall age 67
Governor-General - Jamaica
Arthur Dion Hanna age 80
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Nathaniel Waena age 62
Governor-General - Solomon Islands
Donald Trump age 62
Michael Jackson age 49
Nelson Mandela age 90
Bill Gates age 52
Pope Francis age 71
Steve Jobs age 53
Bill Clinton age 61
Neil Armstrong age 77
François Hollande age 53