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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
2008 United States presidential election 2008-11-04

People

Leonel Fernández age 54
President - Dominican Republic
Mamadou Tandja age 70
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 84
President - Singapore
Rupiah Banda age 71
President - Zambia
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
Marcus Stephen age 39
President - Nauru
James Michel age 64
President - Seychelles
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 73
President - Somalia
Nicholas Liverpool age 74
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
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 59
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Giovanni Lajolo age 73
President - Vatican City
Litokwa Tomeing age 69
President - Marshall Islands
Assunta Meloni age 57
Captain Regent - San Marino
Ernesto Benedettini age 60
Captain Regent - San Marino
Vladimir Putin age 56
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 51
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 48
Prime Minister - Spain
Kevin Rudd age 51
Prime Minister - Australia
Hassanal Bolkiah age 62
Prime Minister - Brunei
Robert Fico age 44
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 43
Prime Minister - Sweden
Sali Berisha age 64
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 50
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Yves Leterme age 48
Prime Minister - Belgium
Hun Sen age 56
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 52
Prime Minister - Estonia
Nikola Gruevski age 38
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Matti Vanhanen age 53
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
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 53
Prime Minister - Nepal
José Sócrates age 51
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 52
Prime Minister - Greece
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 67
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 57
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Lawrence Gonzi age 55
Prime Minister - Malta
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 63
Prime Minister - Samoa
Mirko Cvetković age 58
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
Sam Hinds age 64
Prime Minister - Guyana
Jigme Thinley age 56
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Ralph Gonsalves age 62
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Oqil Oqilov age 64
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Somchai Wongsawat age 61
Prime Minister - Thailand
Baldwin Spencer age 60
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
Navin Ramgoolam age 61
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Abbas El Fassi age 68
Prime Minister - Morocco
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 50
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Denzil Douglas age 55
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 61
Prime Minister - Haiti
Grigol Mgaloblishvili age 35
Prime Minister - Georgia
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani age 49
Prime Minister - Qatar
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 66
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Nahas Angula age 65
Prime Minister - Namibia
Bernard Makuza age 46
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 52
Prime Minister - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hubert Ingraham age 61
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Apolo Nsibambi age 68
Prime Minister - Uganda
Albert Pintat age 65
Prime Minister - Andorra
Adolphe Muzito age 51
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Tillman Thomas age 63
Prime Minister - Grenada
Bruce Golding age 60
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Mizengo Pinda age 60
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Apisai Ielemia age 53
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 68
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Modibo Sidibé age 56
Prime Minister - Mali
Feleti Sevele age 64
Prime Minister - Tonga
Patrick Manning age 62
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Ephraïm Inoni age 61
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Igor Chudinov age 47
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 55
Prime Minister - Yemen
Ignacio Milam Tang age 68
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Carlos Correia age 75
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Nader al-Dahabi age 62
Prime Minister - Jordan
Charles Rabemananjara age 61
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Paulo Kassoma age 57
Prime Minister - Angola
Tertius Zongo age 51
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Isidore Mvouba age 54
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Gilbert Houngbo age 47
Prime Minister - Togo
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 57
Prime Minister - Guinea
Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf age 50
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Stephenson King age 50
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Youssouf Saleh Abbas age 55
Prime Minister - Chad
Seyni Oumarou age 58
Prime Minister - Niger
Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré age 57
Prime Minister - Senegal
Joaquim Rafael Branco age 55
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Yehude Simon age 61
Prime Minister - Peru
Quentin Bryce age 65
Governor-General - Australia
Louise Lake-Tack age 64
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Anand Satyanand age 64
Governor-General - New Zealand
Frederick Ballantyne age 72
Governor-General - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Colville Young age 76
Governor-General - Belize
Cuthbert Sebastian age 87
Governor-General - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Clifford Husbands age 82
Governor-General - Barbados
Paulias Matane age 77
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 63
Governor-General - Solomon Islands
Donald Trump age 62
Michael Jackson age 50
Nelson Mandela age 90
Bill Gates age 53
Pope Francis age 71
Steve Jobs age 53
Bill Clinton age 62
Neil Armstrong age 78
François Hollande age 54
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 30
Margaret Thatcher age 83
Gabriel García Márquez age 81
Fidel Castro age 82
Mikhail Gorbachev age 77
Elon Musk age 37
Stephen Hawking age 66
Jimmy Carter age 84
Emmanuel Macron age 30
George H. W. Bush age 84
Kamala Harris age 44
Naruhito age 48
Muammar Gaddafi age 66
Muhammad Ali age 66
Kofi Annan age 70
Charles III age 60
Osama bin Laden age 51
Lech Wałęsa age 65
Leo XIV age 53
Diego Maradona age 48
Narendra Modi age 58
Aung San Suu Kyi age 63
Benjamin Netanyahu age 59
14th Dalai Lama age 73
Mark Zuckerberg age 24
Shinzo Abe age 54
Tim Berners-Lee age 53
Mahathir Mohamad age 83
Jacques Chirac age 75
Guillermo Lasso age 53
Tony Blair age 55