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Events

Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
Operation Enduring Freedom 2001-10-07 - 2014-12-28
Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty 2002-05-24 - 2011-02-05
Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011) 2003 - 2011-12-18
War in Darfur 2003-02-26 - 2020-08-31
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18
Iraqi conflict 2003-03-20 - 2017-12-09
Houthi insurgency 2004-06 - 2015-02-06
American drone strikes in Pakistan 2004-06-18 - 2018-01-24
Chadian Civil War (2005–2010) 2005-12-18 - 2010-01-15
Insurgency in Ingushetia 2007-07-21 - 2015-05-19
2008 financial crisis 2007-08-09 - 2009-06-30
2009 swine flu pandemic 2009-01 - 2010-08-10
Insurgency in the North Caucasus 2009-04-16 - 2017-12-19

People

Thomas Boni Yayi age 56
President - Benin
Georgi Parvanov age 51
President - Bulgaria
Mwai Kibaki age 77
President - Kenya
Dimitris Christofias age 62
President - Cyprus
Ivan Gašparovič age 68
President - Slovakia
Bamir Topi age 52
President - Albania
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 59
President - Kyrgyzstan
Andry Rajoelina age 34
President - Madagascar
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 57
Emir - Qatar
Fernando Lugo age 57
President - Paraguay
Kgalema Motlanthe age 59
President - South Africa
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 61
President - Djibouti
Amadou Toumani Touré age 60
President - Mali
Ram Baran Yadav age 61
President - Nepal
László Sólyom age 67
President - Hungary
Valdis Zatlers age 54
President - Latvia
Bingu wa Mutharika age 75
President - Malawi
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 56
President - Colombia
Danilo Türk age 57
President - Slovenia
Abdoulaye Wade age 82
President - Senegal
Manuel Zelaya age 56
President - Honduras
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 56
President - Botswana
Branko Crvenkovski age 46
President - North Macedonia
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 58
President - Tanzania
Zillur Rahman age 80
President - Bangladesh
François Bozizé age 62
President - Central African Republic
Mohamed Nasheed age 42
President - Maldives
Than Shwe age 76
President - Myanmar
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 84
President - Ethiopia
René Préval age 66
President - Haiti
Vladimir Voronin age 67
President - Moldova
George Tupou V of Tonga age 61
King - Tonga
Fatmir Sejdiu age 57
President - Kosovo
Choummaly Sayasone age 73
President - Laos
Michel Suleiman age 60
President - Lebanon
George Abela age 61
President - Malta
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 73
President - Namibia
Ernest Bai Koroma age 55
President - Sierra Leone
Željko Komšić age 45
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Haris Silajdžić age 63
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Leonel Fernández age 55
President - Dominican Republic
Mamadou Tandja age 70
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 84
President - Singapore
Rupiah Banda age 72
President - Zambia
Anote Tong age 56
President - Kiribati
Anerood Jugnauth age 79
President - Mauritius
Armando Guebuza age 66
President - Mozambique
Pedro Pires age 75
President - Cape Verde
Ronald Venetiaan age 72
President - Suriname
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 50
President - Mongolia
Marcus Stephen age 39
President - Nauru
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 66
President - Switzerland
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 44
President - Somalia
James Michel age 64
President - Seychelles
Nicholas Liverpool age 74
President - Dominica
Bharrat Jagdeo age 45
President - Guyana
Josefa Iloilo age 88
President - Fiji
Fradique de Menezes age 67
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
George Maxwell Richards age 77
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Antonio Saca age 44
President - El Salvador
Martín Torrijos age 45
President - Panama
Moussa Dadis Camara age 44
President - Guinea
Johnson Toribiong age 62
President - Palau
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 50
President - Comoros
Manny Mori age 60
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 60
President - Vanuatu
Nebojša Radmanović age 59
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Giovanni Lajolo age 74
President - Vatican City
Raimundo Pereira age 52
President - Guinea-Bissau
Litokwa Tomeing age 69
President - Marshall Islands
Ba Mamadou Mbaré age 63
President - Mauritania
Oscar Mina age 50
Captain Regent - San Marino
Massimo Cenci age 41
Captain Regent - San Marino
Vladimir Putin age 56
Prime Minister - Russia
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 55
Prime Minister - Turkey
Sheikh Hasina age 61
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Yulia Tymoshenko age 48
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Stephen Harper age 50
Prime Minister - Canada
Jens Stoltenberg age 50
Prime Minister - Norway
Jean-Claude Juncker age 54
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
Herman Van Rompuy age 61
Prime Minister - Belgium
Hassanal Bolkiah age 62
Prime Minister - Brunei
Robert Fico age 44
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Borut Pahor age 45
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Najib Razak age 55
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Lee Hsien Loong age 57
Prime Minister - Singapore
Hashim Thaçi age 41
Prime Minister - Kosovo
John Key age 47
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 66
Prime Minister - Iceland
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 54
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Jan Peter Balkenende age 53
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Milo Đukanović age 47
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 45
Prime Minister - Denmark
Hun Sen age 56
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 52
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Werner Faymann age 49
Chancellor - Austria
Morgan Tsvangirai age 57
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 44
Prime Minister - Thailand
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
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 56
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Valdis Dombrovskis age 37
Prime Minister - Latvia
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 54
Prime Minister - Nepal
José Sócrates age 51
Prime Minister - Portugal
Emil Boc age 42
Prime Minister - Romania
Andrius Kubilius age 52
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Mirek Topolánek age 53
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Thein Sein age 64
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Gordon Bajnai age 41
Prime Minister - Hungary
Artur Rasizade age 74
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Luísa Diogo age 51
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Kostas Karamanlis age 52
Prime Minister - Greece
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 67
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Jan Fischer age 58
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Tigran Sargsyan age 49
Prime Minister - Armenia
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 73
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Frank Bainimarama age 55
Prime Minister - Fiji
Sergey Stanishev age 43
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Raila A Odinga age 64
Prime Minister - Kenya
Zinaida Greceanîi age 53
Prime Minister - Moldova
Dean Barrow age 58
Prime Minister - Belize
Roosevelt Skerrit age 36
Prime Minister - Dominica
Lawrence Gonzi age 55
Prime Minister - Malta
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 64
Prime Minister - Samoa
Mirko Cvetković age 58
Prime Minister - Serbia
Michael Somare age 73
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Fouad Siniora age 65
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Ahmad Uyahya age 56
Prime Minister - Algeria
Sam Hinds age 65
Prime Minister - Guyana
Jigme Thinley age 56
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Ralph Gonsalves age 62
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Oqil Oqilov age 65
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Baldwin Spencer age 60
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Syarhiey Sidorski age 55
Prime Minister - Belarus
Nika Gilauri age 34
Prime Minister - Georgia
Klaus Tschütscher age 41
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro age 37
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
David Thompson age 47
Prime Minister - Barbados
Pakalitha Mosisili age 64
Prime Minister - Lesotho
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 76
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Navin Ramgoolam age 61
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Abbas El Fassi age 68
Prime Minister - Morocco
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 51
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Denzil Douglas age 56
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 61
Prime Minister - Haiti
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani age 49
Prime Minister - Qatar
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 67
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Nahas Angula age 65
Prime Minister - Namibia
Bernard Makuza age 46
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 68
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 52
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Tillman Thomas age 63
Prime Minister - Grenada
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 59
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Bruce Golding age 61
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Mizengo Pinda age 60
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Apisai Ielemia age 53
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Modibo Sidibé age 56
Prime Minister - Mali
Feleti Sevele age 64
Prime Minister - Tonga
Patrick Manning age 62
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke age 48
Prime Minister - Somalia
Ephraïm Inoni age 61
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Igor Chudinov age 47
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 56
Prime Minister - Yemen
Ignacio Milam Tang age 68
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Nader al-Dahabi age 62
Prime Minister - Jordan
Paulo Kassoma age 57
Prime Minister - Angola
Tertius Zongo age 52
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Isidore Mvouba age 55
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Kabiné Komara age 59
Prime Minister - Guinea
Gilbert Houngbo age 48
Prime Minister - Togo
Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf age 51
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Stephenson King age 50
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Youssouf Saleh Abbas age 56
Prime Minister - Chad
Seyni Oumarou age 58
Prime Minister - Niger
Monja Roindefo age 44
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye age 50
Prime Minister - Senegal
Joaquim Rafael Branco age 55
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Yehude Simon age 61
Prime Minister - Peru
Quentin Bryce age 66
Governor-General - Australia
Louise Lake-Tack age 64
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Patrick Allen age 58
Governor-General - Jamaica
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