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Events

Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
First Chechen War 1994-12-11 - 1996-08-31
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09

People

Nicolas Sarkozy age 41
Xi Jinping age 43
Naruhito age 36
Hugo Chávez age 42
Muammar Gaddafi age 54
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 42
Muhammad Ali age 54
Kofi Annan age 58
Charles III age 47
Osama bin Laden age 39
Lech Wałęsa age 52
Gerald Ford age 83
Leo XIV age 40
Diego Maradona age 35
Narendra Modi age 45
Rafael Correa age 33
Aung San Suu Kyi age 51
Dmitry Medvedev age 30
14th Dalai Lama age 61
Mark Zuckerberg age 12
Silvio Berlusconi age 59
Shinzo Abe age 41
Tim Berners-Lee age 41
Guillermo Lasso age 40
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 77
Yasser Arafat age 67
David Cameron age 29
Linus Torvalds age 26
Ban Ki-moon age 52
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 49
Boris Johnson age 32
Diana, Princess of Wales age 35
Bashar al-Assad age 30
Jair Bolsonaro age 41
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 50
Theresa May age 39
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 39
Henry Kissinger age 73
Rishi Sunak age 16
Justin Trudeau age 24
Nicolás Maduro age 33
Dilma Rousseff age 48
Milton Friedman age 84
Valentina Tereshkova age 59
Pol Pot age 71
Ilham Aliyev age 34
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 57
Rosa Parks age 83
Shimon Peres age 73
Giorgia Meloni age 19
Olaf Scholz age 38
Keir Starmer age 33
Gerhard Schröder age 52
Hassan Rouhani age 47
Evo Morales age 36
Joko Widodo age 35
Petro Poroshenko age 30
Mikheil Saakashvili age 28
Liz Truss age 21
Augusto Pinochet age 80
Lee Kuan Yew age 72
Ursula von der Leyen age 37
Mike Pence age 37
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 43
Michelle Bachelet age 44
Ariel Sharon age 68
Felipe VI of Spain age 28
Desmond Tutu age 64
Viktor Yanukovych age 46
Mohamed Morsi age 45
Viktor Orbán age 33
Sergio Mattarella age 55
Manmohan Singh age 63
Pervez Musharraf age 53
Julia Gillard age 34
Abdullah Gül age 45
Lech Kaczyński age 47
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 40
Jeff Bezos age 32
Buzz Aldrin age 66
Mohammad Khatami age 52
Tsai Ing-wen age 39
Mariano Rajoy age 41
Dick Cheney age 55
Condoleezza Rice age 41
Raúl Castro age 65
Giorgio Napolitano age 71
Mark Rutte age 29
Idi Amin age 71
Yulia Tymoshenko age 35
Rodrigo Duterte age 51
JD Vance age 12
Abdullah II of Jordan age 34
Helmut Schmidt age 77
Stephen Harper age 37
Donald Tusk age 39
Corazon Aquino age 63
Madeleine Albright age 59
Hamid Karzai age 38
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 29
Jacinda Ardern age 16
José Mujica age 61
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 72
Yoshihide Suga age 47
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 28
Andrzej Duda age 24
Thabo Mbeki age 54
Viktor Yushchenko age 42
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 41
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 59
Jens Stoltenberg age 37
Kaja Kallas age 19
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 33
Jacob Zuma age 54
Park Geun-hye age 44
Zuzana Čaputová age 23
Moon Jae-in age 43
Mitt Romney age 49
Juan Manuel Santos age 45
Matteo Renzi age 21
Pedro Sánchez age 24
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 60
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 64
Friedrich Merz age 40
Sauli Niinistö age 48
Giuseppe Conte age 32
Ebrahim Raisi age 35
Cyril Ramaphosa age 43
Serzh Sargsyan age 42
Sanna Marin age 10
Pranab Mukherjee age 60
Maia Sandu age 24
Joachim Gauck age 56
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 49
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 39
Li Keqiang age 41
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 16
Kersti Kaljulaid age 26
Muhammadu Buhari age 53
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 36
Horst Köhler age 53
Fumio Kishida age 39
Sanae Takaichi age 35
Kevin Rudd age 38
Sebastián Piñera age 46
Tarja Halonen age 52
Alexis Tsipras age 22
Daniel Ortega age 50
Dan Quayle age 49
Scott Morrison age 28
George Weah age 29
Paul Kagame age 38
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 331
Naoto Kan age 49
Philippe of Belgium age 36
James Callaghan age 84
Pratibha Patil age 61
Droupadi Murmu age 38
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 46
Abiy Ahmed age 20
Mario Draghi age 48
Kim Dae-jung age 72
Christian Wulff age 37
Radovan Karadžić age 51
Mohammed bin Salman age 10
Asif Ali Zardari age 41
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 89
Yoon Suk Yeol age 35
F. W. de Klerk age 60
Ashraf Ghani age 47
Javier Milei age 25
Kurt Waldheim age 77
Alexander Van der Bellen age 52
Mark Carney age 31
Miloš Zeman age 51
Salome Zourabichvili age 44
Julius Nyerere age 74
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 39
Donald Rumsfeld age 64
Masoud Pezeshkian age 41
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 43
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 38
Klaus Iohannis age 37
Aleksandar Vučić age 26
Robert Fico age 31
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 37
Queen Camilla age 49
Pierre Trudeau age 76
Mikhail Mishustin age 30
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 73
Bronisław Komorowski age 44
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 49
Junichiro Koizumi age 54
Tarō Asō age 55
Colin Powell age 59
Marco Rubio age 25
Sebastian Kurz age 9
Norodom Sihamoni age 43
Gabriel Boric age 10
Naftali Bennett age 24