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Events

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
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
First Congo War 1996-10-24 - 1997-05-16
1997 Albanian civil unrest 1997-01-16 - 1997-08-11

People

George H. W. Bush age 72
Kamala Harris age 32
Nicolas Sarkozy age 42
Xi Jinping age 43
Naruhito age 37
Hugo Chávez age 42
Muammar Gaddafi age 54
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 43
Muhammad Ali age 55
Charles III age 48
Osama bin Laden age 40
Lech Wałęsa age 53
Gerald Ford age 83
Leo XIV age 41
Diego Maradona age 36
Narendra Modi age 46
Rafael Correa age 33
Aung San Suu Kyi age 51
Dmitry Medvedev age 31
14th Dalai Lama age 61
Mark Zuckerberg age 12
Silvio Berlusconi age 60
Shinzo Abe age 42
Tim Berners-Lee age 41
Guillermo Lasso age 41
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 78
Yasser Arafat age 67
David Cameron age 30
Linus Torvalds age 27
Ban Ki-moon age 52
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 49
Boris Johnson age 32
Diana, Princess of Wales age 35
Bashar al-Assad age 31
Benazir Bhutto age 43
Jair Bolsonaro age 41
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 51
Theresa May age 40
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 40
Henry Kissinger age 73
Rishi Sunak age 16
Justin Trudeau age 25
Nicolás Maduro age 34
Dilma Rousseff age 49
Milton Friedman age 84
Valentina Tereshkova age 60
Pol Pot age 71
Ilham Aliyev age 35
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 58
Rosa Parks age 84
Shimon Peres age 73
Giorgia Meloni age 20
Olaf Scholz age 38
Keir Starmer age 34
Gerhard Schröder age 52
Hassan Rouhani age 48
Evo Morales age 37
Joko Widodo age 35
Petro Poroshenko age 31
Mikheil Saakashvili age 29
Liz Truss age 21
Augusto Pinochet age 81
Lee Kuan Yew age 73
Ursula von der Leyen age 38
Mike Pence age 37
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 44
Michelle Bachelet age 45
Ariel Sharon age 69
Felipe VI of Spain age 29
Desmond Tutu age 65
Viktor Yanukovych age 46
Mohamed Morsi age 45
Viktor Orbán age 33
Sergio Mattarella age 55
Manmohan Singh age 64
Pervez Musharraf age 53
Julia Gillard age 35
Abdullah Gül age 46
Lech Kaczyński age 47
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 41
Jeff Bezos age 33
Buzz Aldrin age 67
Mohammad Khatami age 53
Tsai Ing-wen age 40
Mariano Rajoy age 41
Dick Cheney age 56
Condoleezza Rice age 42
Raúl Castro age 65
Giorgio Napolitano age 71
Mark Rutte age 30
Idi Amin age 72
Yulia Tymoshenko age 36
Rodrigo Duterte age 51
JD Vance age 12
Abdullah II of Jordan age 35
Helmut Schmidt age 78
Stephen Harper age 37
Donald Tusk age 39
Corazon Aquino age 64
Hamid Karzai age 39
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 29
Jacinda Ardern age 16
José Mujica age 61
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 72
Yoshihide Suga age 48
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 28
Andrzej Duda age 24
Thabo Mbeki age 54
Viktor Yushchenko age 43
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 42
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 60
Jens Stoltenberg age 37
Kaja Kallas age 19
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 33
Jacob Zuma age 54
Park Geun-hye age 45
Zuzana Čaputová age 23
Moon Jae-in age 44
Mitt Romney age 50
Juan Manuel Santos age 45
Matteo Renzi age 22
Pedro Sánchez age 25
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 61
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 65
Friedrich Merz age 41
Sauli Niinistö age 48
Giuseppe Conte age 32
Ebrahim Raisi age 36
Cyril Ramaphosa age 44
Serzh Sargsyan age 42
Sanna Marin age 11
Pranab Mukherjee age 61
Maia Sandu age 24
Joachim Gauck age 57
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 50
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 39
Li Keqiang age 41
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 17
Kersti Kaljulaid age 27
Muhammadu Buhari age 54
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 36
Horst Köhler age 54
Fumio Kishida age 39
Sanae Takaichi age 36
Kevin Rudd age 39
Sebastián Piñera age 47
Tarja Halonen age 53
Alexis Tsipras age 22
Daniel Ortega age 51
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 57
Dan Quayle age 50
Scott Morrison age 28
George Weah age 30
Paul Kagame age 39
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 332
Naoto Kan age 50
Philippe of Belgium age 36
James Callaghan age 84
Pratibha Patil age 62
Droupadi Murmu age 38
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 47
Abiy Ahmed age 20
Mario Draghi age 49
Kim Dae-jung age 73
Christian Wulff age 37
Radovan Karadžić age 51
Mohammed bin Salman age 11
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 74
Asif Ali Zardari age 41
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 90
Yoon Suk Yeol age 36
F. W. de Klerk age 60
Ashraf Ghani age 47
Javier Milei age 26
Kurt Waldheim age 78
Alexander Van der Bellen age 53
Mark Carney age 31
Miloš Zeman age 52
Salome Zourabichvili age 44
Julius Nyerere age 74
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 39
Donald Rumsfeld age 64
Masoud Pezeshkian age 42
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 43
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 38
Klaus Iohannis age 37
Aleksandar Vučić age 27
Robert Fico age 32
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 38
Queen Camilla age 49
Pierre Trudeau age 77
Mikhail Mishustin age 31
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 73
Bronisław Komorowski age 44
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 49
Junichiro Koizumi age 55
Tarō Asō age 56
Colin Powell age 59
Marco Rubio age 25
Sebastian Kurz age 10