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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
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998

People

Gabriel García Márquez age 70
Mikhail Gorbachev age 66
Elon Musk age 26
Stephen Hawking age 55
Jimmy Carter age 73
Emmanuel Macron age 19
Benedict XVI age 70
Hillary Clinton age 49
George H. W. Bush age 73
Kamala Harris age 32
Nicolas Sarkozy age 42
Xi Jinping age 44
Naruhito age 37
Hugo Chávez age 43
Muammar Gaddafi age 55
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 43
Muhammad Ali age 55
Charles III age 48
Osama bin Laden age 40
Lech Wałęsa age 54
Gerald Ford age 84
Leo XIV age 42
Diego Maradona age 36
Narendra Modi age 47
Rafael Correa age 34
Aung San Suu Kyi age 52
Dmitry Medvedev age 32
14th Dalai Lama age 62
Mark Zuckerberg age 13
Silvio Berlusconi age 61
Shinzo Abe age 43
Tim Berners-Lee age 42
Guillermo Lasso age 41
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 78
Malala Yousafzai age 2 months
Yasser Arafat age 68
David Cameron age 30
Linus Torvalds age 27
Ban Ki-moon age 53
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 50
Boris Johnson age 33
Bashar al-Assad age 32
Benazir Bhutto age 44
Jair Bolsonaro age 42
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 51
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 40
Henry Kissinger age 74
Rishi Sunak age 17
Justin Trudeau age 25
Nicolás Maduro age 34
Dilma Rousseff age 49
Milton Friedman age 85
Valentina Tereshkova age 60
Pol Pot age 72
Ilham Aliyev age 35
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 58
Rosa Parks age 84
Shimon Peres age 74
Giorgia Meloni age 20
Olaf Scholz age 39
Keir Starmer age 35
Gerhard Schröder age 53
Hassan Rouhani age 48
Evo Morales age 37
Joko Widodo age 36
Petro Poroshenko age 32
Mikheil Saakashvili age 29
Liz Truss age 22
Augusto Pinochet age 81
Lee Kuan Yew age 74
Ursula von der Leyen age 38
Mike Pence age 38
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 44
Michelle Bachelet age 46
Ariel Sharon age 69
Felipe VI of Spain age 29
Desmond Tutu age 66
Viktor Yanukovych age 47
Mohamed Morsi age 46
Viktor Orbán age 34
Sergio Mattarella age 56
Manmohan Singh age 65
Pervez Musharraf age 54
Julia Gillard age 36
Abdullah Gül age 46
Lech Kaczyński age 48
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 41
Jeff Bezos age 33
Buzz Aldrin age 67
Tsai Ing-wen age 41
Mariano Rajoy age 42
Dick Cheney age 56
Condoleezza Rice age 42
Raúl Castro age 66
Giorgio Napolitano age 72
Mark Rutte age 30
Idi Amin age 72
Yulia Tymoshenko age 36
Rodrigo Duterte age 52
JD Vance age 13
Abdullah II of Jordan age 35
Helmut Schmidt age 78
Stephen Harper age 38
Donald Tusk age 40
Corazon Aquino age 64
Hamid Karzai age 39
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 30
Jacinda Ardern age 17
José Mujica age 62
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 73
Yoshihide Suga age 48
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 29
Andrzej Duda age 25
Thabo Mbeki age 55
Viktor Yushchenko age 43
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 42
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 60
Jens Stoltenberg age 38
Kaja Kallas age 20
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 34
Jacob Zuma age 55
Park Geun-hye age 45
Zuzana Čaputová age 24
Moon Jae-in age 44
Mitt Romney age 50
Juan Manuel Santos age 46
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 49
Giuseppe Conte age 33
Ebrahim Raisi age 36
Cyril Ramaphosa age 44
Serzh Sargsyan age 43
Sanna Marin age 11
Pranab Mukherjee age 61
Maia Sandu age 25
Joachim Gauck age 57
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 50
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 40
Li Keqiang age 42
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 17
Kersti Kaljulaid age 27
Muhammadu Buhari age 54
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 37
Horst Köhler age 54
Fumio Kishida age 40
Sanae Takaichi age 36
Kevin Rudd age 40
Sebastián Piñera age 47
Tarja Halonen age 53
Alexis Tsipras age 23
Daniel Ortega age 51
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 58
Dan Quayle age 50
Scott Morrison age 29
George Weah age 30
Paul Kagame age 39
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 332
Naoto Kan age 50
Philippe of Belgium age 37
James Callaghan age 85
Pratibha Patil age 62
Droupadi Murmu age 39
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 48
Abiy Ahmed age 21
Mario Draghi age 50
Kim Dae-jung age 73
Christian Wulff age 38
Radovan Karadžić age 52
Mohammed bin Salman age 12
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 74
Asif Ali Zardari age 42
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 91
Yoon Suk Yeol age 36
F. W. de Klerk age 61
Ashraf Ghani age 48
Javier Milei age 26
Kurt Waldheim age 78
Alexander Van der Bellen age 53
Mark Carney age 32
Miloš Zeman age 53
Salome Zourabichvili age 45
Julius Nyerere age 75
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 40
Donald Rumsfeld age 65
Masoud Pezeshkian age 43
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 44
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 39
Klaus Iohannis age 38
Aleksandar Vučić age 27
Robert Fico age 33
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 38
Queen Camilla age 50
Pierre Trudeau age 77
Mikhail Mishustin age 31
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 74
Bronisław Komorowski age 45