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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

Mikhail Gorbachev age 66
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Jimmy Carter age 73
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Xi Jinping age 44
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Charles III age 49
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Lech Wałęsa age 54
Gerald Ford age 84
Leo XIV age 42
Diego Maradona age 37
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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 42
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 79
Malala Yousafzai age 5 months
Yasser Arafat age 68
David Cameron age 31
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 52
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 41
Henry Kissinger age 74
Rishi Sunak age 17
Justin Trudeau age 26
Nicolás Maduro age 35
Dilma Rousseff age 50
Milton Friedman age 85
Valentina Tereshkova age 60
Pol Pot age 72
Ilham Aliyev age 36
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 59
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 49
Evo Morales age 38
Joko Widodo age 36
Petro Poroshenko age 32
Mikheil Saakashvili age 30
Liz Truss age 22
Augusto Pinochet age 82
Lee Kuan Yew age 74
Ursula von der Leyen age 39
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 47
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 43
Raúl Castro age 66
Giorgio Napolitano age 72
Mark Rutte age 30
Idi Amin age 73
Yulia Tymoshenko age 37
Rodrigo Duterte age 52
JD Vance age 13
Abdullah II of Jordan age 35
Helmut Schmidt age 79
Stephen Harper age 38
Donald Tusk age 40
Corazon Aquino age 64
Hamid Karzai age 40
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 30
Jacinda Ardern age 17
José Mujica age 62
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 73
Yoshihide Suga age 49
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 29
Andrzej Duda age 25
Thabo Mbeki age 55
Viktor Yushchenko age 43
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 43
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 62
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 66
Friedrich Merz age 42
Sauli Niinistö age 49
Giuseppe Conte age 33
Ebrahim Raisi age 37
Cyril Ramaphosa age 45
Serzh Sargsyan age 43
Sanna Marin age 12
Pranab Mukherjee age 62
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 55
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 48
Tarja Halonen age 54
Alexis Tsipras age 23
Daniel Ortega age 52
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 58
Dan Quayle age 50
Scott Morrison age 29
George Weah age 31
Paul Kagame age 40
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 333
Naoto Kan age 51
Philippe of Belgium age 37
James Callaghan age 85
Pratibha Patil age 63
Droupadi Murmu age 39
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 48
Abiy Ahmed age 21
Mario Draghi age 50
Kim Dae-jung age 74
Christian Wulff age 38
Radovan Karadžić age 52
Mohammed bin Salman age 12
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 75
Asif Ali Zardari age 42
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 91
Yoon Suk Yeol age 37
F. W. de Klerk age 61
Ashraf Ghani age 48
Javier Milei age 27
Kurt Waldheim age 79
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 78
Mikhail Mishustin age 31
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 74
Bronisław Komorowski age 45
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 50