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Events

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
War in Darfur 2003-02-26 - 2020-08-31
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18
2008 financial crisis 2007-08-09 - 2009-06-30
2009 swine flu pandemic 2009-01 - 2010-08-10

People

Paulias Matane age 77
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Filoimea Telito age 64
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Arthur Dion Hanna age 81
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Nathaniel Waena age 63
Governor-General - Solomon Islands
Donald Trump age 62
Michael Jackson age 50
Nelson Mandela age 90
George W. Bush age 62
Bill Gates age 53
Pope Francis age 72
Steve Jobs age 54
Bill Clinton age 62
Neil Armstrong age 78
François Hollande age 54
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 31
Margaret Thatcher age 83
Gabriel García Márquez age 82
Fidel Castro age 82
Mikhail Gorbachev age 78
Elon Musk age 37
Stephen Hawking age 67
Jimmy Carter age 84
Emmanuel Macron age 31
George H. W. Bush age 84
Kamala Harris age 44
Naruhito age 49
Muammar Gaddafi age 66
Muhammad Ali age 67
Kofi Annan age 71
Charles III age 60
Osama bin Laden age 52
Lech Wałęsa age 65
Leo XIV age 53
Diego Maradona age 48
Narendra Modi age 58
Aung San Suu Kyi age 63
14th Dalai Lama age 73
Mark Zuckerberg age 25
Shinzo Abe age 54
Tim Berners-Lee age 53
Mahathir Mohamad age 83
Jacques Chirac age 76
Guillermo Lasso age 53
Tony Blair age 56
Malala Yousafzai age 11
Greta Thunberg age 6
Linus Torvalds age 39
Boris Johnson age 44
Jair Bolsonaro age 54
Henry Kissinger age 86
Václav Havel age 72
Rishi Sunak age 29
Justin Trudeau age 37
Nicolás Maduro age 46
Dilma Rousseff age 61
Al Gore age 61
Valentina Tereshkova age 72
António Guterres age 60
Helmut Kohl age 79
Giorgia Meloni age 32
Olaf Scholz age 50
Keir Starmer age 46
Gerhard Schröder age 65
Hassan Rouhani age 60
Joko Widodo age 47
Petro Poroshenko age 43
Liz Truss age 33
Lee Kuan Yew age 85
Ursula von der Leyen age 50
Ariel Sharon age 81
Felipe VI of Spain age 41
Desmond Tutu age 77
Viktor Yanukovych age 58
Mohamed Morsi age 57
Viktor Orbán age 45
Sergio Mattarella age 67
Pervez Musharraf age 65
Julia Gillard age 47
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 53
Jeff Bezos age 45
Buzz Aldrin age 79
Mohammad Khatami age 65
Tsai Ing-wen age 52
Mariano Rajoy age 54
Dick Cheney age 68
Condoleezza Rice age 54
Mark Rutte age 42
Rodrigo Duterte age 64
JD Vance age 24
Helmut Schmidt age 90
Corazon Aquino age 76
Madeleine Albright age 72
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 42
Jacinda Ardern age 28
José Mujica age 74
Yoshihide Suga age 60
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 41
Andrzej Duda age 37
Thabo Mbeki age 66
John Major age 66
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 54
Kaja Kallas age 31
Park Geun-hye age 57
Martti Ahtisaari age 71
Zuzana Čaputová age 35
Moon Jae-in age 56
Mitt Romney age 62
Juan Manuel Santos age 57
Matteo Renzi age 34
Pedro Sánchez age 37
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 73
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 77
Jiang Zemin age 82
Friedrich Merz age 53
Sauli Niinistö age 60
Eduard Shevardnadze age 81
Romano Prodi age 69
Giuseppe Conte age 44
Ebrahim Raisi age 48
Cyril Ramaphosa age 56
Sanna Marin age 23
Pranab Mukherjee age 73
Maia Sandu age 36
Joachim Gauck age 69
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 62
Kersti Kaljulaid age 39
Muhammadu Buhari age 66
Fumio Kishida age 51
Sanae Takaichi age 48
Sebastián Piñera age 59
Alexis Tsipras age 34
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 70
Dan Quayle age 62
Scott Morrison age 41
George Weah age 42
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 344
Naoto Kan age 62
Philippe of Belgium age 49
Droupadi Murmu age 50
Norodom Sihanouk age 86
Abiy Ahmed age 32
Mario Draghi age 61
Kim Dae-jung age 85
Christian Wulff age 49
Radovan Karadžić age 63
Mohammed bin Salman age 23
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 86
Yoon Suk Yeol age 48
F. W. de Klerk age 73
Ashraf Ghani age 60
Javier Milei age 38
Alexander Van der Bellen age 65
Mark Carney age 44
Miloš Zeman age 64
Salome Zourabichvili age 57
Leonid Kuchma age 70
Donald Rumsfeld age 76
Masoud Pezeshkian age 54
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 56
Klaus Iohannis age 49
Aleksandar Vučić age 39
Süleyman Demirel age 84
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 50
Queen Camilla age 61
Mikhail Mishustin age 43
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 85
Bronisław Komorowski age 56
Junichiro Koizumi age 67
Colin Powell age 72
Marco Rubio age 37
Sebastian Kurz age 22
Gabriel Boric age 23
Naftali Bennett age 37
Giulio Andreotti age 90
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 56
Anthony Albanese age 46
Ehud Olmert age 63
Francesco Cossiga age 80
Mette Frederiksen age 31
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 53
Leonid Kravchuk age 75
Antony Blinken age 47
Ahmed Ben Bella age 92
Tony Abbott age 51
Michael D. Higgins age 68
Paolo Gentiloni age 54
Mario Monti age 66
Alberto Fujimori age 70
Roh Moo-hyun age 62
Richard von Weizsäcker age 89
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 49
Ram Nath Kovind age 63
Nawaz Sharif age 59
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 74
Néstor Kirchner age 59
Nikol Pashinyan age 33
John Howard age 69
Yukio Hatoyama age 62
Ahmed al-Sharaa age 26
Edi Rama age 44