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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

Miloš Zeman age 53
Salome Zourabichvili age 45
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 44
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
Junichiro Koizumi age 55
Tarō Asō age 57
Colin Powell age 60
Marco Rubio age 26
Sebastian Kurz age 11
Norodom Sihamoni age 44
Gabriel Boric age 11
Naftali Bennett age 25
Giulio Andreotti age 78
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 44
Wen Jiabao age 55
Andy Burnham age 27
Anthony Albanese age 34
Ehud Olmert age 52
Francesco Cossiga age 69
Mette Frederiksen age 20
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 41
José Manuel Barroso age 41
Leonid Kravchuk age 63
Antony Blinken age 35
Ahmed Ben Bella age 81
Tony Abbott age 40
Heinz Fischer age 59
Michael D. Higgins age 56
Paolo Gentiloni age 43
Mario Monti age 54
Roh Moo-hyun age 51
Richard von Weizsäcker age 77
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 37
Ram Nath Kovind age 52
Enrique Peña Nieto age 31
François Fillon age 43
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 86
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 63
Néstor Kirchner age 47
Nikol Pashinyan age 22
Yukio Hatoyama age 50
Ahmed al-Sharaa age 15
Edi Rama age 33
Joseph Kabila age 26
Sahle-Work Zewde age 47
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 29
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 36
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 77
Michel Temer age 57
Mauricio Macri age 38
Erna Solberg age 36
Traian Băsescu age 46
Yingluck Shinawatra age 30
Walter Mondale age 69
Mike Pompeo age 33
Rumen Radev age 34
Nayib Bukele age 16
António Costa age 36
Borut Pahor age 34
Habib Bourguiba age 94
Tansu Çiller age 51
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 49
Ratko Mladić age 55
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 52
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 66
B. J. Habibie age 61
Mary Robinson age 53
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 77
Enrico Letta age 31
Thaksin Shinawatra age 48
Jarosław Kaczyński age 48
Yoshihiko Noda age 40
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 44
Alberto Fernández age 38
Hamad II of Bahrain age 47
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 38
John Mahama age 39
János Áder age 38
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 67
Abdurrahman Wahid age 57
Alassane Ouattara age 55
Stefan Löfven age 40
Johannes Rau age 66
Yasuo Fukuda age 61
Dominique de Villepin age 44
Manuel Valls age 35
Malcolm Turnbull age 43
Charles Michel age 21
Pierre Nkurunziza age 32
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 56
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 28
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 41
Frederik X of Denmark age 29
Najib Razak age 44
Helen Clark age 47
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani age 17
Lee Hsien Loong age 45
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 37
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 55
Lee Myung-bak age 56
Franjo Tuđman age 75
Jorge Rafael Videla age 72
Nana Akufo-Addo age 53
Prabowo Subianto age 46
Isaac Herzog age 37
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 42
Tomislav Nikolić age 45
Boris Tadić age 39
José Ramos-Horta age 47
Juan Guaidó age 14
Adolfo Suárez age 65
François Englert age 65
Gustavo Petro age 37
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 43
John Evans Atta Mills age 53
Reuven Rivlin age 58
Hashim Thaçi age 29
Almazbek Atambaev age 41
Roza Otunbayeva age 47
Haakon VIII of Norway age 24
Magdalena Andersson age 30
Denys Shmyhal age 22
Trương Tấn Sang age 48
Kenneth Kaunda age 73
Alan García age 48
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 46
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 32
Janet Yellen age 51
Anne, Princess Royal age 47
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor age 37
Armen Sarkissian age 44
Boyko Borissov age 38
Jovenel Moïse age 29
Katrín Jakobsdóttir age 21
Yair Lapid age 34
Joyce Banda age 47
Felipe Calderón age 35
John Key age 36
Goodluck Jonathan age 40
Ana Brnabić age 22
Halimah Yacob age 43
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 56
Binali Yıldırım age 41
Karol Nawrocki age 14
Constantine II of Greece age 57
Robert G. Edwards age 72
Laura Chinchilla age 38
Zoran Milanović age 31
Nikos Anastasiades age 51
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 55
Laurent Gbagbo age 52
Ingrida Šimonytė age 23
Shehbaz Sharif age 46
Macky Sall age 36
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 32
Kenan Evren age 80
Benigno Aquino III age 37
Jean Castex age 32
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 30
Sali Berisha age 53
Stjepan Mesić age 63
Alexander Stubb age 29
Katalin Novák age 20
Isaac Shamir age 82
Michel Aoun age 64
Gitanas Nausėda age 33
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 58
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 48
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 52
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 79
Leo Varadkar age 18
Sam Altman age 12
Katalin Karikó age 42
Ivo Josipović age 40
Petr Pavel age 36
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 60
Jan Peter Balkenende age 41
Filip Vujanović age 43
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 46
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 49
Ion Iliescu age 67
Janez Janša age 39
Bülent Ecevit age 72
Beata Szydło age 34
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 47