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Events

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
Kosovo War 1998-02-28 - 1999-06-11

People

Giulio Andreotti age 79
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 45
Andy Burnham age 28
Anthony Albanese age 35
Václav Klaus age 57
Ehud Olmert age 52
Francesco Cossiga age 70
Mette Frederiksen age 20
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 42
Leonid Kravchuk age 64
Antony Blinken age 36
Ahmed Ben Bella age 81
Tony Abbott age 40
Heinz Fischer age 59
Michael D. Higgins age 57
Paolo Gentiloni age 43
Mario Monti age 55
Roh Moo-hyun age 51
Richard von Weizsäcker age 78
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 38
Ram Nath Kovind age 52
François Fillon age 44
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 63
Néstor Kirchner age 48
Nikol Pashinyan age 23
Yukio Hatoyama age 51
Ahmed al-Sharaa age 15
Edi Rama age 34
Joseph Kabila age 27
Sahle-Work Zewde age 48
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 30
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 37
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 78
Michel Temer age 57
Mauricio Macri age 39
Erna Solberg age 37
Traian Băsescu age 46
Yingluck Shinawatra age 31
Walter Mondale age 70
Mike Pompeo age 34
Rumen Radev age 35
Nayib Bukele age 17
Borut Pahor age 34
Habib Bourguiba age 95
Tansu Çiller age 52
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 49
Ratko Mladić age 56
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 52
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 67
Mary Robinson age 54
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 77
Enrico Letta age 31
Thaksin Shinawatra age 49
Jarosław Kaczyński age 49
Yoshihiko Noda age 41
Alberto Fernández age 39
Hamad II of Bahrain age 48
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 39
John Mahama age 39
János Áder age 39
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 68
Abdurrahman Wahid age 57
Alassane Ouattara age 56
Stefan Löfven age 41
Johannes Rau age 67
Yasuo Fukuda age 62
Dominique de Villepin age 44
Manuel Valls age 35
Malcolm Turnbull age 43
Charles Michel age 22
Pierre Nkurunziza age 33
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 56
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 28
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 42
Frederik X of Denmark age 30
Najib Razak age 45
Helen Clark age 48
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani age 18
Lee Hsien Loong age 46
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 38
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 55
Lee Myung-bak age 56
Franjo Tuđman age 76
Jorge Rafael Videla age 73
Nana Akufo-Addo age 54
Prabowo Subianto age 46
Isaac Herzog age 37
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 43
Tomislav Nikolić age 46
Boris Tadić age 40
José Ramos-Horta age 48
Juan Guaidó age 15
Gustavo Petro age 38
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 44
John Evans Atta Mills age 54
Reuven Rivlin age 58
Hashim Thaçi age 30
Almazbek Atambaev age 41
Roza Otunbayeva age 47
Haakon VIII of Norway age 25
Magdalena Andersson age 31
Denys Shmyhal age 22
Trương Tấn Sang age 49
Kenneth Kaunda age 74
Alan García age 49
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 46
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 33
Janet Yellen age 52
Armen Sarkissian age 45
Boyko Borissov age 39
Jovenel Moïse age 30
Katrín Jakobsdóttir age 22
Yair Lapid age 34
Joyce Banda age 48
John Key age 37
Goodluck Jonathan age 40
Victor Chernomyrdin age 60
Ana Brnabić age 22
Halimah Yacob age 43
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 56
Binali Yıldırım age 42
Karol Nawrocki age 15
Laura Chinchilla age 39
Zoran Milanović age 31
Nikos Anastasiades age 51
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 55
Laurent Gbagbo age 53
Ingrida Šimonytė age 23
Shehbaz Sharif age 46
Macky Sall age 36
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 33
Kenan Evren age 81
Benigno Aquino III age 38
Jean Castex age 33
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 30
Sali Berisha age 53
Stjepan Mesić age 63
Alexander Stubb age 30
Katalin Novák age 20
Isaac Shamir age 82
Michel Aoun age 64
Gitanas Nausėda age 34
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 59
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 49
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 52
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 80
Leo Varadkar age 19
Ivo Josipović age 40
Petr Pavel age 36
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 61
Jan Peter Balkenende age 42
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 46
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 49
Ion Iliescu age 68
Janez Janša age 39
Bülent Ecevit age 73
Beata Szydło age 35
Kim Young-sam age 70
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 48
Péter Magyar age 17
Evika Siliņa age 23
Anwar Ibrahim age 51
Gjorge Ivanov age 38
Tabaré Vázquez age 58
Walter Scheel age 79
Félix Tshisekedi age 35
Jalal Talabani age 64
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 69
Vicente Fox age 56
Olusegun Obasanjo age 61
Beji Caid Essebsi age 71
Trần Đại Quang age 41
Mateusz Morawiecki age 30
Alfredo Stroessner age 85
Fidel Ramos age 70
Édouard Philippe age 27
Hua Guofeng age 77
Karl Nehammer age 25
Yves Leterme age 37
Alpha Condé age 60
Ehud Barak age 56
Giuliano Amato age 60
Uhuru Kenyatta age 36
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 31
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 34
Ma Ying-jeou age 48
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 32
Dina Boluarte age 36
Bongbong Marcos age 40
Bujar Nishani age 31
Abdul Hamid age 54
Kim Campbell age 51
Andrej Babiš age 43
Lenín Moreno age 45
Mauno Koivisto age 74
Mari Kiviniemi age 29
Giorgos Papandreou age 46
Karolos Papoulias age 69
Juliana of the Netherlands age 89
Ulf Kristersson age 34