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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
First Congo War 1996-10-24 - 1997-05-16
1997 Albanian civil unrest 1997-01-16 - 1997-08-11

People

Tabaré Vázquez age 57
Walter Scheel age 77
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden age 19
Félix Tshisekedi age 33
Jalal Talabani age 63
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 67
Vicente Fox age 54
Olusegun Obasanjo age 59
Beji Caid Essebsi age 70
Trần Đại Quang age 40
Mateusz Morawiecki age 28
Alfredo Stroessner age 84
Édouard Philippe age 26
Aslan Maskhadov age 45
Hua Guofeng age 76
Karl Nehammer age 24
Yves Leterme age 36
Alpha Condé age 59
Mary McAleese age 45
Ehud Barak age 55
Giuliano Amato age 58
Uhuru Kenyatta age 35
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 30
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 32
Ma Ying-jeou age 46
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 30
Dina Boluarte age 34
Bongbong Marcos age 39
Otto von Habsburg age 84
Bujar Nishani age 30
Abdul Hamid age 53
Kim Campbell age 49
Andrej Babiš age 42
Lenín Moreno age 43
Mauno Koivisto age 73
Mari Kiviniemi age 28
Giorgos Papandreou age 44
Karolos Papoulias age 67
Juliana of the Netherlands age 87
Ulf Kristersson age 33
Lai Ching-te age 37
John Magufuli age 37
Milton Obote age 71
Horacio Cartes age 40
Shigeru Ishiba age 40
Lionel Jospin age 59
Abolhassan Banisadr age 63
Patrice Talon age 38
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 46
Bettino Craxi age 63
Valdas Adamkus age 70
Mamnoon Hussain age 56
Andrej Kiska age 34
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 51
Michael I of Romania age 75
Élisabeth Borne age 35
Thomas Bach age 43
Manuel Noriega age 63
Raúl Alfonsín age 69
Khaleda Zia age 50
Thomas Boni Yayi age 44
Georgi Parvanov age 39
Ibrahim Traoré age 8
Paul Martin age 58
Mwai Kibaki age 65
Xavier Bettel age 23
Oleksandr Turchynov age 32
Ollanta Humala age 34
Chun Doo-hwan age 66
Zhao Ziyang age 77
Rex Tillerson age 44
Alexander Schallenberg age 27
Mia Mottley age 31
Elio Di Rupo age 45
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 39
Andrej Plenković age 26
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 57
John Kufuor age 58
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 75
Vjosa Osmani age 14
Atifete Jahjaga age 21
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 52
Keiko Fujimori age 21
Gabriel Attal age 7
Jacques Delors age 71
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 66
João Lourenço age 42
Werner Faymann age 36
Guy Verhofstadt age 43
Dimitris Christofias age 50
Alar Karis age 38
Giovanni Leone age 88
Igor Dodon age 22
Peter Pellegrini age 21
Ivan Gašparovič age 55
Paetongtarn Shinawatra age 10
Morgan Tsvangirai age 44
Felipe González age 54
George F. Kennan age 93
Itamar Franco age 66
Jacques Rogge age 54
Kirsty Coventry age 13
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi age 30
Bamir Topi age 39
Ilir Meta age 27
Alexander De Croo age 21
Sophie Wilmès age 22
Luis Arce age 33
Jeanine Áñez age 29
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 59
Jüri Ratas age 18
K. R. Narayanan age 76
Massimo D'Alema age 47
Dick Schoof age 39
Rob Jetten age 9
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 47
Saad Harirị age 26
Andry Rajoelina age 22
Peter Mutharika age 56
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 33
Mário Soares age 72
Zoran Đinđić age 44
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 32
Adama Barrow age 32
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 35
Fernando Lugo age 45
Kgalema Motlanthe age 47
Shamil Basayev age 32
Gough Whitlam age 80
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 49
Arnold Rüütel age 68
Nouri al-Maliki age 46
Moshe Katsav age 51
Ibrahim Rugova age 52
Sadyr Japarov age 28
Amadou Toumani Touré age 48
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 37
Ram Baran Yadav age 49
Stevo Pendarovski age 33
Desi Bouterse age 51
Xanana Gusmão age 50
Serdar Berdimuhamedow age 15
Arsenii Yatseniuk age 22
Armand Fallières age 155
Pierre Mauroy age 68
Laurent Fabius age 50
Édith Cresson age 63
Michel Barnier age 46
Enda Kenny age 45
Queen Sofía of Spain age 58
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh age 32
Queen Letizia of Spain age 24
Robert McNamara age 80
Ivo Sanader age 43
Andrus Ansip age 40
Loukas Papademos age 49
László Sólyom age 55
Edgars Rinkēvičs age 23
Valdis Zatlers age 41
Bingu wa Mutharika age 63
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 45
Violeta Chamorro age 67
Bola Tinubu age 44
Nikola Gruevski age 26
Egor Gajdar age 40
Carl Bildt age 47
Prayut Chanocha age 42
Delcy Rodriguez age 27
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 159
Lloyd Austin age 43
Kim Yo Jong age 9
John Roberts age 42
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 39
Brian Mulroney age 57
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 44
Matti Vanhanen age 41
R. Venkataraman age 86
William Ruto age 30
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 59
Mohamed Agha age 41
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 38
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 40
Nicolae Timofti age 48
Chris Hipkins age 18
Evgeny Primakov age 67
Danilo Türk age 45
Tupou VI of Tonga age 37
Mykola Azarov age 49
Edgar Lungu age 40
Pedro Castillo age 27
Lee Jae Myung age 33
Yoshirō Mori age 59
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 73
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 53
Vahagn Khachatryan age 37
Bob Hawke age 67
Sandra Mason age 48
Iván Duque age 20
Jadranka Kosor age 43
Daniel Noboa age 9