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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

Irakli Garibashvili age 14
Guðni Jóhannesson age 28
Gulzarilal Nanda age 98
Raimonds Vējonis age 30
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 57
Jonas Gahr Støre age 36
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 41
Abdoulaye Wade age 70
Iveta Radičová age 40
Chen Shui-bian age 46
Yulia Svyrydenko age 11
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 69
Bernard Cazeneuve age 33
P. W. Botha age 81
Ed Miliband age 27
Queen Sonja of Norway age 59
Gavin Newsom age 29
Paul Keating age 53
Mokgweetsi Masisi age 35
Petr Fiala age 32
Mauricio Funes age 37
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 41
Manuel Zelaya age 44
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 35
Pál Schmitt age 54
Amintore Fanfani age 89
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 38
Egils Levits age 41
Filipe Nyusi age 38
Saara Kuugongelwa age 29
Sushila Karki age 44
Mahamadou Issoufou age 45
Arif Alvi age 47
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 44
Nicușor Dan age 27
Viktor Zubkov age 55
Vojislav Koštunica age 52
Robert Golob age 30
Ewa Kopacz age 40
Li Qiang age 37
Maithripala Sirisena age 45
Milorad Dodik age 37
Tomiichi Murayama age 73
Micheál Martin age 36
Pete Hegseth age 16
Soong Mei-ling age 99
Sarah Ferguson age 37
Brigitte Bierlein age 47
Bart De Wever age 26
Rosen Plevneliev age 32
José Antonio Kast age 31
Tassos Papadopoulos age 63
Petteri Orpo age 27
Antonis Samaras age 45
Chaim Herzog age 78
Lamberto Dini age 66
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 59
Valdis Dombrovskis age 25
Guillaume V, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 15
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 42
José Sócrates age 39
Victor Ponta age 24
Prem Tinsulanonda age 76
Roh Tae-woo age 64
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 47
François Bayrou age 45
Egon Krenz age 59
Fernando Collor de Mello age 47
Kim Jong-nam age 25
Robert Mueller age 52
Ramiz Alia age 71
Leopoldo Galtieri age 70
Festus Mogae age 57
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 44
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 46
Jyrki Katainen age 25
Giorgi Gakharia age 21
Juan Orlando Hernández age 28
Barham Salih age 36
Karim Massimov age 31
Albin Kurti age 21
Charles Taylor age 49
Robert Abela age 19
Agatha Barbara age 73
Branko Crvenkovski age 34
Emil Boc age 30
Nataša Pirc Musar age 28
Simonetta Sommaruga age 36
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 46
Moncef Marzouki age 51
Kais Saied age 39
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 42
Joseph Estrada age 59
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 41
Jean Casimir-Perier age 149
Robert Gates age 53
Bajram Begaj age 29
Mulatu Teshome age 40
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 45
Xiomara Castro age 37
Chandra Shekhar age 69
Fuad Masum age 59
Andrius Kubilius age 40
Mikhhail Fradkov age 46
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 57
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 51
Jerzy Buzek age 56
Sébastien Lecornu age 10
Bertie Ahern age 45
Tariq Aziz age 60
Andrew Cuomo age 39
Bob Geldof age 45
James Baker age 66
Alfred Moisiu age 67
Zillur Rahman age 67
Iliana Iotova age 32
François Bozizé age 50
Mirek Topolánek age 40
Petr Nečas age 32
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 89
Tamás Sulyok age 40
Inder Kumar Gujral age 77
V. P. Singh age 65
Masoud Barzani age 50
Abdulla Yameen age 37
Mohamed Nasheed age 29
Jakov Milatović age 10
Thein Sein age 51
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 44
Bill English age 35
Zoran Zaev age 22
Alenka Bratušek age 26
Doris Leuthard age 33
Volodymyr Hroisman age 19
Luis Lacalle Pou age 23
Hakainde Hichilema age 34
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed age 34
Bakir Izetbegović age 40
Jim Mattis age 46
Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland age 14
James Comey age 36
Fernando de la Rúa age 59
Alfred Gusenbauer age 37
Ali Asadov age 40
Raman Halowchanka age 23
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 72
Gordon Bajnai age 28
Ruud Lubbers age 57
Bounnhang Vorachit age 59
Andris Bērziņš age 52
Hilda Heine age 45
Vladimir Voronin age 55
George Tupou V of Tonga age 48
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 54
Toshiki Kaifu age 66
Kiichi Miyazawa age 77
Tsutomu Hata age 61
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 48
Édouard Balladur age 67
David Petraeus age 44
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 51
Igor Girkin age 26
Queen Mary of Denmark age 25
Rick Perry age 46
Greg Abbott age 39
Eduardo Duhalde age 55
Malcolm Fraser age 66
Wolfgang Schüssel age 51
José Maria Neves age 36
Ricardo Lagos age 59
Taavi Rõivas age 17
Irakli Kobakhidze age 18
Umaro Sissoco Embaló age 24
Fatmir Sejdiu age 45
Fayez al-Sarraj age 37
Khurelsukh Ukhnaa age 28
Luísa Diogo age 38
Mohamed Bazoum age 37
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 43
Viorica Dăncilă age 33
Chan Santokhi age 38
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 47
Tô Lâm age 39
Michael Sata age 59
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 58
Martín Vizcarra age 33
Diosdado Macapagal age 86
José Sarney age 66
Brian Cowen age 37
Stanislav Shushkevich age 62
Empress Masako age 33
George Shultz age 76
Christian Kern age 31
Kristen Michal age 21
Juha Sipilä age 35
Kostas Karamanlis age 40
Jimmy Morales age 27
Haider Al-Abadi age 44
Catherine Connolly age 41
Emilio Colombo age 76