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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

Choummaly Sayasone age 60
Michel Suleiman age 48
Inga Ruginienė age 15
Joseph Muscat age 23
George Abela age 48
José López Portillo age 76
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 48
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 61
Girija Prasad Koirala age 72
Pedro Passos Coelho age 32
Ernest Bai Koroma age 43
Viola Amherd age 34
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 55
Levy Mwanawasa age 48
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 47
Anura Kurankan Dissanayake age 28
Michel Rocard age 66
Paul Wolfowitz age 53
Kemi Badenoch age 17
Empress Michiko age 62
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 62
Abulfaz Elchibey age 58
Zhelyu Zhelev age 62
Hissène Habré age 54
Nicos Christodoulides age 23
Adly Mansour age 51
Nino Burjanadze age 32
Georgios Papadopoulos age 77
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 43
Ferenc Mádl age 66
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson age 21
Laimdota Straujuma age 46
Joseph Aoun age 33
Min Aung Hlaing age 40
Ivica Dačić age 31
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 40
Lawrence Wong age 24
Ingvar Carlsson age 62
Francisco Guterres age 42
Olexii Honcharuk age 12
Juan Carlos Varela age 33
Alejandro Toledo age 51
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 39
Željko Komšić age 33
Noboru Takeshita age 73
Keizō Obuchi age 59
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 48
Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland age 17
Queen Mette-Marit of Norway age 23
Tim Kaine age 39
Iajuddin Ahmed age 66
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 47
Luis Guillermo Solís age 38
Jan Fischer age 46
Danilo Medina age 45
Hailemariam Desalegn age 31
Giorgi Kvirikashvili age 29
Isaac Navon age 75
Dries van Agt age 66
Thongloun Sisoulith age 51
Krišjānis Kariņš age 32
Émile Lahoud age 61
Marc Ravalomanana age 47
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 38
Lazarus Chakwera age 41
Luis Echeverría age 75
Miguel de la Madrid age 62
Natalia Gavrilița age 19
Ne Win age 85
Ram Chandra Poudel age 52
Luís Montenegro age 24
Ueli Maurer age 46
Ricardo Martinelli age 44
Haris Silajdžić age 51
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 36
Morihiro Hosokawa age 59
João Figueiredo age 79
Priti Patel age 24
Jerry Brown age 58
Warren Christopher age 71
Rexhep Meidani age 52
Reynaldo Bignone age 69
Ayaz Mutallibov age 58
John Turner age 67
David Dacko age 66
Catherine Samba-Panza age 42
Bohuslav Sobotka age 25
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 52
Antti Rinne age 34
Abdul Rahman Arif age 80
Portia Simpson-Miller age 51
George William Vella age 54
Win Myint age 45
Baron Waqa age 37
Jenny Shipley age 45
Mamadou Tandja age 58
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 49
S. R. Nathan age 72
Igor Matovič age 23
Didier Burkhalter age 36
Taur Matan Ruak age 40
Fouad Mebazaa age 63
Rupiah Banda age 60
Canaan Banana age 60
Han Duck-soo age 47
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 67
Raymond Barre age 72
Mohamed Bouazizi age 12
Simon Harris age 10
Jim Yong Kim age 37
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 62
Tarana Burke age 23
Ingrid of Sweden age 86
Princess Beatrice age 8
Tigran Sargsyan age 37
Azali Assoumani age 38
Alfredo Palacio age 58
Mostafa Madbouly age 30
Siim Kallas age 48
Frank Bainimarama age 42
Rose Francine Rogombe age 54
Otto Pérez Molina age 46
Álvaro Colom age 45
Joseph Michel Martelly age 36
Halla Tómasdóttir age 28
Ciriaco De Mita age 69
Assimi Goïta age 13
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 44
Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 33
Zdravko Krivokapić age 38
Dritan Abazović age 11
Boris Trajkovski age 40
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 82
Mikhail Kasianov age 39
Bassirou Diomaye Faye age 16
Miro Cerar age 33
Alain Berset age 24
Srettha Thavisin age 35
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 44
Trần Đức Lương age 59
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 88
Choi Kyu-hah age 77
Željka Cvijanović age 29
Zenkō Suzuki age 86
Leon Panetta age 58
Philip Hammond age 41
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan age 31
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 40
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh age 32
Mario Cuomo age 64
Timothy McVeigh age 28
Liz Cheney age 30
George Wallace age 77
Alexander Haig age 72
Fatos Nano age 44
Xavier Espot Zamora age 17
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 81
Carlos Mesa age 43
Sergey Stanishev age 30
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 28
Patricio Aylwin age 78
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 42
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 78
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 37
Irfaan Ali age 16
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 49
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 49
Arnaldo Forlani age 71
Raila A Odinga age 52
Anote Tong age 44
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 56
Mohamed Muizzu age 18
Anerood Jugnauth age 66
Zinaida Greceanîi age 41
Aziz Akhannouch age 35
Armando Guebuza age 54
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 45
Eduard Heger age 20
Evaristo Carvalho age 55
Abdulla Aripov age 35
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 70
Sōsuke Uno age 74
Jeremy Hunt age 30
Ri Sol-ju age 12
Michael Gove age 29
Gennady Yanayev age 59
Chadli Bendjedid age 67
Franz Vranitzky age 59
Wilfried Martens age 60
Dean Barrow age 45
Aristides Pereira age 73
Pedro Pires age 62
Mahamat Déby age 12
Roosevelt Skerrit age 24
Sherif Ismail age 41
Geir Haarde age 45
Ephraim Katzir age 80
Asqar Mamin age 31
Rolandas Paksas age 40
Algirdas Butkevičius age 38