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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

Inga Ruginienė age 16
Joseph Muscat age 23
George Abela age 49
José López Portillo age 77
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 49
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 62
Girija Prasad Koirala age 73
Pedro Passos Coelho age 33
Ernest Bai Koroma age 44
Viola Amherd age 35
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 56
Levy Mwanawasa age 49
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 48
Anura Kurankan Dissanayake age 29
Michel Rocard age 67
Paul Wolfowitz age 54
Kemi Badenoch age 17
Empress Michiko age 63
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 63
Abulfaz Elchibey age 59
Zhelyu Zhelev age 62
Hissène Habré age 55
Nicos Christodoulides age 24
Adly Mansour age 52
Nino Burjanadze age 33
Georgios Papadopoulos age 78
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 44
Ferenc Mádl age 66
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson age 22
Laimdota Straujuma age 46
Joseph Aoun age 33
Min Aung Hlaing age 41
Ivica Dačić age 31
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 40
Lawrence Wong age 25
Ingvar Carlsson age 63
Francisco Guterres age 43
Olexii Honcharuk age 13
Juan Carlos Varela age 34
Alejandro Toledo age 52
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 40
Željko Komšić age 33
Noboru Takeshita age 73
Keizō Obuchi age 60
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 49
Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland age 18
Queen Mette-Marit of Norway age 24
Tim Kaine age 39
Iajuddin Ahmed age 66
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 48
Luis Guillermo Solís age 39
Jan Fischer age 46
Danilo Medina age 46
Hailemariam Desalegn age 32
Giorgi Kvirikashvili age 30
Isaac Navon age 76
Dries van Agt age 66
Thongloun Sisoulith age 52
Krišjānis Kariņš age 33
Émile Lahoud age 61
Marc Ravalomanana age 48
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 39
Lazarus Chakwera age 42
Luis Echeverría age 75
Miguel de la Madrid age 63
Natalia Gavrilița age 20
Ne Win age 86
Ram Chandra Poudel age 53
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 51
Luís Montenegro age 24
Ueli Maurer age 47
Ricardo Martinelli age 45
Haris Silajdžić age 52
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 37
Morihiro Hosokawa age 59
João Figueiredo age 79
Priti Patel age 25
Jerry Brown age 59
Warren Christopher age 72
Reynaldo Bignone age 69
Ayaz Mutallibov age 59
John Turner age 68
David Dacko age 67
Catherine Samba-Panza age 43
Bohuslav Sobotka age 26
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 53
Antti Rinne age 35
H. D. Deve Gowda age 64
Abdul Rahman Arif age 81
Portia Simpson-Miller age 52
George William Vella age 55
Win Myint age 46
Baron Waqa age 37
Mamadou Tandja age 59
S. R. Nathan age 73
Igor Matovič age 24
Didier Burkhalter age 37
Taur Matan Ruak age 41
Fouad Mebazaa age 64
Rupiah Banda age 60
Canaan Banana age 61
Han Duck-soo age 48
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 68
Raymond Barre age 73
Mohamed Bouazizi age 13
Simon Harris age 11
Jim Yong Kim age 38
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 63
Tarana Burke age 24
Ingrid of Sweden age 87
Princess Beatrice age 9
Tigran Sargsyan age 37
Azali Assoumani age 38
Alfredo Palacio age 58
Mostafa Madbouly age 31
Siim Kallas age 49
Frank Bainimarama age 43
Rose Francine Rogombe age 55
Otto Pérez Molina age 47
Álvaro Colom age 46
Joseph Michel Martelly age 36
Halla Tómasdóttir age 29
Ciriaco De Mita age 69
Assimi Goïta age 14
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 45
Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 34
Zdravko Krivokapić age 39
Dritan Abazović age 11
Boris Trajkovski age 41
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 82
Mikhail Kasianov age 40
Bassirou Diomaye Faye age 17
Miro Cerar age 34
Alain Berset age 25
Srettha Thavisin age 35
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 45
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 89
Choi Kyu-hah age 78
Željka Cvijanović age 30
Zenkō Suzuki age 86
Leon Panetta age 59
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan age 32
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 40
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh age 32
Mario Cuomo age 65
Timothy McVeigh age 29
Liz Cheney age 31
George Wallace age 78
Alexander Haig age 73
Xavier Espot Zamora age 18
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 82
Carlos Mesa age 44
Sergey Stanishev age 31
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 29
Patricio Aylwin age 79
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 42
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 79
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 38
Irfaan Ali age 17
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 50
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 50
Arnaldo Forlani age 72
Raila A Odinga age 52
Anote Tong age 45
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 57
Mohamed Muizzu age 19
Anerood Jugnauth age 67
Zinaida Greceanîi age 41
Aziz Akhannouch age 36
Armando Guebuza age 54
Farooq Leghari age 57
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 45
Eduard Heger age 21
Evaristo Carvalho age 56
Abdulla Aripov age 36
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 71
Sōsuke Uno age 75
Jeremy Hunt age 31
Ri Sol-ju age 12
Michael Gove age 30
Gennady Yanayev age 60
Chadli Bendjedid age 68
Franz Vranitzky age 60
Wilfried Martens age 61
Dean Barrow age 46
Aristides Pereira age 74
Pedro Pires age 63
Mahamat Déby age 13
Roosevelt Skerrit age 25
Sherif Ismail age 42
Geir Haarde age 46
Ephraim Katzir age 81
Asqar Mamin age 32
Rolandas Paksas age 41
Algirdas Butkevičius age 39
Gediminas Kirkilas age 46
Muhyiddin Yassin age 50
Moussa Traoré age 61
Eddie Fenech Adami age 63
Milojko Spajić age 10