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Events

Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Siege of Sarajevo 1992-04-05 - 1996-02-29
Bosnian War 1992-04-06 - 1995-11-21

People

Elizabeth II age 67
Queen - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 46
President - United States
Fidel Castro age 67
President - Cuba
Saddam Hussein age 56
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 62
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 54
Supreme Leader - Iran
Hosni Mubarak age 65
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 76
President - France
Akihito age 59
Emperor - Japan
Jiang Zemin age 67
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Hafez al-Assad age 62
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 73
President - Germany
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 58
President - Iran
Itamar Franco age 63
President - Brazil
Lee Teng-hui age 70
President - Republic of China
Le Duc Anh age 72
President - Vietnam
Ramiro de León Carpio age 51
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 81
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 45
President - Mexico
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 70
Secretary-General - United Nations
Helmut Kohl age 63
Chancellor - Germany
Yitzhak Rabin age 71
Prime Minister - Israel
John Major age 50
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 72
Prime Minister - Italy
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 73
President - International Olympic Committee
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 72
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Delors age 68
President - European Commission
Li Peng age 64
Premier - People's Republic of China
Kiichi Miyazawa age 73
Prime Minister - Japan
Édouard Balladur age 64
Prime Minister - France
Hanna Suchocka age 47
Prime Minister - Poland
Khamtai Siphandone age 69
Prime Minister - Laos
Manfred Wörner age 58
Secretary General - NATO
Vo Van Kiet age 70
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Albert Reynolds age 60
Taoiseach - Ireland
Lien Chan age 56
Premier - Republic of China
Atef Sedki age 62
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hiroshi Nakajima age 65
Director-General - World Health Organization
Mahmoud Zuabi age 58
Prime Minister - Syria
Lewis Thompson Preston age 67
President - World Bank
William Rehnquist age 68
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Kim Jong-il age 52
Supreme Commander, Korean People's Army - North Korea
Al Gore age 45
Vice President - United States
Rong Yiren age 77
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Lee Yuan-tsu age 69
Vice President - Republic of China
Colin Powell age 56
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Warren Christopher age 67
Secretary Of State - United States
Janet Reno age 55
Attorney General - United States
Michael Howard age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Lloyd Bentsen age 72
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Kenneth Clarke age 53
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Les Aspin age 55
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Gordon R. Sullivan age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Nelson Mandela age 75
President - African National Congress
Hu Jintao age 50
Secretariat - Communist Party of China
Antonin Scalia age 57
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 45
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 57
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 73
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 53
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 63
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Smith age 54
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Gerry Adams age 44
President - Sinn Féin
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 60
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 55
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 50
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 49
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 68
Senate - United States
John Lewis age 53
House of Representatives - United States
John Paul II age 73
Pope - Vatican City
Lech Wałęsa age 49
President - Poland
Václav Havel age 56
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 65
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 69
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 55
King - Spain
Suharto age 72
President - Indonesia
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 53
President - Kazakhstan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 53
Queen - Denmark
Harald V of Norway age 56
King - Norway
Slobodan Milošević age 51
President - Serbia
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 47
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 55
Queen - Netherlands
Islam Karimov age 55
President - Uzbekistan
Omar al-Bashir age 49
President - Sudan
Heydar Aliyev age 70
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 70
King - Cambodia
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 52
Sultan - Oman
F. W. de Klerk age 57
State President - South Africa
Mobutu Sese Seko age 62
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Saparmyrat Nyýazow age 53
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 48
President - Uganda
Süleyman Demirel age 68
President - Turkey
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 56
President - Tunisia
Leonid Kravchuk age 59
President - Ukraine
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 46
President - Yemen
Alberto Fujimori age 55
President - Peru
José Eduardo dos Santos age 50
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 41
President - Chad
Mswati III age 25
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 60
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 57
King - Jordan
Teodoro Obiang age 51
President - Equatorial Guinea
Mary Robinson age 49
President - Ireland
Hastings Banda age 103
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 63
President - Iceland
Alija Izetbegović age 68
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hassan II age 64
King - Morocco
Carlos Menem age 63
President - Argentina
Sali Berisha age 48
President - Albania
Letsie III of Lesotho age 30
King - Lesotho
Isaias Afwerki age 47
President - Eritrea
Meles Zenawi age 38
President - Ethiopia
Ion Iliescu age 63
President - Romania
Kim Young-sam age 65
President - South Korea
Fidel Ramos age 65
President - Philippines
Mauno Koivisto age 69
President - Finland
Blaise Compaoré age 42
President - Burkina Faso
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 74
President - Italy
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 87
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 68
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 70
Prince - Monaco
Mário Soares age 68
President - Portugal
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 52
President - Afghanistan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 37
King - Bhutan
Violeta Chamorro age 63
President - Nicaragua
Joaquim Chissano age 53
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 64
President - Namibia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 56
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 75
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 60
President - Austria
Jerry Rawlings age 46
President - Ghana
João Bernardo Vieira age 54
President - Guinea-Bissau
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 75
President - India
Askar Akayev age 48
President - Kyrgyzstan
Algirdas Brazauskas age 60
President - Lithuania
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 48
President - Armenia
Lennart Meri age 64
President - Estonia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 55
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 57
President - Togo
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 86
President - Greece
Than Shwe age 60
President - Myanmar
Lansana Conté age 58
President - Guinea
Kiro Gligorov age 76
President - North Macedonia
Abdou Diouf age 57
President - Senegal
Milan Kučan age 52
President - Slovenia
Abulfaz Elchibey age 55
President - Azerbaijan
Zhelyu Zhelev age 58
President - Bulgaria
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 40
President - Haiti
Árpád Göncz age 71
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 50
President - Zambia
Ezer Weizman age 69
President - Israel
Quett Masire age 68
President - Botswana
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 72
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 47
President - Mali
Patricio Aylwin age 74
President - Chile
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 76
President - Djibouti
Ibrahim Babangida age 51
President - Nigeria
Ronald Venetiaan age 57
President - Suriname
Guntis Ulmanis age 53
President - Latvia
Mircea Snegur age 53
President - Moldova
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 69
President - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 67
Emir - Kuwait
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 68
President - Tanzania
César Gaviria age 46
President - Colombia
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 72
President - Ecuador
Melchior Ndadaye age 40
President - Burundi
Pascal Lissouba age 61
President - Republic of the Congo
Michal Kováč age 63
President - Slovakia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 75
King - Tonga
Glafcos Clerides age 74
President - Cyprus
Joaquín Balaguer age 86
President - Dominican Republic
France-Albert René age 57
President - Seychelles
Nicéphore Soglo age 58
President - Benin
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 52
President - Uruguay
Isa II of Bahrain age 60
Emir - Bahrain
Wee Kim Wee age 77
President - Singapore
Elias Hrawi age 66
President - Lebanon
Mahamane Ousmane age 43
President - Niger
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 60
Emir - Qatar
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 49
President - Cape Verde
Albert Zafy age 66
President - Madagascar
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 51
President - Mauritania
Momir Bulatović age 36
President - Montenegro
André Kolingba age 57
President - Central African Republic
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 51
President - Mongolia
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 66
President - Bangladesh
Jaime Paz Zamora age 54
President - Bolivia
Ċensu Tabone age 80
President - Malta
Alfredo Cristiani age 45
President - El Salvador
Wasim Sajjad age 52
President - Pakistan
Miguel Trovoada age 56
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Ali Kafi age 64
President - Algeria
Ramón José Velásquez age 76
President - Venezuela
Andrés Rodríguez age 70
President - Paraguay
Guillermo Endara age 57
President - Panama
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 79
President - Laos
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 77
President - Sri Lanka
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 44
President - Costa Rica
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 54
President - Somalia
Said Mohamed Djohar age 74
President - Comoros