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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
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
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
Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08
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 47
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 77
President - France
Akihito age 60
Emperor - Japan
Jiang Zemin age 67
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Hafez al-Assad age 63
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 73
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 59
King - Belgium
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 59
President - Iran
Itamar Franco age 63
President - Brazil
Lee Teng-hui age 70
President - Republic of China
Le Duc Anh age 73
President - Vietnam
Do Muoi age 76
General Secretary - Communist Party of 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 71
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 73
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 65
Premier - People's Republic of China
Édouard Balladur age 64
Prime Minister - France
Morihiro Hosokawa age 55
Prime Minister - Japan
Khamtai Siphandone age 69
Prime Minister - Laos
Manfred Wörner age 59
Secretary General - NATO
Waldemar Pawlak age 34
Prime Minister - Poland
Vo Van Kiet age 71
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Albert Reynolds age 61
Taoiseach - Ireland
Lien Chan age 57
Premier - Republic of China
Atef Sedki age 63
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hiroshi Nakajima age 65
Director-General - World Health Organization
Mahmoud Zuabi age 59
Prime Minister - Syria
Lewis Thompson Preston age 67
President - World Bank
William Rehnquist age 69
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 70
Vice President - Republic of China
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 51
Vice President - Iraq
Deng Xiaoping age 89
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Zhu Rongji age 65
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
John Shalikashvili age 57
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Warren Christopher age 68
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 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Louis Freeh age 43
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Nelson Mandela age 75
President - African National Congress
Hu Jintao age 51
Secretariat - Communist Party of China
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 60
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
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 54
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 55
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Gerry Adams age 45
President - Sinn Féin
Stephen Breyer age 55
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 51
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 50
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 69
Senate - United States
William Cohen age 53
Senate - United States
John McCain age 57
Senate - United States
Tony Blair age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gordon Brown age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 77
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 53
House of Representatives - United States
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jack Straw age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Blunkett age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Douglas Hurd age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Norman Lamont age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Frank Underwood age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph W. Barr age 75
House of Representatives - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Hague age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Duncan Smith age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Neil Kinnock age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Steel age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Barber Conable age 71
New York State Senate - United States
John Paul II age 73
Pope - Vatican City
Lech Wałęsa age 50
President - Poland
Václav Havel age 57
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 66
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 52
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 50
President - Sudan
Heydar Aliyev age 70
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 71
King - Cambodia
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 53
Sultan - Oman
F. W. de Klerk age 57
State President - South Africa
Mobutu Sese Seko age 63
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Saparmurat Niyazov age 53
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 49
President - Uganda
Süleyman Demirel age 69
President - Turkey
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 57
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 51
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 58
King - Jordan
Teodoro Obiang age 51
President - Equatorial Guinea
Mary Robinson age 49
President - Ireland
Hastings Banda age 104
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 63
President - Iceland
Omar Bongo age 58
President - Gabon
Alija Izetbegović age 68
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hassan II age 64
King - Morocco
Carlos Menem age 63
President - Argentina
Sali Berisha age 49
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 66
President - South Korea
Fidel Ramos age 65
President - Philippines
Mauno Koivisto age 70
President - Finland
Blaise Compaoré age 42
President - Burkina Faso
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 75
President - Italy
Daniel arap Moi age 69
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 70
Prince - Monaco
Mário Soares age 69
President - Portugal
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 53
President - Afghanistan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 38
King - Bhutan
Violeta Chamorro age 64
President - Nicaragua
Joaquim Chissano age 54
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 64
President - Namibia
Sani Abacha age 50
President - Nigeria
Juvénal Habyarimana age 56
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 75
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 61
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 49
President - Kyrgyzstan
Algirdas Brazauskas age 61
President - Lithuania
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 48
President - Armenia
Lennart Meri age 64
President - Estonia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 56
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 58
President - Togo
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 86
President - Greece
Than Shwe age 60
President - Myanmar
Lansana Conté age 59
President - Guinea
Kiro Gligorov age 76
President - North Macedonia
Abdou Diouf age 58
President - Senegal
Milan Kučan age 52
President - Slovenia
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 73
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 47
President - Mali
Patricio Aylwin age 75
President - Chile
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 77
President - Djibouti
Farooq Leghari age 53
President - Pakistan
Ronald Venetiaan age 57
President - Suriname
Sylvie Kinigi age 41
President - Burundi
Guntis Ulmanis age 54
President - Latvia
Mircea Snegur age 53
President - Moldova
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 69
President - The Gambia
Henri Konan Bédié age 59
President - Ivory Coast
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
Pascal Lissouba age 62
President - Republic of the Congo
Michal Kováč age 63
President - Slovakia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 75
King - Tonga
Ange-Félix Patassé age 56
President - Central African Republic