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Events

The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
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Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09

People

Elizabeth II age 70
Queen - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 50
President - United States
Fidel Castro age 70
President - Cuba
Saddam Hussein age 59
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 66
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 57
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 64
President - France
Hosni Mubarak age 68
President - Egypt
Akihito age 63
Emperor - Japan
Jiang Zemin age 70
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Hafez al-Assad age 66
President - Syria
Albert II of Belgium age 62
Monarch - Belgium
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 62
President - Iran
Roman Herzog age 62
President - Germany
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 65
President - Brazil
Lee Teng-hui age 74
President - Republic of China
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 50
President - Guatemala
Le Duc Anh age 76
President - Vietnam
Ernesto Zedillo age 45
President - Mexico
Kofi Annan age 58
Secretary-General - United Nations
Benjamin Netanyahu age 47
Prime Minister - Israel
Helmut Kohl age 66
Chancellor - Germany
John Major age 53
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Romano Prodi age 57
Prime Minister - Italy
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 76
President - International Olympic Committee
Li Peng age 68
Premier - People's Republic of China
Alain Juppé age 51
Prime Minister - France
Javier Solana age 54
Secretary General - NATO
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 59
Prime Minister - Japan
Jacques Santer age 59
President - European Commission
Khamtai Siphandone age 73
Prime Minister - Laos
John Bruton age 49
Taoiseach - Ireland
Kamal Ganzouri age 64
Prime Minister - Egypt
Vo Van Kiet age 74
Prime Minister - Vietnam
James Wolfensohn age 63
President - World Bank
Lien Chan age 60
Premier - Republic of China
Hiroshi Nakajima age 68
Director-General - World Health Organization
Mahmoud Zuabi age 62
Prime Minister - Syria
H. D. Deve Gowda age 63
Prime Minister - India
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 46
Prime Minister - Poland
William Rehnquist age 72
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Kim Jong-il age 55
Supreme Commander, Korean People's Army - North Korea
Al Gore age 48
Vice President - United States
Rong Yiren age 80
Vice President - People's Republic of China
John Shalikashvili age 60
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Madeleine Albright age 59
Secretary Of State - United States
Janet Reno age 58
Attorney General - United States
Michael Howard age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Cohen age 56
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Kenneth Clarke age 56
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Robert Rubin age 58
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Dennis Reimer age 57
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Louis Freeh age 47
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Nelson Mandela age 78
President - African National Congress
Tony Blair age 43
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Hu Jintao age 54
Secretariat - Communist Party of China
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 63
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 48
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 58
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 76
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 57
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 66
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Gerry Adams age 48
President - Sinn Féin
Joe Biden age 54
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 53
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 72
Senate - United States
John Lewis age 56
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Bush age 50
Governor of Texas - United States
John Paul II age 76
Pope - Vatican City
Alexander Lukashenka age 42
President - Belarus
Václav Havel age 60
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 69
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 72
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 59
Monarch - Spain
Suharto age 75
President - Indonesia
Nūrsūltan Nazarbaev age 56
President - Kazakhstan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 56
Monarch - Denmark
Harald V of Norway age 59
Monarch - Norway
Slobodan Milošević age 55
President - Serbia
Martti Ahtisaari age 59
President - Finland
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 50
Monarch - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 59
King - Netherlands
Eduard Shevardnadze age 69
President - Georgia
Islam Karimov age 59
President - Uzbekistan
Omar al-Bashir age 53
President - Sudan
Heydar Aliyev age 73
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 74
King - Cambodia
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 56
Sultan - Oman
Mobutu Sese Seko age 66
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Emomali Rahmon age 44
President - Tajikistan
Saparmyrat Nyýazow age 56
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 52
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 58
President - Ukraine
Süleyman Demirel age 72
President - Turkey
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 60
President - Tunisia
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 49
President - Yemen
Alberto Fujimori age 58
President - Peru
José Eduardo dos Santos age 54
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 44
President - Chad
Mswati III age 28
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 63
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 61
King - Jordan
Teodoro Obiang age 54
President - Equatorial Guinea
Mary Robinson age 52
President - Ireland
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 42
President - Poland
Alija Izetbegović age 71
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hassan II age 67
King - Morocco
Carlos Menem age 66
President - Argentina
Sali Berisha age 52
President - Albania
Letsie III of Lesotho age 33
King - Lesotho
Isaias Afwerki age 51
President - Eritrea
Kim Young-sam age 69
President - South Korea
Mohammed Omar age 37
Supreme Leader - Afghanistan
Yahya Jammeh age 31
President - The Gambia
Fidel Ramos age 68
President - Philippines
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 53
President - Iceland
Blaise Compaoré age 46
President - Burkina Faso
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 78
President - Italy
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 51
President - Sri Lanka
Daniel arap Moi age 72
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 73
Prince - Monaco
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 45
Emir - Qatar
Mathieu Kérékou age 63
President - Benin
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 56
President - Afghanistan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 41
King - Bhutan
Joaquim Chissano age 57
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 67
President - Namibia
Sani Abacha age 53
President - Nigeria
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 78
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 64
President - Austria
Jerry Rawlings age 49
President - Ghana
João Bernardo Vieira age 57
President - Guinea-Bissau
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 78
President - India
Askar Akayev age 52
President - Kyrgyzstan
Algirdas Brazauskas age 64
President - Lithuania
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 52
President - Armenia
Lennart Meri age 67
President - Estonia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 59
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 61
President - Togo
Than Shwe age 64
President - Myanmar
Lansana Conté age 62
President - Guinea
René Préval age 54
President - Haiti
Kiro Gligorov age 79
President - North Macedonia
Jorge Sampaio age 57
President - Portugal
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 70
President - Greece
Abdou Diouf age 61
President - Senegal
Milan Kučan age 56
President - Slovenia
Árpád Göncz age 75
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 53
President - Zambia
Ezer Weizman age 72
President - Israel
Benjamin Mkapa age 58
President - Tanzania
Quett Masire age 71
President - Botswana
Leonel Fernández age 43
President - Dominican Republic
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 76
Monarch - Luxembourg
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 51
President - Mali
Petar Stoyanov age 44
President - Bulgaria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 80
President - Djibouti
Farooq Leghari age 56
President - Pakistan
Emil Constantinescu age 57
President - Romania
Rafael Caldera age 81
President - Venezuela
Guntis Ulmanis age 57
President - Latvia
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 54
President - Chile
Henri Konan Bédié age 62
President - Ivory Coast
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 70
Emir - Kuwait
Julio María Sanguinetti age 61
President - Uruguay
Pascal Lissouba age 65
President - Republic of the Congo
Michal Kováč age 66
President - Slovakia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 78
Monarch - Tonga
Ange-Félix Patassé age 60
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 77
President - Cyprus
Bakili Muluzi age 53
President - Malawi
France-Albert René age 61
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 64
President - Sierra Leone
Pierre Buyoya age 47
President - Burundi
Liamine Zéroual age 55
President - Algeria
Isa II of Bahrain age 63
Monarch - Bahrain
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 67
President - Bangladesh
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 66
President - Bolivia
Elias Hrawi age 70
President - Lebanon
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 52
President - Cape Verde
Ernesto Samper age 46
President - Colombia
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 55
President - Mauritania
Petru Lucinschi age 57
President - Moldova
Momir Bulatović age 40
President - Montenegro
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 55
President - Mongolia
Ruth Perry age 57
President - Liberia
Jules Wijdenbosch age 55
President - Suriname
Kamisese Mara age 76
President - Fiji
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 45
President - Ecuador
Negasso Gidada age 53
President - Ethiopia
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 47
President - Niger
Ong Teng Cheong age 61
President - Singapore
José María Figueres Olsen age 42
President - Costa Rica
Arnoldo Alemán age 51
President - Nicaragua
Miguel Trovoada age 60
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Armando Calderón Sol age 48
President - El Salvador
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 64
President - Malta
Momčilo Krajišnik age 52
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina