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Events

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
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 - 1998-12-31
Kosovo War 1998-02-28 - 1999-06-11
Good Friday Agreement 1998-04-10

People

Elizabeth II age 72
Queen - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 51
President - United States
Fidel Castro age 71
President - Cuba
Saddam Hussein age 60
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 67
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 59
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 65
President - France
Hosni Mubarak age 69
President - Egypt
Akihito age 64
Emperor - Japan
Mohammad Khatami age 54
President - Iran
Jiang Zemin age 71
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Hafez al-Assad age 67
President - Syria
Albert II of Belgium age 63
King - Belgium
Roman Herzog age 64
President - Germany
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 66
President - Brazil
Lee Teng-hui age 75
President - Republic of China
Trần Đức Lương age 60
President - Vietnam
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 52
President - Guatemala
Kim Jong-il age 57
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Ernesto Zedillo age 46
President - Mexico
Kofi Annan age 60
Secretary-General - United Nations
Benjamin Netanyahu age 48
Prime Minister - Israel
Tony Blair age 44
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Helmut Kohl age 68
Chancellor - Germany
Romano Prodi age 58
Prime Minister - Italy
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 77
President - International Olympic Committee
Lionel Jospin age 60
Prime Minister - France
Zhu Rongji age 69
Premier - People's Republic of China
Jerzy Buzek age 57
Prime Minister - Poland
Bertie Ahern age 46
Taoiseach - Ireland
Javier Solana age 55
Secretary General - NATO
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
Jacques Santer age 60
President - European Commission
Phan Văn Khải age 64
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Kamal Ganzouri age 65
Prime Minister - Egypt
James Wolfensohn age 64
President - World Bank
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 69
Prime Minister - Laos
Hiroshi Nakajima age 69
Director-General - World Health Organization
Vincent Siew age 59
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmoud Zuabi age 63
Prime Minister - Syria
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 73
Prime Minister - India
William Rehnquist age 73
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Al Gore age 50
Vice President - United States
Hu Jintao age 55
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Lien Chan age 61
Vice President - Republic of China
Wen Jiabao age 55
Vice Premier Of The People's Republic Of China - People's Republic of China
Hugh Shelton age 56
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Gordon Brown age 47
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Madeleine Albright age 60
Secretary Of State - United States
Janet Reno age 59
Attorney General - United States
Jack Straw age 51
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Cohen age 57
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Robert Rubin age 59
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Dennis Reimer age 58
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Louis Freeh age 48
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Thabo Mbeki age 55
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 65
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 62
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 49
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 59
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 61
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Eric Holder age 47
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
John Paul Stevens age 78
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 58
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 68
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Hague age 37
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Gerry Adams age 49
President - Sinn Féin
Joe Biden age 55
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 54
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 73
Senate - United States
John Lewis age 58
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Bush age 51
Governor of Texas - United States
Nelson Mandela age 79
President - South Africa
John Paul II age 77
Pope - Vatican City
Alexander Lukashenko age 43
President - Belarus
Václav Havel age 61
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 70
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 74
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 60
King - Spain
Suharto age 76
President - Indonesia
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 57
President - Kazakhstan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 58
Queen - Denmark
Harald V of Norway age 61
King - Norway
Slobodan Milošević age 56
President - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Martti Ahtisaari age 60
President - Finland
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 51
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 60
Queen - Netherlands
Eduard Shevardnadze age 70
President - Georgia
Islam Karimov age 60
President - Uzbekistan
Omar al-Bashir age 54
President - Sudan
Heydar Aliyev age 74
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 75
King - Cambodia
Kim Dae-jung age 74
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 57
Sultan - Oman
Emomali Rahmon age 45
President - Tajikistan
Saparmyrat Nyýazow age 58
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 53
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 59
President - Ukraine
Süleyman Demirel age 73
President - Turkey
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 61
President - Tunisia
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 51
President - Yemen
Alberto Fujimori age 59
President - Peru
José Eduardo dos Santos age 55
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 45
President - Chad
Mswati III age 29
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 65
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 62
King - Jordan
Teodoro Obiang age 55
President - Equatorial Guinea
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 54
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 43
President - Poland
Alija Izetbegović age 72
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hassan II age 68
King - Morocco
Carlos Menem age 67
President - Argentina
Robert Kocharyan age 43
President - Armenia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 34
King - Lesotho
Isaias Afwerki age 52
President - Eritrea
Milo Đukanović age 36
President - Montenegro
Mohammed Omar age 38
Supreme Leader - Afghanistan
Yahya Jammeh age 32
President - The Gambia
Fidel Ramos age 70
President - Philippines
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 54
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 46
President - Ireland
Blaise Compaoré age 47
President - Burkina Faso
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 79
President - Italy
Valdas Adamkus age 71
President - Lithuania
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 52
President - Sri Lanka
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 58
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
K. R. Narayanan age 77
President - India
Daniel arap Moi age 73
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 74
Prince - Monaco
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 46
Emir - Qatar
Mathieu Kérékou age 64
President - Benin
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 57
President - Afghanistan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 42
King - Bhutan
Joaquim Chissano age 58
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 68
President - Namibia
Sani Abacha age 54
President - Nigeria
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 79
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 65
President - Austria
Jerry Rawlings age 50
President - Ghana
João Bernardo Vieira age 58
President - Guinea-Bissau
Askar Akayev age 53
President - Kyrgyzstan
Festus Mogae age 58
President - Botswana
Lennart Meri age 69
President - Estonia
Charles Taylor age 50
President - Liberia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 60
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 62
President - Togo
Than Shwe age 65
President - Myanmar
Lansana Conté age 63
President - Guinea
René Préval age 55
President - Haiti
Kiro Gligorov age 80
President - North Macedonia
Jorge Sampaio age 58
President - Portugal
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 71
President - Greece
Abdou Diouf age 62
President - Senegal
Milan Kučan age 57
President - Slovenia
Árpád Göncz age 76
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 54
President - Zambia
Ezer Weizman age 73
President - Israel
Benjamin Mkapa age 59
President - Tanzania
Rexhep Meidani age 53
President - Albania
Leonel Fernández age 44
President - Dominican Republic
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 77
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 52
President - Mali
Petar Stoyanov age 45
President - Bulgaria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 81
President - Djibouti
Emil Constantinescu age 58
President - Romania
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 68
President - Pakistan
Vladimír Mečiar age 55
President - Slovakia
Rafael Caldera age 82
President - Venezuela
Guntis Ulmanis age 58
President - Latvia
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 55
President - Chile
Henri Konan Bédié age 63
President - Ivory Coast
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 71
Emir - Kuwait
Julio María Sanguinetti age 62
President - Uruguay
Didier Ratsiraka age 61
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 79
King - Tonga
Hugo Banzer age 71
President - Bolivia
Ange-Félix Patassé age 61
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 79
President - Cyprus
Janet Jagan age 77
President - Guyana
Bakili Muluzi age 55
President - Malawi
Milan Milutinović age 55
President - Serbia
France-Albert René age 62
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 66
President - Sierra Leone
Pierre Buyoya age 48
President - Burundi
Liamine Zéroual age 56
President - Algeria
Isa II of Bahrain age 64
Emir - Bahrain
Khamtai Siphandone age 74
President - Laos
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 68
President - Bangladesh
Elias Hrawi age 71
President - Lebanon
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 54
President - Cape Verde
Ernesto Samper age 47
President - Colombia
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 56
President - Mauritania
Petru Lucinschi age 58
President - Moldova
Jules Wijdenbosch age 56
President - Suriname
A. N. R. Robinson age 71
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Kamisese Mara age 77
President - Fiji
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 48
President - Mongolia
Negasso Gidada age 54
President - Ethiopia
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 48
President - Niger