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Events

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
Kosovo War 1998-02-28 - 1999-06-11
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18

People

Elizabeth II age 72
Queen - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 52
President - United States
Fidel Castro age 72
President - Cuba
Saddam Hussein age 61
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 68
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 59
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 66
President - France
Hosni Mubarak age 70
President - Egypt
Akihito age 65
Emperor - Japan
Mohammad Khatami age 55
President - Iran
Jiang Zemin age 72
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Hafez al-Assad age 68
President - Syria
Albert II of Belgium age 64
Monarch - Belgium
Roman Herzog age 64
President - Germany
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 67
President - Brazil
Lee Teng-hui age 76
President - Republic of China
Trần Đức Lương age 61
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 47
President - Mexico
Kofi Annan age 60
Secretary-General - United Nations
Benjamin Netanyahu age 49
Prime Minister - Israel
Tony Blair age 45
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Gerhard Schröder age 54
Chancellor - Germany
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 59
Director-General - World Health Organization
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 78
President - International Olympic Committee
Lionel Jospin age 61
Prime Minister - France
Massimo D'Alema age 49
Prime Minister - Italy
Zhu Rongji age 70
Premier - People's Republic of China
Jerzy Buzek age 58
Prime Minister - Poland
Bertie Ahern age 47
Taoiseach - Ireland
Javier Solana age 56
Secretary General - NATO
Keizō Obuchi age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Jacques Santer age 61
President - European Commission
Phan Văn Khải age 65
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Kamal Ganzouri age 66
Prime Minister - Egypt
James Wolfensohn age 65
President - World Bank
Hong Song-nam age 69
Premier - North Korea
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 70
Prime Minister - Laos
Vincent Siew age 60
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmoud Zuabi age 64
Prime Minister - Syria
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 74
Prime Minister - India
William Rehnquist age 74
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Al Gore age 50
Vice President - United States
Hu Jintao age 56
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Lien Chan age 62
Vice President - Republic of China
Wen Jiabao age 56
Vice Premier Of The People's Republic Of China - People's Republic of China
Hugh Shelton age 57
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Gordon Brown age 47
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Madeleine Albright age 61
Secretary Of State - United States
Janet Reno age 60
Attorney General - United States
Jack Straw age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Cohen age 58
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Robert Rubin age 60
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Dennis Reimer age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Louis Freeh age 49
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Thabo Mbeki age 56
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 50
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 62
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Eric Holder age 48
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
John Paul Stevens age 78
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 59
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 50
President - Sinn Féin
Joe Biden age 56
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 55
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 74
Senate - United States
John Lewis age 58
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Bush age 52
Governor of Texas - United States
Nelson Mandela age 80
President - South Africa
John Paul II age 78
Pope - Vatican City
Alexander Lukashenka age 44
President - Belarus
Václav Havel age 62
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 71
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 74
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 61
Monarch - Spain
Nūrsūltan Nazarbaev age 58
President - Kazakhstan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 58
Monarch - Denmark
Harald V of Norway age 61
Monarch - Norway
Slobodan Milošević age 57
President - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Martti Ahtisaari age 61
President - Finland
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 52
Monarch - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 61
King - Netherlands
Eduard Shevardnadze age 71
President - Georgia
Islam Karimov age 61
President - Uzbekistan
Omar al-Bashir age 55
President - Sudan
Heydar Aliyev age 75
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 76
King - Cambodia
Kim Dae-jung age 75
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 58
Sultan - Oman
Emomali Rahmon age 46
President - Tajikistan
Saparmyrat Nyýazow age 58
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 54
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 60
President - Ukraine
Süleyman Demirel age 74
President - Turkey
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 62
President - Tunisia
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 51
President - Yemen
Alberto Fujimori age 60
President - Peru
José Eduardo dos Santos age 56
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 46
President - Chad
Mswati III age 30
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 65
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 63
King - Jordan
Teodoro Obiang age 56
President - Equatorial Guinea
B. J. Habibie age 62
President - Indonesia
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 55
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 44
President - Poland
Alija Izetbegović age 73
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hassan II age 69
King - Morocco
Carlos Menem age 68
President - Argentina
Robert Kocharyan age 44
President - Armenia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 35
King - Lesotho
Isaias Afwerki age 52
President - Eritrea
Milo Đukanović age 36
President - Montenegro
Mohammed Omar age 39
Supreme Leader - Afghanistan
Yahya Jammeh age 33
President - The Gambia
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 55
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 47
President - Ireland
Blaise Compaoré age 47
President - Burkina Faso
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 80
President - Italy
Valdas Adamkus age 72
President - Lithuania
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 53
President - Sri Lanka
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 59
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
K. R. Narayanan age 78
President - India
Daniel arap Moi age 74
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 75
Prince - Monaco
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 47
Emir - Qatar
Mathieu Kérékou age 65
President - Benin
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 58
President - Afghanistan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 43
King - Bhutan
Joaquim Chissano age 59
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 69
President - Namibia
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 80
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 66
President - Austria
Jerry Rawlings age 51
President - Ghana
João Bernardo Vieira age 59
President - Guinea-Bissau
Askar Akayev age 54
President - Kyrgyzstan
Festus Mogae age 59
President - Botswana
Lennart Meri age 69
President - Estonia
Charles Taylor age 51
President - Liberia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 61
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 63
President - Togo
Joseph Estrada age 61
President - Philippines
Than Shwe age 66
President - Myanmar
Lansana Conté age 64
President - Guinea
René Préval age 56
President - Haiti
Kiro Gligorov age 81
President - North Macedonia
Jorge Sampaio age 59
President - Portugal
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 72
President - Greece
Abdou Diouf age 63
President - Senegal
Milan Kučan age 58
President - Slovenia
Árpád Göncz age 76
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 55
President - Zambia
Ezer Weizman age 74
President - Israel
Émile Lahoud age 63
President - Lebanon
Benjamin Mkapa age 60
President - Tanzania
Rexhep Meidani age 54
President - Albania
Leonel Fernández age 45
President - Dominican Republic
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 78
Monarch - Luxembourg
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 52
President - Mali
Petar Stoyanov age 46
President - Bulgaria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 82
President - Djibouti
Emil Constantinescu age 59
President - Romania
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 69
President - Pakistan
Rafael Caldera age 83
President - Venezuela
Guntis Ulmanis age 59
President - Latvia
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 56
President - Chile
Henri Konan Bédié age 64
President - Ivory Coast
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 72
Emir - Kuwait
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 43
President - Slovakia
Julio María Sanguinetti age 63
President - Uruguay
Didier Ratsiraka age 62
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 80
Monarch - Tonga
Hugo Banzer age 72
President - Bolivia
Ange-Félix Patassé age 62
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 79
President - Cyprus
Janet Jagan age 78
President - Guyana
Bakili Muluzi age 55
President - Malawi
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 56
President - Nigeria
Milan Milutinović age 56
President - Serbia
France-Albert René age 63
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 66
President - Sierra Leone
Ruth Dreifuss age 59
President - Switzerland
Pierre Buyoya age 49
President - Burundi
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 44
President - Colombia
Liamine Zéroual age 57
President - Algeria
Isa II of Bahrain age 65
Monarch - Bahrain
Khamtai Siphandone age 74
President - Laos
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 69
President - Bangladesh
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 54
President - Cape Verde
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 57
President - Mauritania
Petru Lucinschi age 59
President - Moldova
Jules Wijdenbosch age 57
President - Suriname
A. N. R. Robinson age 72
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Kamisese Mara age 78
President - Fiji
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 48
President - Mongolia