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Events

Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18
Second Chechen War 1999-08-26 - 2009-04-16

People

Elizabeth II age 73
Queen - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 53
President - United States
Fidel Castro age 73
President - Cuba
Saddam Hussein age 62
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 68
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 60
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 66
President - France
Hosni Mubarak age 71
President - Egypt
Akihito age 65
Emperor - Japan
Mohammad Khatami age 55
President - Iran
Jiang Zemin age 73
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Hafez al-Assad age 68
President - Syria
Albert II of Belgium age 65
King - Belgium
Johannes Rau age 68
President - Germany
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 68
President - Brazil
Lee Teng-hui age 76
President - Republic of China
Trần Đức Lương age 62
President - Vietnam
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 53
President - Guatemala
Kim Jong-il age 58
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Ernesto Zedillo age 47
President - Mexico
Kofi Annan age 61
Secretary-General - United Nations
Tony Blair age 46
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Gerhard Schröder age 55
Chancellor - Germany
Romano Prodi age 60
President - European Commission
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 60
Director-General - World Health Organization
Ehud Barak age 57
Prime Minister - Israel
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 79
President - International Olympic Committee
Lionel Jospin age 62
Prime Minister - France
Massimo D'Alema age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Zhu Rongji age 70
Premier - People's Republic of China
Jerzy Buzek age 59
Prime Minister - Poland
Bertie Ahern age 48
Taoiseach - Ireland
Javier Solana age 57
Secretary General - NATO
Keizō Obuchi age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
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 70
Premier - North Korea
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 71
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 75
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Al Gore age 51
Vice President - United States
Hu Jintao age 56
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Lien Chan age 63
Vice President - Republic of China
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 57
Vice President - Iraq
Wen Jiabao age 57
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 48
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Madeleine Albright age 62
Secretary of State - United States
Janet Reno age 61
Attorney General - United States
Jack Straw age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Larry Summers age 44
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Cohen age 59
Secretary of Defense - United States
Eric Shinseki age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Louis Freeh age 49
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Thabo Mbeki age 57
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 66
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 63
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 51
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 61
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 63
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Eric Holder age 48
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
John Paul Stevens age 79
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 60
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling age 60
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Sandra Day O'Connor age 69
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Hague age 38
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
Jeff Sessions age 52
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 75
Senate - United States
Chuck Hagel age 52
Senate - United States
John Ashcroft age 57
Senate - United States
John McCain age 63
Senate - United States
Theresa May age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Major age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 83
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Hammond age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Howard age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Yvette Cooper age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jacqui Smith age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Blunkett age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Healey age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alan Johnson age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Frank Underwood age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Clarke age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Duncan Smith age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George W. Bush age 53
Governor of Texas - United States
Mike Huckabee age 44
Governor of Arkansas - United States
George Pataki age 54
Governor of New York - United States
Gray Davis age 56
Governor of California - United States
Jim Gilmore age 49
Governor of Virginia - United States
Christine Todd Whitman age 53
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Paul Cellucci age 51
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Bob Taft age 57
Governor of Ohio - United States
Don Sundquist age 63
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Roy Barnes age 51
Governor of Georgia - United States
Parris Glendening age 57
Governor of Maryland - United States
Frank O'Bannon age 69
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 76
New York State Senate - United States
John Paul II age 79
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 45
President - Venezuela
Alexander Lukashenko age 45
President - Belarus
Václav Havel age 62
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 71
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 75
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 61
King - Spain
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 59
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 37
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 59
Queen - Denmark
Harald V of Norway age 62
King - Norway
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 62
President - Algeria
Slobodan Milošević age 58
President - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 36
King - Morocco
Martti Ahtisaari age 62
President - Finland
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 53
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 61
Queen - Netherlands
Eduard Shevardnadze age 71
President - Georgia
Islam Karimov age 61
President - Uzbekistan
Omar al-Bashir age 55
President - Sudan
Heydar Aliyev age 76
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
Saparmurat Niyazov age 59
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 55
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 61
President - Ukraine
Süleyman Demirel age 74
President - Turkey
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 63
President - Tunisia
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 52
President - Yemen
Alberto Fujimori age 61
President - Peru
José Eduardo dos Santos age 57
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 47
President - Chad
Mswati III age 31
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 66
President - Cameroon
Teodoro Obiang age 57
President - Equatorial Guinea
B. J. Habibie age 63
President - Indonesia
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 78
President - Italy
Hamad II of Bahrain age 49
Emir - Bahrain
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 55
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 44
President - Poland
Omar Bongo age 63
President - Gabon
Alija Izetbegović age 74
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Carlos Menem age 69
President - Argentina
Robert Kocharyan age 45
President - Armenia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 36
King - Lesotho
Isaias Afwerki age 53
President - Eritrea
Milo Đukanović age 37
President - Montenegro
Mohammed Omar age 39
Supreme Leader - Afghanistan
Olusegun Obasanjo age 62
President - Nigeria
Yahya Jammeh age 34
President - The Gambia
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 56
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 48
President - Ireland
Blaise Compaoré age 48
President - Burkina Faso
Valdas Adamkus age 72
President - Lithuania
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 54
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 75
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 76
Prince - Monaco
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 47
Emir - Qatar
Mathieu Kérékou age 66
President - Benin
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 51
President - Djibouti
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 59
President - Afghanistan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 43
King - Bhutan
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 61
President - Latvia
Joaquim Chissano age 59
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 70
President - Namibia
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 81
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 66
President - Austria
Jerry Rawlings age 52
President - Ghana
Askar Akayev age 54
President - Kyrgyzstan
Festus Mogae age 60
President - Botswana
Lennart Meri age 70
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 62
President - Philippines
Than Shwe age 66
President - Myanmar
Lansana Conté age 64
President - Guinea
René Préval age 56
President - Haiti
Kiro Gligorov age 82
President - North Macedonia
Jorge Sampaio age 60
President - Portugal
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 73
President - Greece
Abdou Diouf age 64
President - Senegal
Milan Kučan age 58
President - Slovenia
Árpád Göncz age 77
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 56
President - Zambia
Ezer Weizman age 75
President - Israel