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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
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18
Second Chechen War 1999-08-26 - 2009-04-16
Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08

People

Vladimir Putin age 48
President - Russia
George W. Bush age 55
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 75
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 75
President - Cuba
Saddam Hussein age 64
President - Iraq
Ali Khamenei age 62
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 68
President - France
Bashar al-Assad age 35
President - Syria
Hosni Mubarak age 73
President - Egypt
Akihito age 67
Emperor - Japan
Mohammad Khatami age 57
President - Iran
Jiang Zemin age 75
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Albert II of Belgium age 67
King - Belgium
Johannes Rau age 70
President - Germany
Vicente Fox age 59
President - Mexico
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 70
President - Brazil
Chen Shui-bian age 50
President - Republic of China
Trần Đức Lương age 64
President - Vietnam
Alfonso Portillo age 49
President - Guatemala
Kim Jong-il age 60
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Kofi Annan age 63
Secretary-General - United Nations
Silvio Berlusconi age 64
Prime Minister - Italy
Tony Blair age 48
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Gerhard Schröder age 57
Chancellor - Germany
Ariel Sharon age 73
Prime Minister - Israel
Romano Prodi age 62
President - European Commission
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 62
Director-General - World Health Organization
Junichiro Koizumi age 59
Prime Minister - Japan
Lionel Jospin age 64
Prime Minister - France
Jacques Rogge age 59
President - International Olympic Committee
Zhu Rongji age 72
Premier - People's Republic of China
Jerzy Buzek age 61
Prime Minister - Poland
Bertie Ahern age 49
Taoiseach - Ireland
Bounnhang Vorachit age 64
Prime Minister - Laos
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 55
Secretary General - NATO
Phan Văn Khải age 67
Prime Minister - Vietnam
James Wolfensohn age 67
President - World Bank
Atef Ebeid age 69
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hong Song-nam age 71
Premier - North Korea
Chang Chun-hsiung age 63
Premier - Republic of China
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 60
Prime Minister - Syria
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 76
Prime Minister - India
William Rehnquist age 76
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hu Jintao age 58
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Dick Cheney age 60
Vice President - United States
Wen Jiabao age 58
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Hugh Shelton age 59
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Gordon Brown age 50
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Donald Rumsfeld age 69
Secretary of Defense - United States
Colin Powell age 64
Secretary of State - United States
John Ashcroft age 59
Attorney General - United States
David Blunkett age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Eric Shinseki age 58
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Thabo Mbeki age 59
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 68
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 65
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 53
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 63
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 65
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 81
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 61
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lien Chan age 65
Chairman - Kuomintang
Sandra Day O'Connor age 71
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Hague age 40
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Gerry Adams age 52
President - Sinn Féin
Joe Biden age 58
Senate - United States
Hillary Clinton age 53
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 57
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 76
Senate - United States
Mike Pence age 42
House of Representatives - United States
John Lewis age 61
House of Representatives - United States
John Paul II age 81
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 47
President - Venezuela
Alexander Lukashenko age 47
President - Belarus
Václav Havel age 64
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 73
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 77
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 63
King - Spain
Pervez Musharraf age 58
President - Pakistan
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 61
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 39
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 61
Queen - Denmark
Harald V of Norway age 64
King - Norway
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 64
President - Algeria
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 38
King - Morocco
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 55
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 63
Queen - Netherlands
Eduard Shevardnadze age 73
President - Georgia
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 54
President - Indonesia
Tarja Halonen age 57
President - Finland
Islam Karimov age 63
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 43
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 57
President - Sudan
Heydar Aliyev age 78
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 78
King - Cambodia
Kim Dae-jung age 77
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 60
Sultan - Oman
Emomali Rahmon age 48
President - Tajikistan
Saparmurat Niyazov age 61
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 56
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 63
President - Ukraine
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 54
President - Philippines
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 65
President - Tunisia
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 54
President - Yemen
José Eduardo dos Santos age 59
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 49
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 30
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 33
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 68
President - Cameroon
Teodoro Obiang age 59
President - Equatorial Guinea
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 80
President - Italy
Hamad II of Bahrain age 51
Emir - Bahrain
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 57
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 46
President - Poland
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 46
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 59
President - Turkey
Robert Kocharyan age 46
President - Armenia
Laurent Gbagbo age 56
President - Ivory Coast
Stjepan Mesić age 66
President - Croatia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 38
King - Lesotho
Isaias Afwerki age 55
President - Eritrea
Milo Đukanović age 39
President - Montenegro
Ion Iliescu age 71
President - Romania
Olusegun Obasanjo age 64
President - Nigeria
Yahya Jammeh age 36
President - The Gambia
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 58
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 50
President - Ireland
Blaise Compaoré age 50
President - Burkina Faso
Valdas Adamkus age 74
President - Lithuania
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 56
President - Sri Lanka
John Kufuor age 62
President - Ghana
K. R. Narayanan age 80
President - India
Daniel arap Moi age 77
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 78
Prince - Monaco
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 49
Emir - Qatar
Mathieu Kérékou age 68
President - Benin
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 53
President - Djibouti
Moshe Katsav age 55
President - Israel
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 60
President - Afghanistan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 45
King - Bhutan
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 63
President - Latvia
Joaquim Chissano age 61
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 72
President - Namibia
Abdoulaye Wade age 75
President - Senegal
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 83
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 68
President - Austria
Askar Akayev age 56
President - Kyrgyzstan
Festus Mogae age 62
President - Botswana
Lennart Meri age 72
President - Estonia
Charles Taylor age 53
President - Liberia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 63
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 65
President - Togo
Than Shwe age 68
President - Myanmar
Lansana Conté age 66
President - Guinea
Vladimir Voronin age 60
President - Moldova
Jorge Sampaio age 61
President - Portugal
Ricardo Lagos age 63
President - Chile
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 75
President - Greece
Milan Kučan age 60
President - Slovenia
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 48
President - Haiti
Ferenc Mádl age 70
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 58
President - Zambia
Alejandro Toledo age 56
President - Peru
Émile Lahoud age 65
President - Lebanon
Benjamin Mkapa age 62
President - Tanzania
Rexhep Meidani age 57
President - Albania
Mamadou Tandja age 63
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 77
President - Singapore
Azali Assoumani age 42
President - Comoros
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 55
President - Mali
Boris Trajkovski age 45
President - North Macedonia
Petar Stoyanov age 49
President - Bulgaria
Pedro Pires age 67
President - Cape Verde
Ronald Venetiaan age 65
President - Suriname
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 45
President - Palau
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 75
Emir - Kuwait
Rudolf Schuster age 67
President - Slovakia
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 73
President - Uruguay
Mireya Moscoso age 55
President - Panama
Bharrat Jagdeo age 37
President - Guyana
Didier Ratsiraka age 64
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 83
King - Tonga
Ange-Félix Patassé age 64
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 82
President - Cyprus
Josefa Iloilo age 80
President - Fiji
Bakili Muluzi age 58
President - Malawi
Milan Milutinović age 58
President - Serbia
France-Albert René age 65
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 69
President - Sierra Leone
Pierre Buyoya age 51
President - Burundi
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 47
President - Colombia
Guido de Marco age 70
President - Malta
Moritz Leuenberger age 54
President - Switzerland
Kumba Ialá age 48
President - Guinea-Bissau
Khamtai Siphandone age 77
President - Laos
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 71
President - Bangladesh
Gustavo Noboa age 64
President - Ecuador
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 59
President - Mauritania
A. N. R. Robinson age 74
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 51
President - Mongolia