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Events

Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
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
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
First Ivorian Civil War 2002-09-19 - 2007-03-04
2002–2004 SARS outbreak 2002-11 - 2004-05

People

Vladimir Putin age 50
President - Russia
George W. Bush age 56
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 76
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 76
President - Cuba
Saddam Hussein age 65
President - Iraq
Ali Khamenei age 63
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 70
President - France
Bashar al-Assad age 37
President - Syria
Hosni Mubarak age 74
President - Egypt
Akihito age 69
Emperor - Japan
Hu Jintao age 60
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Mohammad Khatami age 59
President - Iran
Jiang Zemin age 76
President - People's Republic of China
Albert II of Belgium age 68
King - Belgium
Johannes Rau age 71
President - Germany
Vicente Fox age 60
President - Mexico
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 71
President - Brazil
Chen Shui-bian age 52
President - Republic of China
Trần Đức Lương age 65
President - Vietnam
Alfonso Portillo age 51
President - Guatemala
Kim Jong-il age 61
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Kofi Annan age 64
Secretary-General - United Nations
Silvio Berlusconi age 66
Prime Minister - Italy
Tony Blair age 49
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Gerhard Schröder age 58
Chancellor - Germany
Ariel Sharon age 74
Prime Minister - Israel
Romano Prodi age 63
President - European Commission
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 63
Director-General - World Health Organization
Junichiro Koizumi age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Jacques Rogge age 60
President - International Olympic Committee
Zhu Rongji age 74
Premier - People's Republic of China
Bertie Ahern age 51
Taoiseach - Ireland
Bounnhang Vorachit age 65
Prime Minister - Laos
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 54
Prime Minister - France
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 56
Secretary General - NATO
Leszek Miller age 56
Prime Minister - Poland
Phan Văn Khải age 69
Prime Minister - Vietnam
James Wolfensohn age 69
President - World Bank
Atef Ebeid age 70
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hong Song-nam age 73
Premier - North Korea
Yu Shyi-kun age 54
Premier - Republic of China
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 62
Prime Minister - Syria
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 78
Prime Minister - India
William Rehnquist age 78
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Dick Cheney age 61
Vice President - United States
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 60
Vice President - Iraq
Wen Jiabao age 60
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Richard Myers age 60
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Gordon Brown age 51
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Donald Rumsfeld age 70
Secretary of Defense - United States
Colin Powell age 65
Secretary of State - United States
John Ashcroft age 60
Attorney General - United States
David Blunkett age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Eric Shinseki age 60
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Mueller age 58
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Thabo Mbeki age 60
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 69
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 66
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 64
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 66
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 82
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 63
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lien Chan age 66
Chairman - Kuomintang
Zeng Qinghong age 63
Secretariat - Communist Party of China
Sandra Day O'Connor age 72
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Iain Duncan Smith age 48
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Gerry Adams age 54
President - Sinn Féin
James Comey age 42
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Joe Biden age 60
Senate - United States
Hillary Clinton age 55
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 59
Senate - United States
Jeff Sessions age 56
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 78
Senate - United States
Chuck Hagel age 56
Senate - United States
John McCain age 66
Senate - United States
David Cameron age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Boris Johnson age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Theresa May age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mike Pence age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Andy Burnham age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Hammond age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Osborne age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jack Straw age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Howard age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Yvette Cooper age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jacqui Smith age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Healey age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alan Johnson age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Frank Underwood age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Clarke age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Hague age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ian Liddell-Grainger age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Barber Conable age 80
New York State Senate - United States
John Paul II age 82
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 48
President - Venezuela
Alexander Lukashenko age 48
President - Belarus
Václav Havel age 66
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 75
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 78
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 65
King - Spain
Pervez Musharraf age 59
President - Pakistan
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 62
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 40
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 62
Queen - Denmark
Harald V of Norway age 65
King - Norway
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 65
President - Algeria
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 39
King - Morocco
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 56
King - Sweden
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 71
President - India
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 64
Queen - Netherlands
Eduard Shevardnadze age 74
President - Georgia
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 55
President - Indonesia
Tarja Halonen age 59
President - Finland
Islam Karimov age 64
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 45
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 59
President - Sudan
Heydar Aliyev age 79
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 80
King - Cambodia
Kim Dae-jung age 79
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 62
Sultan - Oman
Emomali Rahmon age 50
President - Tajikistan
Saparmurat Niyazov age 62
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 58
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 64
President - Ukraine
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 55
President - Philippines
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 66
President - Tunisia
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 55
President - Yemen
José Eduardo dos Santos age 60
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 50
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 31
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 34
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 69
President - Cameroon
Teodoro Obiang age 60
President - Equatorial Guinea
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 82
President - Italy
Hamad II of Bahrain age 52
King - Bahrain
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 59
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 48
President - Poland
Omar Bongo age 67
President - Gabon
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 47
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 61
President - Turkey
Robert Kocharyan age 48
President - Armenia
Laurent Gbagbo age 57
President - Ivory Coast
Stjepan Mesić age 68
President - Croatia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 39
King - Lesotho
Isaias Afwerki age 56
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 48
President - Montenegro
Ion Iliescu age 72
President - Romania
Olusegun Obasanjo age 65
President - Nigeria
Yahya Jammeh age 37
President - The Gambia
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 59
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 51
President - Ireland
Blaise Compaoré age 51
President - Burkina Faso
Valdas Adamkus age 76
President - Lithuania
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 57
President - Sri Lanka
Georgi Parvanov age 45
President - Bulgaria
John Kufuor age 64
President - Ghana
Janez Drnovšek age 52
President - Slovenia
Daniel arap Moi age 78
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 79
Prince - Monaco
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 51
Emir - Qatar
Mathieu Kérékou age 69
President - Benin
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 55
President - Djibouti
Arnold Rüütel age 74
President - Estonia
Moshe Katsav age 57
President - Israel
Ibrahim Rugova age 58
President - Kosovo
Amadou Toumani Touré age 54
President - Mali
Xanana Gusmão age 56
President - Timor-Leste
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 47
King - Bhutan
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 50
President - Colombia
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 65
President - Latvia
Joaquim Chissano age 63
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 73
President - Namibia
Abdoulaye Wade age 76
President - Senegal
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 84
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 70
President - Austria
Askar Akayev age 58
President - Kyrgyzstan
Festus Mogae age 63
President - Botswana
Charles Taylor age 54
President - Liberia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 65
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 67
President - Togo
Alfred Moisiu age 73
President - Albania
Than Shwe age 69
President - Myanmar
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 78
President - Ethiopia
Lansana Conté age 68
President - Guinea
Vladimir Voronin age 61
President - Moldova
Jorge Sampaio age 63
President - Portugal
Eduardo Duhalde age 61
President - Argentina
Ricardo Lagos age 64
President - Chile
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 76
President - Greece
Levy Mwanawasa age 54
President - Zambia
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 49
President - Haiti
Ferenc Mádl age 71
President - Hungary