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Events

North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Second Chechen War 1999-08-26 - 2009-04-16
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
First Ivorian Civil War 2002-09-19 - 2007-03-04
War in Darfur 2003-02-26 - 2020-08-31
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18

People

Vladimir Putin age 52
President - Russia
George W. Bush age 59
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 79
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 78
President - Cuba
Ali Khamenei age 66
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 72
President - France
Bashar al-Assad age 39
President - Syria
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 59
President - Brazil
Hosni Mubarak age 77
President - Egypt
Akihito age 71
Emperor - Japan
Hu Jintao age 62
President - People's Republic of China
Mohammad Khatami age 61
President - Iran
Horst Köhler age 62
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 71
King - Belgium
Jalal Talabani age 71
President - Iraq
Vicente Fox age 63
President - Mexico
Chen Shui-bian age 54
President - Republic of China
Trần Đức Lương age 68
President - Vietnam
Óscar Berger age 58
President - Guatemala
Kim Jong-il age 64
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Kofi Annan age 67
Secretary-General - United Nations
Silvio Berlusconi age 68
Prime Minister - Italy
Tony Blair age 52
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Gerhard Schröder age 61
Chancellor - Germany
Ariel Sharon age 77
Prime Minister - Israel
Manmohan Singh age 72
Prime Minister - India
Junichiro Koizumi age 63
Prime Minister - Japan
Wen Jiabao age 62
Premier - People's Republic of China
Dominique de Villepin age 51
Prime Minister - France
Jacques Rogge age 63
President - International Olympic Committee
Bertie Ahern age 53
Taoiseach - Ireland
Bounnhang Vorachit age 67
Prime Minister - Laos
Paul Wolfowitz age 61
President - World Bank
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 57
Secretary General - NATO
Marek Belka age 53
Prime Minister - Poland
Ahmed Nazif age 52
Prime Minister - Egypt
Phan Văn Khải age 71
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Pak Pong-ju age 66
Premier - North Korea
Lee Jong-wook age 60
Director-General - World Health Organization
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 61
Prime Minister - Syria
Frank Hsieh age 59
Premier - Republic of China
José Manuel Barroso age 49
President - European Commission
William Rehnquist age 80
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Dick Cheney age 64
Vice President - United States
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 63
Vice President - Iraq
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 47
Vice President - Iraq
Zeng Qinghong age 65
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Richard Myers age 63
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Gordon Brown age 54
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Condoleezza Rice age 50
Secretary of State - United States
Donald Rumsfeld age 73
Secretary of Defense - United States
Alberto Gonzales age 49
Attorney General - United States
John W. Snow age 65
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles Clarke age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Peter Schoomaker age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Mueller age 60
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Thabo Mbeki age 63
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 72
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 69
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Comey age 44
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Clarence Thomas age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 66
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 68
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Michael Howard age 64
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
John Paul Stevens age 85
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 65
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lien Chan age 68
Chairman - Kuomintang
Sandra Day O'Connor age 75
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Gerry Adams age 56
President - Sinn Féin
Paul Clement age 39
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Matthew Whitaker age 35
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Barack Obama age 43
Senate - United States
Joe Biden age 62
Senate - United States
Hillary Clinton age 57
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 61
Senate - United States
Jeff Sessions age 58
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 80
Senate - United States
Chuck Hagel age 58
Senate - United States
John McCain age 68
Senate - United States
David Cameron age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Boris Johnson age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Theresa May age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mike Pence age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Andy Burnham age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Hammond age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Hunt age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Osborne age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jack Straw age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Yvette Cooper age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jacqui Smith age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Grant Shapps age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Blunkett age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Healey age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alan Johnson age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Frank Underwood age 45
House of Representatives - United States
William Hague age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Duncan Smith age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ed Miliband age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ian Liddell-Grainger age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Benedict XVI age 78
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 50
President - Venezuela
Alexander Lukashenko age 50
President - Belarus
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 77
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 81
President - Zimbabwe
Ilham Aliyev age 43
President - Azerbaijan
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 67
King - Spain
Mikheil Saakashvili age 37
President - Georgia
Pervez Musharraf age 61
President - Pakistan
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 65
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 43
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 65
Queen - Denmark
Hamid Karzai age 47
President - Afghanistan
Harald V of Norway age 68
King - Norway
Viktor Yushchenko age 51
President - Ukraine
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 68
President - Algeria
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 41
King - Morocco
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 59
King - Sweden
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 73
President - India
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 67
Queen - Netherlands
Tarja Halonen age 61
President - Finland
Islam Karimov age 67
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 47
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 61
President - Sudan
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 55
President - Indonesia
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 64
Sultan - Oman
Emomali Rahmon age 52
President - Tajikistan
Saparmurat Niyazov age 65
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 60
President - Uganda
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 47
Prince - Monaco
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 58
President - Philippines
Norodom Sihamoni age 52
King - Cambodia
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 68
President - Tunisia
Václav Klaus age 64
President - Czech Republic
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 58
President - Yemen
Heinz Fischer age 66
President - Austria
Roh Moo-hyun age 58
President - South Korea
José Eduardo dos Santos age 62
President - Angola
Néstor Kirchner age 55
President - Argentina
Idriss Déby age 53
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 34
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 37
King - Eswatini
Traian Băsescu age 53
President - Romania
Paul Biya age 72
President - Cameroon
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 56
President - United Arab Emirates
Teodoro Obiang age 63
President - Equatorial Guinea
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 84
President - Italy
Hamad II of Bahrain age 55
King - Bahrain
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 61
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 50
President - Poland
Omar Bongo age 69
President - Gabon
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 50
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Boris Tadić age 47
President - Serbia
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 63
President - Turkey
Robert Kocharyan age 50
President - Armenia
Laurent Gbagbo age 60
President - Ivory Coast
Stjepan Mesić age 70
President - Croatia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 41
King - Lesotho
Isaias Afwerki age 59
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 50
President - Montenegro
Tabaré Vázquez age 65
President - Uruguay
Olusegun Obasanjo age 68
President - Nigeria
Yahya Jammeh age 40
President - The Gambia
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 62
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 54
President - Ireland
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 39
President - Togo
Karolos Papoulias age 76
President - Greece
Blaise Compaoré age 54
President - Burkina Faso
Valdas Adamkus age 78
President - Lithuania
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 60
President - Sri Lanka
Georgi Parvanov age 48
President - Bulgaria
Mwai Kibaki age 73
President - Kenya
John Kufuor age 66
President - Ghana
Janez Drnovšek age 55
President - Slovenia
Ivan Gašparovič age 64
President - Slovakia
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 55
President - Kyrgyzstan
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 53
Emir - Qatar
Mathieu Kérékou age 71
President - Benin
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 57
President - Djibouti
Arnold Rüütel age 77
President - Estonia
Moshe Katsav age 59
President - Israel
Ibrahim Rugova age 60
President - Kosovo
Amadou Toumani Touré age 56
President - Mali
Xanana Gusmão age 59
President - Timor-Leste
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 49
King - Bhutan
Bingu wa Mutharika age 71
President - Malawi
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 53
President - Colombia
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 67
President - Latvia
Abdoulaye Wade age 79
President - Senegal
Tassos Papadopoulos age 71
President - Cyprus
Festus Mogae age 65
President - Botswana
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 67
President - Maldives
Branko Crvenkovski age 42
President - North Macedonia
Alfred Moisiu age 75
President - Albania