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Events

Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
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 53
President - Russia
George W. Bush age 59
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 79
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 79
President - Cuba
Ali Khamenei age 66
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 73
President - France
Bashar al-Assad age 40
President - Syria
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 60
President - Brazil
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 49
President - Iran
Hosni Mubarak age 77
President - Egypt
Akihito age 72
Emperor - Japan
Hu Jintao age 63
President - People's Republic of China
Horst Köhler age 63
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 71
King - Belgium
Jalal Talabani age 72
President - Iraq
Vicente Fox age 63
President - Mexico
Chen Shui-bian age 55
President - Republic of China
Trần Đức Lương age 68
President - Vietnam
Óscar Berger age 59
President - Guatemala
Kim Jong-il age 65
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Kofi Annan age 67
Secretary-General - United Nations
Angela Merkel age 51
Chancellor - Germany
Silvio Berlusconi age 69
Prime Minister - Italy
Tony Blair age 52
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Ariel Sharon age 78
Prime Minister - Israel
Manmohan Singh age 73
Prime Minister - India
Junichiro Koizumi age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
Wen Jiabao age 63
Premier - People's Republic of China
Ehud Olmert age 60
Prime Minister - Israel
Dominique de Villepin age 52
Prime Minister - France
Jacques Rogge age 63
President - International Olympic Committee
Bertie Ahern age 54
Taoiseach - Ireland
Bounnhang Vorachit age 68
Prime Minister - Laos
Paul Wolfowitz age 62
President - World Bank
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 57
Secretary General - NATO
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 46
Prime Minister - Poland
Ahmed Nazif age 53
Prime Minister - Egypt
Su Tseng-chang age 58
Premier - Republic of China
Phan Văn Khải age 72
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 62
Prime Minister - Syria
José Manuel Barroso age 49
President - European Commission
John Roberts age 51
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Dick Cheney age 65
Vice President - United States
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 64
Vice President - Iraq
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 48
Vice President - Iraq
Zeng Qinghong age 66
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Peter Pace age 60
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Gordon Brown age 55
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Condoleezza Rice age 51
Secretary of State - United States
Donald Rumsfeld age 73
Secretary of Defense - United States
Alberto Gonzales age 50
Attorney General - United States
John W. Snow age 66
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles Clarke age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Peter Schoomaker age 60
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Mueller age 61
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
David Cameron age 39
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Thabo Mbeki age 63
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 73
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Ma Ying-jeou age 55
Chairman - Kuomintang
Antonin Scalia age 70
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 67
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 69
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 85
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 66
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Gerry Adams age 57
President - Sinn Féin
Paul Clement age 39
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Matthew Whitaker age 36
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Barack Obama age 44
Senate - United States
Joe Biden age 63
Senate - United States
Hillary Clinton age 58
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 62
Senate - United States
Jeff Sessions age 59
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 81
Senate - United States
Chuck Hagel age 59
Senate - United States
John McCain age 69
Senate - United States
Boris Johnson age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Theresa May age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mike Pence age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Andy Burnham age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 66
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Hammond age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Hunt age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Osborne age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jack Straw age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Howard age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Yvette Cooper age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jacqui Smith age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Grant Shapps age 37
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 46
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 46
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 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ed Miliband age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ian Liddell-Grainger age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 58
Governor of California - United States
Mitt Romney age 59
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Mike Huckabee age 50
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Rick Perry age 56
Governor of Texas - United States
Tim Kaine age 48
Governor of Virginia - United States
George Pataki age 60
Governor of New York - United States
Jon Corzine age 59
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Sonny Perdue age 59
Governor of Georgia - United States
Mitch Daniels age 56
Governor of Indiana - United States
Phil Bredesen age 62
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Bob Ehrlich age 48
Governor of Maryland - United States
Bob Taft age 64
Governor of Ohio - United States
Benedict XVI age 78
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 51
President - Venezuela
Alexander Lukashenko age 51
President - Belarus
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 78
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 82
President - Zimbabwe
Ilham Aliyev age 44
President - Azerbaijan
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 67
President - Liberia
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 68
King - Spain
Evo Morales age 46
President - Bolivia
Mikheil Saakashvili age 38
President - Georgia
Pervez Musharraf age 62
President - Pakistan
Lech Kaczyński age 56
President - Poland
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 65
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 44
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 65
Queen - Denmark
Hamid Karzai age 48
President - Afghanistan
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 81
King - Saudi Arabia
Harald V of Norway age 69
King - Norway
Viktor Yushchenko age 52
President - Ukraine
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 69
President - Algeria
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 42
King - Morocco
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 59
King - Sweden
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 74
President - India
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 68
Queen - Netherlands
Tarja Halonen age 62
President - Finland
Islam Karimov age 68
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 48
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 62
President - Sudan
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 56
President - Indonesia
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 65
Sultan - Oman
Emomali Rahmon age 53
President - Tajikistan
Saparmurat Niyazov age 66
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 61
President - Uganda
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 48
Prince - Monaco
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 58
President - Philippines
Norodom Sihamoni age 52
King - Cambodia
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 69
President - Tunisia
Václav Klaus age 64
President - Czech Republic
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 59
President - Yemen
Heinz Fischer age 67
President - Austria
Roh Moo-hyun age 59
President - South Korea
José Eduardo dos Santos age 63
President - Angola
Néstor Kirchner age 56
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 54
President - Romania
Paul Biya age 73
President - Cameroon
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 57
President - United Arab Emirates
Teodoro Obiang age 63
President - Equatorial Guinea
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 85
President - Italy
Hamad II of Bahrain age 56
King - Bahrain
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 62
President - Republic of the Congo
Pierre Nkurunziza age 41
President - Burundi
Omar Bongo age 70
President - Gabon
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 50
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Boris Tadić age 48
President - Serbia
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 64
President - Turkey
Robert Kocharyan age 51
President - Armenia
Laurent Gbagbo age 60
President - Ivory Coast
Stjepan Mesić age 71
President - Croatia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 42
King - Lesotho
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 60
President - Sri Lanka
Isaias Afwerki age 60
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 51
President - Montenegro
Tabaré Vázquez age 66
President - Uruguay
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 76
Emir - Kuwait
Olusegun Obasanjo age 69
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 55
President - Burkina Faso
Valdas Adamkus age 79
President - Lithuania
Georgi Parvanov age 48
President - Bulgaria
Mwai Kibaki age 74
President - Kenya
John Kufuor age 67
President - Ghana
Janez Drnovšek age 55
President - Slovenia
Ivan Gašparovič age 64
President - Slovakia
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 56
President - Kyrgyzstan
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 54
Emir - Qatar
Mathieu Kérékou age 72
President - Benin