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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
War in Darfur 2003-02-26 - 2020-08-31
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18
2008 financial crisis 2007-08-09 - 2009-06-30

People

Vladimir Putin age 55
President - Russia
George W. Bush age 61
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 81
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 81
President - Cuba
Nicolas Sarkozy age 52
President - France
Ali Khamenei age 68
Supreme Leader - Iran
Bashar al-Assad age 42
President - Syria
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 62
President - Brazil
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 51
President - Iran
Hosni Mubarak age 79
President - Egypt
Akihito age 73
Emperor - Japan
Hu Jintao age 64
President - People's Republic of China
Raúl Castro age 76
President - Cuba
Horst Köhler age 64
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 73
King - Belgium
Jalal Talabani age 74
President - Iraq
Chen Shui-bian age 57
President - Republic of China
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 65
President - Vietnam
Óscar Berger age 61
President - Guatemala
Kim Jong-il age 66
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Felipe Calderón age 45
President - Mexico
Ban Ki-moon age 63
Secretary-General - United Nations
Angela Merkel age 53
Chancellor - Germany
Gordon Brown age 56
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Manmohan Singh age 75
Prime Minister - India
Donald Tusk age 50
Prime Minister - Poland
Romano Prodi age 68
Prime Minister - Italy
Wen Jiabao age 65
Premier - People's Republic of China
Ehud Olmert age 62
Prime Minister - Israel
François Fillon age 53
Prime Minister - France
Yasuo Fukuda age 71
Prime Minister - Japan
Jacques Rogge age 65
President - International Olympic Committee
Bertie Ahern age 56
Taoiseach - Ireland
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 58
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 59
Secretary General - NATO
Margaret Chan age 60
Director-General - World Health Organization
Ahmed Nazif age 55
Prime Minister - Egypt
Robert Zoellick age 54
President - World Bank
Kim Yong-il age 63
Premier - North Korea
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 53
Prime Minister - Laos
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 63
Prime Minister - Syria
Chang Chun-hsiung age 69
Premier - Republic of China
José Manuel Barroso age 51
President - European Commission
John Roberts age 52
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Dick Cheney age 66
Vice President - United States
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 65
Vice President - Iraq
Zeng Qinghong age 68
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Michael Mullen age 61
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Condoleezza Rice age 53
Secretary Of State - United States
Robert Gates age 64
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Henry Paulson age 61
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Jacqui Smith age 45
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 54
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Michael Mukasey age 66
Attorney General - United States
Robert Mueller age 63
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Xi Jinping age 54
Secretariat - Communist Party of China
David Cameron age 41
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Thabo Mbeki age 65
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 74
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 71
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 59
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 69
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 71
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 87
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 68
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Wu Po-hsiung age 68
Chairman - Kuomintang
Gerry Adams age 59
President - Sinn Féin
Barack Obama age 46
Senate - United States
Joe Biden age 65
Senate - United States
Hillary Clinton age 60
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 64
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 83
Senate - United States
Mike Pence age 48
House of Representatives - United States
John Lewis age 67
House of Representatives - United States
Benedict XVI age 80
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 53
President - Venezuela
Rafael Correa age 44
President - Ecuador
Alexander Lukashenko age 53
President - Belarus
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 80
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 83
President - Zimbabwe
Ilham Aliyev age 45
President - Azerbaijan
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 69
President - Liberia
Shimon Peres age 84
President - Israel
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 69
King - Spain
Evo Morales age 48
President - Bolivia
Michelle Bachelet age 56
President - Chile
Pervez Musharraf age 64
President - Pakistan
Abdullah Gül age 57
President - Turkey
Lech Kaczyński age 58
President - Poland
Giorgio Napolitano age 82
President - Italy
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 67
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 45
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 67
Queen - Denmark
Hamid Karzai age 49
President - Afghanistan
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 83
King - Saudi Arabia
Harald V of Norway age 70
King - Norway
Viktor Yushchenko age 53
President - Ukraine
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 70
President - Algeria
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 44
King - Morocco
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 61
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 69
Queen - Netherlands
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 27
King - Bhutan
Tarja Halonen age 63
President - Finland
Daniel Ortega age 62
President - Nicaragua
Islam Karimov age 69
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 50
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 63
President - Sudan
Pratibha Patil age 72
President - India
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 58
President - Indonesia
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 67
Sultan - Oman
Emomali Rahmon age 55
President - Tajikistan
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 50
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 63
President - Uganda
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 49
Prince - Monaco
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 60
President - Philippines
Norodom Sihamoni age 54
King - Cambodia
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 71
President - Tunisia
Václav Klaus age 66
President - Czech Republic
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 60
President - Yemen
Heinz Fischer age 69
President - Austria
Roh Moo-hyun age 61
President - South Korea
José Eduardo dos Santos age 65
President - Angola
Néstor Kirchner age 57
President - Argentina
Idriss Déby age 55
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 36
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 39
King - Eswatini
Traian Băsescu age 56
President - Romania
Paul Biya age 74
President - Cameroon
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 59
President - United Arab Emirates
Teodoro Obiang age 65
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hamad II of Bahrain age 57
King - Bahrain
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 64
President - Republic of the Congo
Pierre Nkurunziza age 42
President - Burundi
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 66
President - Costa Rica
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 52
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Boris Tadić age 49
President - Serbia
José Ramos-Horta age 57
President - Timor-Leste
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 53
President - Estonia
Alan García age 58
President - Peru
Robert Kocharyan age 53
President - Armenia
Laurent Gbagbo age 62
President - Ivory Coast
Stjepan Mesić age 72
President - Croatia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 44
King - Lesotho
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 68
President - Portugal
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 62
President - Sri Lanka
Isaias Afwerki age 61
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 53
President - Montenegro
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 56
President - Nigeria
Tabaré Vázquez age 67
President - Uruguay
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 78
Emir - Kuwait
Yahya Jammeh age 42
President - The Gambia
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 64
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 56
President - Ireland
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 41
President - Togo
Karolos Papoulias age 78
President - Greece
Blaise Compaoré age 56
President - Burkina Faso
Valdas Adamkus age 81
President - Lithuania
Thomas Boni Yayi age 55
President - Benin
Georgi Parvanov age 50
President - Bulgaria
Mwai Kibaki age 76
President - Kenya
John Kufuor age 69
President - Ghana
Janez Drnovšek age 57
President - Slovenia
Ivan Gašparovič age 66
President - Slovakia
Bamir Topi age 50
President - Albania
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 58
President - Kyrgyzstan
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 55
Emir - Qatar
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 60
President - Djibouti
Amadou Toumani Touré age 59
President - Mali
László Sólyom age 65
President - Hungary
Valdis Zatlers age 52
President - Latvia
Bingu wa Mutharika age 73
President - Malawi
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 55
President - Colombia
Abdoulaye Wade age 81
President - Senegal
Manuel Zelaya age 55
President - Honduras
Tassos Papadopoulos age 73
President - Cyprus
João Bernardo Vieira age 68
President - Guinea-Bissau
Festus Mogae age 68
President - Botswana
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 69
President - Maldives
Branko Crvenkovski age 45
President - North Macedonia
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 57
President - Tanzania
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 62
President - Switzerland
François Bozizé age 61
President - Central African Republic
Than Shwe age 74
President - Myanmar
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 82
President - Ethiopia
Lansana Conté age 73
President - Guinea
René Préval age 64
President - Haiti
Vladimir Voronin age 66
President - Moldova
George Tupou V of Tonga age 59
King - Tonga
Choummaly Sayasone age 71
President - Laos
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 72
President - Namibia
Girija Prasad Koirala age 83
President - Nepal
Ernest Bai Koroma age 54
President - Sierra Leone
Levy Mwanawasa age 59
President - Zambia
Nino Burjanadze age 43
President - Georgia
Željko Komšić age 43
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Iajuddin Ahmed age 76
President - Bangladesh
Marc Ravalomanana age 58
President - Madagascar
Haris Silajdžić age 62
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Leonel Fernández age 53
President - Dominican Republic
Mamadou Tandja age 69
President - Niger