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Events

North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
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
Tunisian revolution 2010-12-17 - 2011-01-14
Arab Spring 2010-12-17 - 2012-12
2011 South Sudanese independence referendum 2011-01-09 - 2011-01-15

People

Barack Obama age 49
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 84
Queen - United Kingdom
Nicolas Sarkozy age 55
President - France
Dmitry Medvedev age 45
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 71
Supreme Leader - Iran
Bashar al-Assad age 45
President - Syria
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 54
President - Iran
Hosni Mubarak age 82
President - Egypt
Dilma Rousseff age 63
President - Brazil
Akihito age 77
Emperor - Japan
Hu Jintao age 68
President - People's Republic of China
Raúl Castro age 79
President - Cuba
Christian Wulff age 51
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 76
King - Belgium
Jalal Talabani age 77
President - Iraq
Ma Ying-jeou age 60
President - Republic of China
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 68
President - Vietnam
Álvaro Colom age 59
President - Guatemala
Kim Jong-il age 69
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Felipe Calderón age 48
President - Mexico
Ban Ki-moon age 66
Secretary-General - United Nations
Angela Merkel age 56
Chancellor - Germany
Benjamin Netanyahu age 61
Prime Minister - Israel
Silvio Berlusconi age 74
Prime Minister - Italy
David Cameron age 44
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Manmohan Singh age 78
Prime Minister - India
Donald Tusk age 53
Prime Minister - Poland
Naoto Kan age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 58
Secretary General - NATO
Wen Jiabao age 68
Premier - People's Republic of China
François Fillon age 56
Prime Minister - France
Jacques Rogge age 68
President - International Olympic Committee
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 61
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Brian Cowen age 51
Taoiseach - Ireland
Margaret Chan age 63
Director-General - World Health Organization
Ahmed Nazif age 58
Prime Minister - Egypt
Robert Zoellick age 57
President - World Bank
Thongsing Thammavong age 66
Prime Minister - Laos
Choe Yong-rim age 80
Premier - North Korea
Wu Den-yih age 62
Premier - Republic of China
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 67
Prime Minister - Syria
José Manuel Barroso age 54
President - European Commission
John Roberts age 55
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 68
Vice President - United States
Xi Jinping age 57
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 69
Vice President - Iraq
Li Keqiang age 55
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Wang Qishan age 62
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Michael Mullen age 64
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Hillary Clinton age 63
Secretary of State - United States
Theresa May age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Gates age 67
Secretary of Defense - United States
George Osborne age 39
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Eric Holder age 60
Attorney General - United States
Timothy Geithner age 49
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George W. Casey Jr. age 62
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Mueller age 66
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Jacob Zuma age 68
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 77
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 74
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 62
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 72
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 74
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde age 50
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James M. Cole age 58
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Ed Miliband age 41
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Gerry Adams age 62
President - Sinn Féin
Neal Katyal age 40
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
John Kerry age 67
Senate - United States
Marco Rubio age 39
Senate - United States
Jeff Sessions age 64
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 86
Senate - United States
John McCain age 74
Senate - United States
Gordon Brown age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Liz Truss age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mike Pence age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Andy Burnham age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mike Pompeo age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Priti Patel age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 70
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Hammond age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Hunt age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sajid Javid age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Amber Rudd age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jack Straw age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kwasi Kwarteng age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Yvette Cooper age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Rachel Reeves age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Shabana Mahmood age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nadhim Zahawi age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Grant Shapps age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Blunkett age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Healey age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alan Johnson age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Frank Underwood age 51
House of Representatives - United States
William Hague age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Duncan Smith age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ian Liddell-Grainger age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Andrew Cuomo age 53
Governor of New York - United States
Rick Perry age 60
Governor of Texas - United States
Jerry Brown age 72
Governor of California - United States
John Kasich age 58
Governor of Ohio - United States
Chris Christie age 48
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Martin O'Malley age 48
Governor of Maryland - United States
Deval Patrick age 54
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Mike Beebe age 64
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Nathan Deal age 68
Governor of Georgia - United States
Mitch Daniels age 61
Governor of Indiana - United States
Bob McDonnell age 56
Governor of Virginia - United States
Phil Bredesen age 67
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Benedict XVI age 83
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 56
President - Venezuela
Rafael Correa age 47
President - Ecuador
Alexander Lukashenko age 56
President - Belarus
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 83
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 86
President - Zimbabwe
Ilham Aliyev age 49
President - Azerbaijan
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 72
President - Liberia
Shimon Peres age 87
President - Israel
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 73
King - Spain
Evo Morales age 51
President - Bolivia
Mikheil Saakashvili age 43
President - Georgia
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 57
President - Argentina
Viktor Yanukovych age 60
President - Ukraine
Abdullah Gül age 60
President - Turkey
Giorgio Napolitano age 85
President - Italy
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 70
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 48
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 70
Queen - Denmark
Hamid Karzai age 53
President - Afghanistan
José Mujica age 75
President - Uruguay
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 86
King - Saudi Arabia
Harald V of Norway age 73
King - Norway
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 73
President - Algeria
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 47
King - Morocco
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 64
King - Sweden
Juan Manuel Santos age 59
President - Colombia
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 72
Queen - Netherlands
Serzh Sargsyan age 56
President - Armenia
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 30
King - Bhutan
Sebastián Piñera age 61
President - Chile
Tarja Halonen age 67
President - Finland
Daniel Ortega age 65
President - Nicaragua
Islam Karimov age 73
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 53
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 67
President - Sudan
Pratibha Patil age 76
President - India
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 61
President - Indonesia
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 70
Sultan - Oman
Asif Ali Zardari age 55
President - Pakistan
Emomali Rahmon age 58
President - Tajikistan
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 53
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 66
President - Uganda
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 52
Prince - Monaco
Bronisław Komorowski age 58
President - Poland
Norodom Sihamoni age 57
King - Cambodia
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 74
President - Tunisia
Václav Klaus age 69
President - Czech Republic
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 54
President - Lithuania
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 63
President - Yemen
Heinz Fischer age 72
President - Austria
José Eduardo dos Santos age 68
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 58
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 39
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 42
King - Eswatini
Traian Băsescu age 59
President - Romania
Paul Biya age 77
President - Cameroon
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 62
President - United Arab Emirates
Teodoro Obiang age 68
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hamad II of Bahrain age 60
King - Bahrain
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 51
President - Gabon
Alassane Ouattara age 69
President - Ivory Coast
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 67
President - Republic of the Congo
Pierre Nkurunziza age 46
President - Burundi
Lee Myung-bak age 69
President - South Korea
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 55
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Boris Tadić age 53
President - Serbia
José Ramos-Horta age 61
President - Timor-Leste
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 57
President - Estonia
John Evans Atta Mills age 66
President - Ghana
Roza Otunbayeva age 60
President - Kyrgyzstan
Alan García age 61
President - Peru
Goodluck Jonathan age 53
President - Nigeria
Laura Chinchilla age 51
President - Costa Rica
Laurent Gbagbo age 65
President - Ivory Coast
Benigno Aquino III age 50
President - Philippines
Letsie III of Lesotho age 47
King - Lesotho
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 71
President - Portugal
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 65
President - Sri Lanka
Ivo Josipović age 53
President - Croatia
Isaias Afwerki age 64
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 56
President - Montenegro
Gjorge Ivanov age 50
President - North Macedonia
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 81
Emir - Kuwait
Yahya Jammeh age 45
President - The Gambia