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People

Barack Obama age 50
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 85
Queen - United Kingdom
Nicolas Sarkozy age 57
President - France
Dmitry Medvedev age 46
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 72
Supreme Leader - Iran
Bashar al-Assad age 46
President - Syria
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 55
President - Iran
Dilma Rousseff age 64
President - Brazil
Akihito age 78
Emperor - Japan
Hu Jintao age 69
President - People's Republic of China
Raúl Castro age 80
President - Cuba
Christian Wulff age 52
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 77
King - Belgium
Trương Tấn Sang age 63
President - Vietnam
Jalal Talabani age 78
President - Iraq
Ma Ying-jeou age 61
President - Republic of China
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 67
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Otto Pérez Molina age 61
President - Guatemala
Felipe Calderón age 49
President - Mexico
Ban Ki-moon age 67
Secretary-General - United Nations
Angela Merkel age 57
Chancellor - Germany
Benjamin Netanyahu age 62
Prime Minister - Israel
David Cameron age 45
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Manmohan Singh age 79
Prime Minister - India
Donald Tusk age 54
Prime Minister - Poland
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 59
Secretary General - NATO
Wen Jiabao age 69
Premier - People's Republic of China
Mario Monti age 68
Prime Minister - Italy
François Fillon age 57
Prime Minister - France
Yoshihiko Noda age 54
Prime Minister - Japan
Jacques Rogge age 69
President - International Olympic Committee
Enda Kenny age 60
Taoiseach - Ireland
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 62
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Margaret Chan age 64
Director-General - World Health Organization
Robert Zoellick age 58
President - World Bank
Thongsing Thammavong age 67
Prime Minister - Laos
Choe Yong-rim age 81
Premier - North Korea
Kamal Ganzouri age 79
Prime Minister - Egypt
Adel Safar age 59
Prime Minister - Syria
Sean Chen age 62
Premier - Republic of China
José Manuel Barroso age 55
President - European Commission
John Roberts age 57
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Kim Jong-un age 30
Supreme Commander, Korean People's Army - North Korea
Joe Biden age 69
Vice President - United States
Xi Jinping age 58
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Li Keqiang age 56
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Wang Qishan age 63
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Martin Dempsey age 59
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Hillary Clinton age 64
Secretary of State - United States
Theresa May age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Leon Panetta age 73
Secretary of Defense - United States
George Osborne age 40
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Eric Holder age 61
Attorney General - United States
Timothy Geithner age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Raymond T. Odierno age 57
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Mueller age 67
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Jacob Zuma age 69
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 78
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 75
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 63
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 73
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 75
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde age 52
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James M. Cole age 59
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Ed Miliband age 42
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Gerry Adams age 63
President - Sinn Féin
Donald B. Verrilli Jr. age 54
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
John Kerry age 68
Senate - United States
Marco Rubio age 40
Senate - United States
Jeff Sessions age 65
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 87
Senate - United States
John McCain age 75
Senate - United States
Gordon Brown age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Liz Truss age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mike Pence age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Andy Burnham age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mike Pompeo age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Priti Patel age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 72
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Hammond age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Hunt age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sajid Javid age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Amber Rudd age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jack Straw age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kwasi Kwarteng age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Yvette Cooper age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Rachel Reeves age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Shabana Mahmood age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nadhim Zahawi age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Grant Shapps age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Blunkett age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Healey age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alan Johnson age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Frank Underwood age 52
House of Representatives - United States
William Hague age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Duncan Smith age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ian Liddell-Grainger age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Andrew Cuomo age 54
Governor of New York - United States
Rick Perry age 61
Governor of Texas - United States
Jerry Brown age 73
Governor of California - United States
John Kasich age 59
Governor of Ohio - United States
Chris Christie age 49
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Martin O'Malley age 49
Governor of Maryland - United States
Deval Patrick age 55
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Mike Beebe age 65
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Nathan Deal age 69
Governor of Georgia - United States
Mitch Daniels age 62
Governor of Indiana - United States
Bob McDonnell age 57
Governor of Virginia - United States
Bill Haslam age 53
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Benedict XVI age 84
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 57
President - Venezuela
Rafael Correa age 48
President - Ecuador
Alexander Lukashenko age 57
President - Belarus
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 84
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 88
President - Zimbabwe
Ilham Aliyev age 50
President - Azerbaijan
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 73
President - Liberia
Shimon Peres age 88
President - Israel
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 74
King - Spain
Evo Morales age 52
President - Bolivia
Mikheil Saakashvili age 44
President - Georgia
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 59
President - Argentina
Viktor Yanukovych age 61
President - Ukraine
Abdullah Gül age 61
President - Turkey
Giorgio Napolitano age 86
President - Italy
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 71
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 50
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 71
Queen - Denmark
Hamid Karzai age 54
President - Afghanistan
José Mujica age 76
President - Uruguay
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 87
King - Saudi Arabia
Harald V of Norway age 75
King - Norway
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 74
President - Algeria
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 48
King - Morocco
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 65
King - Sweden
Juan Manuel Santos age 60
President - Colombia
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 74
Queen - Netherlands
Serzh Sargsyan age 57
President - Armenia
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 31
King - Bhutan
Sebastián Piñera age 62
President - Chile
Tarja Halonen age 68
President - Finland
Daniel Ortega age 66
President - Nicaragua
Islam Karimov age 74
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 54
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 68
President - Sudan
Pratibha Patil age 77
President - India
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 62
President - Indonesia
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 71
Sultan - Oman
Asif Ali Zardari age 56
President - Pakistan
Emomali Rahmon age 59
President - Tajikistan
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 54
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 67
President - Uganda
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 53
Prince - Monaco
Bronisław Komorowski age 59
President - Poland
Norodom Sihamoni age 58
King - Cambodia
Václav Klaus age 70
President - Czech Republic
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 55
President - Lithuania
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 64
President - Yemen
Heinz Fischer age 73
President - Austria
Michael D. Higgins age 70
President - Ireland
José Eduardo dos Santos age 69
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 59
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 40
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 43
King - Eswatini
Traian Băsescu age 60
President - Romania
Paul Biya age 79
President - Cameroon
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 63
President - United Arab Emirates
Teodoro Obiang age 69
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hamad II of Bahrain age 62
King - Bahrain
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 53
President - Gabon
Alassane Ouattara age 70
President - Ivory Coast
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 68
President - Republic of the Congo
Pierre Nkurunziza age 47
President - Burundi
Lee Myung-bak age 70
President - South Korea
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 56
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Boris Tadić age 54
President - Serbia
José Ramos-Horta age 62
President - Timor-Leste
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 58
President - Estonia
John Evans Atta Mills age 67
President - Ghana
Almazbek Atambaev age 55
President - Kyrgyzstan
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 60
President - South Sudan
Goodluck Jonathan age 54
President - Nigeria
Laura Chinchilla age 52
President - Costa Rica
Benigno Aquino III age 52
President - Philippines
Letsie III of Lesotho age 48
King - Lesotho
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 72
President - Portugal
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 66
President - Sri Lanka
Ivo Josipović age 54
President - Croatia
Isaias Afwerki age 66
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 57
President - Montenegro
Gjorge Ivanov age 51
President - North Macedonia
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 82
Emir - Kuwait
Yahya Jammeh age 46
President - The Gambia
Alpha Condé age 73
President - Guinea
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 68
President - Iceland