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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
Syrian civil war 2011-03-15 - 2024-12-08

People

Barack Obama age 52
President - United States
Vladimir Putin age 60
President - Russia
Elizabeth II age 87
Queen - United Kingdom
François Hollande age 59
President - France
Xi Jinping age 60
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Ali Khamenei age 74
Supreme Leader - Iran
Bashar al-Assad age 47
President - Syria
Dilma Rousseff age 65
President - Brazil
Akihito age 79
Emperor - Japan
Hassan Rouhani age 64
President - Iran
Raúl Castro age 82
President - Cuba
Joachim Gauck age 73
President - Germany
Philippe of Belgium age 53
King - Belgium
Trương Tấn Sang age 64
President - Vietnam
Jalal Talabani age 79
President - Iraq
Ma Ying-jeou age 63
President - Republic of China
Adly Mansour age 67
President - Egypt
Otto Pérez Molina age 62
President - Guatemala
Enrique Peña Nieto age 47
President - Mexico
Ban Ki-moon age 69
Secretary-General - United Nations
Angela Merkel age 59
Chancellor - Germany
Benjamin Netanyahu age 63
Prime Minister - Israel
Shinzo Abe age 58
Prime Minister - Japan
David Cameron age 46
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Manmohan Singh age 80
Prime Minister - India
Donald Tusk age 56
Prime Minister - Poland
Li Keqiang age 58
Premier - People's Republic of China
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 60
Secretary General - NATO
Enrico Letta age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 63
Prime Minister - France
Jacques Rogge age 71
President - International Olympic Committee
Enda Kenny age 62
Taoiseach - Ireland
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 63
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Jim Yong Kim age 53
President - World Bank
Margaret Chan age 66
Director-General - World Health Organization
Thongsing Thammavong age 69
Prime Minister - Laos
Hazem Al Beblawi age 76
Prime Minister - Egypt
Pak Pong-ju age 74
Premier - North Korea
Wael al-Halqi age 49
Prime Minister - Syria
Jiang Yi-huah age 52
Premier - Republic of China
José Manuel Barroso age 57
President - European Commission
John Roberts age 58
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Kim Jong-un age 31
Supreme Commander, Korean People's Army - North Korea
Joe Biden age 70
Vice President - United States
Wu Den-yih age 65
Vice President - Republic of China
Martin Dempsey age 61
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Theresa May age 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John Kerry age 69
Secretary Of State - United States
George Osborne age 42
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Chuck Hagel age 66
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Eric Holder age 62
Attorney General - United States
Jack Lew age 58
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Raymond T. Odierno age 58
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Mueller age 69
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Jacob Zuma age 71
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 80
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 77
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 65
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 75
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 77
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Ed Miliband age 43
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Gerry Adams age 64
President - Sinn Féin
Aung San Suu Kyi age 68
House Of Representatives - Myanmar
John Lewis age 73
House of Representatives - United States
Mike Pence age 54
Governor Of Indiana - United States
Pope Francis age 76
Pope - Vatican City
Rafael Correa age 50
President - Ecuador
Alexander Lukashenko age 59
President - Belarus
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 85
King - Thailand
Nicolás Maduro age 50
President - Venezuela
Robert Mugabe age 89
President - Zimbabwe
Ilham Aliyev age 51
President - Azerbaijan
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 74
President - Liberia
Shimon Peres age 90
President - Israel
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 75
King - Spain
Evo Morales age 53
President - Bolivia
Mikheil Saakashvili age 45
President - Georgia
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 60
President - Argentina
Viktor Yanukovych age 63
President - Ukraine
Abdullah Gül age 62
President - Turkey
Giorgio Napolitano age 88
President - Italy
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 73
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 51
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 73
Queen - Denmark
Hamid Karzai age 55
President - Afghanistan
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 46
King - Netherlands
José Mujica age 78
President - Uruguay
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 89
King - Saudi Arabia
Harald V of Norway age 76
King - Norway
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 76
President - Algeria
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 50
King - Morocco
Park Geun-hye age 61
President - South Korea
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 67
King - Sweden
Juan Manuel Santos age 62
President - Colombia
Sauli Niinistö age 65
President - Finland
Serzh Sargsyan age 59
President - Armenia
Pranab Mukherjee age 77
President - India
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 33
King - Bhutan
Sebastián Piñera age 63
President - Chile
Daniel Ortega age 67
President - Nicaragua
Islam Karimov age 75
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 55
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 69
President - Sudan
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 63
President - Indonesia
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 72
Sultan - Oman
Asif Ali Zardari age 58
President - Pakistan
Miloš Zeman age 68
President - Czech Republic
Emomali Rahmon age 60
President - Tajikistan
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 56
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 68
President - Uganda
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 55
Prince - Monaco
Bronisław Komorowski age 61
President - Poland
Norodom Sihamoni age 60
King - Cambodia
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 57
President - Lithuania
Heinz Fischer age 74
President - Austria
Michael D. Higgins age 72
President - Ireland
José Eduardo dos Santos age 71
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 61
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 42
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 45
King - Eswatini
Traian Băsescu age 61
President - Romania
Paul Biya age 80
President - Cameroon
Borut Pahor age 49
President - Slovenia
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 64
President - United Arab Emirates
Teodoro Obiang age 71
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hamad II of Bahrain age 63
King - Bahrain
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 54
President - Gabon
John Mahama age 54
President - Ghana
János Áder age 54
President - Hungary
Alassane Ouattara age 71
President - Ivory Coast
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 69
President - Republic of the Congo
Pierre Nkurunziza age 48
President - Burundi
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani age 33
Emir - Qatar
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 58
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Tomislav Nikolić age 61
President - Serbia
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 59
President - Estonia
Almazbek Atambaev age 56
President - Kyrgyzstan
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 61
President - South Sudan
Joyce Banda age 63
President - Malawi
Goodluck Jonathan age 55
President - Nigeria
Laura Chinchilla age 54
President - Costa Rica
Nikos Anastasiades age 66
President - Cyprus
Macky Sall age 51
President - Senegal
Benigno Aquino III age 53
President - Philippines
Letsie III of Lesotho age 50
King - Lesotho
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 74
President - Portugal
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 67
President - Sri Lanka
Ivo Josipović age 56
President - Croatia
Isaias Afwerki age 67
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 59
President - Montenegro
Gjorge Ivanov age 53
President - North Macedonia
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 84
Emir - Kuwait
Yahya Jammeh age 48
President - The Gambia
Alpha Condé age 75
President - Guinea
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 70
President - Iceland
Uhuru Kenyatta age 51
President - Kenya
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 47
President - Togo
Bujar Nishani age 46
President - Albania
Abdul Hamid age 69
President - Bangladesh
Karolos Papoulias age 84
President - Greece
Horacio Cartes age 57
President - Paraguay
Blaise Compaoré age 62
President - Burkina Faso
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 68
President - Yemen
Thomas Boni Yayi age 61
President - Benin
Ollanta Humala age 51
President - Peru
Atifete Jahjaga age 38
President - Kosovo
Ivan Gašparovič age 72
President - Slovakia
Andry Rajoelina age 39
President - Madagascar
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 50
President - Mongolia
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 65
President - Djibouti
Ram Baran Yadav age 65
President - Nepal
Desi Bouterse age 67
President - Suriname
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 56
President - Mauritania
Nicolae Timofti age 64
President - Moldova
Tupou VI of Tonga age 54
King - Tonga
Mauricio Funes age 53
President - El Salvador
Mahamadou Issoufou age 61
President - Niger
Rosen Plevneliev age 49
President - Bulgaria
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 60
President - Botswana
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 62
President - Cape Verde
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 62
President - Tanzania
Moncef Marzouki age 68
President - Tunisia
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 57
President - Somalia
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 73
President - Singapore
Thein Sein age 68
President - Myanmar
Bakir Izetbegović age 57
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 88
President - Ethiopia
Andris Bērziņš age 68
President - Latvia
Michael Sata age 76
President - Zambia
Choummaly Sayasone age 77
President - Laos
Michel Suleiman age 64
President - Lebanon
George Abela age 65
President - Malta
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 78
President - Namibia
Ernest Bai Koroma age 59
President - Sierra Leone
Željko Komšić age 49
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Danilo Medina age 61
President - Dominican Republic
Ueli Maurer age 62
President - Switzerland
Ricardo Martinelli age 61
President - Panama
Baron Waqa age 53
President - Nauru
Taur Matan Ruak age 56
President - Timor-Leste