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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
Syrian civil war 2011-03-15 - 2024-12-08
Western African Ebola epidemic 2013-12-26 - 2016-06-09

People

Barack Obama age 53
President - United States
Vladimir Putin age 61
President - Russia
Elizabeth II age 88
Queen - United Kingdom
François Hollande age 60
President - France
Xi Jinping age 61
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Ali Khamenei age 75
Supreme Leader - Iran
Bashar al-Assad age 48
President - Syria
Dilma Rousseff age 66
President - Brazil
Akihito age 80
Emperor - Japan
Hassan Rouhani age 65
President - Iran
Raúl Castro age 83
President - Cuba
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 59
President - Egypt
Joachim Gauck age 74
President - Germany
Philippe of Belgium age 54
King - Belgium
Trương Tấn Sang age 65
President - Vietnam
Ma Ying-jeou age 64
President - Republic of China
Fuad Masum age 76
President - Iraq
Otto Pérez Molina age 63
President - Guatemala
Enrique Peña Nieto age 48
President - Mexico
Ban Ki-moon age 70
Secretary-General - United Nations
Angela Merkel age 60
Chancellor - Germany
Narendra Modi age 63
Prime Minister - India
Benjamin Netanyahu age 64
Prime Minister - Israel
Shinzo Abe age 59
Prime Minister - Japan
David Cameron age 47
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Donald Tusk age 57
Prime Minister - Poland
Matteo Renzi age 39
Prime Minister - Italy
Li Keqiang age 59
Premier - People's Republic of China
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 61
Secretary General - NATO
Manuel Valls age 52
Prime Minister - France
Thomas Bach age 60
President - International Olympic Committee
Enda Kenny age 63
Taoiseach - Ireland
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 64
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Jim Yong Kim age 54
President - World Bank
Margaret Chan age 67
Director-General - World Health Organization
Thongsing Thammavong age 70
Prime Minister - Laos
Ibrahim Mahlab age 65
Prime Minister - Egypt
Pak Pong-ju age 75
Premier - North Korea
Wael al-Halqi age 50
Prime Minister - Syria
Jiang Yi-huah age 53
Premier - Republic of China
José Manuel Barroso age 58
President - European Commission
John Roberts age 59
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Kim Jong-un age 32
Supreme Commander, Korean People's Army - North Korea
Joe Biden age 71
Vice President - United States
Wu Den-yih age 66
Vice President - Republic of China
Li Yuanchao age 63
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Frank Underwood age 54
Vice President - United States
Martin Dempsey age 62
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Theresa May age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John Kerry age 70
Secretary of State - United States
George Osborne age 43
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Chuck Hagel age 67
Secretary of Defense - United States
Eric Holder age 63
Attorney General - United States
Jack Lew age 58
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Raymond T. Odierno age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
James Comey age 53
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Jacob Zuma age 72
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 81
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 78
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 66
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 76
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 78
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Ed Miliband age 44
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Gerry Adams age 65
President - Sinn Féin
Aung San Suu Kyi age 69
House of Representatives - Myanmar
John Lewis age 74
House of Representatives - United States
Mike Pence age 55
Governor of Indiana - United States
Pope Francis age 77
Pope - Vatican City
Rafael Correa age 51
President - Ecuador
Alexander Lukashenko age 59
President - Belarus
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 86
King - Thailand
Nicolás Maduro age 51
President - Venezuela
Robert Mugabe age 90
President - Zimbabwe
Ilham Aliyev age 52
President - Azerbaijan
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 75
President - Liberia
Evo Morales age 54
President - Bolivia
Petro Poroshenko age 48
President - Ukraine
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 61
President - Argentina
Michelle Bachelet age 62
President - Chile
Felipe VI of Spain age 46
King - Spain
Abdullah Gül age 63
President - Turkey
Giorgio Napolitano age 89
President - Italy
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 74
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 52
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 74
Queen - Denmark
Hamid Karzai age 56
President - Afghanistan
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 47
King - Netherlands
José Mujica age 79
President - Uruguay
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 90
King - Saudi Arabia
Harald V of Norway age 77
King - Norway
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 77
President - Algeria
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 51
King - Morocco
Park Geun-hye age 62
President - South Korea
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 68
King - Sweden
Juan Manuel Santos age 63
President - Colombia
Sauli Niinistö age 66
President - Finland
Serzh Sargsyan age 60
President - Armenia
Pranab Mukherjee age 78
President - India
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 34
King - Bhutan
Daniel Ortega age 68
President - Nicaragua
Islam Karimov age 76
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 56
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 70
President - Sudan
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 64
President - Indonesia
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 73
Sultan - Oman
Miloš Zeman age 69
President - Czech Republic
Emomali Rahmon age 61
President - Tajikistan
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 57
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 69
President - Uganda
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 56
Prince - Monaco
Bronisław Komorowski age 62
President - Poland
Norodom Sihamoni age 61
King - Cambodia
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 58
President - Lithuania
Heinz Fischer age 75
President - Austria
Michael D. Higgins age 73
President - Ireland
José Eduardo dos Santos age 72
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 62
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 43
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 46
King - Eswatini
Traian Băsescu age 62
President - Romania
Paul Biya age 81
President - Cameroon
Borut Pahor age 50
President - Slovenia
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 65
President - United Arab Emirates
Teodoro Obiang age 72
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hamad II of Bahrain age 64
King - Bahrain
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 55
President - Gabon
John Mahama age 55
President - Ghana
János Áder age 55
President - Hungary
Alassane Ouattara age 72
President - Ivory Coast
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 70
President - Republic of the Congo
Pierre Nkurunziza age 49
President - Burundi
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 44
President - Georgia
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani age 34
Emir - Qatar
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 59
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Tomislav Nikolić age 62
President - Serbia
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 60
President - Estonia
Reuven Rivlin age 74
President - Israel
Almazbek Atambaev age 57
President - Kyrgyzstan
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 62
President - South Sudan
Goodluck Jonathan age 56
President - Nigeria
Nikos Anastasiades age 67
President - Cyprus
Macky Sall age 52
President - Senegal
Benigno Aquino III age 54
President - Philippines
Letsie III of Lesotho age 51
King - Lesotho
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 75
President - Portugal
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 68
President - Sri Lanka
Ivo Josipović age 56
President - Croatia
Isaias Afwerki age 68
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 59
President - Montenegro
Gjorge Ivanov age 54
President - North Macedonia
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 85
Emir - Kuwait
Yahya Jammeh age 49
President - The Gambia
Alpha Condé age 76
President - Guinea
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 71
President - Iceland
Uhuru Kenyatta age 52
President - Kenya
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 48
President - Togo
Bujar Nishani age 47
President - Albania
Abdul Hamid age 70
President - Bangladesh
Karolos Papoulias age 85
President - Greece
Horacio Cartes age 58
President - Paraguay
Blaise Compaoré age 63
President - Burkina Faso
Mamnoon Hussain age 73
President - Pakistan
Andrej Kiska age 51
President - Slovakia
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 68
President - Yemen
Thomas Boni Yayi age 62
President - Benin
Ollanta Humala age 52
President - Peru
Atifete Jahjaga age 39
President - Kosovo
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 69
President - Mali
Peter Mutharika age 74
President - Malawi
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 51
President - Mongolia
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 66
President - Djibouti
Ram Baran Yadav age 66
President - Nepal
Desi Bouterse age 68
President - Suriname
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 55
President - Malta
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 57
President - Mauritania
Nicolae Timofti age 65
President - Moldova
Tupou VI of Tonga age 55
King - Tonga
Mahamadou Issoufou age 62
President - Niger
Rosen Plevneliev age 50
President - Bulgaria
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 61
President - Botswana
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 63
President - Cape Verde
Juan Orlando Hernández age 45
President - Honduras
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 63
President - Tanzania
Moncef Marzouki age 69
President - Tunisia
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 58
President - Somalia
Mulatu Teshome age 57
President - Ethiopia
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 74
President - Singapore
Abdulla Yameen age 55
President - Maldives
Thein Sein age 69
President - Myanmar
Bakir Izetbegović age 58
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Andris Bērziņš age 69
President - Latvia
Michael Sata age 77
President - Zambia
Choummaly Sayasone age 78
President - Laos
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 79
President - Namibia
Ernest Bai Koroma age 60
President - Sierra Leone
Juan Carlos Varela age 50
President - Panama
Željko Komšić age 50
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Luis Guillermo Solís age 56
President - Costa Rica
Danilo Medina age 62
President - Dominican Republic
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 55
President - Madagascar