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Events

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
COVID-19 pandemic 2019-12-01 - 2023-05-05

People

Donald Trump age 74
President - United States
Vladimir Putin age 67
President - Russia
Elizabeth II age 94
Queen - United Kingdom
Emmanuel Macron age 42
President - France
Xi Jinping age 67
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Naruhito age 60
Emperor - Japan
Ali Khamenei age 81
Supreme Leader - Iran
Bashar al-Assad age 54
President - Syria
Jair Bolsonaro age 65
President - Brazil
Hassan Rouhani age 71
President - Iran
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 64
President - Germany
Tsai Ing-wen age 63
President - Republic of China
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 65
President - Egypt
Philippe of Belgium age 60
King - Belgium
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 60
President - Cuba
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 76
President - Vietnam
Barham Salih age 59
President - Iraq
Alejandro Giammattei age 64
President - Guatemala
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 66
President - Mexico
António Guterres age 71
Secretary-General - United Nations
Angela Merkel age 66
Chancellor - Germany
Narendra Modi age 69
Prime Minister - India
Aung San Suu Kyi age 75
State Counsellor - Myanmar
Benjamin Netanyahu age 70
Prime Minister - Israel
Shinzo Abe age 65
Prime Minister - Japan
Boris Johnson age 56
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Ursula von der Leyen age 61
President - European Commission
Jens Stoltenberg age 61
Secretary General - NATO
Giuseppe Conte age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
Li Keqiang age 65
Premier - People's Republic of China
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 55
Director-General - World Health Organization
Jean Castex age 55
Prime Minister - France
Mateusz Morawiecki age 52
Prime Minister - Poland
Thomas Bach age 66
President - International Olympic Committee
Micheál Martin age 60
Taoiseach - Ireland
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 66
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Thongloun Sisoulith age 74
Prime Minister - Laos
Mostafa Madbouly age 54
Prime Minister - Egypt
Su Tseng-chang age 73
Premier - Republic of China
Manuel Marrero Cruz age 57
Prime Minister - Cuba
Hussein Arnous age 67
Prime Minister - Syria
David Malpass age 64
President - World Bank
Kim Jae-ryong age 61
Premier - North Korea
John Roberts age 65
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Kim Jong-un age 38
Supreme Commander, Korean People's Army - North Korea
Mike Pence age 61
Vice President - United States
Lai Ching-te age 60
Vice President - Republic of China
Mark Milley age 62
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Rishi Sunak age 40
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Mike Pompeo age 56
Secretary Of State - United States
Priti Patel age 48
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Steven Mnuchin age 57
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Mark Esper age 56
Secretary Of Defense - United States
William Barr age 70
Attorney General - United States
James C. McConville age 61
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Christopher Wray age 53
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Keir Starmer age 57
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Liz Truss age 45
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Cyril Ramaphosa age 67
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 87
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 72
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 82
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Johnny Chiang age 48
Chairman - Kuomintang
Mary Lou McDonald age 51
President - Sinn Féin
Kamala Harris age 55
Senate - United States
Pope Francis age 83
Pope - Vatican City
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 42
President - Ukraine
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 66
President - Turkey
Alexander Lukashenko age 65
President - Belarus
Nicolás Maduro age 57
President - Venezuela
Ilham Aliyev age 58
President - Azerbaijan
Joko Widodo age 59
President - Indonesia
Felipe VI of Spain age 52
King - Spain
Sergio Mattarella age 79
President - Italy
Rodrigo Duterte age 75
President - Philippines
Abdullah II of Jordan age 58
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 80
Queen - Denmark
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 53
King - Netherlands
Andrzej Duda age 48
President - Poland
Harald V of Norway age 83
King - Norway
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 57
King - Morocco
Zuzana Čaputová age 47
President - Slovakia
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 74
King - Sweden
Moon Jae-in age 67
President - South Korea
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 84
King - Saudi Arabia
Sauli Niinistö age 72
President - Finland
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 63
President - Uzbekistan
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 40
King - Bhutan
Kersti Kaljulaid age 50
President - Estonia
Muhammadu Buhari age 77
President - Nigeria
Sebastián Piñera age 70
President - Chile
Daniel Ortega age 74
President - Nicaragua
George Weah age 53
President - Liberia
Paul Kagame age 62
President - Rwanda
Ashraf Ghani age 71
President - Afghanistan
Alexander Van der Bellen age 76
President - Austria
Miloš Zeman age 75
President - Czech Republic
Salome Zourabichvili age 68
President - Georgia
Emomali Rahmon age 67
President - Tajikistan
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 63
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 75
President - Uganda
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 67
President - Kazakhstan
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 62
Prince - Monaco
Klaus Iohannis age 61
President - Romania
Aleksandar Vučić age 50
President - Serbia
Norodom Sihamoni age 67
King - Cambodia
Michael D. Higgins age 79
President - Ireland
Ram Nath Kovind age 74
President - India
Idriss Déby age 68
President - Chad
Mswati III age 52
King - Eswatini
Sahle-Work Zewde age 70
President - Ethiopia
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 59
President - Nepal
Rumen Radev age 57
President - Bulgaria
Paul Biya age 87
President - Cameroon
Nayib Bukele age 39
President - El Salvador
Borut Pahor age 56
President - Slovenia
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 71
President - United Arab Emirates
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 74
President - Algeria
Teodoro Obiang age 78
President - Equatorial Guinea
Alberto Fernández age 61
President - Argentina
Hamad II of Bahrain age 70
King - Bahrain
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 61
President - Gabon
János Áder age 61
President - Hungary
Alassane Ouattara age 78
President - Ivory Coast
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 76
President - Republic of the Congo
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 64
President - Greece
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani age 40
Emir - Qatar
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 77
President - Zimbabwe
Nana Akufo-Addo age 76
President - Ghana
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 65
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Juan Guaidó age 37
President - Venezuela
Reuven Rivlin age 80
President - Israel
Hashim Thaçi age 52
President - Kosovo
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 68
President - South Sudan
Armen Sarkissian age 67
President - Armenia
Jovenel Moïse age 52
President - Haiti
Halimah Yacob age 66
President - Singapore
Zoran Milanović age 53
President - Croatia
Nikos Anastasiades age 73
President - Cyprus
Macky Sall age 58
President - Senegal
Michel Aoun age 86
President - Lebanon
Letsie III of Lesotho age 57
King - Lesotho
Gitanas Nausėda age 56
President - Lithuania
Isaias Afwerki age 74
President - Eritrea
Milo Đukanović age 58
President - Montenegro
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 71
President - Portugal
Félix Tshisekedi age 57
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 91
Emir - Kuwait
Alpha Condé age 82
President - Guinea
Uhuru Kenyatta age 58
President - Kenya
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 54
President - Togo
Abdul Hamid age 76
President - Bangladesh
Lenín Moreno age 67
President - Ecuador
John Magufuli age 60
President - Tanzania
Patrice Talon age 62
President - Benin
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 74
President - Yemen
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 63
President - Central African Republic
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 75
President - Mali
João Lourenço age 66
President - Angola
Igor Dodon age 45
President - Moldova
Ilir Meta age 51
President - Albania
Jeanine Áñez age 53
President - Bolivia
Andry Rajoelina age 46
President - Madagascar
Adama Barrow age 55
President - The Gambia
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 72
President - Djibouti
Stevo Pendarovski age 57
President - North Macedonia
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 63
President - Burkina Faso
Tupou VI of Tonga age 61
King - Tonga
Edgar Lungu age 63
President - Zambia
Iván Duque age 44
President - Colombia
Guðni Jóhannesson age 52
President - Iceland
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 64
Sultan - Oman
Mokgweetsi Masisi age 59
President - Botswana
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 61
President - Kyrgyzstan
Egils Levits age 65
President - Latvia
Filipe Nyusi age 61
President - Mozambique
Mahamadou Issoufou age 68
President - Niger
Arif Alvi age 71
President - Pakistan
Milorad Dodik age 61
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 69
President - Cape Verde
Juan Orlando Hernández age 51
President - Honduras
Simonetta Sommaruga age 60
President - Switzerland
Kais Saied age 62
President - Tunisia
Hage Geingob age 79
President - Namibia
Luis Lacalle Pou age 47
President - Uruguay
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed age 58
President - Somalia
Bounnhang Vorachit age 83
President - Laos
Umaro Sissoco Embaló age 47
President - Guinea-Bissau
Chan Santokhi age 61
President - Suriname
Martín Vizcarra age 57
President - Peru
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 71
President - Sri Lanka
Željko Komšić age 56
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Danilo Medina age 68
President - Dominican Republic
Lazarus Chakwera age 65
President - Malawi
George William Vella age 78
President - Malta
Win Myint age 68
President - Myanmar
Azali Assoumani age 61
President - Comoros
Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 57
President - Mongolia
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 52
President - Burundi
Irfaan Ali age 40
President - Guyana