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Events

War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
Syrian civil war 2011-03-15 - 2024-12-08
COVID-19 pandemic 2019-12-01 - 2023-05-05

People

Vladimir Putin age 68
President - Russia
Joe Biden age 78
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 95
Queen - United Kingdom
Emmanuel Macron age 43
President - France
Xi Jinping age 67
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Naruhito age 61
Emperor - Japan
Ali Khamenei age 82
Supreme Leader - Iran
Bashar al-Assad age 55
President - Syria
Jair Bolsonaro age 66
President - Brazil
Hassan Rouhani age 72
President - Iran
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 65
President - Germany
Tsai Ing-wen age 64
President - Republic of China
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 66
President - Egypt
Philippe of Belgium age 61
King - Belgium
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 61
President - Cuba
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 77
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Barham Salih age 60
President - Iraq
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 66
President - Vietnam
Alejandro Giammattei age 65
President - Guatemala
Kim Jong-un age 39
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 67
President - Mexico
António Guterres age 72
Secretary-General - United Nations
Angela Merkel age 66
Chancellor - Germany
Narendra Modi age 70
Prime Minister - India
Benjamin Netanyahu age 71
Prime Minister - Israel
Boris Johnson age 56
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Ursula von der Leyen age 62
President - European Commission
Yoshihide Suga age 72
Prime Minister - Japan
Jens Stoltenberg age 62
Secretary General - NATO
Li Keqiang age 65
Premier - People's Republic of China
Mario Draghi age 73
Prime Minister - Italy
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 56
Director-General - World Health Organization
Jean Castex age 55
Prime Minister - France
Mateusz Morawiecki age 52
Prime Minister - Poland
Thomas Bach age 67
President - International Olympic Committee
Micheál Martin age 60
Taoiseach - Ireland
Mostafa Madbouly age 55
Prime Minister - Egypt
Phạm Minh Chính age 62
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Su Tseng-chang age 73
Premier - Republic of China
Manuel Marrero Cruz age 57
Prime Minister - Cuba
Hussein Arnous age 68
Prime Minister - Syria
Kim Tok-hun age 60
Premier - North Korea
David Malpass age 65
President - World Bank
Phankham Viphavanh age 70
Prime Minister - Laos
John Roberts age 66
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Kamala Harris age 56
Vice President - United States
Lai Ching-te age 61
Vice President - Republic of China
Wang Qishan age 72
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Han Zheng age 67
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Mark Milley age 62
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Rishi Sunak age 41
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Antony Blinken age 59
Secretary of State - United States
Janet Yellen age 74
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lloyd Austin age 67
Secretary of Defense - United States
Priti Patel age 49
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Merrick Garland age 68
Attorney General - United States
James C. McConville age 62
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Christopher Wray age 54
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Keir Starmer age 58
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Liz Truss age 45
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Cyril Ramaphosa age 68
President - African National Congress
Clarence Thomas age 72
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Michael Gove age 53
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Stephen Breyer age 82
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lisa Monaco age 53
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Johnny Chiang age 49
Chairman - Kuomintang
Mary Lou McDonald age 52
President - Sinn Féin
Elizabeth Prelogar age 41
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Marco Rubio age 50
Senate - United States
Theresa May age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Liz Cheney age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Jeremy Hunt age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sajid Javid age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Suella Braverman age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Cleverly age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kwasi Kwarteng age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Yvette Cooper age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Rachel Reeves age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Shabana Mahmood age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nadhim Zahawi age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Grant Shapps age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Healey age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Duncan Smith age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kemi Badenoch age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 78
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ed Miliband age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ian Liddell-Grainger age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gavin Newsom age 53
Governor of California - United States
Andrew Cuomo age 63
Governor of New York - United States
Greg Abbott age 63
Governor of Texas - United States
Brian Kemp age 57
Governor of Georgia - United States
Ralph Northam age 61
Governor of Virginia - United States
Asa Hutchinson age 70
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Phil Murphy age 63
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Charlie Baker age 64
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Mike DeWine age 74
Governor of Ohio - United States
Larry Hogan age 65
Governor of Maryland - United States
Bill Lee age 61
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Eric Holcomb age 53
Governor of Indiana - United States
Pope Francis age 84
Pope - Vatican City
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 43
President - Ukraine
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 67
President - Turkey
Alexander Lukashenko age 66
President - Belarus
Nicolás Maduro age 58
President - Venezuela
Ilham Aliyev age 59
President - Azerbaijan
Joko Widodo age 59
President - Indonesia
Felipe VI of Spain age 53
King - Spain
Sergio Mattarella age 79
President - Italy
Rodrigo Duterte age 76
President - Philippines
Abdullah II of Jordan age 59
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 81
Queen - Denmark
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 54
King - Netherlands
Andrzej Duda age 49
President - Poland
Harald V of Norway age 84
King - Norway
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 57
King - Morocco
Zuzana Čaputová age 47
President - Slovakia
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 75
King - Sweden
Moon Jae-in age 68
President - South Korea
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 85
King - Saudi Arabia
Sauli Niinistö age 72
President - Finland
Maia Sandu age 49
President - Moldova
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 63
President - Uzbekistan
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 41
King - Bhutan
Kersti Kaljulaid age 51
President - Estonia
Muhammadu Buhari age 78
President - Nigeria
Sebastián Piñera age 71
President - Chile
Daniel Ortega age 75
President - Nicaragua
George Weah age 54
President - Liberia
Paul Kagame age 63
President - Rwanda
Ashraf Ghani age 72
President - Afghanistan
Alexander Van der Bellen age 77
President - Austria
Miloš Zeman age 76
President - Czech Republic
Salome Zourabichvili age 69
President - Georgia
Emomali Rahmon age 68
President - Tajikistan
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 63
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 76
President - Uganda
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 68
President - Kazakhstan
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 63
Prince - Monaco
Klaus Iohannis age 61
President - Romania
Aleksandar Vučić age 51
President - Serbia
Norodom Sihamoni age 68
King - Cambodia
Michael D. Higgins age 80
President - Ireland
Ram Nath Kovind age 75
President - India
Mswati III age 53
King - Eswatini
Sahle-Work Zewde age 71
President - Ethiopia
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 59
President - Nepal
Rumen Radev age 57
President - Bulgaria
Paul Biya age 88
President - Cameroon
Nayib Bukele age 39
President - El Salvador
Borut Pahor age 57
President - Slovenia
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 72
President - United Arab Emirates
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 75
President - Algeria
Teodoro Obiang age 79
President - Equatorial Guinea
Alberto Fernández age 62
President - Argentina
Hamad II of Bahrain age 71
King - Bahrain
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 62
President - Gabon
János Áder age 62
President - Hungary
Alassane Ouattara age 79
President - Ivory Coast
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 77
President - Republic of the Congo
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 65
President - Greece
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani age 40
Emir - Qatar
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 61
President - Tanzania
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 78
President - Zimbabwe
Nana Akufo-Addo age 77
President - Ghana
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 66
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Juan Guaidó age 37
President - Venezuela
Reuven Rivlin age 81
President - Israel
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 69
President - South Sudan
Armen Sarkissian age 67
President - Armenia
Jovenel Moïse age 52
President - Haiti
Halimah Yacob age 66
President - Singapore
Zoran Milanović age 54
President - Croatia
Nikos Anastasiades age 74
President - Cyprus
Macky Sall age 59
President - Senegal
Michel Aoun age 87
President - Lebanon
Letsie III of Lesotho age 57
King - Lesotho
Gitanas Nausėda age 57
President - Lithuania
Isaias Afwerki age 75
President - Eritrea
Milo Đukanović age 59
President - Montenegro
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 72
President - Portugal
Félix Tshisekedi age 57
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Alpha Condé age 83
President - Guinea
Uhuru Kenyatta age 59
President - Kenya
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 55
President - Togo
Abdul Hamid age 77
President - Bangladesh
Lenín Moreno age 68
President - Ecuador
Patrice Talon age 63
President - Benin
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 75
President - Yemen
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 64
President - Central African Republic
Vjosa Osmani age 39
President - Kosovo
João Lourenço age 67
President - Angola
Ilir Meta age 52
President - Albania
Luis Arce age 57
President - Bolivia
Andry Rajoelina age 47
President - Madagascar
Adama Barrow age 56
President - The Gambia
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 73
President - Djibouti
Sadyr Japarov age 52
President - Kyrgyzstan
Stevo Pendarovski age 58
President - North Macedonia