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Events

Syrian civil war 2011-03-15 - 2024-12-08
Mahsa Amini protests 2022-09-16 - 2023-09

People

Vladimir Putin age 70
President - Russia
Joe Biden age 80
President - United States
Emmanuel Macron age 45
President - France
Xi Jinping age 70
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Naruhito age 63
Emperor - Japan
Charles III age 74
King - United Kingdom
Ali Khamenei age 84
Supreme Leader - Iran
Bashar al-Assad age 57
President - Syria
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 77
President - Brazil
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 67
President - Germany
Tsai Ing-wen age 66
President - Republic of China
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 68
President - Egypt
Ebrahim Raisi age 62
President - Iran
Philippe of Belgium age 63
King - Belgium
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 63
President - Cuba
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 79
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Alejandro Giammattei age 67
President - Guatemala
Abdul Latif Rashid age 79
President - Iraq
Võ Văn Thưởng age 52
President - Vietnam
Kim Jong-un age 41
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 69
President - Mexico
António Guterres age 74
Secretary-General - United Nations
Narendra Modi age 72
Prime Minister - India
Benjamin Netanyahu age 73
Prime Minister - Israel
Rishi Sunak age 43
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giorgia Meloni age 46
Prime Minister - Italy
Olaf Scholz age 65
Chancellor - Germany
Ursula von der Leyen age 64
President - European Commission
Jens Stoltenberg age 64
Secretary General - NATO
Fumio Kishida age 66
Prime Minister - Japan
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 58
Director-General - World Health Organization
Leo Varadkar age 44
Taoiseach - Ireland
Mateusz Morawiecki age 55
Prime Minister - Poland
Élisabeth Borne age 62
Prime Minister - France
Thomas Bach age 69
President - International Olympic Committee
Li Qiang age 64
Premier - People's Republic of China
Mostafa Madbouly age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Phạm Minh Chính age 64
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Manuel Marrero Cruz age 60
Prime Minister - Cuba
Sonexay Siphandone age 57
Prime Minister - Laos
Ajay Banga age 63
President - World Bank
Hussein Arnous age 70
Prime Minister - Syria
Kim Tok-hun age 62
Premier - North Korea
Chen Chien-jen age 72
Premier - Republic of China
John Roberts age 68
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Kamala Harris age 58
Vice President - United States
Lai Ching-te age 63
Vice President - Republic of China
Han Zheng age 69
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Mark Milley age 65
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Antony Blinken age 61
Secretary of State - United States
Janet Yellen age 77
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lloyd Austin age 70
Secretary of Defense - United States
Jeremy Hunt age 56
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Suella Braverman age 43
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Merrick Garland age 70
Attorney General - United States
Christopher Wray age 56
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Keir Starmer age 60
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Cyril Ramaphosa age 70
President - African National Congress
Clarence Thomas age 75
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lisa Monaco age 55
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Kemi Badenoch age 43
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Eric Chu age 62
Chairman - Kuomintang
Mary Lou McDonald age 54
President - Sinn Féin
Elizabeth Prelogar age 43
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
JD Vance age 39
Senate - United States
Marco Rubio age 52
Senate - United States
Theresa May age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Liz Truss age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Priti Patel age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sajid Javid age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Cleverly age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kwasi Kwarteng age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Yvette Cooper age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Rachel Reeves age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Shabana Mahmood age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nadhim Zahawi age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Grant Shapps age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Healey age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Duncan Smith age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 80
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ed Miliband age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ian Liddell-Grainger age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gavin Newsom age 55
Governor of California - United States
Greg Abbott age 65
Governor of Texas - United States
Kathy Hochul age 64
Governor of New York - United States
Sarah Huckabee Sanders age 41
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Brian Kemp age 59
Governor of Georgia - United States
Phil Murphy age 66
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Mike DeWine age 76
Governor of Ohio - United States
Bill Lee age 63
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Eric Holcomb age 55
Governor of Indiana - United States
Glenn Youngkin age 56
Governor of Virginia - United States
Wes Moore age 44
Governor of Maryland - United States
Maura Healey age 52
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Pope Francis age 86
Pope - Vatican City
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 45
President - Ukraine
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 69
President - Turkey
Guillermo Lasso age 67
President - Ecuador
Alexander Lukashenko age 68
President - Belarus
Nicolás Maduro age 60
President - Venezuela
Ilham Aliyev age 61
President - Azerbaijan
Joko Widodo age 62
President - Indonesia
Felipe VI of Spain age 55
King - Spain
Sergio Mattarella age 82
President - Italy
Abdullah II of Jordan age 61
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 83
Queen - Denmark
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 56
King - Netherlands
Andrzej Duda age 51
President - Poland
Harald V of Norway age 86
King - Norway
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 60
King - Morocco
Zuzana Čaputová age 50
President - Slovakia
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 77
King - Sweden
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 87
King - Saudi Arabia
Sauli Niinistö age 75
President - Finland
Maia Sandu age 51
President - Moldova
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 66
President - Uzbekistan
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 43
King - Bhutan
Daniel Ortega age 77
President - Nicaragua
George Weah age 56
President - Liberia
Paul Kagame age 65
President - Rwanda
Droupadi Murmu age 65
President - India
Yoon Suk Yeol age 62
President - South Korea
Alexander Van der Bellen age 79
President - Austria
Salome Zourabichvili age 71
President - Georgia
Emomali Rahmon age 70
President - Tajikistan
Yoweri Museveni age 78
President - Uganda
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 70
President - Kazakhstan
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 65
Prince - Monaco
Klaus Iohannis age 64
President - Romania
Aleksandar Vučić age 53
President - Serbia
Norodom Sihamoni age 70
King - Cambodia
Gabriel Boric age 37
President - Chile
Michael D. Higgins age 82
President - Ireland
Mswati III age 55
King - Eswatini
Sahle-Work Zewde age 73
President - Ethiopia
Rumen Radev age 60
President - Bulgaria
Paul Biya age 90
President - Cameroon
Nayib Bukele age 42
President - El Salvador
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 77
President - Algeria
Teodoro Obiang age 81
President - Equatorial Guinea
Alberto Fernández age 64
President - Argentina
Hamad II of Bahrain age 73
King - Bahrain
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 64
President - Gabon
Alassane Ouattara age 81
President - Ivory Coast
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 79
President - Republic of the Congo
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 67
President - Greece
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani age 43
Emir - Qatar
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 63
President - Tanzania
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 80
President - Zimbabwe
Nana Akufo-Addo age 79
President - Ghana
Isaac Herzog age 62
President - Israel
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 68
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
José Ramos-Horta age 73
President - Timor-Leste
Gustavo Petro age 63
President - Colombia
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 71
President - South Sudan
Halimah Yacob age 69
President - Singapore
Zoran Milanović age 56
President - Croatia
Macky Sall age 61
President - Senegal
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 55
Supreme Leader - Afghanistan
Katalin Novák age 45
President - Hungary
Letsie III of Lesotho age 60
King - Lesotho
Gitanas Nausėda age 59
President - Lithuania
Petr Pavel age 61
President - Czech Republic
Isaias Afwerki age 77
President - Eritrea
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 74
President - Portugal
Félix Tshisekedi age 60
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 57
President - Togo
Dina Boluarte age 61
President - Peru
Bongbong Marcos age 65
President - Philippines
Patrice Talon age 65
President - Benin
Ibrahim Traoré age 35
President - Burkina Faso
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 66
President - Central African Republic
Vjosa Osmani age 41
President - Kosovo
João Lourenço age 69
President - Angola
Alar Karis age 65
President - Estonia
Luis Arce age 59
President - Bolivia
Andry Rajoelina age 49
President - Madagascar
Adama Barrow age 58
President - The Gambia
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 62
President - United Arab Emirates
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 75
President - Djibouti
Sadyr Japarov age 54
President - Kyrgyzstan
Stevo Pendarovski age 60
President - North Macedonia
Serdar Berdimuhamedow age 41
President - Turkmenistan
Edgars Rinkēvičs age 49
President - Latvia
Bola Tinubu age 71
President - Nigeria
William Ruto age 56
President - Kenya
Tupou VI of Tonga age 64
King - Tonga
Vahagn Khachatryan age 64
President - Armenia
Sandra Mason age 74
President - Barbados
Guðni Jóhannesson age 55
President - Iceland
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 67
Sultan - Oman
Mokgweetsi Masisi age 62
President - Botswana
Filipe Nyusi age 64
President - Mozambique
Arif Alvi age 74
President - Pakistan
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 86
Emir - Kuwait
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 74
President - Sri Lanka
Nataša Pirc Musar age 55
President - Slovenia
Kais Saied age 65
President - Tunisia