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The word president is derived from the Latin prae- "before" + sedere "to sit." As such, it originally designated the officer who presides over or "sits before" a gathering and ensures that debate is conducted according to the rules of order (see also chairman and speaker). Early examples are from...
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Alexandre Pétion
Alexandre Sabès Pétion (April 2, 1770 – March 29, 1818) was President of the southern Republic of Haiti from 1806 until his death. He is considered as one of Haiti's founding fathers, together with Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and...
Date of birth:
- Apr 2, 1770
Date of death:
- Mar 29, 1818 (age 48 years)
Jean Pierre Boyer
Jean-Pierre Boyer (possibly February 15, 1776 – July 9, 1850), a native of Saint-Domingue, became a soldier, one of the leaders in the Haitian Revolution, and President of Haiti from 1818 to 1843. He reunited the North and South of Haiti in 1820. He...
Date of birth:
- Feb 15, 1776
Date of death:
- Jul 9, 1850 (age 74 years)
Charles Riviere-Hérard
Charles Rivière-Hérard also known as Charles Hérard Aîné (16 February 1789 - 31 August 1850) was an officer in the Haitian Army under Andre Petion during his struggles against Henri Christophe. He was declared President of Haiti on 4 April 1843. He...
Date of birth:
- Feb 16, 1789
Date of death:
- Aug 31, 1850 (age 61 years)
Stanisław Wojciechowski
Stanislaw Wojciechowski was born on March 15, 1869 in Kalisz, and died near Warsaw on April 9, 1953 at the age of 84. He was born into a family of Polish nobility, and the intelligentsia. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of...
Date of birth:
- Mar 15, 1869
Date of death:
- 1953 (age 83 years)
Fulgencio Batista
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a U.S.-backed Cuban general, President and dictator. He served as the leader of Cuba from 1933–1944, and 1952–1959, before being overthrown as a result of the Cuban Revolution....
Date of birth:
- Jan 16, 1901
Date of death:
- Aug 6, 1973 (age 72 years)
Urho Kekkonen
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (Finnish pronunciation: [urhɔ kɑlɛʋɑ kekːɔnɛn] ( listen); 3 September 1900 – 31 August 1986) was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland (1950–1953, 1954–1956) and later as President of Finland (1956–1982) ...
Date of birth:
- Sep 3, 1900
Date of death:
- Aug 31, 1986 (age 86 years)
Party:
Makarios III
Makarios III (Greek: Μακάριος Γ), born Mihail Christodoulou Mouskos (Greek: Μιχαήλ Χριστοδούλου Μούσκος) (August 13, 1913 – August 3, 1977), was the archbishop and primate of the autocephalous Cypriot Orthodox Church (1950–1977) and first and fourth...
Date of birth:
- Aug 13, 1913
Date of death:
- Aug 3, 1977 (age 64 years)
Diosdado Macapagal
Diosdado Pangan Macapagal (September 28, 1910 – April 21, 1997) was the 9th President of the Philippines, serving from 1961 to 1965, and the 6th Vice President of the Philippines, serving from 1957 to 1961.
Macapagal graduated from the University of...
Date of birth:
- Sep 28, 1910
Date of death:
- Apr 21, 1997 (age 86 years)
Party:
Jomo Kenyatta
Jomo Kenyatta (c. 1894 – 22 August 1978) served as the first Prime Minister (1963–1964) and President (1964–1978) of Kenya. He is considered the founding father of the Kenyan nation.
Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi's...
Date of birth:
- 1894
Date of death:
- Aug 22, 1978 (age 84 years)
Party:
Mutesa II of Buganda
Major General Sir Edward Frederick William David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Mutesa II KBE (November 19, 1924 - November 21, 1969), was Kabaka of the Kingdom of Buganda from November 22, 1939 until his death. He was the thirty fifth (35th) Kabaka of...
Date of birth:
- Nov 19, 1924
Date of death:
- Nov 21, 1969 (age 45 years)
Süleyman Demirel
Sami Süleyman Gündoğdu Demirel, better known as Süleyman Demirel (born 1 November 1924), is a Turkish politician who served as prime minister seven times and was the 9th President of Turkey. When he won the 1965 general elections in Turkey, he...
Date of birth:
- Nov 1, 1924 (age 85 years)
Party:
Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos (September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives (1949-1959) and a member of the Philippine Senate ...
Date of birth:
- Sep 11, 1917
Date of death:
- Sep 28, 1989 (age 72 years)
Suharto
Suharto (help·info) (8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was the second President of Indonesia, holding the office from 1967 to 1998.
Suharto was born in a small village near Yogyakarta, during the era of Dutch colonial control. His Javanese peasant...
Date of birth:
- Jun 8, 1921
Date of death:
- Jan 27, 2008 (age 86 years)
Party:
Idi Amin
Idi Amin Dada (c.1925 – 16 August 2003) was the military dictator and President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King's African Rifles, in 1946, and eventually held the rank of Major General and Commander...
Date of birth:
- 1924
Date of death:
- Aug 16, 2003 (age 79 years)
Samora Machel
Samora Moisés Machel (September 29, 1933 – October 19, 1986) was a Mozambican military commander, revolutionary socialist leader and eventual President of Mozambique. Machel led the country to independence in 1975 until his death in 1986, when his...
Date of birth:
- Sep 29, 1933
Date of death:
- Oct 19, 1986 (age 53 years)
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Yusuf Lule
Yusuf Kironde Lule (1912 - January 21, 1985) was provisional president of Uganda between 13 April and 20 June 1979. His name is sometimes spelled Yusufu.
As the leader of the Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF), Lule was installed as President...
Date of birth:
- 1912
Date of death:
- Jan 21, 1985 (age 73 years)
Godfrey Binaisa
Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa QC (born 30 May 1920), lawyer, former Provisional President of Uganda and Attorney General in the post independent government of Uganda of the 1960s.
Binaisa was educated at King's College Budo and Makerere College. He then...
Date of birth:
- May 30, 1920 (age 89 years)
François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand ( fʁɑ̃swa mɔʁis mitɛˈʁɑ̃ (help·info), 26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) served as the President of France from 1981 to 1995, elected as representative of the Socialist Party (PS). First elected during the May...
Date of birth:
- Oct 26, 1916
Date of death:
- Jan 8, 1996 (age 79 years)
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Mário Soares
Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, GColTE, GCC, GColL, KE (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmaɾiu suˈaɾɨʃ]; born 7 December 1924), Portuguese politician, served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as...
Date of birth:
- Dec 7, 1924 (age 85 years)
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Bazilio Olara-Okello
Bazilio Olara-Okello (1929 – 9 January 1990) was a Ugandan military officer and one of the commanders of the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) that together with the Tanzanian army overthrew Idi Amin in 1979. In 1985 he was briefly de facto...
Date of birth:
- 1929
Date of death:
- Jan 9, 1990 (age 61 years)
Tito Okello
Tito Lutwa Okello (1914 - June 3, 1996) was one of the commanders in the coalition between the Tanzanian army and the exiled Ugandans who removed Idi Amin in 1979, the Commander of the Ugandan National Liberation Army from 1980 to 1985, and the...
Date of birth:
- 1914
Date of death:
- Jun 3, 1996 (age 82 years)
Yoweri Museveni
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni ( pronunciation (help·info)) (born c. 1944, Ntungamo, Uganda Protectorate) has been the President of Uganda since 29 January 1986.
Museveni was involved in a war that deposed Idi Amin, ending his rule in 1979, and in the...
Date of birth:
- 1944 (age 66 years)
Corazon Aquino
Maria Corazon "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco Aquino (January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was the 11th President of the Philippines and the first woman to hold such office. Aquino was also the first elected female head of state in Asia. Aquino is best...
Date of birth:
- Jan 25, 1933
Date of death:
- Aug 1, 2009 (age 76 years)
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Robert Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Karigamombe Mugabe (born 21 February 1924) is the current President of Zimbabwe. He has held power as the head of government since 1980, as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987, and as the first executive head of state since 1987. In 2008...
Date of birth:
- Feb 21, 1924 (age 85 years)
Ranasinghe Premadasa
Ranasinghe Premadasa (June 23, 1924 - May 1, 1993) was the 3rd President of Sri Lanka from January 2, 1989 to May 1, 1993. Before that, he served as the Prime Minister in the government headed by J. R. Jayewardene from February 6, 1978 to January 1,...
Date of birth:
- Jun 23, 1924
Date of death:
- May 1, 1993 (age 68 years)
Party:
Carlos Salinas
Carlos Salinas de Gortari (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkarlos saˈlinaz ðe ɣorˈtaɾi]) (born in Mexico City on April 3, 1948) is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as President of...
Date of birth:
- Apr 3, 1948 (age 61 years)
Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević (sometimes transliterated as Miloshevich)(Serbian pronunciation: [sloˈbodan miˈloʃevitɕ] ( listen); Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Милошевић) (20 August 1941, Požarevac, Yugoslavia – 11 March 2006, The Hague, Netherlands) was...
Date of birth:
- Aug 20, 1941
Date of death:
- Mar 11, 2006 (age 64 years)
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Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин (help·info); Russian pronunciation: [bɐˈɾʲis nʲɪkɐˈɫaɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn]) (1 February 1931 –23 April 2007) was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999....
Date of birth:
- Feb 1, 1931
Date of death:
- Apr 23, 2007 (age 76 years)
Fidel V. Ramos
Fidel Valdez Ramos (born March 18, 1928), popularly known as FVR, was the 12th President of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998. During his six years in office, Ramos was widely credited and admired by many for revitalizing and renewing international...
Date of birth:
- Mar 18, 1928 (age 81 years)
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (help·info) (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkarlo a'dzɛʎʎo 'tʃampi]; born 9 December 1920) is an Italian politician and banker. He was Prime Minister of Italy from 1993 to 1994 and was President from 1999 to 2006. He is currently a...
Date of birth:
- Dec 9, 1920 (age 89 years)
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Kim Young-sam
Kim Young-sam (b. 20 December 1927 in Geoje, South Gyeongsang) was the first civilian President of South Korea since a series of dictatorships beginning with Park Chung-hee. Kim Young-sam was inaugurated on 25 February 1993 and served a single 5...
Date of birth:
- Dec 20, 1927 (age 82 years)
Party:
Joseph Estrada
Joseph Ejercito Estrada (born Jose Marcelo Ejercito on April 19, 1937) was the 13th President of the Philippines, serving from 1998 until his ouster in the 2001 EDSA Revolution.
Estrada gained popularity as a film actor, playing the lead role in...
Date of birth:
- Apr 19, 1937 (age 72 years)
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Путин (help·info), IPA [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ ˈputʲɪn]; born 7 October 1952) was the second President of Russia and is the current Prime Minister of Russia as well as chairman of...
Date of birth:
- Oct 7, 1952 (age 57 years)
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Gloria Arroyo is the current President of the Philippines. Daughter of former Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal she was born in 1947 in San Juan, Rizal. She earned Masters in economics from Ateneo de Manila University and Doctorate from...
Date of birth:
- Apr 5, 1947 (age 62 years)
Megawati Sukarnoputri
Diah Permata Megawati Setiawati Sukarnoputri (help·info) (born 23 January 1947), also known simply as Megawati, is an Indonesian politician, and leader of opposition party PDI-P. She served as the President of Indonesia from 23 July 2001 to 20...
Date of birth:
- Jan 23, 1947 (age 62 years)
Hu Jintao
Hu Jintao (simplified Chinese: 胡锦涛; traditional Chinese: 胡錦濤; pinyin: Hú Jǐntāo; Wade-Giles: Hu Chin-t'ao) (born 21 December 1942) is currently the Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China, holding the titles of General Secretary of the...
Date of birth:
- Dec 21, 1942 (age 67 years)
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João Bernardo Vieira
João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira (27 April 1939 – 2 March 2009) was the President of Guinea-Bissau from 1980 to 1999 and again from 2005 to 2009. After seizing power in 1980, Vieira ruled for 19 years, and he won a multiparty presidential election in...
Date of birth:
- Apr 27, 1939
Date of death:
- Mar 2, 2009 (age 69 years)
Party:
Tarja Halonen
Tarja Kaarina Halonen (help·info) (Finnish pronunciation: [tɑrjɑ kɑːrinɑ hɑlonen]; born 24 December 1943) is the 11th and current President of Finland. The first female to hold the office, Halonen had previously been a member of the parliament from...
Date of birth:
- Dec 24, 1943 (age 66 years)
Sheila Dixon
Sheila Ann Dixon (born December 27, 1953) is an American politician. She is the forty-eighth Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland. When former Mayor Martin O'Malley was sworn in as Governor on January 17, 2007, Dixon, a Democrat, became mayor and served out...
Date of birth:
- Dec 27, 1953 (age 56 years)
Party:
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy (pronounced [nikɔla saʁkɔzi] (help·info), born Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa on January 28, 1955) is the 23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He assumed the office on...
Date of birth:
- Jan 28, 1955 (age 54 years)
Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (Russian: Дми́трий Анато́льевич Медве́дев (help·info), Dmitrij Anatol′jevič Medvedev; Russian pronunciation: [ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪˈdvʲedʲɪf]; born 14 September 1965) is the third and current President of...
Date of birth:
- Sep 14, 1965 (age 44 years)
Burhanuddin Rabbani
Burhanuddin Rabbani (Persian: برهان الدين رباني - Burhânuddîn Rabbânî) (b. 1940 (age 68–69)), is a former President of Afghanistan. Burhanuddin Rabbani is the leader of Jamiat-e Islami Afghanistan (Islamic Society of Afghanistan). He also served as...
Date of birth:
- 1940 (age 70 years)
Party:
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek (traditional Chinese: 蔣中正 / 蔣介石; simplified Chinese: 蒋中正 / 蒋介石; pinyin: Jiǎng Jièshí; but see names below) (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975) was a political and military leader of 20th century China. He was an influential member of...
Date of birth:
- Oct 31, 1887
Date of death:
- Apr 5, 1975 (age 87 years)
Party:
Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz Tito (Cyrillic script: Јосип Броз Тито, (7 or 25 May 1892 – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. He was Secretary-General (later President) of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1939–80), and went on to lead the...
Date of birth:
- 1892
Date of death:
- May 4, 1980 (age 88 years)
Kim Il-sung
Kim Il-sung (Korean: 김일성) (15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was a Korean communist politician who led North Korea from its founding in 1948 until his death. He held the posts of Prime Minister from 1948 to 1972 and President from 1972 to his death. He...
Date of birth:
- Apr 15, 1912
Date of death:
- Jul 8, 1994 (age 82 years)
Party:
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong (simplified Chinese: 毛泽东; traditional Chinese: 毛澤東; pinyin: Máo Zédōng; Wade-Giles: Mao Tse-tung) pronunciation (help·info) (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976) was a Chinese revolutionary, political theorist and Communist leader. He...
Date of birth:
- Dec 26, 1893
Date of death:
- Sep 9, 1976 (age 82 years)
Party:
Pervez Musharraf
General (ret) Pervez Musharraf (Urdu: پرویز مشرف) (born 11 August 1943), NI(M), TBt, was the 10th President of Pakistan and the Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army,.
He took power on 12 October 1999, following a nonviolent military coup d'état...
Date of birth:
- Aug 11, 1943 (age 66 years)
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Paul von Hindenburg
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg ( listen (help·info)), known universally as Paul von Hindenburg ( listen (help·info)) (2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934) was a German field marshal, statesman, and politician, and served as...
Date of birth:
- Oct 2, 1847
Date of death:
- Aug 2, 1934 (age 86 years)
José Ramos Horta
José Manuel Ramos-Horta (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ ˈʁɐmuz ˈoɾtɐ]), GCL (born 26 December 1949) is the second President of East Timor since independence from Indonesia, taking office on 20 May 2007. He is a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace...
Date of birth:
- Dec 26, 1949 (age 60 years)
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Mohammed Daoud Khan
Mohammed Daoud (Daud) Khan or Muḥammad Dāwud Ḫān (July 18, 1909 – April 28, 1978) was an Afghan prince and politician in Afghanistan who overthrew the monarchy of his first cousin Mohammed Zahir Shah and became the first President of Afghanistan...
Date of birth:
- Jul 18, 1909
Date of death:
- Apr 28, 1978 (age 68 years)
Xanana Gusmão
Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão GCL (born José Alexandre Gusmão, on 20 June 1946) is a former militant who was the first President of East Timor, serving from May 2002 to May 2007. He later became the fourth and current Prime Minister of East Timor on 8...
Date of birth:
- Jun 20, 1946 (age 63 years)
Yuan Shikai
Yuan Shikai (simplified Chinese: 袁世凯; traditional Chinese: 袁世凱; pinyin: Yuán Shìkǎi; Wade-Giles: Yüan Shih-k'ai; Courtesy Wèitíng 慰亭; Pseudonym: Róng'ān 容庵, also named after birthplace Yuán Xiàngchéng 袁项城) ( 16 September 1859 – 6 June 1916) was an...
Date of birth:
- Sep 16, 1859
Date of death:
- Jun 6, 1916 (age 56 years)
Chiang Ching-kuo
Chiang Ching-kuo (simplified Chinese: 蒋经国; traditional Chinese: 蔣經國; pinyin: Jiǎng Jīngguó; Wade-Giles: Chiang Ching-kuo; POJ: ChiúⁿKeng-kok; Shanghai/Ningbo dialect: [tɕiã.tɕiŋ.koʔ]) (April 27, 1910 – January 13, 1988), Kuomintang (KMT) politician...
Date of birth:
- Apr 27, 1910
Date of death:
- Jan 13, 1988 (age 77 years)
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Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born July 15, 1953) is a Haitian politician and former Roman Catholic priest. He was briefly President of Haiti in 1991, prior to a September 1991 military coup, and was President again from 1994 to 1996 and from 2001 to 2004...
Date of birth:
- Jul 15, 1953 (age 56 years)
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Fernando Collor de Mello
<div id="article-1002" class="article"> Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello, pron. , (born August 12, 1949) was president of Brazil from 1990 to 1992, when he resigned to avoid being impeached. He was elected a Senator of...
Date of birth:
- Aug 12, 1949 (age 60 years)
François Duvalier
Dr. François Duvalier, known as "Papa Doc" (April 14, 1907 – April 21, 1971), was the President of Haiti from 1957 to 1971. In 1964 he announced himself President for Life. He ruled until his death in 1971 in a regime marked by autocracy, corruption...
Date of birth:
- Apr 14, 1907
Date of death:
- Apr 21, 1971 (age 64 years)
Hamid Karzai
Hamid Karzai (Pashto: حامد کرزی - Ḥāmid Karzay; born 24 December 1957) is the 12th and current President of Afghanistan, taking office on December 7, 2004. He became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban government in late...
Date of birth:
- Dec 24, 1957 (age 52 years)
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Mohammed Omar
Mullah Mohammed Omar (Pashto: ملا محمد عمر) (born c. 1959, Nodeh, near Kandahar) often simply called Mullah Omar, is the leader of the Taliban of Afghanistan and was Afghanistan's de facto head of state, and was recognized by three states, from 1996...
Date of birth:
- 1959 (age 51 years)
Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-sen (pinyin Sūn Yìxiān) (12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925) was a Chinese revolutionary and political leader. As the foremost pioneer of Republican China, Sun is frequently referred to as the Father of the Nation. Sun played an instrumental...
Date of birth:
- Nov 12, 1866
Date of death:
- Mar 12, 1925 (age 58 years)
Party:
Liu Shaoqi
Liu Shaoqi (simplified Chinese: 刘少奇; traditional Chinese: 劉少奇; pinyin: Liú Shàoqí; Wade-Giles: Liu Shao-ch'i) (24 November 1898 – 12 November 1969) was a Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and theorist. He was Chairman of the People's Republic of...
Date of birth:
- Nov 24, 1898
Date of death:
- Nov 12, 1969 (age 71 years)
