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1961-01-01 - 1962-12-01
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1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10
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1961-09-28
People
Charles de Gaulle
age 70
President
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France
Lê Duẩn
age 54
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek
age 73
President
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Republic of China
Ho Chi Minh
age 71
President
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Vietnam
Hirohito
age 60
Emperor
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Japan
John F. Kennedy
age 44
President
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United States
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 43
President
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Egypt
Nikita Khrushchev
age 67
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Liu Shaoqi
age 62
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Kim Il-sung
age 49
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 53
Vice President
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United States
Konrad Adenauer
age 85
Chancellor
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Germany
Elizabeth II
age 35
Queen
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United Kingdom
Fidel Castro
age 35
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Mao Zedong
age 67
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Hubert Humphrey
age 50
Senate
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United States
Zhou Enlai
age 63
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Melvin Laird
age 39
House of Representatives
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 48
House of Representatives
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United States
Daniel Inouye
age 37
House of Representatives
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United States
Soong Ching-ling
age 68
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Earl Warren
age 70
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Robert F. Kennedy
age 35
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Dong Biwu
age 75
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Robert McNamara
age 45
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Margaret Thatcher
age 35
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Winston Churchill
age 86
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Deng Xiaoping
age 57
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
Potter Stewart
age 46
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II
age 62
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 55
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Nelson Rockefeller
age 53
Governor of New York
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United States
William H. Webster
age 37
Republican Party (United States)
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 38
Kuomintang
Henry Kissinger
age 38
Republican Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
age 37
Republican Party (United States)
Jimmy Carter
age 37
Democratic Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 66
Republican Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 67
Nazi Party
Clark Clifford
age 54
Democratic Party (United States)
Yang Shangkun
age 54
Communist Party of China
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 54
Democratic Party (United States)
Wang Zhen (general)
age 53
Communist Party of China
Thurgood Marshall
age 53
Democratic Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 53
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Xiannian
age 52
Communist Party of China
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 51
Kuomintang
Ronald Reagan
age 50
Republican Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 49
Democratic Party (United States)
Sun Yun-suan
age 47
Kuomintang
Hu Yaobang
age 45
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 45
Communist Party of China
Byron White
age 44
Democratic Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 42
Democratic Party (United States)
Zhao Ziyang
age 41
Communist Party of China
John Paul Stevens
age 41
Republican Party (United States)
Hua Guofeng
age 40
Communist Party of China
Stephen Breyer
age 23
United States Army
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 73
Communist Party of Vietnam
David Souter
age 22
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 21
Democratic Party (United States)
Dick Cheney
age 20
Republican Party (United States)
Wen Jiabao
age 19
Communist Party of China
Joe Biden
age 18
Democratic Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 18
Communist Party of China
John Kerry
age 17
Democratic Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
age 15
Democratic Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
age 13
Democratic Party (United States)
Douglas MacArthur
age 81
United States Army
Condoleezza Rice
age 6
Republican Party (United States)
Herbert Hoover
age 87
Republican Party (United States)
Li Keqiang
age 6
Communist Party of China
Mike Pence
age 2
Republican Party (United States)
Barack Obama
age 1 month
Democratic Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 31
Republican Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 32
Republican Party (United States)
James Baker
age 31
Democratic Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 70
Nazi Party
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 71
Republican Party (United States)
Anthony Kennedy
age 25
United States Army
Lien Chan
age 25
Kuomintang
Jiang Zemin
age 35
Communist Party of China
Li Peng
age 32
Communist Party of China
Colin Powell
age 24
United States Army
Walter Mondale
age 33
Democratic Party (United States)
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 32
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Juan José Arévalo
age 57
Albert Speer
age 56
Clement Attlee
age 78
Kliment Voroshilov
age 80
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 56
Puyi
age 55
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 81
Leonid Brezhnev
age 54
Franz von Papen
age 81
Hjalmar Schacht
age 84
Thomas Gage
age 243
Omar Bradley
age 68
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 55
Hubert Gough
age 91
John Nance Garner
age 92
Robert A. Lovett
age 66
He Yingqin
age 71
Otto Hofmann
age 65
Henry A. Wallace
age 73
Semyon Timoshenko
age 66
Anthony Eden
age 64
Peng Dehuai
age 62
Erich von Manstein
age 73
Rodion Malinovsky
age 62
Naoki Hoshino
age 69
Francisco Franco
age 68
Courtney Hodges
age 74
Zhu De
age 74
Raymond A. Spruance
age 75
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 76
Edward VIII
age 67
Souvanna Phouma
age 60
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 59
Chester W. Nimitz
age 76
Harry S. Truman
age 77
Boris Yeltsin
age 30
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 30
Jacques Chirac
age 28
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 28
Antonin Scalia
age 25
Saddam Hussein
age 24
Gennady Yanayev
age 24
Zeng Qinghong
age 22
Kim Jong-il
age 20
Muhammad Ali
age 19
John Major
age 18
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 16
Donald Trump
age 15
Ellison Onizuka
age 15
George W. Bush
age 15
Dan Quayle
age 14
Al Gore
age 13
Clarence Thomas
age 13
Charles III
age 12
Narendra Modi
age 11
Ronald McNair
age 10
Gordon Brown
age 10
Tony Blair
age 8
Xi Jinping
age 8
François Hollande
age 7
John Roberts
age 6
Nicolas Sarkozy
age 6
Tim Berners-Lee
age 6
Theresa May
age 4
Baldur von Schirach
age 54
Warren E. Burger
age 54
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 53
Souphanouvong
age 52
Abe Fortas
age 51
Konstantin Chernenko
age 50
Clarence M. Kelley
age 49
Jo Ann Robinson
age 49
Richard Nixon
age 48
Rosa Parks
age 48
Jacobo Árbenz
age 48
Yuri Andropov
age 47
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 45
John Connally
age 44
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 43
Nelson Mandela
age 43
Spiro Agnew
age 42
George Shultz
age 40
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 39
Lee Teng-hui
age 38
William Rehnquist
age 37
Pol Pot
age 36
Malcolm X
age 36
Warren Christopher
age 35
Ramsey Clark
age 33
Zhu Rongji
age 32
Yasser Arafat
age 32
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 31
Hafez al-Assad
age 31