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1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
People
Pol Pot
age 47
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Chiang Kai-shek
age 84
President
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Republic of China
Lê Duẩn
age 65
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Leonid Brezhnev
age 65
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Hafez al-Assad
age 41
President
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Syria
Souvanna Phouma
age 70
Prime Minister
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Laos
Richard Nixon
age 59
President
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United States
Hirohito
age 71
Emperor
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Japan
Saddam Hussein
age 35
Vice President
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Iraq
Dong Biwu
age 86
Acting Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Kim Il-sung
age 60
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Spiro Agnew
age 53
Vice President
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United States
Fidel Castro
age 45
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Elizabeth II
age 46
Queen
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United Kingdom
Mao Zedong
age 78
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Walter Mondale
age 44
Senate
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United States
Zhou Enlai
age 74
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Hubert Humphrey
age 61
Senate
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United States
Daniel Inouye
age 47
Senate
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 58
House of Representatives
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United States
Soong Ching-ling
age 79
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Warren E. Burger
age 64
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Melvin Laird
age 49
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
John Connally
age 55
Secretary Of The Treasury
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United States
Margaret Thatcher
age 46
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Potter Stewart
age 57
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 66
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Byron White
age 54
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall
age 63
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 64
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William Rehnquist
age 47
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Nelson Rockefeller
age 63
Governor of New York
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United States
Jimmy Carter
age 47
Governor of Georgia
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United States
Ronald Reagan
age 61
Governor of California
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United States
James R. Schlesinger
age 43
Republican Party (United States)
Zhao Ziyang
age 52
Communist Party of China
Li Peng
age 43
Communist Party of China
John Paul Stevens
age 52
Republican Party (United States)
Sun Yun-suan
age 58
Kuomintang
Jiang Zemin
age 45
Communist Party of China
Bill Clinton
age 25
Democratic Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 78
Nazi Party
Yang Shangkun
age 64
Communist Party of China
Hillary Clinton
age 24
Democratic Party (United States)
Wang Zhen (general)
age 64
Communist Party of China
Barack Obama
age 10
Democratic Party (United States)
Hu Yaobang
age 56
Communist Party of China
Karl Dönitz
age 80
Nazi Party
George H. W. Bush
age 47
Republican Party (United States)
William H. Webster
age 48
Republican Party (United States)
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 48
Kuomintang
Henry Kissinger
age 49
Republican Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 63
Democratic Party (United States)
Rong Yiren
age 56
Communist Party of China
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 83
Communist Party of Vietnam
Hua Guofeng
age 51
Communist Party of China
Wen Jiabao
age 29
Communist Party of China
Li Keqiang
age 16
Communist Party of China
Dick Cheney
age 31
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 32
Democratic Party (United States)
David Souter
age 32
Republican Party (United States)
Joe Biden
age 29
Democratic Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 29
Communist Party of China
Liz Cheney
age 5
Republican Party (United States)
Mike Pence
age 12
Republican Party (United States)
Colin Powell
age 35
United States Army
Lien Chan
age 35
Kuomintang
Deng Xiaoping
age 67
Communist Party of China
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 62
Kuomintang
Kamala Harris
age 7
Democratic Party (United States)
Condoleezza Rice
age 17
Republican Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 60
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 28
United States Navy
George Wallace
age 52
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Xiannian
age 62
Communist Party of China
James Baker
age 42
Democratic Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 42
Republican Party (United States)
Clark Clifford
age 65
Democratic Party (United States)
George W. Bush
age 25
Air National Guard
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 63
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 87
Harry S. Truman
age 88
Souphanouvong
age 62
Abe Fortas
age 61
Thomas Gage
age 254
Peng Dehuai
age 73
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 69
Anthony Eden
age 74
Juan José Arévalo
age 67
Albert Speer
age 67
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 66
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 66
Otto Hofmann
age 76
Robert A. Lovett
age 76
Edward VIII
age 77
Baldur von Schirach
age 65
Omar Bradley
age 79
Francisco Franco
age 79
Naoki Hoshino
age 80
Earl Warren
age 81
He Yingqin
age 82
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 63
Erich von Manstein
age 84
Zhu De
age 85
Stephen Breyer
age 33
Zeng Qinghong
age 32
Kim Jong-il
age 31
Muhammad Ali
age 30
John Major
age 29
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 26
Donald Trump
age 25
Ellison Onizuka
age 25
Dan Quayle
age 25
Al Gore
age 24
Clarence Thomas
age 23
Charles III
age 23
Narendra Modi
age 21
Ronald McNair
age 21
Gordon Brown
age 21
Tony Blair
age 19
Xi Jinping
age 18
François Hollande
age 17
John Roberts
age 17
Nicolas Sarkozy
age 17
Tim Berners-Lee
age 16
Theresa May
age 15
Keir Starmer
age 9
Boris Johnson
age 7
Konstantin Chernenko
age 60
Clarence M. Kelley
age 60
Jo Ann Robinson
age 60
Rosa Parks
age 59
Yuri Andropov
age 57
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 56
Robert McNamara
age 55
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 53
Nelson Mandela
age 53
George Shultz
age 51
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 50
Lee Teng-hui
age 49
Warren Christopher
age 46
Ramsey Clark
age 44
Zhu Rongji
age 43
Yasser Arafat
age 42
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 41
Boris Yeltsin
age 41
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 41
Jacques Chirac
age 39
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 39
Antonin Scalia
age 36
Anthony Kennedy
age 35
Gennady Yanayev
age 34
David Cameron
age 5