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Born 1937 (age 88) • Kefa • Ethiopia
Title / Office president (1987-1991), Ethiopia
Yohannes IV
emperor of Ethiopia
Tewodros II
emperor of Ethiopia
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong
Chinese leader
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
English statesman
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
premier of Soviet Union
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Russian revolutionary
William III
William III
king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Lin Biao
Lin Biao
Chinese military leader
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Seleucid king
Efraín Ríos Montt
dictator of Guatemala
An Lushan
Chinese general
Dayton Accords
Slobodan Milošević
president of Yugoslavia
Kim Il-Sung
Kim Il-Sung
president of North Korea
Abimael Guzmán
Peruvian revolutionary
Zhu De
Chinese military leader
Aurelian
Aurelian
Roman emperor
Stenka Razin, detail of an engraving from “A Relation Concerning the Particulars of the Rebellion Lately Raised in Muscovy by Stenka Razin” (London, 1672)
Stenka Razin
Cossack leader
Ratko Mladić
Ratko Mladić
Bosnian Serb military leader
Pol Pot
Pol Pot
Cambodian political leader
Vo Nguyen Giap
Vo Nguyen Giap
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