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Also Known As	Galon U Saw
Born	1900
Died	May 8, 1948 (aged 48)
Title / Office	prime minister (1940-1942), Myanmar
Political Affiliation	Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League

Aung San

Myanmar nationalist

U Nu

prime minister of Myanmar

Thakin Than Tun

Myanmar politician

Udham Singh

Indian revolutionary

U Ne Win

Myanmar general and dictator

Saya San

Myanmar leader

Felice Orsini

Italian revolutionary

Aristogeiton

Greek tyrannicide

John Wilkes Booth

American actor and assassin

Lee Harvey Oswald

American accused assassin

LaFayette Curry Baker

United States general

Marcus Junius Brutus

Roman politician

Sirhan Sirhan

Palestinian-born Jordanian assassin

Leon Czolgosz

American assassin

Mary Surratt

American businesswoman

Lorenzino de’ Medici

Italian writer and assassin

Gaius Cassius Longinus

Roman quaestor

Tenji

emperor of Japan

Gavrilo Princip

Slavic nationalist

Boris Viktorovich Savinkov

Russian revolutionary

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