Gamal Abdel Nasser
1918 CE–1970 CE · Cairo
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) was an Egyptian military officer who was a leading figure in the 1952 revolution that overthrew the Egyptian monarchy. He became the second president of Egypt, assuming executive power in 1954 and being formally elected in 1956. In 1956 his government nationalized the Suez Canal Company, an event that precipitated the Suez Crisis, and he became a prominent advocate of Arab nationalism and non-alignment, briefly leading the union of Egypt and Syria as the United Arab Republic. He remained president until his death in 1970.
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- Leonid Brezhnev· 1906 CE–1982 CE
- Emperor Hirohito (Showa)· 1901 CE–1989 CE
- Georgy Malenkov· 1902 CE–1988 CE
- Lyndon B. Johnson· 1908 CE–1973 CE
- Kwame Nkrumah· 1909 CE–1972 CE
- Konstantin Chernenko· 1911 CE–1985 CE
- John F. Kennedy· 1917 CE–1963 CE
- Yuri Andropov· 1914 CE–1984 CE
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi· 1919 CE–1980 CE
- Deng Xiaoping· 1904 CE–1997 CE
- Zhou Enlai· 1898 CE–1976 CE
- Puyi (Xuantong Emperor)· 1906 CE–1967 CE
- Jomo Kenyatta· 1894 CE–1978 CE
- Sukarno· 1901 CE–1970 CE
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