Sukarno
1901 CE–1970 CE · Jakarta
Sukarno (1901–1970) was a leader of Indonesia's independence movement and the country's first president. He proclaimed Indonesian independence from Dutch colonial rule in 1945 and led the new republic through the subsequent struggle for international recognition. As president he articulated the state ideology of Pancasila and later governed through a system he called Guided Democracy. He was gradually stripped of power following the political upheaval of 1965–66 and was succeeded by Suharto.
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- Jomo Kenyatta· 1894 CE–1978 CE
- Mao Zedong· 1893 CE–1976 CE
- Puyi (Xuantong Emperor)· 1906 CE–1967 CE
- Zhou Enlai· 1898 CE–1976 CE
- Haile Selassie I· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Francisco Franco· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Edward VIII· 1894 CE–1972 CE
- Nikita Khrushchev· 1894 CE–1971 CE
- Chiang Kai-shek· 1887 CE–1975 CE
- Aung San· 1915 CE–1947 CE
- John F. Kennedy· 1917 CE–1963 CE
- Lyndon B. Johnson· 1908 CE–1973 CE
- Kwame Nkrumah· 1909 CE–1972 CE
- Charles de Gaulle· 1890 CE–1970 CE
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