Short answers, pulled from the story.
Ferdinand Marcos was born on the 11th of September 1917 in the town of Sarrat, Ilocos Norte. He was the son of Mariano Marcos, a lawyer and congressman who was executed by Filipino guerrillas in 1945 for collaborating with the Japanese.
Ferdinand Marcos served as the tenth president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. His first term ran from 1965 to 1969, and his second term lasted from 1969 to 1972 before he declared martial law.
Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law on the 23rd of September 1972, marking the beginning of a 14-year period of one-man rule. This era involved the suspension of civil liberties and the arrest of over 60,000 Filipinos for political reasons.
Ferdinand Marcos died at St. Francis Medical Center in Honolulu at 12:40 a.m. on the 28th of September 1989. The cause of death was kidney, heart, and lung ailments, occurring 17 days after his 72nd birthday.
The Marcos family stole an estimated $5 billion to $10 billion from the Central Bank of the Philippines between 1965 and 1986. The Presidential Commission on Good Government maintained that the family enjoyed a decadent lifestyle funded by these billions of dollars.