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Heads of state and government who were later imprisoned

  • Benito MussoliniBenito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was born on the 29th of July 1883 in Dovia di Predappio, a small town in the province of Forlì.
  • Indira GandhiIndira Gandhi was born on the 19th of November 1917 in Allahabad, British India. Her father Jawaharlal Nehru led the independence movement while her mother…
  • Mary, Queen of ScotsOn the 8th of December 1542, a baby girl was born at Linlithgow Palace in West Lothian. Her father, King James V, died six days later on the 14th of December.
  • Lady Jane GreyJane Grey sat in the presence of her father or mother, speaking, keeping silence, sitting, standing, going, eating, drinking, merrily or sadly.
  • Louis XVILouis-Auguste de France entered the world on the 23rd of August 1754 within the Palace of Versailles. He was the second surviving son of Louis, Dauphin of…
  • Édouard DaladierÉdouard Daladier was born in Carpentras, a town in the Vaucluse region of France, on the 18th of June 1884. He grew up as the son of a village baker and…
  • Charles I of EnglandCharles Stuart entered the world at Dunfermline Palace on the 19th of November 1600 as the second son of King James VI of Scotland.
  • Ion AntonescuIon Antonescu was born in the town of Pitești, north-west of the capital Bucharest. He grew up as the scion of an upper-middle class Romanian Orthodox family…
  • Jefferson DavisJefferson F. Davis was born on the 3rd of June 1808 at a family homestead in Davisburg, Kentucky. He was the youngest of ten children born to Jane and Samuel…
  • Valerian (emperor)Valerian entered the Senate before AD 238 as a Suffectus consul. He later served as Ordinarius consul in that same year, marking his early ascent within…
  • Patrice LumumbaOn the 2nd of July 1925, Isaïe Tasumbu Tawosa was born in Onalua within the Katakokombe region of Kasai province. He belonged to the Tetela ethnic group and…
  • SukarnoKoesno Sosrodihardjo was born on the 6th of June 1901 in Surabaya, East Java. His father served as a primary school teacher while his mother came from a…
  • Imre NagyImre Nagy was born prematurely on the 7th of June 1896 in Kaposvár, a small town within the Kingdom of Hungary. His father József Nagy worked as a carriage…
  • Wojciech JaruzelskiIn June 1941, a young boy named Wojciech Jaruzelski stood on a railway platform in Poland. He watched his family stripped of their possessions before being…
  • Karl DönitzOn the 2nd of July 1918, Karl Dönitz took command of the submarine UB-68 in the Mediterranean Sea. He operated near Malta while attacking a convoy that…
  • Hideki TojoHideki Tojo was born in the Kōjimachi district of Tokyo on the 30th of December 1884. He entered a world where society remained rigidly divided into four…
  • Erich HoneckerErich Honecker was born on the 25th of August 1912 in Neunkirchen, a town in what is now Saarland. His father Wilhelm worked as a coal miner and political…
  • Slobodan MiloševićSlobodan Milošević was born on the 20th of August 1941 in Požarevac, four months after Axis forces invaded the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.