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Knights Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

  • Mohammad Reza PahlaviMohammad Reza Pahlavi entered the world on the 26th of October 1919 in Tehran. He was born to Reza Khan, a Brigadier-General of the Persian Cossack Brigade…
  • Anwar SadatAnwar Sadat was born on the 25th of December 1918 in Mit Abu El Kom, a small town within the Monufia Governorate. He grew up in a poor family with fourteen…
  • François MitterrandFrançois Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was born on the 26th of October 1916 in Jarnac, Charente. His family was devoutly Catholic and conservative.
  • Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle was born on the 22nd of November 1890 in the northern French city of Lille. He entered the military academy at Saint-Cyr in October 1910…
  • Konrad AdenauerKonrad Adenauer was born on the 5th of January 1876 in Cologne, Rhenish Prussia. He grew up as the third of five children to Johann Konrad Adenauer and…
  • Boris YeltsinBoris Yeltsin was born on the 1st of February 1931 in the village of Butka, Ural Oblast. His family had lived in this area of the Urals since at least the…
  • Mobutu Sese SekoIn 1949, a young Joseph-Désiré Mobutu stowed away aboard a boat traveling down the Congo River to Léopoldville. He was only nineteen years old and had been…
  • HirohitoHirohito was born on the 29th of April 1901 at Tōgū Palace in Aoyama, Tokyo. He entered the world as Prince Michi during the reign of his grandfather…
  • Josip Broz TitoJosip Broz was born on the 7th of May 1892 in Kumrovec, a small village in northern Croatia. At that time, the land belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
  • 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…
  • Enrico De NicolaEnrico De Nicola was born in Naples on the 9th of November 1877. He studied law at the University of Naples and graduated in 1896.