Curated category
Politicide perpetrators
- Mohammad Reza PahlaviMohammad Reza Pahlavi was born on the 26th of October 1919 in Tehran, the eldest son of a Brigadier-General who had not yet become king.
- CaracallaCaracalla was born Lucius Septimius Bassianus on the 4th of April 188 in Lugdunum, Gaul, the city now called Lyon, France.
- Ferdinand MarcosFerdinand Marcos arrived in Hawaii in February 1986 with 22 crates of cash valued at $717 million, 300 crates of jewelry, and a 12 by 4 foot box full of…
- Ruhollah KhomeiniRuhollah Khomeini died on the 3rd of June 1989, and the streets of Tehran became something the world had never quite seen before.
- Mao ZedongMao Zedong was born to a peasant family in Shaoshan, a village in Hunan, on the 26th of December 1893, near the end of the Qing dynasty. His father beat him.
- Fidel CastroFidel Alejandro Castro Ruz delivered the longest speech ever heard before the United Nations General Assembly, speaking for four and a half hours in 1960.
- Anwar SadatAnwar Sadat was assassinated on the 6th of October 1981, by soldiers under his own command, at a parade held to celebrate a war he himself had launched.
- Benito MussoliniBenito Mussolini was named after a Mexican president. His father, a blacksmith and a socialist, chose the name Benito for the liberal Mexican leader Benito…
- SuhartoSuharto ruled Indonesia for 31 years, longer than any other president in the country's history. He was born on the 8th of June 1921 in a…
- Chiang Kai-shekChiang Kai-shek was born on the 31st of October 1887, in Xikou, a small town in Fenghua, Zhejiang, about 30 kilometers west of central Ningbo.
- NeroNero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus died on the 9th of June AD 68 with a private secretary's hand helping him drive a blade home.
- Nur Muhammad TarakiNur Muhammad Taraki was born on the 14th of July 1917 to a peasant family in the Nawa District of Ghazni Province, in what was then the Emirate of…
- Hafizullah AminHafizullah Amin held supreme power over Afghanistan for a little over three months in 1979. In that time he seized the presidency, executed his own mentor…
- Maximilien RobespierreMaximilien Robespierre was born in Arras on the 6th of May 1758. Thirty-six years later, on the 28th of July 1794, he was executed without trial, sent to the…
- Carol II of RomaniaCarol was born in Peleș Castle as the son of Crown Prince Ferdinand and Crown Princess Marie. He spent his early years under the thumb of King Carol I, a…
- CaligulaCaligula, the third Roman emperor, came to power in AD 37 at age 24, welcomed by a city delirious with relief. Tiberius, his grim predecessor, had spent his…
- Kim Il SungKim Il Sung arrived at the Korean port of Wonsan on the 19th of September 1945, stepping off a ship as a 33-year-old captain in the Soviet Red Army after 26…
- Lavrentiy BeriaLavrentiy Beria stood over Stalin's paralysed body on the 2nd of March 1953, dismissed the frantic aide who pleaded for a doctor, and walked out of the dacha…
- Catherine de' MediciCatherine de' Medici was born on the 13th of April 1519 in Florence, and within a month both her parents were dead. Her mother Madeleine died of puerperal…
- Tokugawa IeyasuTokugawa Ieyasu was born Matsudaira Takechiyo on the 31st of January, 1543, in Okazaki Castle, to a minor warlord who could not even protect his own son.
- Francisco FrancoFrancisco Franco was shot in the abdomen in 1916, aged 23, during an assault on Moroccan positions at El Biutz, in the hills near Ceuta.
- Mobutu Sese SekoMobutu Sese Seko was born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu on the 14th of October 1930 in Lisala, in the Belgian Congo. His father was a cook for a Belgian judge.
- Carlos Castillo ArmasCarlos Castillo Armas was shot dead on the 26th of July 1957, inside the presidential palace in Guatemala City, by a member of his own guard.
- SullaSulla composed his own epitaph. Carved into his tomb on the Campus Martius, it read: "No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not…
- Efraín Ríos MonttEfraín Ríos Montt died of a heart attack at his home in Guatemala City on the 1st of April 2018, at the age of 91, without ever completing a criminal trial.
- Slobodan MiloševićSlobodan Milošević was born in Požarevac on the 20th of August 1941, four months after Axis forces had overrun the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.