Curated category
Politicide perpetrators
- 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…
- CaracallaLucius Septimius Bassianus entered the world on the 4th of April 188 in the city of Lugdunum, Gaul. This location is now known as Lyon, France.
- Ferdinand MarcosFerdinand Marcos entered the world on the 11th of September 1917 in Sarrat, Ilocos Norte. His father Mariano was a lawyer and congressman who later died as a…
- Ruhollah KhomeiniRuhollah Musavi Khomeini was born on the 17th of May 1900 in the small town of Khomeyn. His father Mustafa Musawi died when Ruhollah was only two years old.
- Mao ZedongMao Zedong was born on the 26th of December 1893 in Shaoshan village, Hunan. His father Mao Yichang had risen from poverty to become one of the wealthiest…
- Fidel CastroFidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born out of wedlock on the 13th of August 1926 at his father's farm in Birán, Cuba. His father, Ángel Castro y Argiz, had…
- 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…
- 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.
- SuhartoOn the 8th of June 1921, a boy named Suharto was born inside a house with walls made of plaited bamboo in the hamlet of Kemusuk.
- Chiang Kai-shekOn the 31st of October 1887, a boy named Chiang Jui-yüan was born in the small town of Xikou. This place sat at the foot of the Wuling Mountains in Fenghua…
- NeroLucius Domitius Ahenobarbus was born on the 15th of December AD 37 in Antium. His father died when he was three years old, leaving him an orphan at a young…
- Nur Muhammad TarakiNur Muhammad Taraki was born on the 14th of July 1917 in Nawa, a district within Ghazni Province. He grew up as part of a Ghilji Pashtun peasant family that…
- Hafizullah AminHafizullah Amin was born on the 1st of August 1929 in Qazi Khel village, a small community within the town of Paghman. His father died when he was eight…
- Maximilien RobespierreMaximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was baptised on the 6th of May 1758 in the city of Arras, located in Artois.
- 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…
- CaligulaGaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was born on the 31st of August in AD 12 at Antium. He was only four or five years old when he accompanied his father…
- Kim Il SungKim Song Ju arrived in the small village of Namni near Pyongyang on the 15th of April 1912. His family belonged to the Jeonju Kim clan, which had settled in…
- Lavrentiy BeriaLavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was born in the village of Merkheuli, near Sukhumi, within the Kutais Governorate of the Russian Empire.
- Catherine de' MediciCatherine de' Medici was born on the 13th of April 1519 in Florence, Republic of Florence. Her parents were Lorenzo de' Medici and Madeleine de La Tour…
- Tokugawa IeyasuOn the 26th day of the twelfth month in the eleventh year of Tenbun, which corresponds to the 31st of January 1543, a boy named Matsudaira Takechiyo was born…
- Francisco FrancoOn the 4th of December 1892, Francisco Franco was born in the Calle Frutos Saavedra of Ferrol, Galicia. He entered the Infantry Academy in Toledo at age…
- 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…
- Carlos Castillo ArmasCarlos Castillo Armas was born on the 4th of November 1914 in Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa. He grew up as the son of a landowner but remained out of wedlock and…
- SullaLucius Cornelius Sulla Felix was born in Rome around 138 BC into a branch of the patrician gens Cornelia that had fallen to poverty.
- Efraín Ríos MonttEfraín Ríos Montt was born on the 16th of June 1926 into a large ladino family of the rural middle class in Huehuetenango, a small city in the highlands of…
- Slobodan MiloševićSlobodan Milošević was born on the 20th of August 1941 in Požarevac, four months after Axis forces invaded the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.