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 II of Romania left his country on the 6th of September 1940 with a train loaded with 30 truckloads of his personal fortune.
- 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.