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World War II political leaders
- Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin Delano Roosevelt entered the world on the 30th of January 1882, inside Springwood, a sprawling estate located south of Hyde Park in New York.
- Winston ChurchillOn the 30th of November 1874, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at his family's ancestral home, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.
- Joseph StalinJoseph Stalin signed his articles "K. Stalin", an alias drawn from the Russian word for steel, translated as "Man of Steel." The man who chose it was born…
- Neville ChamberlainArthur Neville Chamberlain entered the world on the 18th of March 1869 at a house called Southbourne in the Edgbaston district of Birmingham.
- Heinrich HimmlerHeinrich Luitpold Himmler was born in Munich on the 7th of October 1900 into a conservative middle-class Catholic family.
- 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…
- Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler was born on the 20th of April 1889 in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria-Hungary. He lived with his father Alois and mother Klara Pölzl.
- 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.
- Alexei KosyginAlexei Nikolayevich Kosygin was born in the city of Saint Petersburg on the 18th of February 1904. He grew up in a Russian working-class family with his…
- 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…
- Harry S. TrumanHarry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, on the 8th of May 1884. He grew up as the oldest child of John Anderson Truman and Martha Ellen Young Truman.
- Vyacheslav MolotovVyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin was born in the village of Kukarka, Yaransk Uyezd, Vyatka Governorate. He grew up as the son of a merchant and spent his…
- 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…
- Clement AttleeClement Richard Attlee was born on the 3rd of January 1883 in Putney, Surrey. He grew up in a two-storey villa with a large garden and tennis court.
- 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…
- Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl WavellArchibald Percival Wavell was born on the 5th of May 1883 to Archibald Graham Wavell and Lillie Wavell. His father later became a major-general in the…
- Joachim von RibbentropUlrich Friedrich-Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop was born on the 30th of April 1893 in Wesel, Rhine Province. His father Richard Ulrich Friedrich Joachim…
- 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…
- 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…
- Mamoru ShigemitsuMamoru Shigemitsu was born in what is now part of the city of Bungo-ōno, located within Oita Prefecture. He graduated from the Law School of Tokyo Imperial…
- 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.
- Lutz Graf Schwerin von KrosigkJohann Ludwig von Krosigk entered the world on the 22nd of August 1887 in Rathmannsdorf, a small village within the Duchy of Anhalt.
- 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…
- İsmet İnönüMustafa İsmet was born on the 24th of September 1884 in Smyrna, now known as İzmir. His father Hacı Reşit served as a director within the War Ministry before…
- 14th Dalai LamaOn the 6th of July 1935, a child named Lhamo Thondup was born into a farming family in the small hamlet of Taktser. This village sat on the edge of the…