Politician

Ephialtes led the radical democratic faction in Athens after the Persian Wars. Against conservative resistance he carried measures...

Tiberius Gracchus, tribune of the plebs, pushed an agrarian law to redistribute public land to landless citizens, alarming great l...

Gaius Gracchus, younger brother of Tiberius, served as tribune in 123 and 122 BCE and pushed a wider program: grain laws, colonies...

Marcus Tullius Cicero, the greatest orator of his age, had defended the Republic against Catiline and attacked Antony in the feroc...

George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, rose from minor gentry to be the dominant favorite of James I and Charles I, controlling patr...

Marat, a physician turned revolutionary pamphleteer, edited The Friend of the People and demanded heads with such effect that he w...

Kim Ok-gyun had led the three day Gapsin coup of December 1884, a Japanese-influenced attempt to modernize Korean government that ...

Canovas, the dominant conservative statesman of Restoration Spain, alternated in power with Sagasta under the constitution he wrot...

The heir to the Habsburg throne visited Bosnia on the anniversary of the Kosovo battle with his wife Sophie. Members of Young Bosn...

Collins, architect of the IRA guerrilla campaign and chairman of the provisional government that accepted the Anglo-Irish Treaty, ...

Zangara, an unemployed Italian immigrant bricklayer with chronic stomach pain and a generalized hatred of rulers, stood on a wobbl...

Dollfuss, leader of the Christian Social Party, had crushed the socialist Schutzbund in the February fighting of 1934 and governed...

Asanuma, chairman of the Japan Socialist Party and leader of the opposition, was famous for vigorous oratory and for a 1959 Beijin...

Count Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat and president of the Swedish Red Cross, had negotiated the release of thousands of prisoners fr...

Heydrich, head of the Reich Main Security Office, chaired the Wannsee conference that coordinated the genocide of the European Jew...

Trotsky, co-leader of October 1917 and founder of the Red Army, had been expelled by Stalin, deported, and hunted across the world...

Lumumba, the trade unionist who led the Congo to independence in June 1960 within months of release from prison, broke with Belgiu...

Kennedy, the attorney general of his brother administration and senator from New York, had entered the 1968 race after Eugene McCa...

Mondlane, a Mozambican of Tsonga background who had studied in the United States on missionary scholarships, earning a doctorate a...

Moscone, a liberal state senator turned mayor, had decided not to reappoint the resigned conservative supervisor Dan White to the ...

Milk, a camera store owner turned Castro district organizer, won a supervisor seat in 1977 after three attempts, becoming one of t...

Neave, a lawyer and wartime escaper of Colditz who had interrogated at Nuremberg, managed Margaret Thatcher leadership campaign an...

Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the war hero who had supervised the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947 and later s...

Moro, the Christian Democrat statesman who had engineered the historic compromise with the Communist Party, was kidnapped on 16 Ma...

Palme, the Social Democratic prime minister of Sweden and international voice of the nonaligned, disarmament, and anti-apartheid c...

Djindjic, the philosopher and opposition leader who organized the Bulldozer Revolution and delivered Milosevic to The Hague in 200...

Hariri, the construction billionaire who rebuilt Beirut after the civil war as prime minister through the 1990s, had broken with t...

Bhutto, the first woman to head a Muslim-majority government, had returned from exile weeks earlier to contest the postponed elect...

Nemtsov, the reform governor of Nizhny Novgorod and first deputy prime minister of the 1990s who became the most credibly national...

Karlov, a career diplomat serving as ambassador to Turkey during the Syria war rapprochement, was speaking at the Cagdas Sanatlar ...

Cox, a first-term MP and former Oxfam aid worker who chaired the all-party group on Syria and campaigned for refugees, was walking...

Abe, the dominant politician of the Heisei and Reiwa eras whose Abenomics and security redefined Japan role, was speaking for a lo...

Villavicencio, a journalist and assemblyman who had investigated state oil corruption and received death threats he attributed to ...

Nizam al-Mulk served for about three decades as the powerful vizier of the Seljuk sultans Alp Arslan and Malik-Shah I, effectively...

Ito Hirobumi was the leading statesman of Meiji Japan, the first Prime Minister of Japan, serving four terms, and the principal au...

Pyotr Stolypin was Prime Minister of Russia from 1906, combining harsh repression of the revolutionary movement after 1905 with am...

Jean Jaures was the leading figure of French socialism, founder of the newspaper L Humanite, and a celebrated orator who helped un...

Walther Rathenau, an industrialist who led the electrical company AEG, organized the supply of raw materials for Germany during Wo...

Huey Long, known as the Kingfish, dominated Louisiana as governor and then as a United States senator, building roads, schools, an...

Jorge Eliecer Gaitan was a populist leader of the Colombian Liberal Party, a powerful orator who attacked the oligarchy of both tr...

Benigno Ninoy Aquino Jr. was the leading opposition politician in the Philippines and a likely presidential candidate before Marco...

Rajiv Gandhi became Prime Minister of India in 1984 after the assassination of his mother Indira Gandhi and led the Congress Party...

Pim Fortuyn, a former sociology professor and columnist, founded his own party, the Pim Fortuyn List, in 2002 and rose rapidly in ...

Anna Lindh was a Social Democrat who served as minister for the environment and then foreign minister of Sweden from 1998, and was...

Ahmad Shah Massoud, known as the Lion of Panjshir, was a commander of the Afghan resistance against the Soviet occupation, repeate...