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Mohammad Hatta
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Mohammad Hatta

Mohammad Hatta (Bung Hatta)
🇮🇩 Dutch East Indies
1902 – 1980 (77 years old)

Founding Father and first Vice President of Indonesia 'Bung Hatta' who co-proclaimed Indonesian independence alongside Sukarno on August 17, 1945, led the delegation to the 1949 Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference, and founded the Indonesian cooperative economic movement.

Jakarta, Indonesia
Houari Boumédiène
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Houari Boumédiène

هواري بومدين
🇩🇿 Algeria
1932 – 1978 (46 years old)

Commanding Algerian statesman and military strategist who served as Chief of Staff of the ALN, Chairman of the Revolutionary Council, and President of Algeria (1965–1978), championing industrialization, nationalization of hydrocarbons, and Third World non-alignment.

Algiers, Algeria
Cyrille Adoula
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Cyrille Adoula

Cyrille Adoula
🇨🇩 Belgian Congo
1921 – 1978 (56 years old)

Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo who formed a government of national reconciliation during the Congo Crisis and successfully reintegrated secessionist Katanga.

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ba Maw
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Ba Maw

ဒေါက်တာဘမော်
🇲🇲 British Burma
1893 – 1977 (84 years old)

Burmese statesman who served as the first Premier of British Burma in 1937 and Head of State (Adipadi) of wartime Burma during the Japanese occupation, authoring Breakthrough in Burma.

Yangon, Myanmar
Modibo Keita
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Modibo Keita

Modibo Keita
🇲🇱 French Sudan (Mali)
1915 – 1977 (61 years old)

Founding Father and first President of the Republic of Mali (1960–1968), charismatic Pan-Africanist who led Mali to independence, created the Mali-Ghana-Guinea Union, and helped draft the founding charter of the Organization of African Unity (OAU).

Bamako, Mali
Gregoire Kayibanda
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Gregoire Kayibanda

Grégoire Kayibanda
🇷🇼 Ruanda-Urundi (Belgian Mandate)
1924 – 1976 (52 years old)

First President of Rwanda who authored the Bahutu Manifesto in 1957, led the 1959 social revolution ending the centuries-old Tutsi monarchy, and achieved national independence in 1962.

Gitarama (Muhanga), Rwanda
Zhu De
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Zhu De

朱德
🇨🇳 Qing Empire
1886 – 1976 (89 years old)

Senior military founder of the Chinese Red Army (PLA) alongside Mao Zedong, revered as Marshal Zhu De, who commanded the Long March, the Eighth Route Army against Japan, and the Civil War.

Beijing, China
Tun Abdul Razak
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Tun Abdul Razak

Tun Haji Abdul Razak bin Dato' Hussein
🇲🇾 Malaysia
1922-03-11 – 1976-01-14 (53 years old)

Engineered Malaysia's socio-economic stability and affirmative action framework (NEP) that fostered an educated middle class, and founded the Barisan Nasional coalition.

London, Great Britain
Tajuddin Ahmad
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Tajuddin Ahmad

তাজউদ্দীন আহমদ
🇧🇩 British India
1925 – 1975 (50 years old)

First Prime Minister of Bangladesh who organized the Mujibnagar Provisional Government and successfully directed the 1971 Liberation War while Sheikh Mujib was imprisoned in Pakistan.

Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান (বঙ্গবন্ধু)
🇧🇩 British India
1920 – 1975 (55 years old)

Founding Father and first President of Bangladesh, revered as 'Bangabandhu' (Friend of Bengal), who delivered the historic March 7 speech and led the struggle for Bengali liberation.

Tungipara (Gopalganj), Bangladesh
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