2010 Event Nepal declares a national day of mourning in honor of Girija Prasad Koirala, the 'elder statesman of South Asia' who dies in Kathmandu at age 86 2006 Death Johannes Rau, German Statesman 2006 Death Ibrahim Rugova, Statesman 2005 Death Rafik Hariri, Lebanese Statesman 2005 Death Gnassingbe Eyadema, Togolese Statesman 2004 Death Kamisese Mara, Fijian Statesman 2004 Death Boris Trajkovski, Macedonian Statesman 2002 Death Cyrus Vance, American Statesman 2000 Death Pierre Trudeau, Canadian Statesman 1999 Death Franjo Tudjman, Croatian Statesman 1996 Death Bruno Ferenc Straub, Hungarian statesman, dies 1992 Death Menachem Begin, Israeli Statesman 1990 Death Arthur Joseph Goldberg, American Statesman died at age 81 1989 Death Ferdinand Marcos, Statesman 1989 Death Ferdinand E. Marcos, Filipino Statesman 1986 Death Averell Harriman, statesman, dies in Yorktown Heights, New York at 94 1985 Death John Holt, Australian Statesman 1984 Death Mohammed Naguib, Egyptian Statesman 1983 Death Sam Chatman, elder statesman of the blues, dies 1978 Death Kofi Busia, statesman, leader of the Ghana Congress Party, which became the United Party, Prime Minister, 2nd Republic of Ghana, 1969 - 1972, died 1978 Death Mohammed Daud Khan, Afghani Statesman 1976 Death Zhou Enlai, Chinese Statesman 1973 Death David Ben Gurion, Israeli Statesman 1971 Death Dean Acheson, American Statesman 1971 Death Francois Duvalier, Haitian Statesman 1969 Death Iskander Mirza, Pakistani Statesman 1968 Death Walter Nash, New Zealander Statesman 1967 Birthday Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgian Statesman 1967 Death Clement Atlee, British Statesman 1967 Death Konrad Adenauer, German Statesman 1965 Death [John] Selwyn (Brooke) Lloyd, British statesman, dies 1965 Birthday Bashar al-Assad, Syrian Statesman 1964 Death Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino Statesman 1963 Death Rajendra Prasad, Indian Statesman 1962 Birthday King Abdullah II, Jordanian Statesman 1960 Birthday Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spanish Statesman 1960 Death Amanullah Khan, Afghani Statesman 1959 Death George Marshall, American Statesman 1958 Death Nuries-Said, Iraqi soldier/statesman, assassinated, dies 1957 Birthday Georgi Purvanov, Bulgarian Statesman 1956 Birthday Boris Trajkovski, Macedonian Statesman 1955 Death Cordell Hull, statesman, dies 1954 Birthday Condoleezza Rice, American Statesman 1954 Death Robert H. Jackson, American Statesman 1954 Birthday Stephen Platt, editor, New Statesman and Society 1954 Birthday Angela Merkel, German Statesman 1954 Birthday Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian Statesman 1953 Death Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, Saudi Arabian Statesman 1953 Birthday Carlos Mesa, Bolivian Statesman 1953 Birthday Jose Maria Aznar, Spanish Statesman 1953 Birthday Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Danish Statesman 1953 Birthday Denzil Douglas, Statesman 1952 Birthday Fatos Nano, Albanian Statesman 1952 Death Evita Peron, Argentinian Statesman 1952 Birthday Alvaro Uribe Velez, Colombian Statesman 1951 Birthday Jean Claude Duvalier, Haitian Statesman 1951 Birthday Mary McAleese, born in Irish Statesman 1951 Birthday Chen Shui-bian, Statesman 1950 Death Henry L. Stimson, American Statesman 1950 Birthday Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian Statesman 1950 Birthday Helen Clark, New Zealander Statesman 1950 Birthday Nestor Kirchner, Argentinian Statesman 1949 Birthday Owen Arthur, born in Barbados, statesman, politician, Barbados Labor Party, Prime Minister of Barbados 1994 - 2008 1948 Birthday John Bolton, American Statesman 1948 Birthday Baldwin Spencer, Statesman 1947 Birthday Kjell Magne Bondevik, Norwegian Statesman 1947 Birthday Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Filipino Statesman 1947 Birthday Kim Campbell, Canadian Statesman 1946 Birthday Francois Bozize, Gabonese Statesman 1946 Birthday Hassanal Bolkiah, Statesman 1945 Birthday Wilma Mankiller, Cherokee Statesman 1944 Birthday Ibrahim Rugova, Statesman 1944 Birthday Rafik Hariri, Lebanese Statesman 1944 Birthday Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi Statesman 1944 Birthday Perry Christie, Statesman 1944 Birthday Gerhard Schroeder, German Statesman 1943 Birthday Silvia Cartwright, New Zealander Statesman 1943 Birthday Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani Statesman 1943 Death Beatrice Webb, sociologist, reformer, economist, co-authored 'History of Trade Unionism', 1894, co-founder of 'New Statesman' magazine, dies at age 85, in Liphook, England 1942 Birthday Hu Jintao, Chinese Statesman 1942 Birthday Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, Statesman 1942 Birthday Vicente Fox, Mexican Statesman 1942 Birthday Vincente Fox, Mexican Statesman 1942 Birthday Kim Jong Il, North Korean Statesman 1942 Birthday Ehud Barak, Israeli Statesman 1942 Birthday Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese Statesman 1941 Birthday Paul Bremer, American Statesman 1941 Death Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish statesman pianist, dies in New York at 80 1941 Birthday Vaclav Klaus, Czechoslovakian Statesman 1941 Birthday Goh Chok Tong, Chinese Statesman 1940 Death Arthur Zimmermann, German Statesman 1940 Birthday Tabare Vazquez, Uruguayan Statesman 1939 Birthday Romano Prodi, Italian Statesman 1939 Birthday John Howard, Australian Statesman 1939 Birthday Ayatollah Khamenei, Iranian Statesman 1938 Birthday John Agyekum Kufuor, Ghanaian Statesman 1938 Birthday Heinz Fischer, Austrian Statesman 1938 Birthday Leonid Kuchma, born in Chaikyne, Ukraine, statesman, politician, President of independent Ukraine 1994 - 2005 1938 Birthday Alberto Fujimori, Peruvian Statesman 1938 Birthday Kofi Annan, born in Ghana, Kofi Atta Annan, diplomat, statesman, Secretary-General of the United Nations 1997 - 2007, received 2001 Nobel Peace Prize 1938 Birthday Islom Karimov, Uzbekistani Statesman 1937 Birthday Lionel Jospin, French Statesman 1937 Birthday Madeleine Albright, American Statesman 1937 Birthday Tran Duc Luong, Vietnamese Statesman 1937 Birthday Olusegun Obasanjo, Statesman 1937 Birthday Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Statesman 1936 Birthday Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Statesman 1936 Birthday Emile Lahud, Lebanese Statesman 1936 Birthday Emile Lahoud, Lebanese Statesman 1935 Birthday Omar Bongo, born in Lewai, French Equatorial Africa, now Bongoville, Gabon, El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba, Albert-Bernard Bongo, statesman, Gabonese Democratic Party, President of Gabon at age 31 1935 Birthday Gnassingbe Eyadema, Togolese Statesman 1935 Death Alice Brown Davis, American Statesman 1935 Birthday Jim Bolger, New Zealander Statesman 1935 Birthday Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Statesman 1934 Birthday Stjepan Mesic, Croation Statesman 1934 Death Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Hindenburg, soldier/statesman, dies at 86 1934 Birthday Rudolf Schuster, Czechoslovakian Statesman 1933 Birthday Mathieu Kerekou, Statesman 1932 Birthday Jacques Chirac, French Statesman 1932 Birthday Manmohan Singh, Indian Statesman 1931 Birthday Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan Statesman 1931 Birthday Abdul Kalam, Indian Statesman 1931 Birthday Ferenc Madl, Hungarian Statesman 1931 Birthday Johannes Rau, German Statesman 1929 Birthday Alfred Moisiu, Statesman 1928 Birthday Zhu Rongji, Chinese Statesman 1928 Death Giovanni Giolitti, Italian Statesman 1928 Birthday Arnold Ruutel, Estonian Statesman 1928 Birthday Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani Statesman 1926 Birthday Abdoulaye Wade, Senegalese Statesman 1925 Birthday Kim Dae Jung, South Korean Statesman 1925 Death Lord Curzon, British Statesman 1925 Death Hjalmar Branting, Swedish Statesman 1924 Birthday Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indian Statesman 1924 Birthday Sellapan Ramanathan, Statesman 1924 Birthday Kenneth Kaunda, Statesman 1923 Birthday Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman 1923 Birthday John Holt, Australian Statesman 1923 Death Theophile Delcasse, French statesman, dies at 71 1922 Birthday Franjo Tudjman, Croatian Statesman 1922 Birthday Leo Tindermans, British statesman 1922 Birthday Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Statesman 1921 Birthday Pierre Laporte, Canada, journalist/statesman, Revolution Script 1920 Birthday Josefa Iloilo, Statesman 1920 Birthday Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian Statesman 1920 Birthday Kamisese Mara, Fijian Statesman 1919 Birthday Zhao Ziyang, Chinese Statesman 1919 Death Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman, dies 1919 Event Pianist and statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland 1917 Birthday Ferdinand E. Marcos, Filipino Statesman 1917 Birthday Cyrus Vance, American Statesman 1916 Death Franz Joseph, Austrian Statesman 1916 Birthday Harold Wilson, English Statesman 1913 Birthday Kofi Busia, born in Wenchi, Ghana, statesman, leader of the Ghana Congress Party, which became the United Party, Catholic, Prime Minister, 2nd Republic of Ghana, 1969 - 1972 1913 Death John Lubbock, British Statesman 1911 Birthday Maurice Schumann, French statesman/writer, La Voix du couvre-feu 1909 Birthday Mohammed Daud Khan, Afghani Statesman 1909 Birthday Iyad Allawi, Iraqi Statesman 1907 Birthday Ramon Magsaysay, Philippines, statesman, U.S. Legion of Merit-1952 1907 Birthday Francois Duvalier, Haitian Statesman 1904 Birthday Sean MacBride, Dublin, statesman/Amnesty International co-founder, Nobel '74 1901 Birthday Mohammed Naguib, Egyptian Statesman 1899 Birthday Iskander Mirza, Pakistani Statesman 1898 Birthday Zhou Enlai, Chinese Statesman 1895 Birthday Count Folke Bernadotte, Sweden, statesman, Red Cross, UN 1894 Birthday Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil, lawyer/statesman, 1st President of UN 1893 Birthday Dean Acheson, statesman and U.S. Secretary of State, 1949 - 1953 1892 Birthday Amanullah Khan, Afghani Statesman 1892 Death Alexander Mackenzie, Canadian Statesman 1892 Birthday Robert H. Jackson, American Statesman 1889 Birthday Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman/disarmament advocate, Nobel 1959 1886 Birthday David Ben Gurion, Israeli Statesman 1886 Birthday Jan Garrique Masaryk, Czechoslovakia, statesman/minister to London, 1918-35 1886 Birthday Alfonso Lopez, Colombia, statesman, President United Nations security council-1948 1884 Birthday Rajendra Prasad, Indian Statesman 1883 Birthday Clement Atlee, British Statesman 1882 Birthday Walter Nash, New Zealander Statesman 1880 Birthday George Marshall, American Statesman 1877 Death Louis Adolphe Thiers, French Statesman 1876 Birthday Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, Saudi Arabian Statesman 1876 Death Henry A. Wise, American Statesman 1875 Death Francis Bond Head, Canadian Statesman 1874 Birthday Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman, 1st President 1873 Birthday Guillermo Valencia, Colombia, poet/translator/statesman 1872 Death William H. Seward, American Statesman 1871 Death Mehmed E Ali Pasja, Turkish statesman, dies 1869 Birthday Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino Statesman 1867 Birthday Henry L. Stimson, American Statesman 1865 Death Herman van Sonsbeeck, Dutch lawyer/statesman, dies at 69 1864 Birthday Arthur Zimmermann, German Statesman 1861 Death Camillo di Cavour, Italian Statesman 1860 Birthday Karl Branting, Sweden, statesman/diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize 1921 1860 Birthday Hjalmar Branting, Swedish Statesman 1860 Death Count Istvan Szechenyi, statesman, commits suicide 1860 Birthday William Jennings Bryan, "The Great Commoner" orator/statesman 1859 Birthday Luis Maria Drago, Argentina, statesman, anti-interventionist 1859 Birthday Theodor Batthyanyi, Hungarian statesman/contra revolutionary 1859 Birthday Lord Curzon, British Statesman 1858 Birthday Beatrice Webb, born in Gloucester, England, sociologist, reformer, economist, co-authored 'History of Trade Unionism', 1894, co-founder of 'New Statesman' magazine 1853 Birthday Cecil Rhodes, born in Hertfordshire, England, British Statesman, Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890 - 1896 1852 Birthday Alice Brown Davis, American Statesman 1852 Birthday Theophile Delcasse, French statesman 1849 Birthday Rui Barbosa, Brazil, statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties 1849 Death Albert Gallatin, Swiss Statesman 1844 Death Nicholas Biddle, U.S. lawyer/diplomat/statesman/financier, dies at 85 1843 Birthday Horst Koehler, German Statesman 1838 Birthday James, 1st Viscount Bryce, historian/statesman 1834 Birthday John Lubbock, British Statesman 1834 Death William Wirt, American Statesman 1832 Birthday Jules-Francois Camille Ferry, French statesman 1831 Birthday Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Statesman 1830 Birthday Franz Joseph, Austrian Statesman 1828 Death John Goldberg, Dutch patriot/statesman, dies at 64 1825 Death Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American Statesman 1816 Death Gouverneur Morris, American Statesman 1810 Birthday Camillo di Cavour, Italian Statesman 1807 Death Henry Benedict Stuart, Italian Statesman 1806 Birthday Henry A. Wise, American Statesman 1806 Birthday J V Snellman, Finland, journalist/statesman/nationalist 1805 Birthday Alexis de Tocqueville, France, statesman/writer, Democracy in America 1804 Death Jacques Necker, fiancier/statesman, dies 1801 Birthday Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, WW II Dutch statesman/historian 1801 Birthday William H. Seward, American Statesman 1797 Birthday Louis Adolphe Thiers, French Statesman 1796 Birthday Herman van Sonsbeeck, Dutch lawyer/statesman 1793 Birthday Francis Bond Head, Canadian Statesman 1792 Death George Mason, American Statesman 1792 Death Lord North, British Statesman 1792 Birthday John George Lambton, London, statesman, 1st Earl of Durham 1790 Death Benjamin Franklin, statesman and inventor, dies at 84 1782 Birthday John C. Calhoun, American Statesman 1772 Birthday William Wirt, American Statesman 1763 Birthday John Goldberg, Dutch patriot/statesman 1761 Birthday Albert Gallatin, Swiss Statesman 1752 Birthday Gouverneur Morris, American Statesman 1746 Death Francois Fagel, lawyer/statesman, dies at 86 1746 Birthday Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American Statesman 1739 Birthday Grigory Potemkin, army officer, statesman, Catherine II's lover, OS 1738 Birthday Charles Lord Cornwallis, soldier/statesman "fire when ready Gridley" 1732 Birthday Lord North, British Statesman 1725 Birthday George Mason, American Statesman 1725 Birthday Henry Benedict Stuart, Italian Statesman 1706 Birthday Benjamin Franklin, Boston, kite flyer, statesman, and inventor 1699 Death William Temple, statesman, dies 1691 Death Francois-Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Louvois, statesman, dies 1684 Birthday William Pulteney, London, statesman, Earl of Bath 1659 Birthday Francois Fagel, Dutch lawyer/statesman 1654 Death John Selden, English Statesman 1641 Birthday Francois Michel le Tellier, French statesman, Marquis de Louvois 1626 Death Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans, statesman, dies 1625 Birthday Johan de Witt, statesman/advisor of Holland 1623 Birthday Cornelis de Witt, Dutch statesman, Chatham 1616 Death Ieyasu Tokugawa, Japanese Statesman 1608 Death Earl of Dorset, poet/statesman, dies 1584 Birthday John Selden, English Statesman 1568 Death Philips van Montmorency count of Horne, admiral/statesman, beheaded 1561 Birthday Francis Bacon, England, statesman/essayist, Novum Organum 1554 Birthday Philip Sidney, England, poet/statesman/soldier, Arcadia 1543 Birthday Ieyasu Tokugawa, Japanese Statesman 1527 Death Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author, dies at 57 1492 Death Lorenzo de' Medici, Florentine statesman, dies 1488 Death Jacob van Horne, Burgundy statesman, dies 1466 Birthday Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman/admiral 1437 Death Emperor Sigismund, German Statesman 1368 Birthday Emperor Sigismund, German Statesman 1345 Death Jacob van Artevelde, statesman, murdered 1294 Death Kublai Khan, Chinese Statesman 1215 Birthday Kublai Khan, Chinese Statesman 1201 Death Absalon Assersson, Danish archbishop of Lund/statesman, dies
