Leader - Notable Historical Events
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Leader - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
202 |
Battle of Zama: Hannibal Barca, leader of the invading Carthaginian army, defeated by Roman legions under Scipio Africanus. |
52 |
Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia. |
BC AD | |
1217-09-21 |
The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights. |
1260-10-24 |
Saif ad-Din Qutuz, third Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, by a fellow Mamluk leader, who seizes power for himself. |
1358-06-10 |
French Jacquerie peasant leader Guillaume Cale captured at the Battle of Mello |
1381-07-15 |
John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hung, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England. |
1382-11-27 |
Battle of Westrozebeke/Roosebeke. French army defeats the Flemish army. Flemish leader Philip Van Artevelde killed and corpse displayed |
1477-01-05 |
Battle at Nancy, Burgundy vs Switz, 7000 + killed including their leader Charles Duke of Burgundy |
1492-10-12 |
Flemish rebel leader Philip van Kleef surrenders |
1523-06-12 |
Frisian rebel leader Jancko Douwama arrested |
1527-01-05 |
Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, is executed by drowning. (b. 1498) |
1531-10-11 |
Huldrych Zwingli Swiss reformation leader is killed at the Battle at Kappel |
1542-08-28 |
Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557) - Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and afterwards executed. |
1556-11-05 |
Battle at Panipat: Mogollegers beat hindu leader Hemu |
1572-08-22 |
Failed assassination on Gaspard de Coligny, a French nobleman and admiral, a Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion |
1577-02-06 |
King Henri de Bourbon of Navarra becomes leader of Huguenots |
1584-07-10 |
Spanish army leader Richebourg conquerors Liefkenshoek, Belgium |
1587-03-01 |
English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower |
1619-07-20 |
Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader |
1629-05-03 |
French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain |
1644-04-29 |
Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes emperor of China & flees Peking |
1657-07-13 |
Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert |
1671-04-14 |
Cosaks capture Russian boer leader Stenka Razin |
1683-12-25 |
English Whig leader Duke of Monmouth flees to Holland |
1716-01-08 |
Dutch gang leader "Sjako" arrested |
1717-01-14 |
German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam |
1755-02-13 |
Rebel leader Mangkubuni signs Treaty of Gianti Java |
1774-07-12 |
Cossack leader Emilian Pugachevs army occupies Kazan |
1775-11-11 |
Mohawk military leader Joseph Brant goes to London to solicit more support from the government and to persuade the Crown to address past Mohawk land grievances in exchange for their participation as allies in the impending war |
1784-05-22 |
Ceylonese student leader Pieter Quint Ondaatje demands democracy |
1795-09-19 |
Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned |
1795-10-02 |
Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao |
1806-10-17 |
Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti was assassinated after an oppressive rule. |
1810-02-20 |
Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon's forces, executed. |
1811-07-30 |
Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico. |
1813-05-23 |
South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator") |
1820-04-12 |
Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece. |
1832-08-27 |
Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up |
1838-02-28 |
Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Québec) |
1840-10-14 |
Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta. |
1843-07-12 |
Mormon leader Joseph Smith says God allows polygamy |
1849-04-14 |
Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Louis Kossuth as its leader. |
1867-01-31 |
Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria |
1868-07-04 |
In New Zealand, Maori leader Te Kooti and 300 of his followers captured the schooner Rifleman and sailed for New Zealand; the fugitives landed at Whareongaonga six days later |
1869-03-14 |
Defeat of Maori leader Titokowaru in New Zealand. |
1871-10-02 |
Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrested for bigamy |
1871-10-27 |
Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption |
1888-03-25 |
Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber |
1893-01-13 |
British Independent Labour Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader) |
1893-04-27 |
Richard "King Dick" Seddon succeeds John Balance as premier of New Zealand and leader of Liberal Party |
1894-06-25 |
Boer leader Paul Kruger meets the British High Commissioner, Sir Henry Loch, on Pretoria station in South Africa and accompanies him to his hotel to discuss the grievances of the Uitlanders (Foreigners) |
1900-01-05 |
Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule. |
1900-03-11 |
British Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury rejects peace overtures from the Boer leader Paul Kruger (on 5 March) as demanding too-favourable terms |
1901-04-19 |
In the Philippines, recently captured insurgent leader Emilio Aguinaldo issues a proclamation advising his countrymen to end their rebellion and use of peaceful means to work with the US toward independence. |
1901-05-23 |
US captures leader of Filippino rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo |
1903-12-06 |
Sumatra Atjehs guerilla leader Panglima Polim surrenders |
1904-07-28 |
Interior Minister of Russia, Vyacheslav Plehve is assassinated; as leader of the most reactionary elements of government, he was hated for his repressive policies |
1906-11-23 |
Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, convicted of polygamy |
1911-03-08 |
International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany. |
1912-03-11 |
Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again. |
1913-07-05 |
Queen Wilhelmina meets SDAP-leader Troelstra |
1914-01-13 |
IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia |
1915-11-24 |
Serbian leader flees to Albania |
1918-08-17 |
Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated. |
1918-08-30 |
Fanya Kaplan shoots at Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, attempting to assassinate him |
1918-11-11 |
Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution |
1919-04-10 |
Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos. |
1920-04-27 |
Pogrom leader Petljoera declares Ukraine Independence |
1921-05-24 |
Bulhoek Massacre of Israelites takes place near Queenstown when Colonel Theodore Truter, a police commissioner, leads 6 squadrons, a machine gun and an artillery detachment against the Israelite religious sect collected at their annual gathering on the land of their leader and prophet, Enoch Mgijima at Ntabalanga; the slaughter takes 10 minutes and costs 190 lives |
1921-07-29 |
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party. |
1922-11-22 |
British Labour party selects Ramsay MacDonald as leader |
1923-05-25 |
Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader |
1923-08-12 |
Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as minister of finances |
1924-11-10 |
Dion O'Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio's gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago. |
1925-01-29 |
British Liberal Party chooses David Lloyd George as leader |
1932-06-13 |
Air force's Marmaduke Brutal becomes leader of revolutionary junta |
1933-05-10 |
Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands |
1934-05-01 |
Water state kingdom dismisses NSB-leader Anton Mussert |
1934-08-03 |
Adolf Hitler merges the offices of chancellor and president, declaring himself 'Führer ' (leader). |
1935-12-08 |
The Japanese military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect Oomoto, beginning with a crackdown on the sect's operational bases of Ayabe and Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture and the arrest of its leader Onisaburo Deguchi. |
1936-12-12 |
Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan |
1939-01-07 |
US worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916) |
1939-12-21 |
Hitler named Adolf Eichmann leader of "Referat IV B" |
1940-07-02 |
Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta. |
1940-07-03 |
ARP-leader/ex-premier Colijn argues cooperation with Germany |
1941-03-03 |
Netherlands NSB-leader Mussert visits Hermann Goering in Berlin |
1941-12-22 |
Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines |
1942-08-10 |
Gen B Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in N Africa |
1942-08-12 |
German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe |
1942-12-10 |
Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherland people" |
1942-12-13 |
Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader |
1943-04-03 |
Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested |
1943-04-06 |
Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested |
1943-07-08 |
NSB-leader A Mussert meets with Heinrich Himmler |
1944-04-02 |
CPI-leader Palmiro Togliatti returns to Italy |
1944-05-25 |
Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia |
1945-04-10 |
General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland" |
1945-04-26 |
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WW II, arrested for treason |
1945-05-05 |
World War II: Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases. |
1945-05-23 |
Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader & Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44 |
1945-07-23 |
Marshal Henri Pétain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial |
1945-07-31 |
Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria. |
1945-11-10 |
General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania |
1945-11-27 |
Trial against NSB-leader Mussert begins |
1945-12-12 |
Special Court of justice convicts Dutch Nazi leader Mussert to death |
1946-01-20 |
F Gouin follows De Gaulle as temporary leader of French government |
1948-07-14 |
Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament. |
1948-09-12 |
Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death. |
1949-11-18 |
NL batting leader (.342) Jackie Robinson wins NL MVP |
1950-10-25 |
Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life |
1953-11-26 |
Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening |
1954-10-07 |
Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of Moslem brothership, arrested in Egypt |
1955-11-25 |
Clement Attlee resigns as leader of the UK Labour Party |
1956-05-18 |
Hungarian party leader Matyas Rákosi enforces his own policy |
1956-07-18 |
Erno Gero succeeds Matyas Rákosi as party leader of Hungary |
1957-02-18 |
Dedan Kimathi, a Kenyan rebel leader is executed by the British colonial government. |
1959-09-27 |
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his US visit |
1960-07-31 |
Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state |
1960-10-12 |
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe on his desk at UN General Assembly session |
1961-05-04 |
South-Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested |
1961-08-24 |
Former South African nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice |
1962-03-25 |
French OAS-leader ex-general Jouhaud arrested |
1962-04-20 |
OAS-leader ex-general Salan arrested in Algiers |
1962-05-23 |
OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life |
1962-09-30 |
Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers. |
1963-05-22 |
Greek parliament leader Lambrakis injured |
1963-06-25 |
South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested |
1963-06-25 |
Curnick Ndlovu, South African Trade Unionist and African National Congress Leader, is arrested |
1963-07-06 |
South African workers' union leader Billy Nair arrested |
1964-03-06 |
Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and its leader Elijah Muhammad renames him Muhammad Ali |
1964-07-10 |
Moïse-Kapenda Tshombé, leader of the Confederation of Tribal Associations of Katanga, becomes the Prime Minister of the Congo |
1964-07-17 |
ANC leader Nelson Mandela, recently sentenced to life imprisonment, is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace |
1964-07-26 |
US union leader James Hoffa sentenced for fraud |
1964-10-27 |
Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans/800 Belgians |
1965-03-19 |
Stoica becomes president & Ceausescu party leader of Romania |
1965-04-01 |
South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years |
1965-07-22 |
Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of Brit Cons party |
1967-10-08 |
Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia. |
1968-01-05 |
Alexander Dubček succeeds Antonín Novotný as communist party leader of Czechoslovakia |
1968-05-14 |
RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin |
1968-06-30 |
East German Communist Party leader Walter Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution" |
1969-02-07 |
Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO |
1969-02-28 |
Terence O'Neill re-elected as leader of the Unionist Parliamentary Party and thus confirmed as Northern Ireland Prime Minister |
1969-05-01 |
James Chichester-Clark is elected as leader of the Unionist party, succeededing Terence O'Neill as the Northern Ireland Prime Minister |
1970-04-15 |
Libyan leader Gadaffi launches "Green Revolution" |
1970-05-14 |
RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin |
1970-08-05 |
US Black Panther leader Huey Newton let out of jail |
1970-08-21 |
The Social and Democratic Labour Party (SDLP) is established with Gerry Fitt as the first leader of the party |
1970-09-15 |
PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan |
1970-12-20 |
Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's communist party leader |
1971-05-03 |
Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader |
1971-06-22 |
a Pretoria court rules that the former leader of the banned Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Sobukwe, will not be allowed to use his exit permit to leave South Africa for his studies in the United States. |
1971-08-25 |
Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party Gerry Fitt presents a number of allegations of brutality by the security forces in Northern Ireland to representatives of the United Nations |
1971-11-25 |
Leader of the British Labour Party Harold Wilson proposes that Britain should work towards a withdrawal from Northern Ireland, with the consent of Protestants, after a period of 15 years; as part of the proposal the Republic of Ireland would rejoin the British Commonwealth |
1972-06-01 |
West German police arrest Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader |
1972-06-15 |
West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof |
1972-07-18 |
Leader of the British Labour Party Harold Wilson holds meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army |
1972-10-19 |
Ulster Vanguard leader William Craig speaks at a meeting of right-wing Members of Parliament at Westminster: "We are prepared to come out and shoot and kill" |
1972-11-19 |
Leader of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) Seán MacStiofáin is arrested in Dublin |
1972-12-11 |
Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632) |
1973-02-09 |
Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party elected leader of opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India. |
1973-05-18 |
Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany |
1973-05-24 |
Earl Jellicoe resigns as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the Lords. |
1973-06-17 |
Russian party leader Brezhnev visits US |
1973-06-25 |
Russian communist party leader Brezhnev visits France |
1973-10-03 |
Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader |
1974-03-26 |
Romanian communist party names party leader Ceausescu president |
1974-12-04 |
Jean-Paul Sartre visits Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader in prison |
1975-02-13 |
Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash procliams Turkish-Cypriot Federation |
1975-02-20 |
Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party |
1975-11-10 |
PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses UN in NYC |
1975-11-18 |
Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to US |
1976-10-24 |
Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as China's party leader |
1976-12-18 |
Soviet dissident Viktor Bukovskiexchanged for Chile CP-leader Corvalan |
1977-07-24 |
Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881 |
1977-11-20 |
Egyptian Pres Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset |
1977-12-31 |
Amir Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah becomes leader of Kuwait |
1978-11-18 |
In Jonestown Guyana 918 members of Peoples Temple are murdered/commit suicide under leadership of cult leader Jim Jones |
1979-01-20 |
1 million Iranians march in Tehran in a show of support for the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini, fundamentalist Muslim leader |
1980-09-05 |
Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns |
1980-09-17 |
South Korea opposition leader Kim Dae Jung sentenced to death |
1981-06-05 |
Astro's Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as all-time walk leader (1,777) |
1981-06-29 |
Hu Yaobang succeeds Hua Guofeng as leader of China PR |
1981-07-18 |
Poland communist party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek |
1981-10-18 |
Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader |
1982-08-23 |
Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president |
1982-08-30 |
PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut |
1982-09-15 |
Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat |
1982-11-12 |
USSR KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as USSR leader |
1982-12-08 |
Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents |
1983-03-09 |
Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana |
1983-05-03 |
Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe |
1983-06-16 |
USSR party leader Yuri Andropov elected president |
1983-06-23 |
Syria throws out PLO leader Arafat |
1983-07-13 |
The Transvaal Attorney General announces that Eugène Terre'Blanche, leader of the far-right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and three associates will face terrorism charges, South Africa |
1983-09-27 |
South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years |
1983-12-22 |
Egyptian president Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat |
1984-02-13 |
Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as USSR leader |
1984-02-27 |
Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa |
1984-04-11 |
USSR party leader Chernenko elected president |
1984-05-30 |
Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora's headquarters in Nicaragua |
1984-10-07 |
Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader |
1985-02-08 |
Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea |
1985-02-11 |
King Hussein of Jordan & PLO leader Arafat sign accord |
1985-03-11 |
Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader |
1985-04-08 |
"Leader of the Pack" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 120 perfs |
1985-04-13 |
Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania |
1985-05-22 |
Pete Rose 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as NL run scoring leader |
1985-07-21 |
"Leader of the Pack" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 120 perfs |
1985-07-24 |
Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai |
1985-08-23 |
South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested |
1985-10-02 |
Russian party leader Gorbachev visits Paris (his first trip abroad) |
1985-11-16 |
President Reagan arrives in Geneva for a summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev |
1985-11-19 |
US President Reagan & Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for first time |
1985-12-04 |
French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski |
1985-12-27 |
Terrorists kill 20 & wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome & Vienna airports, President Reagan blames Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi |
1986-01-28 |
Angolan Unity Leader Jonas Savimbi visits Washington, DC |
1986-02-07 |
Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti |
1986-05-04 |
President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan |
1986-08-14 |
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrested |
1986-11-21 |
Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse massacres Moiwana village |
1986-12-08 |
House Dems select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker |
1987-01-28 |
US Foreign minister George Shultz meets ANC-leader Oliver Tambo |
1987-03-19 |
PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal with Jessica Hahn |
1987-10-06 |
Military coup leader Maj-Gen Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic |
1987-11-05 |
South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed |
1987-12-17 |
Czechoslovak party leader Gustav Husak resigns |
1988-02-04 |
Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges |
1988-05-22 |
Károly Grósz succeeds party leader Janos Kádár in Hungary |
1988-10-19 |
South African anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize |
1988-12-12 |
PLO leader Yasi Arafat accepts Israel's right to exist |
1988-12-16 |
Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud |
1989-01-29 |
Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use NY Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129 |
1989-02-02 |
FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's National Party leader |
1989-02-06 |
Solidarity union leader Lech Walesa begins negotiating with Polish government |
1989-05-16 |
Soviet president Mikhail S Gorbachev & Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing |
1989-06-16 |
Funeral for Imre Nagg, leader of Hungarian uprising in 1956 |
1989-07-05 |
South African President Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela |
1989-10-18 |
East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns |
1989-12-20 |
Premier Lubbers sees CDA-party leader Elco Brinkman as successor |
1990-01-03 |
Panama's leader Gen Manuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities |
1990-01-25 |
Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail |
1990-06-23 |
African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, on a US tour, receives a tumultuous welcome in Boston. |
1990-06-25 |
African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets with President George Bush at the White House |
1990-07-23 |
South Africa workers' union leader Billy Nair arrested |
1990-11-27 |
British Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as leader ( and hence as Prime Minister) |
1991-06-26 |
ANC leader Nelson Mandela addresses congress |
1991-09-05 |
US trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins |
1991-09-16 |
US trial of Panamanian leader Noriega begins |
1991-10-14 |
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize |
1993-01-15 |
Top mafia leader Salvatore "Toto" Riina arrested in Palermo |
1993-03-12 |
Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2½ week speech |
1993-04-25 |
Russia elects Boris Yeltsin leader |
1993-05-21 |
Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life |
1993-06-28 |
Carlton Fisk, 45, released by White Sox, as all time leader of most games caught & most HRs by a catcher |
1994-03-02 |
Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcasted, it is, but he doesn't |
1994-04-14 |
Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his Seven Seals manuscript |
1994-06-26 |
Kirby Puckett pass Rod Carew with 2,088 hit as Twin's top hit leader |
1994-06-26 |
PLO leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years |
1994-10-01 |
Stanley Betrian sworn in as leader of Curacao |
1994-12-01 |
PTL leader Jim Bakker released from jail |
1995-01-30 |
Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show" |
1995-03-11 |
Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US |
1995-03-17 |
Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House |
1995-05-14 |
Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most senior spiritual leader |
1995-05-16 |
Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara & charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier |
1995-10-26 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta. |
1996-01-30 |
Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit. |
1996-09-27 |
In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah. |
1997-02-24 |
Deng Xiaoping, leader of China, cremated (died Feb 19th) |
1997-03-13 |
India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader. |
1997-06-10 |
Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold. |
1997-08-25 |
Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy. |
1997-12-27 |
Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland. |
1999-02-15 |
Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party, widely recognized as terrorist organization), was arrested in Kenya. |
1999-02-23 |
Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey. |
1999-08-09 |
Charles Kennedy wins the race to succeed Paddy Ashdown as the leader of the Liberal Democrats, UK |
1999-11-27 |
The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history. |
2000-06-13 |
President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang. |
2001-09-09 |
Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan. |
2001-12-22 |
Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai. |
2002-02-22 |
Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush. |
2002-07-07 |
A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader. |
2002-12-20 |
US Senator Trent Lott resigns as majority leader. |
2003-02-27 |
Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic is sentenced by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to 11 years in prison |
2003-04-14 |
U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the Achille Lauro in 1985. |
2003-08-11 |
Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand. |
2003-08-29 |
Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf. |
2004-03-20 |
Stephen Harper wins the leadership of the newly created Conservative Party of Canada, becoming the party's first leader. |
2004-03-22 |
Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas, and bodyguards are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles. |
2004-10-29 |
The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election. |
2005-04-06 |
Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes the Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day. |
2005-07-26 |
Samir Geagea, the Lebanese Forces (LF) leader, is released after spending 11 years in a solitary confinement. His release came after the end of the Syrian occupation to Lebanon. |
2005-11-24 |
Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian Parliament Stephen Harper, introduces a motion of no confidence. The motion is passed on November 28 leading to the dissolution of the 38th Canadian Parliament. |
2006-01-24 |
After losing the federal election to Stephen Harper, Paul Martin resigns as leader of the Liberal party |
2006-03-25 |
Protesters demanding a re-election in Belarus following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006 clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested. |
2007-02-13 |
Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. |
2007-05-16 |
Alex Salmond is elected First Minister of Scotland. He is the first Scottish National Party leader to be elected as First Minister after winning a historic victory at the Scottish general election on the 3rd May. |
2007-10-02 |
President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. |
2008-12-08 |
Kirsty Williams elected as Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats. The first female leader of a political party in Wales. |
2011-08-23 |
Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan Civil War. |
2011-10-20 |
The former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, and his son Moatassem Gaddafi are killed shortly after the battle of Sirte (2011) while in the custody of NTC fighters. |
2012-04-10 |
Raymond Aubrac, French Resistance Leader, dies at 97 |
2012-06-19 |
Antonis Samaras, the leader of the New Democracy party in Greece, forms a coalition government |
2012-07-18 |
Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army |
2013-03-10 |
Aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy |
2013-04-14 |
Justin Trudeau, son of long-serving Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, is elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada |
2015-11-14 |
US airstrike in Libya kills ISIS leader |
2015-12-09 |
TIME names German leader Angela Merkel its Person of the Year |
2015-12-25 |
Top Syrian rebel leader killed in air strike |
2016-01-26 |
Oregon protest leader Ammon Bundy, others arrested; 1 killed |
2016-03-03 |
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wants nukes ready to go |
2016-03-04 |
North Korea leader orders military to be ready to use nuclear weapons at any time |
2016-03-10 |
North Korean leader Kim orders more nuclear tests: KCNA |
2016-03-15 |
North Korean leader says will soon conduct nuclear, missile tests |
2016-04-20 |
House leader wants review of 9/11 bill that would let Americans sue Saudis |
2016-05-08 |
North Korea leader Kim says will not use nuclear arms unless threatened |
2016-05-22 |
Afghan Taliban leader Mansour 'probably killed' in US air strike |
2016-05-25 |
Asia Pacific|Taliban Confirm Death of Leader, Mullah Mansour, in US Drone Strike |
2016-05-25 |
Afghan Taliban appoint new leader after Mansour's death |
2016-09-01 |
US, Russia fight over who killed ISIL leader |
2016-12-03 |
Trump Speaks With Taiwan's Leader, an Affront to China |
2017-01-16 |
South Korea Prosecutor Seeks Arrest of Samsung Group Leader in Bribery Case |
2017-02-07 |
Israeli Leader Presses UK to Impose New Sanctions on Iran |
2017-02-14 |
Ku Klux Klan Leader Found Dead in Missouri |
2017-02-20 |
CCTV footage shows deadly assault on N. Korean leader's half-brother |
2017-05-01 |
Trump calls North Korean leader a 'pretty smart cookie' |
2017-10-11 |
Catalan leader signs document declaring independence from Spain |
2018-01-03 |
North Korean leader orders border hotline with South Korea reopened on Wednesday |
2018-03-28 |
North Korea's Kim Jong Un visits China in 1st foreign trip as leader |
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Leader - Notable Birthdays
Leader - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
356 |
Alexander the Great, Pella Macedon, Macedonian king and military leader, (d. 323 BC) |
106 |
Pompey the Great [Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus], Roman political and military leader (1st Triumvirate and Consul), (d. 48 BC) |
100 |
Julius Caesar, Rome, Roman military and political leader, (d. 44 BC), (or July 12) |
BC AD | |
1273-07-15 |
Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (d. 1352) |
1328-06-25 |
William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397) |
1395-03-18 |
John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447) |
1404-03-25 |
John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (d. 1444) |
1465-02-04 |
French van Brederode, leader of Hoeksen |
1466-03-21 |
French van Brederode, leader Hoeksen |
1484-01-01 |
Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531) |
1502-01-10 |
Hendrik Niclaes, German/Dutch merchant/cult leader (Children of God) |
1519-02-16 |
Gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral |
1530-05-07 |
Louis I Condé, French prince/leader of hugenots |
1542-06-15 |
Richard Grenville, English parliament leader/vice-admiral (Roanoke) |
1545-02-24 |
Don John of Austria, Spanish military leader (d. 1578) |
1550-01-31 |
Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader (d. 1588) |
1554-03-26 |
Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (d. 1611) |
1582-10-17 |
Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637) |
1585-10-28 |
Cornelius Otto Jansen, France, Roman Catholic reform leader |
1592-01-14 |
Sjihab al-Din Sultan Choerram Sjah Djahan, leader of India |
1599-09-20 |
Christian the Younger, German Protestant military leader (d. 1623) |
1602-01-06 |
Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Dutch baron of Sucha/army leader |
1602-10-12 |
William Chillingworth, English religious leader (d. 1644) |
1612-02-07 |
Thomas Killigrew, English humorist/playwright/leader (King's Men) |
1619-09-17 |
John Lambert, English general-major/parliament leader |
1647-01-02 |
Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676) |
1670-08-21 |
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military leader (d. 1734) |
1671-01-11 |
François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (d. 1745) |
1676-03-17 |
Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (d. 1732) |
1676-03-27 |
Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (d. 1735) |
1681-11-28 |
Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader (d. 1740) |
1688-01-29 |
Emmanuel Swedenborg, Sweden, religious leader (Angelic Wisdom) |
1703-02-05 |
Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (d. 1764) |
1703-08-02 |
Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775) |
1714-04-14 |
Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (d. 1788) |
1714-12-16 |
George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (d. 1770) |
1717-08-13 |
Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (d. 1776) |
1721-04-14 |
William August duke of Cumberland, English army leader |
1722-01-26 |
Alexander Carlyle, Cummertrees, Dumfriesshire, Scottish church leader (Moderator of the General Assembly 1770) |
1725-03-17 |
Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (d. 1806) |
1726-08-07 |
James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790) |
1727-03-30 |
Tommaso MFS Traetta, Ital's opera composer/band leader (Farnace) |
1741-11-02 |
Joan Derk van Capellen, leader of Neth Democratic Patriots |
1743-05-17 |
Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (d. 1784) |
1752-11-19 |
George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War |
1753-05-31 |
Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader |
1757-06-18 |
Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (d. 1833) |
1759-01-05 |
Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist/army leader |
1759-08-24 |
William Wilberforce, Kingston upon Hull, British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade |
1759-10-26 |
Georges Danton, France, revolutionary leader/min of Justice |
1760-03-02 |
Camille Desmoulins, France, journalist/pamphleteer/revolution leader |
1767-12-22 |
Andreas Hofer, South Tirol, rebellion leader (fought Napoleon's France) |
1772-08-30 |
Henri D Count de Larochejacquelin, French royalist leader |
1773-03-16 |
Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (d. 1836) |
1773-04-22 |
Jean V baron de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader |
1778-08-20 |
Bernardo O'Higgins, Chillán, Chile, South American independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule (1817-1823 Supreme Director of Chile) |
1780-03-18 |
Milos Obrenovic, Leader of The Second Serbian Uprising and Prince of Serbia (d. 1860) |
1781-04-02 |
Bhagwan Swaminarayan, religious leader (d. 1830) |
1783-07-24 |
Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela, political and military leader (freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule), (d. 1830) |
1787-06-28 |
Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces |
1792-04-04 |
Thaddeus Stevens, US Radical Republican congressional leader (Rep-R) |
1795-02-03 |
Antonio José de Sucre, South American independence leader (d. 1830) |
1796-07-18 |
Feargus O'Connor, County Cork, leader of English Chartists |
1797-05-06 |
Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882) |
1800-10-02 |
Nat Turner, Southhampton County Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion (1831) |
1801-04-12 |
Henry de Cock, Dutch reformed vicar/secession leader |
1801-06-01 |
Brigham Young, Whitingham Vermont, American religious leader (Mormon church) |
1801-06-14 |
Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868) |
1802-04-12 |
Francois MP Liberman, French relig leader (Congregation of Heart) |
1803-08-25 |
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, the Duque de Caxias, Brazilian military leader |
1804-06-24 |
Willard Richards, American religious leader (d. 1854) |
1804-07-04 |
Desire de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader |
1805-01-08 |
Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878) |
1805-02-01 |
Auguste Blanqui, France, revolutionary (workers' leader) |
1806-10-03 |
Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (d. 1850) |
1808-09-06 |
Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (d. 1883) |
1808-11-01 |
John Taylor, American religious leader (d. 1887) |
1810-05-24 |
Abraham Geiger, theologian/author/leader of Reform Judaism |
1811-09-19 |
Orson Pratt, American religious leader (d. 1881) |
1814-10-27 |
Daniel H. Wells, Mormon leader and politician (d. 1891) |
1815-04-11 |
Klara Fey, German orchestra leader (Deutscher Arbeiterverein) |
1815-12-22 |
Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreographer/ballet leader |
1817-10-17 |
Sajjid Ahmad Chan, Indian moslem leader/co-founder (Pakistan) |
1821-12-19 |
Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer/women's suffrage leader |
1823-02-15 |
Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli Canton |
1823-04-16 |
Mother Joseph, [Esther Pariseau], religious leader (US capitol) |
1824-02-12 |
Arya Samaj Maha Rishi Dayanand Sarsvati, Indian hindu leader |
1825-10-10 |
Paulus Kruger, Pres of South African Republic (1883), Boer leader |
1827-01-23 |
Takamori Saigo, Samurai, leader of Satsuma rebellion (d. 1877) |
1827-11-26 |
Ellen G. White, American religious leader (d. 1915) |
1829-06-16 |
Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909) |
1832-11-26 |
Mary Edwards Walker, American doctor/women's rights leader and only woman to receive Medal of Honor (bravery during Civil War) |
1833-01-21 |
Norman Willis, union leader (Britain's Trades Union Congress) |
1833-10-15 |
Klaas Kater, Dutch Christian Worker's Union Leader |
1835-05-31 |
Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese military leader (d. 1869) |
1836-02-18 |
Swami Ramakrishna [Gadadhar Chatterji], Hooghly Bengal, Indian mystic/hindu leader (preached unity of religions). |
1837-05-29 |
Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann, Dutch minister/party leader (CHU) |
1838-12-03 |
Octavia Hill, British reformer, leader of open-space movement |
1844-10-23 |
Louis Riel, Manitoba, leader of insurrection of Metis |
1847-06-11 |
Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader (English women's movement) |
1847-08-21 |
Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader |
1847-12-07 |
Solomon Schechter, US Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader |
1849-07-29 |
Max Nordau, Austrian author and Zionist leader (d. 1923) |
1850-01-27 |
Samuel Gompers, London England, American labor union leader (American Federation of Labor) |
1850-01-27 |
Samuel Gompers, Samuel Gompers the World's Greatest Labor Leader |
1850-07-11 |
Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader (d. 1938) |
1851-03-19 |
William Henry Stark, American business leader (d. 1936) |
1851-08-03 |
Isabella Caroline Somerset, temperance leader |
1853-9-02 |
Kate Mayhew, Baseball's Peerless Leader |
1854-02-09 |
Edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, lawyer/leader (Irish Unionist Party) |
1854-10-07 |
Christiaan R de Wet, South African rebel leader, politician and general in the Boer War |
1855-11-05 |
Eugene V. Debs, Terre Haute, Indiana, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (d. 1926) |
1856-07-23 |
Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian Hindi leader |
1859-01-09 |
Carrie Chapman Catt, Ripon, Wisconsin, American women's suffrage leader and founder (League of Women Voters) |
1860-03-02 |
Susanna M. Salter, 1st American female mayor and temperance leader (d. 1961) |
1863-01-12 |
Vivekananda, Calcutta, Hindu religious leader/reformer |
1863-11-30 |
Andres Bonifacio, leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain |
1864-01-24 |
Marguerite Durand, French feminist leader (d. 1936) |
1865-01-31 |
Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1951) |
1865-06-24 |
Robert Henri, US painter, leader of Ashcan school of painting |
1866-05-09 |
Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Leader of Indian Independence Movement (d. 1915) |
1867-09-26 |
Maggie L Walker, black business & civic leader |
1867-09-29 |
Philip Kleintjes, people's rights leader |
1868-02-22 |
Henri Polak, union leader/politician (soc-dem) |
1868-06-06 |
Robert Falcon Scott, Plymouth, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition |
1868-10-23 |
Rama V, [Chulalongkorn], leader of Thailand (-1910) |
1869-10-02 |
Mahatma Gandhi [Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi], Porbandar Kathiawad India, pacifist and spiritual leader, (d. 1948) |
1870-06-24 |
Horatio Mbelle, Cape Colony, South African interpreter, community leader and politician |
1871-03-08 |
Edmond F. Stratton, The Band Leader |
1871-07-11 |
Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Farmers' Party) |
1871-10-11 |
Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian religious leader (d. 1943) |
1873-03-17 |
Margaret Bondfield, Brit Labour leader/1st woman cabinet member |
1874-07-03 |
Apirana Turupa Ngata, Kawaka NZ, Maori political/cultural leader |
1877-9-09 |
Frank Chance, Baseball's Peerless Leader |
1878-02-21 |
The Mother, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1973) |
1878-06-05 |
[Francisco] Pancho Villa, Mexico, revolutionary/guerrilla leader |
1878-12-02 |
Robert English, A Lost Leader |
1879-05-05 |
Symon Petlyura, leader Ukraine (pogroms) |
1879-08-08 |
Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader |
1879-09-25 |
Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (d. 1963) |
1880-02-12 |
John Llewellyn Lewis, union leader (United Mine Workers, 1920-60) |
1880-08-21 |
Johan H Westerveld, Dutch WW II resistance fighter/leader (OD) |
1881-06-18 |
Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch labor leader |
1883-05-13 |
Henk JFM Sneevliet, leader RSAP/editor Spartacus (Dutch-Indies) |
1883-12-22 |
Arthur James Cook, England, union leader (coal miners) |
1885-01-17 |
Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader |
1886-03-27 |
Sergey Kirov, Russian bolshevik leader (d. 1934) |
1886-05-25 |
Rash Behari Bose, leader against the British Raj in India (d. 1945) |
1886-11-25 |
Rex Maupin, St Joseph Mo, orchestra leader (Tin Pan Alley TV) |
1887-03-23 |
Sidney Hillman, union leader (Sidney Hillman Foundation) |
1887-11-28 |
Ernst Rohm, German staff member/Bolivian leader/SA |
1888-05-11 |
P A J Losecaat Vermeer, leader of Dutch High Council |
1888-08-04 |
Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra spiritual leader (d. 1965) |
1888-10-26 |
Nestor Ivanovich Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist Insurrectionary leader (d. 1934) |
1888-12-07 |
Hamilton Fish, US congress leader/isolationist |
1889-04-15 |
Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader (Railroad Porter's Union) |
1889-05-20 |
William Lawther, union leader |
1890-03-12 |
William Dudley Pelley, American leader of the Silver Legion (d. 1965) |
1890-03-28 |
Paul Whiteman, Denver Co, orchestra leader (Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club) |
1890-08-12 |
Al Goodman, Nikopol Russia, orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour) |
1890-10-16 |
Michael Collins, Sam's Cross County Cork, Irish revolutionary leader |
1891-09-16 |
Karl Dönitz, German naval leader (d. 1980) |
1891-10-20 |
Jomo Kenyatta, Gatundu Kenya, Kenyan leader and 1st Premier (1963-78) |
1892-02-22 |
David Dubinsky, labor leader (Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom) |
1892-03-08 |
Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian party leader/premier (1952-53) |
1892-03-16 |
James Petrillo, leader of the U.S. musicians union (d. 1984) |
1892-05-07 |
Josip Broz Tito, WW II partisan, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80) |
1892-05-31 |
Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-Reich organization leader |
1892-06-30 |
Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (d. 1951) |
1892-07-02 |
Jack Hylton, English orchestra leader/impresario (Crazy Passage Show) |
1893-04-07 |
Irene Castle, dancer (leader in anti-vivisection movement) |
1893-06-30 |
Harold/Joseph Laski, English economist/Labour leader (1945-..) |
1893-09-04 |
Henry Schultz, US, farm commune leader |
1893-12-02 |
Louis Freeman, band leader |
1894-02-25 |
Meher Baba, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1969) |
1894-05-11 |
Anton A Mussert, Dutch nazi leader (NSB) |
1894-06-26 |
Bill Wirges, Buffalo NY, orchestra leader (Growing Paynes) |
1894-07-31 |
Roy Bargy, Mich, orchestra leader (Jimmy Durante Show) |
1894-08-16 |
George Meany, NYC, labor leader (headed AFL-CIO) |
1895-06-22 |
James Arthur Calata, Anglican clergyman and African National Congress (ANC) leader, Rabula, Keiskammahoek, Eastern Cape. |
1895-07-22 |
James Arthur Calata, African National Congress (ANC) leader and Anglican clergyman |
1896-01-17 |
Harry Reser, Ohio, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show) |
1896-04-03 |
Douwe Kalma, Dutch literary/leader (Young Frisian Movement) |
1896-09-10 |
Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946) |
1896-10-07 |
Elijah Muhammad, US, leader of Nation of Islam |
1897-04-14 |
Barbara baroness Wootton of Abinger, English Lower house leader |
1897-05-14 |
Sidney Bechet, US, jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/band leader |
1898-02-19 |
Lauwrens Voorthuyzen, [Lou de Palingboer], Dutch sect leader |
1898-02-22 |
Anton de Kom, Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter |
1898-03-23 |
Georgios Grivas, Greek general/opposition leader on Cyprus |
1898-04-11 |
Lou Holtz, comedian/actor (Follow the Leader) |
1898-12-30 |
Vincent Lopez, Brooklyn New York, American orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard) |
1899-02-07 |
Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member |
1899-03-28 |
Harold B. Lee, American religious leader (d. 1973) |
1899-06-10 |
Raoul Salan, Fr/Indochina/Algeria (leader OAS) |
1899-07-15 |
Seán Lemass, Irish leader (d. 1971) |
1899-09-13 |
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, leader of the Iron Guard (d. 1938) |
1899-10-08 |
Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname relig leader/co-found (VHP) |
1900-07-29 |
Don Redman, Piedmont WV, orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times) |
1900-08-08 |
Victor Young, Chicago Illinois, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show, In Old California) |
1901-03-15 |
Theo Uden Marsman, Dutch orchestra leader |
1901-05-21 |
Horace Heidt, Alameda California, orchestra leader (Swift Show Wagon) |
1901-06-18 |
Jimmy Dale, Bronx NYC, orchestra leader (Sonny & Cher) |
1901-11-08 |
Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romania party leader/president |
1902-02-09 |
Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's leader (d. 1999) |
1902-02-12 |
William D Revelli, Spring Gulch Colorado, band leader |
1902-03-30 |
Ted Heath, British musician and band leader (d. 1969) |
1902-06-19 |
Guy Lombardo, London Ontario Canada, orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne) |
1902-08-03 |
Ray Block, France, orchestra leader (Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason) |
1902-09-24 |
Ayatollah Khomeini [Ruhollah Khomeini], Supreme leader of Iran (1979-89), religious figure, and political leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution (d. 1989) |
1902-10-11 |
Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter and political leader (d. 1979) |
1902-12-19 |
Leonard Hirsch, British violinist/orchestra leader (RAF Symph Orch) |
1903-03-11 |
Lawrence Welk, Strasburg ND, orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show) |
1903-03-14 |
Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iran, Kurd leader (KDP) |
1903-03-25 |
Frankie Carle, Providence RI, orchestra leader (Golden Touch) |
1903-05-10 |
Otto Bradfisch, Nazi leader (d. 1994) |
1903-08-08 |
August Cool, Belgian union leader/minister of state |
1904-02-29 |
Jimmy Dorsey, Shenandoah Pa, orchestra leader (Stage Show) |
1904-02-29 |
John "Pepper" Martin, baseballer (NL stolen base leader 1933,34,36) |
1904-04-03 |
Peter Van Steeden, Amsterdam Neth, orchestra leader (Break the Bank) |
1904-04-29 |
Russ Morgan, Scranton Pa, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard) |
1904-08-22 |
Deng Xiaoping, Chinese party leader (1976-1983) |
1904-09-02 |
Vera Vague, [Barbara Jo Allen], NYC, actress (Follow the Leader) |
1904-10-01 |
A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (d. 1977) |
1905-02-06 |
Władysław Gomułka, Polish communist leader (d. 1982) |
1905-03-22 |
Ruth Page, US choreographer/ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion) |
1905-05-05 |
Arnold Meijer, Dutch leader of fascist Dutch National/Black Front |
1905-06-06 |
John Gart, Russia, orchestra leader (Paul Winchell Show) |
1905-11-15 |
Annunzio Mantovani, Venice Italy, orchestra leader (Mantovani) |
1905-11-19 |
Tommy Dorsey, Mahanoy Plane Pa, orchestra leader (Stage Show, Mahogany) |
1906-06-18 |
Kay Kyser, Rocky Mount NC, orchestra leader (Kay Kyser's Kollege) |
1906-07-13 |
Harry Sosnik, Chicago, orchestra leader (Jack Carter Show, Your Hit Parade) |
1906-12-09 |
Freddy Martin, Cleve Oh, orchestra leader (started Merv Griffin) |
1906-12-16 |
Lord Margadale, English Conserv parliament leader/large landowner |
1907-01-26 |
Eddie Ballantine, Chicago, orchestra leader (Don McNeill TV Club) |
1907-05-27 |
Felix de Nobel, Dutch orchestra leader |
1907-08-18 |
Enoch Light, Canton Ohio, orchestra leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith) |
1907-09-01 |
Walter Reuther, labor leader/president (UAW & CIO) |
1907-11-08 |
Otto Brenner, German worker's union leader |
1907-11-14 |
Howard William Hunter, Mormon Church Leader |
1907-12-03 |
Andrew Hutchings, teachers' leader |
1907-12-23 |
Avraham Stern, Polish-born Zionist leader (d. 1942) |
1908-03-26 |
Hank Sylvern, Brooklyn New York, American orchestra leader (Jane Froman's USA Canteen) |
1908-04-20 |
Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader/vibraphone improviser (Depths Below) |
1908-06-14 |
John Scott Trotter, Charlotte NC, orchestra leader (George Gobel Show) |
1908-09-14 |
Bernie Green, NYC, orchestra leader (Arthur Godfrey Show, Garry Moore Show) |
1908-10-16 |
Enver Hoxha, post-war leader of Albania (1944-85) |
1908-11-24 |
Ray Carter, Chicago Ill, orchestra leader (Arthur Murray Dance Party) |
1909-01-01 |
Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader (d. 1959) |
1909-04-29 |
Daniel Raphael Mayer, journalist/resistance leader |
1909-05-10 |
Lord Collison, British union leader (agriculture workers) |
1909-06-12 |
Archie Bleyer, Corona NY, orchestra leader (Arthur Godfrey) |
1909-07-12 |
2nd viscount Camrose, British Conserv Lower house leader (1941-45) |
1909-08-29 |
Roy Reuther, Wheeling WV, labor leader |
1909-9-29 |
Sasadhar Mukherjee, Leader |
1910-01-30 |
Frans Dohmen, union leader (Dutch Catholic Mineworker's Union) |
1910-03-13 |
Sammy Kaye, Rocky River Ohio, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show) |
1910-03-17 |
Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader |
1910-05-12 |
Gordon Jenkins, Webster Grove Mo, orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour) |
1910-06-15 |
David Rose, London England, orchestra leader (Red Skelton Show, Stripper) |
1910-06-18 |
Ray McKinley, Fort Worth Tx, orchestra leader/drummer (Glenn Miller Time) |
1910-07-08 |
Govan AM Mbeki, South African leader (ANC/SACP) |
1910-10-10 |
Milton "Tippy" Larkin, band leader |
1910-10-14 |
Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader |
1910-12-07 |
Edmundo Ros, English orchestra leader |
1910-12-24 |
Mitchell Ayres, Milwaukee Wisc, orchestra leader (Hollywood Palace) |
1911-02-15 |
Leonard Woodcock, labor leader (UAW) |
1911-05-28 |
Jean-Pierre Levy, resistance leader |
1911-07-01 |
Alvino Rey, Cleve Ohio, orchestra leader (King Family) |
1911-07-02 |
Diego Fabbri, Italian, playwright/leader (Vatican movie bureau) |
1911-07-09 |
Lord Lovat, [Shimi], Scottish cattle breeder/leader of clan Fraser |
1911-08-26 |
Lester Lanin, orchestra leader (40 Beatle Hits) |
1911-09-01 |
Marinus Ruppert, Dutch chairman (CNV)/trade union leader |
1911-09-20 |
Frank Devol, Moundsville WV, orchestra leader (I'm Dickens He's Fenster) |
1911-09-20 |
Shriram Sharma Acharya, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1991) |
1911-09-24 |
Konstantin Chernenko, USSR leader |
1911-10-01 |
Irwin Kostal, Chicago Ill, orchestra leader (Garry Moore Show) |
1911-10-07 |
Vaughn Monroe, Akron Oh, singer/orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show) |
1911-10-19 |
George Cates, NYC, orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show) |
1912-01-01 |
Victor Reuther, Wheeling WV, labor leader |
1912-01-10 |
Maria Mandel, Camp leader at Auschwitz (d. 1948) |
1912-01-25 |
Lucius E Burch Jr, US lawyer/civil rights leader |
1912-03-12 |
Paul Weston, Springfield Mass, orchestra leader (Jim Nabors Hour) |
1912-03-19 |
Russ Case, Hamburg Iowa, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show) |
1912-04-15 |
Kim II Sung, Eternal President ("The Great Leader") of North Korea (1945-94) |
1912-05-04 |
Lou Brown, Bkln, orchestra leader (Jerry Lewis Show) |
1912-08-25 |
Holly Hall, Follow the Leader |
1913-01-06 |
Edward Gierek, party leader (Polish CP) |
1913-02-14 |
Jimmy Hoffa, Teamsters leader who disappeared in 1975 |
1913-02-18 |
Artur Axmann, nazi youth leader |
1913-05-11 |
Tutti Camarata, Glen Ridge NJ, orchestra leader (Vic Damone Show) |
1913-06-02 |
Bert Farber, Brooklyn New York, American orchestra leader (Arthur Gudfrey, Vic Damone) |
1913-08-08 |
Axel Stordahl, Staten Island NY, orchestra leader (Frank Sinatra Show) |
1913-08-23 |
Bob Crosby, Spokane Wa, Bing's brother, orchestra leader (Bob Crosby Show) |
1913-09-22 |
Leroy Holmes, Pittsburgh Pa, orchestra leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57) |
1913-12-23 |
Anton Leader, Children of the Damned |
1914-02-09 |
Ralph Herman, Milwaukee Wisc, orchestra leader (Circus Time) |
1914-05-09 |
Frank Chacksfield, arranger/orchestra leader |
1914-05-30 |
Bobby Sherwood, Indianapolis Ind, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show) |
1914-06-26 |
Richard Maltby, orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show) |
1914-07-31 |
Raymond Aubrac, Paris, French resistance leader, (d. 2012) |
1914-08-28 |
Glenn Osser, Munising Mich, orchestra leader (Paul Whiteman Goodyear Revue) |
1915-01-19 |
Alvy West, Brooklyn New York, American orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show) |
1915-01-20 |
Joe Hitchcock, darts player (leader of St Dunstan's Four) |
1915-01-31 |
Bobby Hackett, Providence RI, trumpeteer/orchestra leader (Air Time '57) |
1915-05-02 |
Van Alexander, NYC, orchestra leader (Gordon MacRae Show) |
1915-05-18 |
Leon Shenandoah, native American leader |
1915-07-15 |
Ron Smith, union leader (British Postal Workers) |
1915-08-22 |
David Dellinger, American social rights and peace movement leader (d. 2004) |
1915-09-11 |
Jack Fascinato, Bevier Mo, pianist/orchestra leader (Kukla Fran & Ollie) |
1916-01-09 |
Vic Mizzy, Brooklyn New York, American orchestra leader (Don Rickles Show) |
1916-01-17 |
Joel Herron, Chicago Ill, orchestra leader (Jaye P Morgan Show) |
1916-03-22 |
George Wyle, NYC, orchestra leader (Jerry Lewis Show, Flip Wilson Show) |
1916-03-26 |
Vic Schoen, Brooklyn New York, American orchestra leader (Patti Page Olds Show) |
1916-09-16 |
Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (d. 1999) |
1916-11-10 |
Billy May, Pitts Pa, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show) |
1916-12-19 |
Hal Hastings, NYC, orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway) |
1916-12-20 |
Michel Chartrand, Quebec union leader |
1917-03-13 |
Ina Ray Hutton, Chicago Ill, orchestra leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show) |
1917-03-27 |
Harry West, Unionist party leader (Unionist) |
1917-07-09 |
Ted Steele, Hartford Ct, orchestra leader (Cavalcade of Stars) |
1917-09-30 |
Buddy Rich, New York, American jazz drummer and band leader (Buddy Rich Band-Away We Go), (d. 1987) |
1917-10-02 |
William Marshall, Chicago IL, band leader (Pennsylvanians) |
1917-11-20 |
Robert C Byrd, (Sen-D-WV, 1959- )/majority leader |
1917-12-06 |
Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (d. 1977) |
1918-01-07 |
Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader (Communist Party) |
1918-01-27 |
Skitch Henderson, Birmingham England, orchestra leader (Tonight Show) |
1918-04-27 |
Kirby Stone, NYC, jazz combo leader (Baubles Bangles & Beads) |
1918-05-24 |
Coleman A Young, civil rights leader (Mayor-D-Detroit) |
1918-06-15 |
Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader |
1918-09-04 |
Gerald Wilson, Shelby Miss, orchestra leader (Redd Foxx) |
1918-09-13 |
Ray Charles, Chicago, orchestra leader (Perry Como) |
1918-10-10 |
Bobby Byrne, Columbus Ohio, orchestra leader (Club Seven) |
1918-12-02 |
Milton Delugg, Los Angeles California, orchestra leader (Tonight Show) |
1918-12-25 |
Eddie Safranski, Pitts Pa, orchestra leader (Jonathan Winters Show) |
1919-01-01 |
Bernard Drukker, Dutch organist/pianist/orchestra leader (Devil's Wheel) |
1919-01-16 |
Bob Boucher, Kent Ohio, orchestra leader (Music on Ice) |
1919-02-02 |
Allie Reynolds, NY Yankee pitcher (1952 AL ERA leader (2.07)) |
1919-02-08 |
Buddy Morrow, orchestra leader (Jimmie Rodgers Show) |
1919-03-14 |
Luther Henderson Jr, KC Mo, orchestra leader (Polly Bergen Show) |
1919-04-02 |
Antoon J Hubben, Dutch mayor (Maasbree)/trade union leader |
1919-04-07 |
Ralph Flanagan, Loraine Ohio, orchestra leader (Let's Dance) |
1919-04-22 |
Miriam Leader, Young@Heart |
1919-06-10 |
Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian Negotiator and community leader (d. 2007) |
1919-06-23 |
Muhammad Boudiaf, Algerian political leader (d. 1992) |
1920-01-12 |
James Farmer, Marshall, Tex, civil rights leader |
1920-02-27 |
Jose Melis, Havana Cuba, orchestra leader (Jack Paar Program) |
1920-04-13 |
Liam Cosgrave, leader (Fine Gael Party) |
1920-05-20 |
William Simpson, British trade union leader |
1920-06-07 |
Georges Marchais, political leader (French Communist Party) |
1920-07-31 |
James Esdras Faust, American religious leader (d. 2007) |
1920-10-31 |
Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (d. 1957) |
1921-01-30 |
Bernie Leighton, West Haven Ct, orchestra leader (Chance of a Lifetime) |
1921-05-13 |
Syd[ney G] Vincent, British mine workers leader |
1921-07-04 |
Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist/orchestra leader (Ripley's Game) |
1921-07-21 |
Billy Taylor, Greenville NC, orchestra leader (David Frost Show) |
1921-07-31 |
Whitney M Young Jr, civil rights leader, head of Urban League |
1921-10-13 |
Harper MacKay, Boston Mass, orchestra leader (NBC Follies) |
1921-12-07 |
Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader |
1922-01-20 |
Ray Anthony, Bentleyville, Pennsylvania, American orchestra leader (Ray Anthony Show, Peter Gunn Theme) |
1922-03-14 |
Les Baxter, US, singer/orchestra leader/composer (Born Again) |
1922-03-17 |
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founding Leader of Bangladesh (d. 1975) |
1922-08-02 |
Lord Murray of Epping Forest [Lionel], Hadley, Telford, British labour politician and union leader (General Secretary TUC) |
1922-08-12 |
Andre Kloos, Dutch trade union leader (NVV/VARA) |
1922-08-23 |
Jack Boddy, British trade union leader |
1922-09-11 |
Charles Evers, civil rights leader (Amazing Grace) |
1922-09-20 |
Frank Comstock, SD California, orchestra leader (Jimmie Rodgers Show) |
1922-10-02 |
Thomas T Nkobi, S Afr ANC-leader (Alexandra-bus boycott 1957) |
1922-10-27 |
Stanley Uys, The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver's Wife |
1922-10-29 |
Neal Hefti, Hastings Neb, orchestra leader (Kate Smith Show) |
1923-01-16 |
Willem Aantjes, Dutch politicial leader (CDA) |
1923-02-07 |
George H H Lascelles, English earl of Harewood/leader (Covent Garden) |
1923-03-21 |
Mort Lindsey, Newark NJ, orchestra leader (Merv Griffin Show) |
1923-05-10 |
Heydar Aliyev, Ex-President and Leader of Azerbaijan Republic (d. 2003) |
1923-07-30 |
Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian communist/leader of PKI (1951-65) |
1923-08-02 |
Shimon Peres, Israeli Labor Party leader/prime minister |
1923-08-06 |
Jack Parnell, London England, orchestra leader (Englebert Humperdick Show) |
1923-12-23 |
Milt Okun, Brooklyn New York, American orchestra leader (Starland Vocal Band Show) |
1923-12-24 |
Wilton S Mkwayi, South African ANC leader |
1924-01-03 |
Henry M Fazzie, S Afr Union/UDF-leader |
1924-02-18 |
Louis Laberge, Quebec labour union leader (d. 2002) |
1924-04-07 |
Nick Perito, Denver Colorado, orchestra leader (Don Knotts Show, Big Show) |
1924-06-20 |
Rainer Barzel, German leader (CDU-CSU)/minister |
1924-07-26 |
Louis Bellson, Rock Falls Ill, orchestra leader (Pearl Bailey Show) |
1924-08-12 |
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (d. 1988) |
1924-10-13 |
Terry Gibbs, Brooklyn New York, American orchestra leader (Steve Allen Comedy Hour) |
1924-10-15 |
Colin Romoff, NYC, orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show) |
1924-10-18 |
Allyn Ferguson, San Jose California, orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show) |
1925-01-23 |
Marty Paich, Oakland California, orchestra leader (Sonny & Cher, Glenn Campbell) |
1925-01-31 |
Benjamin Hooks, civil rights leader |
1925-02-14 |
Elliot Lawrence, Phila, orchestra leader (Guide Right, Howard Cosell) |
1925-02-20 |
Heinz Kluncker, German trade union leader |
1925-02-26 |
James Moody, US, jazz saxophonist/orchestra leader |
1925-04-09 |
Tom Jackson, British union leader (Post Office) |
1925-08-15 |
Gertrude Shope, Johannesburg, South Africa, leader of the ANC Women's League |
1925-10-18 |
Ramiz Alia, political leader of Albania |
1925-12-25 |
Christmas F Tinto, South African ANC'er/UDF-leader |
1926-02-03 |
Hans-Jochen Vogel, leader of West Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) |
1926-03-11 |
Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader (Southern Christian Leadership) |
1926-10-06 |
Alan Copeland, Los Angeles California, orchestra leader/singer (Your Hit Parade) |
1926-12-26 |
Edgar D Ngoyi, South African ANC leader (17 yrs in Robbeneiland Jail) |
1927-03-10 |
Donn Trenner, New Haven Ct, orchestra leader (ABC's Nightlife) |
1927-03-31 |
Cesar Chavez, Yuma Az, farm labor leader (United Farm Workers) |
1927-04-06 |
Gerry Mulligan, British saxophonist/orchestra leader (Jazz on a Summer Day) |
1927-04-27 |
Coretta Scott King, Marion Ala, civil rights leader |
1927-10-22 |
Helenard J "Allan" Hendrickse, leader of S Afr Labour Party |
1928-06-20 |
Jean-Marie le Pen, France, leader (National Front party) |
1928-09-14 |
Albert Shanker, American labor leader (Amer Fed of Teachers) |
1928-11-06 |
Peter Matz, Pitts Pa, orchestra leader (Hullabaloo, Carol Burnette Show) |
1929-01-15 |
Martin Luther King Jr., Atlanta, American clergyman and leader of the Civil Rights Movement (Nobel 1964) |
1929-04-06 |
Arthur S Taylor Jr, US drummer/band leader (Taylor's Wailers) |
1929-04-17 |
James Last, orchestra leader/composer/arranger |
1929-07-25 |
Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader |
1929-08-21 |
Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada, leader of S Afr Communist Party |
1929-11-27 |
Billy Nair, S Afr union/SACP leader (20 yrs in Robbeneiland Prison) |
1929-12-09 |
Bob Hawke, Bordertown, South Australia, 23rd Australian Prime Minister (1983-91) and Leader of the Labor Party |
1930-01-17 |
Bill Benyon, English large landowner/Conservative Lower house leader |
1930-03-27 |
Richard Hayman, Cambridge Massachusetts, orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show) |
1930-05-04 |
Doris Leader Charge, Dances with Wolves |
1930-07-09 |
Buddy Bregman, Chicago, orchestra leader (Eddie Fisher Show) |
1930-08-04 |
David M G Curry, South African Labour Party parliament leader |
1930-08-27 |
John Daly, British trade union leader |
1931-05-13 |
Jim Jones, Randolph County Indiana, American Leader of Peoples Temple cult (Jonestown Massacre) |
1931-06-16 |
Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader |
1931-07-10 |
Del Insko, harness racer (toothpick in mouth, 1969 money leader) |
1931-12-11 |
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, leader B-sect/guru of rich |
1932-07-27 |
Curnick M Ndlovu, Jailed South Africian worker's union leader |
1932-08-11 |
Wilson "Papa" Godett, Curacaos worker's union leader/boxer |
1932-10-02 |
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, Longford, Ireland, paramilitary and political leader (Sinne Fein), (d. 2013) |
1932-11-23 |
Michael Knight, air chief marshall/British leader (NATO) |
1932-11-27 |
Benigno Aquino Jr, Philippine opposition leader; assassinated |
1932-11-28 |
Ethel L Ennis, US orchestra leader/jazz singer (Once Again) |
1932-12-28 |
Roy Hattersley, British journalist/Labour-parliament leader |
1933-01-17 |
Aga Khan, religious leader (Muslims) |
1933-04-16 |
Perry Botkin Jr, NYC, orchestra leader (Bert Convy Show) |
1933-06-02 |
Bob Rozario, Shanghai China, orchestra leader (Tony Orlando, Marie) |
1933-08-02 |
Alan Tuffin, trade union leader |
1933-08-24 |
Yasser Arafat, Paris France, PLO-leader (Achille Lauro, Nobel 1994) |
1934-03-15 |
Kanshi Ram, Indian dalit leader |
1934-05-26 |
Abdulah M "Dulah" Omar, South African attorney/UDF-leader |
1934-08-04 |
Jonas Savimbi, Angolian leader of Unita |
1934-10-29 |
Robert E Hughes, NYC, orchestra leader (Rich Little Show) |
1935-05-29 |
Denis J Worrall, South African politician/leader (DP) |
1935-07-06 |
14th Dalai Lama, Tibet, spiritual leader of Tibet's Lamaistic Buddhists |
1935-07-18 |
Jayendra Saraswathi, Hindu religious leader |
1935-07-25 |
Lars Werner, Swedish communist leader |
1935-09-19 |
Esmond Bulmer, English cider brewer/Conservative Lower house leader |
1935-12-09 |
Dominico Tromp, Aruba, stage leader |
1936-01-29 |
Veturi Sundara Ramamurthy, Leader |
1936-03-22 |
Ron Carey, American labor leader (Teamsters) |
1936-12-13 |
Karim Aga Khan, leader of the Nizari Ismailis, prince and billionaire |
1937-01-22 |
Edén Pastora, Nicaraguan rebel leader |
1937-03-08 |
Raynoma Gordy, [Mayberry], US orchestra leader (Rayber Voices) |
1937-05-19 |
David Kemp, Why I Want to Be Leader |
1937-07-01 |
Ebrahim I Ebrahim, South African ANCer/Umkhonto we Sizwe-leader |
1937-08-02 |
Alan Tuffin, trade union leader |
1937-08-04 |
Jacobus H "Koos" van de Merwe, S Afr attorney/CP parliament leader |
1937-12-10 |
Don Sebesky, Perth Amboy NJ, orchestra leader (Jimmy Dean Show) |
1938-01-06 |
Mario Rodríguez Cobos "Silo", Argentine writer and spiritual leader |
1938-01-11 |
Arthur Scargill, Socialist Labour Party (UK) leader |
1938-02-07 |
S. Ramachandran Pillai, Indian communist leader |
1938-05-19 |
Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese leader (d. 1989) |
1938-07-06 |
Franco, Zaire, composer/guitarist/leader (Masumbuku) |
1938-10-19 |
Ton Regtien, Dutch student leader |
1939-03-23 |
Pepe Lienhard, Swiss band leader and entertainer |
1939-04-18 |
Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran |
1939-05-26 |
Merab Kostava, Georgian anti-Soviet leader |
1939-06-06 |
Nganani Enos J Mabuza, South African leader (Inyandza Natl Movement) |
1939-06-18 |
Lou Brock, one-time baseball stolen base leader (St Louis Cards) |
1939-07-17 |
Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran |
1939-07-19 |
Stanislaw Lenartowicz, Academy Leader Variations |
1939-07-30 |
Eleanor Smeal, leader (National Organization for Women) |
1939-10-11 |
Franklin A Sonn, union leader (South African workers) |
1940-01-14 |
Julian Bond, Nashville Tenn, (D-Ga) civil rights leader |
1940-02-22 |
Johnson P Mlambo, South African leader (Pan-African Congress) |
1940-03-06 |
Willie Stargell, outfielder/1st baseman (Pirates, 1971 NL HR leader) |
1940-03-07 |
Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader (Glasnost Berlin) |
1940-04-18 |
Ed Garvey, labor leader (Major League Baseball Players Association) |
1940-07-11 |
Yvon Charbonneau, French Canadian union leader and politician |
1940-12-03 |
Jeffrey R. Holland, American religious leader |
1941-01-31 |
Eugene Terre'Blanche, The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver's Wife |
1941-03-28 |
Alf Clausen, Minneapolis Mn, orchestra leader (Mary, Simpsons) |
1941-05-19 |
Jimmy Hoffa Jr, son of Jimmy Hoffa/Teamster union leader |
1941-11-15 |
Nessa Hyams, Leader of the Band |
1941-11-25 |
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Indian Muslim Sufi, author, spiritual leader (d. 2001) |
1942-01-12 |
Bernardine Dohrn, former leader of the radical leftist organization Weather Underground |
1942-02-16 |
Kim Jong-il, Supreme Leader of North Korea (1994-2011) [disputed birthdate, 1941] |
1942-02-17 |
Huey Newton, Black Panther leader |
1942-03-12 |
Ratko Mladić, Republika Srpska leader |
1942-03-28 |
Neil Kinnock, Tredegar, Wales, leader of the British opposition (Labour Party) |
1943-05-06 |
Andreas Baader, leader of the German organization Red Army Faction (d. 1977) |
1943-06-04 |
Joyce Meyer, American religious leader |
1943-09-29 |
Lech Walesa, Popowo Poland, Polish Solidarity movement leader (Nobel 1983) |
1944-01-27 |
Peter Akinola, Nigerian religious leader |
1944-01-31 |
Eugene Terre Blanche, S Afr leader of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging |
1944-03-08 |
Buzz Hargrove, Canadian labour leader |
1944-03-18 |
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli military leader and politician, (d. 2012) |
1944-04-15 |
Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader and President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (1991), (d. 1996) |
1944-05-28 |
Gladys Knight, Atlanta Ga, singer, leader of Pips (Last Train) |
1944-10-10 |
Christopher N Dlamini, South African union/SACP-leader |
1945-01-27 |
Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader (d. 2005) |
1945-03-28 |
Hans Brunhart, leader of Liechtenstein (1978-93) |
1945-06-23 |
John Garang, Sudanese leader and politician (d. 2005) |
1945-06-26 |
Malachi York, Nuwaubian leader |
1945-07-16 |
Diana Warwick, leader (Association of University Teachers) |
1945-08-15 |
Gene Upshaw, NFL guard (Oakland Radiers), NFLPA leader |
1946-07-31 |
Karen Zerby, American religious leader |
1947-02-12 |
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indian leader of Damdami Taksal (d. 1984) |
1947-02-21 |
Olympia Snowe, The Broken Senate/McCullough/Leader of the Pack |
1947-08-07 |
Mosibudi Mangena, South African black leader (On Your Own) |
1947-12-30 |
Stephanus S "Tian" van Merwe, leader (South Africa Democratic Party) |
1948-01-17 |
Alexander "Alec" Erwin, South African worker's union leader |
1948-04-16 |
Jane Aaron, Academy Leader Variations |
1948-08-13 |
Mosiuoa Patrick "Terror" Lekota, South African UDF/ANC-leader |
1948-10-21 |
Moses J "Moss" Mayekiso, South African union/SACP-leader |
1949-06-28 |
Don Baylor, Tx, baseball player (Rockies, 1979 AL RBI leader, 267 HBP) |
1949-07-01 |
Zoe Leader, The Lion King |
1949-08-07 |
Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese political leader |
1949-11-28 |
Paul Shaffer, Thunder Bay Ont, orchestra leader (SNL, David Letterman) |
1949-12-26 |
Ira Newborn, NYC, orchestra leader (Manhattan Transfer) |
1950-01-26 |
Jorg Haider, Austrian polical leader (Austrian Freedom Pary) |
1950-05-29 |
Oliver Sukletovic, Leader |
1950-12-30 |
Yunus I Mahomed, South African attorney/leader (UDF) |
1951-09-21 |
Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen rebel leader (d. 2005) |
1951-11-10 |
Carol Leader, The Colonel's Lady |
1953-02-02 |
James Mndaweni, South African worker's union leader/president (NACTU) |
1953-03-09 |
Petar Antic, Leader |
1953-06-21 |
Benazir Bhutto, 1st female leader of a Moslem nation (Pakistan) |
1953-09-27 |
Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian religious leader |
1954-03-09 |
Bobby Sands, Irish IRA member and leader of the hunger strike at Maze Prison where he died (1981) |
1954-05-02 |
Bulelani T Ngcuka, South African attorney/leader (UDF) |
1954-11-26 |
Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan militant leader |
1954-12-22 |
Jayaseelan Naidoo, South African worker's union leader |
1955-01-13 |
Titus M Mafolo, S Afr journalist/ANC-leader |
1955-03-02 |
Shoko Asahara, [Chizuo Matsumoto], Japanese sect leader |
1956-01-31 |
Trevor A Manuel, South African UDF/ANC-leader |
1956-06-26 |
Azhar Cachalia, Scottish/S Afr leader (United Democratic Front) |
1956-10-02 |
Murphy Morobe, South Afr UDF leader (spent 3 yrs in Robbeneiland Jail) |
1957-02-09 |
Mohammed Valli Moosa, South African leader (UDF) |
1957-12-10 |
Prem Rawat, known also as Guru Maharaj Ji and Maharaji, American Indian spiritual leader and speaker |
1958-05-31 |
Mkhuseli Jack, South African UDF-leader (consumer boycots) |
1959-02-28 |
Sydney P Mufamadi, South African leader (SACP) |
1959-08-17 |
David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993) |
1959-10-29 |
Jesse Barfield, Ill, outfielder (Blue Jays, Yankees, 1986 HR leader) |
1960-04-30 |
David Miscavige, American cult leader |
1960-08-28 |
Cunningham T Ngcukana, South African worker's union leader |
1960-08-30 |
Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese terrorist group Hizbollah |
1960-12-29 |
Thomas Lubanga, founder and leader of Union of Congolese Patriots |
1961-04-17 |
Frank J. Christensen, American labor leader |
1963-06-06 |
Eric Cantor, The Majority Leader/The Perfect Score/Alone on the Wall |
1964-06-18 |
Uday Hussein, Iraqi leader (d. 2003) |
1966-10-20 |
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda leader (d. 2006) |
1967-01-01 |
Kevin Fletcher, You're Looking at the New Leader of Our Tribe |
1967-03-17 |
Barry Minkow, American religious leader and ex-convict (fraud) |
1968-11-13 |
Greg Wendell Reid, African-American Idol: The Search for the Next Black Leader |
1969-05-15 |
Emmitt Smith, running back (Dallas Cowboys, 3-time NFL rushing leader) |
1971-12-25 |
Justin Trudeau, Ottawa Ontario, Canadian political leader |
1972-10-03 |
Denny Vaughn, orchestra leader (Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour) |
1974-10-31 |
Matt Mitchell, Don't Tell My Wife I'm a Cult Leader |
1975-10-02 |
Regan Payne, Follow the Leader |
1977-06-10 |
Adam Darski, Polish musician most known for being the leader of Behemoth |
1978-07-02 |
Ian Clark, African-American Idol: The Search for the Next Black Leader |
1981-03-12 |
Grant Mattos, You're Looking at the New Leader of Our Tribe |
1984-06-19 |
Emil Coleman, orchestra leader (Arthur Murray Party) |
1985-03-05 |
Neccole Heard, Leader of the Pack |
1985-06-26 |
Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader |
1988-08-13 |
Jarryd Leader, Leave to Remain |
1989-03-22 |
Kristafer Anka, Follow the Leader |
1993-02-01 |
Blaine Wise, I'm Trying to Be a Leader Here |
1995-01-12 |
Laurel McGoff, I'm Trying to Be a Leader Here |
Leader - Notable Weddings
Leader - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
38 |
Roman Republican Leader Octavian, later Augustus 1st Roman Emperor, marries Livia Drusilla. |
BC AD | |
1796-03-09 |
French Leader Napoléon Bonaparte (26) marries 1st wife Joséphine de Beauharnais (32), changing her name from Rose |
1810-02-11 |
French leader Napoleon I marries 2nd wife Marie-Louise of Austria |
1812-09-12 |
Revolutionary leader Jose de San Martin (33) weds María de los Remedios de Escalada at Buenos Aires Cathedral in Argentina |
1827-01-17 |
Religious leader Joseph Smith Jr (21) weds church group movement leader Emma Smith (22) in South Bainbridge, New York |
1834-03-31 |
Religious leader Brigham Young (32) weds herbalist Mary Ann Angell (27) |
1843-12-10 |
Author and religious leader Mary Baker Eddy (22) weds building contractor George Washington Glover (32) in Tilton, New Hampshire |
1867-01-28 |
Labor union leader Samuel Gompers (17) weds co-worker Sophia Julian (16) in Brooklyn, New York |
1872-12-08 |
Religious leader Brigham Young (71) weds his fifty-fifth wife Hannah Tapfield in Salt Lake City, Utah |
1902-02-11 |
US military leader George Marshall (22) weds Elizabeth Carter Coles in San Antonio, Texas |
1918-07-02 |
Jazz orchestra band leader Duke Ellington (19) weds high school sweetheart Edna Thompson |
1925-06-07 |
Three Stooges leader Moe Howard (28) weds Helen Schonberger |
1926-10-18 |
Communist revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh (36) weds midwife Zeng Xueming (21) in Guangzhou |
1929-10-12 |
US military leader George Marshall (48) weds Katherine Tupper |
1937-06-26 |
Actress Mary Pickford (45) weds actor and band leader Charles Rogers (32) |
1943-07-05 |
Actress Betty Grable (26) weds big band leader Harry James (27) |
1945-10-17 |
Actress Ava Gardner (22) weds band leader Artie Shaw (35) in Hollywood |
1946-04-26 |
Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement. |
1948-10-22 |
Farm labor leader Cesar Chavez (21) weds labor activist Helen Fabela (20) in Reno, Nevada |
1949-06-12 |
Religious leader Jim Jones (18) weds nurse Marceline Baldwin |
1952-07-02 |
Zulu-leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi marries Irene Mzila |
1990-07-17 |
PLO-leader Jasser Arrafat marries Soha Tawil in Tunis |
1990-07-17 |
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (56) weds Suha Tawil (27) |
1994-12-10 |
Former Senate Majority Leader Mitchell (61) weds sports marketing executive Heather MacLachlan (35) at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York City |
1995-02-06 |
"The Beach Boys" leader and chief songwriter Brian Wilson (52) weds former model Melinda Ledbetter (47) at Palos Verdes in Peninsula, California |
Leader - Notable Deaths
Leader - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
45 |
Titus Labienus, Roman leader |
BC AD | |
408-08-22 |
Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader (395-408), executed at 48 |
493-03-15 |
Odiaker (Odoacer), German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), murdered |
624-03-13 |
Abu Sufjan becomes Quraish chief and leader of Mecca after loss at Battle of Badr against Muslim forces |
1226-03-07 |
William de Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader |
1280-11-15 |
Albertus Magnus the Great, German leader/bishop Regensburg, dies at 87 |
1318-08-18 |
Clare of Montefalco, Italian Abbess and religious leader (born c. 1268) |
1328-08-23 |
Nicolaas Zannekin, leader of rebel Flemish farmers, dies in battle |
1337-06-15 |
Angelus Clarenus/da Cingoli, Italian leader, dies |
1337-12-22 |
Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54 |
1342-11-29 |
Michael of Cesena, Italian Franciscan leader (b. 1270) |
1352-09-15 |
Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273) |
1358-07-31 |
Etienne Marcel, French textile merchant/reformer/Boer leader, dies |
1360-02-26 |
Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (b. 1328) |
1376-01-24 |
Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader |
1381-06-15 |
Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London |
1387-07-22 |
French Ackerman, Ghent rebel/leader of Reisers, murdered at about 57 |
1397-06-03 |
William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1328) |
1397-09-21 |
Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (executed) (b. 1346) |
1400-03-24 |
Florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies |
1415-10-13 |
Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1381) |
1424-10-11 |
Jan Zizka, Czech (army)leader (Hussieten), dies of plague at 46 |
1424-12-31 |
Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, English military leader |
1428-11-03 |
Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1388) |
1435-06-12 |
John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408) |
1439-04-30 |
Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, English military leader (b. 1382) |
1439-10-21 |
Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist/leader, dies at 53 |
1444-05-27 |
John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (b. 1404) |
1450-05-02 |
William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English military leader (b. 1396) |
1453-07-17 |
John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader |
1460-07-10 |
Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402) |
1468-01-17 |
Skanderbeg, Albanian leader (b. 1405) |
1472-07-05 |
Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394) |
1490-08-11 |
French van Brederode, leader of Hoeksen, dies at about 25 |
1492-06-16 |
Jan Coppenhole, Flemish rebel leader, beheaded |
1499-04-29 |
John IV, Dutch army leader/earl of Egmond, dies |
1499-07-22 |
Neithart Fox, [Jonker Fox], German passage leader, slain in battle |
1509-09-28 |
Siwara/Sjoerd Aylva, Fries army leader (siege of Franeker) |
1511-08-02 |
Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader |
1524-02-20 |
Tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya |
1525-05-27 |
Thomas Muentzer, German rebel leader |
1528-08-15 |
Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (b. 1485) |
1528-11-11 |
Lucas van Prague, Czech leader of Bohemian Brothers, dies at about 68 |
1531-12-06 |
John Volkertsz Trimaker, Dutch anabaptist leader, beheaded |
1536-01-22 |
Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (b. 1495) |
1555-06-07 |
Maarten van Rossum, Dutch army leader, dies at about 76 |
1556-08-25 |
David Jorisz, Flemish glass blower/sect leader, dies at about 54 |
1558-06-04 |
Maximilian of Burgundy, leader of Holland/admiral, dies at 43 |
1560-11-25 |
Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (b. 1466) |
1563-03-24 |
Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514) |
1568-06-01 |
Gijsbert van Bronkhorst-Batenburg, calvinist leader, beheaded |
1569-03-13 |
Louis Condé, French prince/co-leader of Hugenots, dies in Battle of Jarnac |
1572-08-24 |
Gaspard de Châtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral and Huguenot leader, beheaded |
1573-07-10 |
Willem van Bronkhorst, Brattenburg/Stein/army leader, dies |
1578-10-01 |
Don John of Austria, Spanish military leader, dies at 31 |
1582-06-23 |
Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military leader (b. 1537) |
1588-12-23 |
Hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37 |
1589-08-10 |
Maarten Schenck Nideggen, Dutch army leader, drowned at about 49 |
1610-04-18 |
Robert Parsons, English jesuit leader/plotter, dies at 63 |
1611-10-03 |
Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (b. 1554) |
1620-10-07 |
Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish military leader (b. 1547) |
1623-06-16 |
Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599) |
1626-07-05 |
Stephan Fadinger, Austrian boer leader, dies in battle |
1629-10-03 |
Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military leader (b. 1570) |
1632-11-27 |
John Eliot, English parliament leader/author (In Jail), dies at 40 |
1637-08-10 |
Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (b. 1582) |
1637-08-13 |
Dirck J Bas, Dutch merchant/regent/government leader (OIC), dies |
1638-02-28 |
Henri duc de Rohan, French soldier/Huguenot leader, dies |
1639-01-24 |
George Jenatsch, Grisons leader, assassinated |
1651-11-26 |
Henry Ireton, English gen/parliament leader (Marston Moor), dies at 40 |
1656-10-03 |
Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony leader, dies of strangury at 72 |
1661-01-17 |
Andres Malong, Philippines rebel leader, executed |
1666-10-29 |
Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (b. 1600) |
1669-10-24 |
William Prynne, English Puritan leader (b. 1600) |
1670-10-27 |
Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617) |
1671-06-06 |
Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader quartered alive (ns. 16 June) |
1671-06-16 |
Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured & executed in Moscow |
1675-08-12 |
Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Neth baron of Sucha/army leader, dies at 73 |
1675-08-16 |
Bogdan Chmilnicki, cosack leader/murderer of 300,000 Jews, dies |
1676-08-12 |
King Philip, [Metacomet], leader Wampanoag-indians, shot to death |
1685-02-24 |
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English politician and military leader (b. 1629) |
1686-06-06 |
Joannes B van Neercassel, RC spiritual leader of Neth, dies at 60 |
1702-04-23 |
Margaret Fell, English Quaker leader (b. 1614) |
1703-10-03 |
Pieter van Wooden, Amersfoorts rebel leader, beheaded |
1703-10-03 |
Richard Saab, Amersfoorts rebel leader, beheaded |
1704-08-14 |
Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader (b. 1675) |
1706-04-19 |
Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist leader, dies |
1713-01-11 |
Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader (b. 1637) |
1718-01-17 |
Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military leader |
1718-08-06 |
Jacob F Muller, [Sjako/Jaco], Germ/Neth crowd leader, beheaded at 28 |
1732-05-20 |
Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (b. 1676) |
1735-04-08 |
Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (b. March 27, 1676) |
1745-05-22 |
François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (b. 1671) |
1748-03-14 |
George Wade, British military leader (b. 1673) |
1751-10-26 |
Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (b. 1702) |
1764-07-23 |
Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (b. 1703) |
1770-09-30 |
George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714) |
1775-01-10 |
Jemeljan Pugatshov, Russian kosak leader/"Tsar Peter III", dies |
1775-11-24 |
Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (b. 1703) |
1776-08-02 |
Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (b. 1717) |
1777-05-16 |
Button Gwinnet, US revolutionary leader, dies from wounds |
1784-06-06 |
Joan Derk van de Capellen, leader of democratic Patriots, dies at 42 |
1784-09-08 |
Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736) |
1784-12-26 |
Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (b. 1743) |
1788-06-18 |
Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (b. 1714) |
1790-11-06 |
James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (b. 1726) |
1793-10-31 |
Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader, guillotined at 40 |
1794-03-04 |
Henri D count de Larochejacquelin, Fr Royalist Army leader, dies at 21 |
1794-04-05 |
Georges-Jacques Danton, French revolutionary leader, guillotined at 34 |
1795-10-03 |
Tula, leader Curacaose slave uprising, executed |
1797-07-09 |
Edmund Burke, British author/parliament leader (Reflections), dies at 68 |
1797-12-26 |
John Wilkes, English journalist/Higher/Lower house leader, dies at 72 |
1799-05-04 |
Tipu Sultan, Indian military leader killed during Battle of Seringapatam (b. 1750) |
1800-06-14 |
Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French military leader (b. 1768) |
1800-10-07 |
Gabriel, slave revolt leader (Virginia), hanged |
1805-08-28 |
Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (Moderator of the General Assembly 1770), dies at 83 |
1806-02-20 |
Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (b. 1725) |
1807-11-24 |
Joseph Brant [Thayendanegea], Mohawk leader, dies at 64 |
1807-12-04 |
Prince Hall, activist/Masonic leader, dies in Boston |
1810-02-20 |
Andreas Hofer, milt leader (fought Napoleon's France), executed at 42 |
1814-10-01 |
Jakob I van Przysucha, Polish hassidic leader, dies |
1815-01-31 |
José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan independentist leader (b. 1775) |
1816-05-29 |
Madame L'Ouverture, widow of Haiti's leader Toussaint L'O, dies |
1818-02-13 |
George Rogers Clark, American military leader (b. 1752) |
1821-06-07 |
Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion-leader (b. cca. 1780) |
1821-06-17 |
Martín Miguel de Güemes Argentine military leader (b. 1785) |
1827-11-28 |
Dov Baer Schneersohn, Lubavitch leader/author (Imirei Binah), dies |
1828-09-10 |
Count d'Andreossi, French general/parliament leader, dies at 67 |
1833-08-03 |
Stoffel Muller, Dutch sect leader, dies |
1834-08-17 |
Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian rebel leader (b. 1802) |
1836-11-12 |
Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773) |
1838-10-03 |
Black Hawk (chief), Leader of the Sauk Native American tribe (b. 1767) |
1840-05-06 |
Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian president and independence leader (b. 1792) |
1842-10-24 |
Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule, dies at 64 |
1844-06-27 |
Hyrum Smith, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob in Carthage Ill |
1844-06-27 |
Joseph Smith Jr, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob at 38 |
1850-03-03 |
Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (b. 1806) |
1850-06-12 |
Jean V Constant de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader, dies at 77 |
1853-07-23 |
Andries Pretorius, Boer leader (b. 1798) |
1854-03-11 |
Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804) |
1855-05-15 |
Jan Mazereeuw, Frisian farmer/sect leader, dies at 75 |
1856-01-24 |
Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, Polish Hasidic leader (b. 1775) |
1856-07-09 |
James Strang, Mormon splinter group leader (b. 1813) |
1860-02-20 |
Henry Drummond, English banker/religious leader, dies at 69 |
1860-10-12 |
Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, dies at 73 |
1863-01-10 |
Lyman Beecher, US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader (b. 1775) |
1863-07-27 |
William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (b. 1813) |
1864-09-04 |
John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (b. 1825) |
1864-10-26 |
"Bloody Bill" Anderson, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (b. 1839) |
1866-03-29 |
Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, Rabbi/Chassidic leader, dies |
1866-06-07 |
Chief Seattle, Native American leader |
1868-06-22 |
Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (b. 1801) |
1868-09-17 |
Roman Nose (Wiquini), Cheyenne indian leader, dies |
1870-02-26 |
Wyatt Outlaw, black leader of Union League in NC, lynched |
1874-03-11 |
Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63 |
1874-06-08 |
Cochise, Apache leader |
1878-11-28 |
Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805) |
1881-10-03 |
Orson Pratt, American religious leader (b. 1811) |
1882-06-02 |
Guiseppi Garibaldi, Italian rebel leader, dies at 74 |
1883-05-24 |
Abdel Kadir, Algerian leader (b. 1808) |
1883-05-26 |
Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian leader, scholar and national hero (b.1808) |
1885-11-16 |
Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader and "Father of Manitoba", hanged for treason at 41 |
1887-07-25 |
John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808) |
1887-12-09 |
Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and military leader |
1890-03-22 |
Desire de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader, dies at 85 |
1891-10-06 |
Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party leader, dies at 45 |
1892-05-17 |
Gyorgy Klapka, Hungarian general/parliament leader, dies at 72 |
1892-10-05 |
Bob Dalton, US leader of Daltonbende, dies |
1895-02-20 |
Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77 |
1897-05-10 |
Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino revolutionary leader (b. 1863) |
1898-04-15 |
Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader |
1898-07-07 |
Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreograph/ballet leader, dies |
1901-11-07 |
Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli, dies |
1902-01-17 |
Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed |
1902-07-04 |
Swami Vivekananda, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1863) |
1903-05-04 |
Goce Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkans - leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (b. 1872) |
1905-08-10 |
Kinjikitile "Bokero" Ngwale, E African prophet/rebel leader, hanged |
1911-06-09 |
Carry Amelia Moore Nation, American temperance leader, dies |
1912-06-25 |
Louis Antoine, Belgian miner/sect leader, dies at about 65 |
1912-08-20 |
William Booth, English minister/founder (Leader des Heils), dies |
1913-03-20 |
Song Jiao-ren, leader Chinese Guomindang-Party, dies |
1914-06-30 |
Bai Long, [White Wolf], Chinese Robin Hood/crowd leader, dies |
1915-07-28 |
Vilbrun G Sam, rebellion leader/president of Haiti, lynched |
1915-09-28 |
Saitou Hajime, 3rd squad leader of the Shinsengumi died under name of Goro Fujita (b. 1844) |
1915-11-19 |
Joe Hill, Labor leader/songwriter, executed for murder |
1916-10-16 |
Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker's union leader, dies at 73 |
1917-08-30 |
Uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czech, dies |
1919-04-10 |
Emiliano Zapata, Mexican leader, murdered at 39 |
1920-02-07 |
Alexander Koltsjak, adm/leader Russian counter-revolutionary, executed |
1920-08-01 |
Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian hindu leader, dies |
1920-11-23 |
Mohammed ibn Addoellah, Somalian resistances leader "Mad Molla", dies |
1921-11-28 |
`Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1844) |
1922-01-10 |
Frank Tudor, Australian Labor Opposition leader (b. 1866) |
1922-08-22 |
Michael Collins, Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush |
1923-01-23 |
Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849) |
1924-01-21 |
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, Russian Revolutionary leader and Premier, dies of a stroke at 53 |
1924-09-15 |
Frank Chance, Baseball's Peerless Leader |
1924-12-13 |
Samuel Gompers, Samuel Gompers the World's Greatest Labor Leader |
1926-05-17 |
Lucien Herr, French leader (Correspondance entre Schiller), dies |
1926-05-25 |
Symon Petlyura, leader of Ukraine (pogroms), assassinated at 47 |
1926-10-20 |
Eugene V. Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. 1855) |
1927-06-09 |
Victoria Woodhull, American woman's suffrage leader and first woman to be nominated for US presidency dies aged 88 |
1927-08-04 |
John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house leader, dies at 75 |
1928-05-31 |
Ludwig Enneccerus, German leader, dies at 85 |
1928-08-08 |
Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Boer party), dies |
1930-05-12 |
Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch SDAP leader, dies at 70 |
1931-01-11 |
James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852) |
1931-11-02 |
Arthur James Cook, union leader (coal miners), dies at 47 |
1932-02-02 |
Agha Petros, Assyrian nationalist leader |
1932-07-22 |
Roosje Vos, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 71 |
1932-07-22 |
Roses Fox, Trade union leader, dies at 71 |
1934-06-30 |
Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-leader, murdered at 42 |
1934-06-30 |
Karl Ernst, German SA-leader, murdered |
1936-02-04 |
Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (b. 1895) |
1936-10-08 |
William Henry Stark, American business leader (b. 1851) |
1936-11-19 |
Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchists army leader, dies in battle |
1938-05-23 |
Philip Kleintjes, republic leader, dies at 70 |
1938-06-26 |
James Weldon Johnson, black leader (NAACP), dies in car crash at 67 |
1938-12-20 |
Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader (b. 1850) |
1939-03-18 |
Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian and religious leader (b. 1859) |
1939-06-16 |
Chick Webb, American jazz drummer and big band leader (b. 1905) |
1940-05-07 |
George Lansbury, Labour Party Leader (b. 1859) |
1941-03-06 |
Leen Schijvenschuurder, Dutch February strike leader, executed |
1941-06-10 |
Marcus Garvey, US black leader (Back to Africa Movement), dies at 52 |
1942-01-22 |
Reimond Tollenaere, leader Flemishch Natl Front, dies at 81 |
1942-04-13 |
Henk Sneevliet, leader of Dutch RSAP/Spartacus, executed at 58 |
1942-05-03 |
Johan H Westerveld, lt-col/leader Order Service, executed |
1942-08-25 |
W van Daalen, opposition leader on Celebes, beheaded |
1942-10-22 |
Gustave "Staff" de Clercq, leader Flemish Nationally Covenant, dies |
1942-12-14 |
Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 61 |
1943-02-18 |
Henri Polak, Dutch union leader/politician (soc-dem), dies at 74 |
1943-05-01 |
Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith's Friends (b.1871) |
1943-10-09 |
Jan Dieters, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed |
1943-10-09 |
Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed |
1943-10-25 |
H van Zanten, guerrilla leader on North Sumatra, executed |
1944-06-16 |
Kate Mayhew, Baseball's Peerless Leader |
1944-07-24 |
Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49 |
1944-08-18 |
Ernst "Teddy" Thalmann, leader of German KPD, dies |
1944-11-28 |
Bijnen, Dutch opposition leader (LKP), shot to death in Apeldoorn |
1944-12-15 |
Glenn Miller, US band leader/jazz composer, dies at 40 |
1944-12-16 |
Glenn Miller, US jazz composer/orchestra leader (Danny boy), dies at 40 |
1945-05-19 |
Philipp Bouhler, German nazi leader (b. 1889) |
1945-06-16 |
Aris Velouchiotis, Greek guerrilla resistance leader (b. 1905) |
1946-05-07 |
Anton A Mussert, engineer/NSB leader, executed |
1947-03-09 |
Carrie Chapman Catt, American women's suffrage leader, dies at 88 |
1947-05-01 |
Sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed |
1947-07-16 |
Horatio Mbelle, South African interpreter, community leader and politician, dies in Pretoria at 77 |
1947-09-23 |
Nikola Petkov, leader of Bulgaria Boer party, hanged |
1948-01-24 |
Maria Mandel, Camp Leader at Auschwitz (b. 1912) |
1948-01-30 |
Mahatma Gandhi, India's political and spiritual leader, assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu extremists |
1949-02-14 |
Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi-Assyrian communist leader (b. 1901) |
1950-01-08 |
Joseph Issac Shneerson, Jewish Lubavitch Chabal leader, dies |
1950-12-15 |
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian political leader, Iron Man of India (b. 1875) |
1952-01-08 |
Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 66 |
1952-01-26 |
Khorloogiin Choibalsan, leader of Mongolia (b. 1895) |
1952-08-21 |
Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies |
1952-08-31 |
Henri Bourassa, French Canadian political leader (b. 1868) |
1954-04-28 |
Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879) |
1954-07-24 |
Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90 |
1955-05-18 |
Mary McLeod Bethune, educator & civil rights leader, dies at 79 |
1955-11-04 |
Cy Young, pitcher and MLB all-time wins leader, dies at 88 |
1956-02-27 |
Frank Dailey, orchestra leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54 |
1956-11-11 |
Victor Young, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56 |
1957-02-18 |
Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (b. 1920) |
1957-06-12 |
James F "Jimmy" Dorsey, US orchestra leader, dies at 53 |
1958-02-14 |
Abdul Rab Nishtar, veteran leader of Pakistan Movement, (b. 1899) |
1958-07-27 |
Claire Chennault, American military leader (b. 1893) |
1959-12-28 |
Ante Pavelić, leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia (b. 1889) |
1960-05-31 |
Walther Funk, Nazi leader (b. 1890) |
1960-10-12 |
Inejiro Asanuma, leader Japanese Socialist Party, murdered at 61 |
1961-03-16 |
Chen Geng, Chinese military leader (b. 1903) |
1961-03-17 |
Susanna Salter, 1st US female mayor/temperance leader, dies at 101 |
1961-03-27 |
Jack Kane, orchestra leader (Steve & Eydie, Andy Williams Show), dies at 37 |
1962-07-12 |
Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader (b. 1907) |
1962-07-20 |
Andre Renard, Belgium worker's union leader (MSU), dies at 51 |
1963-02-06 |
Mohammed ibn al-Chattabi Abd el-Krim, Morocco opposition leader, dies |
1963-02-18 |
Todd "Hugh" Gaitskell, leader British Labour Party, dies at 56 |
1963-05-27 |
Lambrakis, Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered |
1963-08-23 |
Glen Gray, American jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (b. 1900) |
1963-08-30 |
Axel Stordahl, orchestra leader (Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 50 |
1964-10-10 |
Russ Case, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show), dies at 52 |
1964-11-30 |
Don Redman, orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64 |
1965-01-27 |
Theo Uden Marsman, Dutch orchestra leader, dies at 63 |
1965-02-21 |
Malcolm X, [Little], black Moslem leader and human rights activist, assassinated in NYC at 39 |
1965-06-17 |
Arnold Meijer, leader (Fascist Nationally Front), dies |
1965-09-10 |
Father Divine, American religious leader (b. 1880) |
1965-09-27 |
Harry Reser, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 69 |
1965-10-15 |
Carl Hoff, orchestra leader (Music Hall), dies at 60 |
1965-10-22 |
Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian leader (PKI 1951-65), murdered at 42 |
1965-10-28 |
Ben Barka, Moroccan opposition leader, kidnapped & murdered in Paris |
1965-10-29 |
Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris |
1965-11-12 |
Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra Spiritual Leader (b. 1888) |
1966-02-16 |
Hendrik W Tilanus, artillery officer/leader (CHU 1939-63), dies at 81 |
1967-10-12 |
Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist politician leader |
1967-12-29 |
Paul Whiteman, US orchestra leader (Fabulous Dorseys), dies at 77 |
1968-03-24 |
Lauwrens Voorthuyzen, Dutch sect leader, dies at 70 |
1968-04-06 |
Bobby Hutton, US Black Panther leader, shot to death |
1968-05-23 |
Merle Kendrick, orchestra leader (Window on the World), dies at 72 |
1968-08-31 |
George P Gooch, English historian/House of Commons leader, dies |
1968-10-09 |
Pierre Mulele, Congolese rebel leader, executed |
1969-08-07 |
Russ Morgan, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 65 |
1969-09-05 |
Mitchell Ayres, orchestra leader (Hollywood Palace), dies at 58 |
1969-12-04 |
Fred Hampton, US Black-Panther leader, murdered |
1970-05-09 |
Walter P Reuther, US worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies |
1971-03-11 |
Whitney M Young Jr, leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at 49 |
1971-09-13 |
Lin Piao, Chinese party leader, dies in air crash at 63 [or Sept 13] |
1972-01-10 |
Al Goodman, Russian/US orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81 |
1972-04-15 |
Otto Brenner, German trade union leader, dies at 64 |
1972-07-02 |
Joseph F Smith Jr, leader US mormon chuch, dies at 95 |
1972-07-28 |
Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918) |
1972-10-30 |
Alan Roth, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 68 |
1973-05-21 |
Vaughn Monroe, singer/orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61 |
1973-05-30 |
Hal Hastings, orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66 |
1973-06-27 |
Earl Browder, leader US Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82 |
1974-01-05 |
Roy Bargy, orchestra leader (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 79 |
1974-01-27 |
Georgios Grivas, Greek gen/oppos leader on Cyprus (EOKA), dies at 75 |
1974-09-14 |
Vera Vague, [Barbara Jo Allen], actr (Follow the Leader), dies at 70 |
1975-02-25 |
Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, dies in Chicago at 78 |
1975-03-11 |
Sammy Spear, orchestra leader (Dom Deluise Show), dies at 65 |
1975-04-06 |
Chiang Kai-Shek, Nationalist Chinese leader, dies at 87 |
1975-10-02 |
Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian political leader, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1903) |
1975-10-29 |
John Scott Trotter, orchestra leader (George Gobel Show), dies at 67 |
1975-12-20 |
Vincent Lopez, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 76 |
1976-02-20 |
Kathryn Kuhlman, religious leader/faith healer, dies |
1976-05-01 |
T.R.M. Howard, civil rights leader, entrepreneur, surgeon (b. 1908) |
1976-05-10 |
Elias Aslaksen, Leader of Smith's Friends (b. 1888) |
1976-05-26 |
Juan Maino, Chilean leader of MAPU, "disappeared" |
1976-06-07 |
Bobby Hackett, jazz cornetist/orchestra leader (Air time '57), dies at 61 |
1976-07-13 |
Joachim Peiper, German military leader (SS, by assassination; b. 1915) |
1977-03-22 |
A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b. 1904) |
1977-04-22 |
Charles Sanford, orchestra leader (Your Show of Shows), dies at 71 |
1977-07-10 |
Norman Paris, orchestra leader (For Your Pleasure), dies at 41 |
1977-09-12 |
Steven Biko, South African black student leader, dies in police custody |
1977-11-05 |
Guy Lombardo, orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne), dies in Houston at 75 |
1978-07-31 |
Enoch Light, orchestra leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith), dies at 70 |
1978-10-10 |
Ralph Marterie, American big band leader (b. 1914) |
1978-11-18 |
Jim Jones, US pastor, leader of Jonestown Cult, commits suicide at 47 |
1978-12-17 |
Don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934) |
1979-01-05 |
Charles Mingus, US jazz bassist/composer/orchestra leader, dies at 56 |
1979-03-01 |
Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iranian Kurd leader (KDP), dies at 75 |
1979-03-02 |
Mollah Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish leader, dies at 75 |
1979-05-16 |
Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader & civil rights pioneer, dies at 90 |
1979-07-10 |
Arthur Fiedler, orchestra leader (Boston Pops), dies at 84 |
1979-08-25 |
Stan Kenton, orchestra leader (Music 55), dies at 67 |
1979-12-24 |
Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader, dies at 39 |
1980-01-10 |
George Meany, labor leader, dies at 86 |
1980-03-29 |
Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 74 |
1980-05-04 |
Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80), dies at 87 |
1980-12-24 |
Karl Dönitz, German naval admiral, and last leader of Nazi Germany (b. 1891) |
1981-01-23 |
Bobby Sherwood, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 66 |
1981-04-15 |
French Duynstee, Dutch states rights leader, dies at 67 |
1981-07-31 |
Gen Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, dies in plane crash |
1981-08-03 |
Robert Peci, Italian brother of Red Brigade leader, murdered |
1981-09-13 |
William Loeb, publisher of Manchester Union Leader, NH, dies at 75 |
1982-02-05 |
Neil Aggett, South African worker's union leader, commits suicide |
1982-09-01 |
Wladislaw Gomulka, Polish partisan/party leader, dies at 76 |
1982-11-16 |
Lenny Murphy, Leader of Belfast's notorious Shankill Butchers (b. 1952) |
1982-12-08 |
Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, murdered |
1983-01-07 |
August Cool, Belgian trade union leader, dies at 79 |
1983-02-05 |
Derk Roemers, Dutch union leader/politician (soc dem), dies at 67 |
1983-04-06 |
Ana Maria, Salvador guerilla leader, murdered |
1983-06-16 |
James Arthur Calata, African National Congress (ANC) leader and Anglican clergyman, at 87 |
1983-08-21 |
Benigno S Aquino Jr, Philippines opposition leader, killed at 50 |
1983-09-30 |
Freddy Martin, orchestra leader (started Merv Griffin), dies at 76 |
1984-02-19 |
Ina Ray Hutton, orchestra leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show), dies at 66 |
1984-03-05 |
Harry Salter, orchestra leader (Stop the Music), dies at 85 |
1984-05-01 |
Gordon Jenkins, orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 73 |
1984-06-05 |
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indies Sikh leader |
1984-07-03 |
Raoul Salan, French general/OAS leader (Algeria), dies at 85 |
1984-07-29 |
Fred Waring, orchestra leader (Fred Waring Show), dies at 84 |
1984-12-26 |
Holly Hall, Follow the Leader |
1985-01-06 |
Robert H W Welch Jr, US founder/leader John Birch Society, dies at 85 |
1985-01-18 |
Mahmoud Taha, Sudanese Moslem leader, hanged at 76 |
1985-03-10 |
Konstantin Chernenko, party leader/pres of USSR (1984-85), dies at 73 |
1985-03-18 |
Jack Miller, orchestra leader (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 89 |
1985-04-11 |
Enver Hoxha, party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76 |
1985-04-14 |
Enver Hoxha, Albanian leader (1944-85), dies |
1985-05-14 |
Mohammed Munir, Indonesian worker's union leader, executed |
1985-07-16 |
Wayne King, orchestra leader (Wayne King Show), dies at 84 |
1985-08-20 |
Harchand Singh Longowai, Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists |
1985-12-25 |
George Rhodes, orchestra leader (Sammy Davis Jr Show), dies at 66 |
1986-03-13 |
Alvaro Fayad Delgado, Colombian guerilla leader (M-19), dies |
1986-06-12 |
Tony Desimone, combo leader (Ernie in Kovacsland), dies at 66 |
1986-06-17 |
Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 75 |
1986-07-27 |
Leroy Holmes, orchestra leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57), dies at 72 |
1986-11-13 |
Rolando Olalia, Philippines worker's union leader, murdered |
1986-12-01 |
Horace Heidt, orchestra leader (Swift Show Wagon), dies at 85 |
1987-04-02 |
Buddy Rich, drummer/orchestra leader (Away We Go), dies at 69 |
1987-06-02 |
Sammy Kaye, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 77 |
1988-04-16 |
Abu Jihad, [Khalil al-Wazzir], PLO-leader, murdered |
1988-05-27 |
Melvin J "Cy" Oliver, US jazz composer/orchestra leader, dies at 77 |
1988-07-01 |
Anton Leader, Children of the Damned |
1989-04-22 |
Huey Newton, US, Black Panther leader, shot dead at 47 |
1989-06-03 |
Ayatollah Khomeini [Ruhollah Khomeini], Supreme leader of Iran (1979-89), dies of a heart attack at 89 |
1989-06-23 |
Werner Best, German jurist and nazi leader (b. 1903) |
1989-07-13 |
Abdul Rahman Qassemlu, Iran Kurds leader, murdered |
1989-09-26 |
Pavlos Bakoyannis, Greek parliament leader, murdered in Rome |
1989-11-08 |
Andre Kloos, Dut trade union leader (NVV)/chairman (VARA), dies at 67 |
1989-12-25 |
Barrel Regtien, student leader, dies |
1989-12-25 |
Ton Regtien, Dutch student leader, dies at 51 |
1990-04-17 |
Ralph David Abernathy, US civil rights leader, dies |
1990-05-21 |
Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, murdered |
1990-07-30 |
Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered |
1990-11-03 |
Sasadhar Mukherjee, Leader |
1990-11-12 |
Rifaat El-Maghub, Egyptian MP leader, murdered |
1990-12-28 |
Lucas Polhaupessy, Moluccan leader, dies |
1991-01-21 |
Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Mo)/US civil-rights leader, dies at 74 |
1991-03-14 |
Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies at 68 |
1991-03-26 |
Frans Dohmen, union leader (Neth Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81 |
1991-05-14 |
Jiang Qing, widow of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, commits suicide |
1991-06-27 |
Klas Bruinsma, leader criminal organization, murdered |
1991-09-08 |
Jo Budie, Dutch orchestra leader (KRO), dies |
1991-09-22 |
Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname religious leader, dies |
1991-12-08 |
Buck Clayton, US jazz trumpeter/orchestra leader, dies |
1992-01-03 |
Anthony Del Casino, band leader (Charlie Barnet Band), dies at 79 |
1992-02-16 |
Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated |
1992-02-23 |
Markos Vafiades, leader (ELAS, 1943-49), dies |
1992-02-27 |
Marinus Ruppert, Dutch trade union leader (CNV), dies at 80 |
1992-04-05 |
Anthony "Tony" Papa, big band leader, dies at 65 |
1992-04-23 |
Deron Johnson, 1965 NL run leader, dies of cancer at 53 |
1992-08-08 |
Abul Qassim Khoei, Iraqi great-ayatollah/leader of Sjiieten, dies |
1992-08-24 |
Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader/jurist (Constitution), dies at 74 |
1992-10-24 |
Alexander V Van de Wall Bake, staff leader/gov KMA Breda, dies |
1992-12-13 |
Bernard Drukker, Dutch pianist/orchestra leader (duivelswiel), dies |
1992-12-25 |
Richard H Ichord, US leader of House Un-American Activities Committee, dies at 66 |
1993-02-08 |
N. Shanmugathasan, Sri Lankan communist leader |
1993-02-09 |
Nasrullah Mansoor, Afghan guerilla leader/governor of Paktia, dies |
1993-02-17 |
Alfredo de Leon, leader (Philippines Red Scorpio Gang), killed |
1993-04-01 |
Ihsan Mohamed Salem, [Yunis Awad], Palestinian Al-Fatah leader, killed |
1993-04-19 |
David Koresh, [Vernon Howell], cult leader (Davidians), suicide |
1993-05-30 |
Sun Ra, blues pianist/orchestra leader, dies of strokes at 79 |
1993-07-31 |
Paul Henry, US Republicans Congressional leader, dies at 51 |
1993-09-30 |
Alex Lyon, English Labor Lower house leader (1966-83), dies at 61 |
1993-10-25 |
Francisco Velis, El Salvador guerilla leader (FMLN), murdered |
1993-10-30 |
Hernan Heleno Castro, El Salvadorian guerilla leader, murdered |
1993-11-15 |
Luciano Liggio, Italian mafia leader/painter, dies |
1993-11-24 |
Imad Aqal, Palestinian Hamas leader, dies at 24 |
1993-11-26 |
Imad Aqal, Palestinian Izz-Danish al-Qassem-leader, shot to death |
1993-11-28 |
Abu Rish, Palestinian PLO-leader, dies at 23 |
1993-11-28 |
Khaled Moustapha Zir, Palestinian Hamas leader, shot to death at 25 |
1994-02-05 |
Fred de Bruyne, Flemish cyclist/gang leader (Paris-Nice), dies at 63 |
1994-03-09 |
Louis Freeman, band leader, dies at 100 |
1994-04-25 |
Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Moslem leader, shot dead at 32 |
1994-05-24 |
Sandor Lakatos, Hungarian violist/orchestra leader, dies at 69 |
1994-05-29 |
Ezra Taft Benson, min of Agr/leader of mormon (1985-94), dies at 94 |
1994-06-09 |
Dhirendra Bhramachari, [Flying Swami], hindu leader, dies at 70 |
1994-06-12 |
Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher leader (1950-94), dies at 92 |
1994-08-25 |
Ramdas Nayak, Indies hindu leader/politician, murdered at about 52 |
1994-09-23 |
Ali Kouider Benyahia, [sheik Boualem], Alg Moslem leader, shot at 26 |
1994-09-23 |
Cherif Gousmi, [kalief Abu Abdallah Ahmed], Alger Moslem leader, shot |
1994-11-18 |
Cab[ell] Calloway, US band leader/actor (Missourians), dies at 86 |
1995-01-10 |
Souphanouvong, leader of Pathet Lao (1957), dies |
1995-01-22 |
Mahmoud Sayed Selim, Egyptian moslim leader, shot to death at 29 |
1995-02-13 |
Abdelhafid Said, Algerian student leader, murdered |
1995-02-15 |
Sahnoun Jawhari, Tunisian Annahda-leader, dies at 40 in jail |
1995-03-03 |
Howard Hunter, US leader of Mormon Church (1994-95), dies at 87 |
1995-03-13 |
Abdul Ali Mazari, Afghan shite leader, shot to death |
1995-03-16 |
Sydney Simone, band leader, dies at 80 |
1995-09-17 |
Yehuda Meir Getz, rabbi/soldier/religious leader, dies at 71 |
1996-01-13 |
Willian Myuon Bany Guerrilla leader, dies |
1996-01-15 |
Les Baxter, singer/orchestra leader/composer (Born Again), dies at 73 |
1996-03-10 |
Lucius E Burch Jr, US civil rights leader, dies at 84 |
1996-04-21 |
Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader and President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (1991), dies at 52 |
1996-07-22 |
Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader, dies at 65 |
1996-07-22 |
Leon Shenandoah, native American leader, dies at 81 |
1996-08-31 |
Milton "Tippy" Larkin, band leader, dies at 85 |
1996-10-21 |
Georgios Zoitakis, leader of Greece (1967-72), dies |
1996-10-31 |
Andrew Hutchings, teachers' leader, dies at 88 |
1996-12-16 |
Jean-Pierre Levy, resistance leader, dies at 85 |
1996-12-29 |
Daniel Raphaeautl Mayer, journalist/resistance leader, dies at 86 |
1997-03-26 |
Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader (b. 1931) |
1997-04-26 |
Yegorov, Russian leader (1994-95), dies |
1997-06-21 |
Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labour leader (b. 1900) |
1997-12-27 |
Billy Wright, Irish Protestant paramilitary leader (b. 1960) |
1998-03-06 |
Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed |
1999-02-19 |
Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, Iraqi Shiite leader (assassinated) |
1999-02-24 |
Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (b. 1916) |
2000-01-15 |
Željko Ražnatović, aka Arkan, Serbian paramilitary leader (b. 1952) |
2000-11-12 |
Franck Pourcel, French popular orchestra leader (b. 1913) |
2001-02-20 |
Doris Leader Charge, Dances with Wolves |
2001-04-24 |
Leon Sullivan, African-American civil rights leader and pastor (b. 1922) |
2001-08-27 |
Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (assassinated) (b. 1938) |
2001-09-09 |
Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader (b. 1953) |
2001-11-25 |
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Muslim Sufi, author, spiritual leader (b. 1941) |
2002-01-03 |
Juan García Esquivel, Mexican band leader (b. 1918) |
2002-01-17 |
Bishop Karas, Sudanese-born American religious leader (b. 1955) |
2002-02-22 |
Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel leader (b. 1934) |
2002-08-16 |
Abu Nidal, Palestinian political leader (b. 1937) |
2002-12-05 |
Ne Win, Burmese leader (b. 1911) |
2003-02-01 |
Mongo Santamaria, Cuban percussionist and band leader (b. 1922) |
2003-02-18 |
Isser Harel, Israeli Mossad leader (b. 1912) |
2003-07-29 |
Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (b. 1937) |
2003-08-29 |
Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.1939) |
2003-09-30 |
Yusuf Bey, Black Muslim leader (b. 1935) |
2004-02-13 |
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen leader (b. 1952) |
2004-05-17 |
Ezzedine Salim, leader of Iraqi Governing Council (b. 1943) |
2004-05-18 |
Serge Turgeon, Quebec actor and union leader (b. 1946) |
2004-05-20 |
Lord Murray of Epping Forest, British labour politician and union leader, dies of emphysema and pneumonia at 82 |
2005-01-10 |
James Forman, American civil rights leader (b. 1928) |
2005-01-19 |
Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader (b. 1924) |
2005-03-08 |
Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen leader (b. 1951) |
2005-06-03 |
Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (b. 1945) |
2005-10-30 |
Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader (b. 1942) |
2005-11-06 |
Rod Donald, New Zealand Politician, Green Party Co-leader (b. 1957) |
2005-11-15 |
Dr. Adrian Rogers, American Southern Baptist Minister and leader (b. 1931) |
2006-01-26 |
Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Pakistani opposition leader and Pashtun nationalist (b. 1917) |
2006-11-12 |
General Jacob E. Smart, US Air Force leader World War II (b. 1909) |
2007-01-29 |
Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim, Iraqi extremist leader (b. 1970) |
2007-02-01 |
Ahmad Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader (b. 1946) |
2007-02-22 |
George Jellicoe, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords & Special Boat Service veteran (b. 1918) |
2007-04-29 |
Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor, known as the leader of Olsenbanden |
2007-05-07 |
Yahweh ben Yahweh, American cult leader (b. 1935) |
2007-05-12 |
Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Taliban military leader (b. 1966?) |
2007-08-02 |
Holden Roberto, Angolan founder and leader of the FNLA (b. 1923) |
2008-01-30 |
Marcial Maciel, Mexican religious leader (b. 1920) |
2008-03-14 |
Chiara Lubich, Italian Catholic activist and leader and foundress of the Focolare (b. 1920) |
2008-03-26 |
Manuel Marulanda Velez aka Tirofijo, founder and lifelong leader of Colombian rebel group FARC-EP (b. 1930) |
2008-08-20 |
Gene Upshaw, American football player and union leader (b. 1945) |
2008-09-09 |
Warith Deen Muhammad, American religious leader (b. 1933) |
2008-09-30 |
Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, Singapore Opposition Leader & former Secretary-General of Singapore's Worker's Party (b. 1926) |
2008-12-01 |
Joseph B. Wirthlin, religious leader, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, businessman (b. 1917) |
2008-12-19 |
James Bevel, 1960s Civil rights movement leader (b. 1936) |
2009-01-01 |
Nizar Rayan, Hamas leader (b. 1962) |
2009-05-18 |
Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1954) |
2009-06-13 |
Fathi Yakan, Lebanese leader and Muslim cleric (b. 1933) |
2009-11-11 |
Dhanpat Rai Nahar, Indian labour leader (b. 1919) |
2010-01-05 |
Murray Saltzman, Reform Jewish rabbi and civil rights leader (b. 1929) |
2010-02-05 |
Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer, politician and diplomat, leader of the anti-apartheid movement (b. 1924). |
2010-04-03 |
Eugene Terre'Blanche, The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver's Wife |
2010-05-22 |
Veturi Sundara Ramamurthy, Leader |
2010-05-24 |
Raymond V. Haysbert, African-American business executive and civil rights leader (b. 1920) |
2010-07-21 |
Luis Corvalán, Chilean communist leader (b. 1916) |
2011-05-02 |
Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda and 'the most wanted man in the world' (b. 1957) |
2011-08-26 |
John McAleese, British SAS Trooper, Team leader during 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege (b. 1949) |
2011-10-07 |
Ramiz Alia, the former communist leader and first president of the Albanian pluralist (b. 1925) |
2011-12-17 |
Kim Jong-il, supreme leader of North Korea (DPRK) 1994-2011, dies of a suspected heart attack at 70 |
2012-01-13 |
Rauf Denktash, leader of Turkish Cypriots, dies of multiple organ failure at 87 |
2012-07-03 |
Petar Antic, Leader |
2012-10-05 |
Miriam Leader, Young@Heart |
2012-11-27 |
Marvin Miller, American union leader, dies at 95 |
2012-12-19 |
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli military leader, dies from cancer at 68 |
2014-01-11 |
Stanley Uys, The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver's Wife |
2015-03-03 |
Zoe Leader, The Lion King |
2015-06-27 |
Jane Aaron, Academy Leader Variations |
2015-11-17 |
Ashok Singhal, controversial VHP leader, dies at 89 |
2015-11-17 |
Ashok Singhal, controversial VHP leader, dies at 89 |
2015-12-10 |
LGBT Leader George Zander Dead At 71 |
2016-07-16 |
Jimmy Johnston, former showband leader and promoter, dies aged 77 |
2016-07-28 |
Chief David Bald Eagle, prominent Native American leader and actor, dies aged 97 |
2017-02-02 |
DR Congo opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi dies aged 84 |
2017-03-30 |
South African anti-apartheid leader Ahmed Kathrada dies aged 87 |
2017-04-01 |
South African anti-apartheid leader Ahmed Kathrada dies aged 87 |
2017-04-02 |
South African anti-apartheid leader Ahmed Kathrada dies aged 87 |
2017-04-04 |
South African anti-apartheid leader Ahmed Kathrada dies aged 87 |
2017-11-20 |
Cult leader and convict Charles Manson dies aged 83 |
2017-12-12 |
Ultra-Orthodox leader Rabbi Shteinman dies aged 104 |
2018-02-15 |
Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai dies aged 65 |
2018-03-19 |
Cattlemen industry leader John Underwood dies aged 77 |
2018-05-04 |
Mozambique's opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama dies aged 65 |
