Executed presidents

Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003 during the United States-led invasion of Iraq. He previously served as the vice president from 1968 to 1979 and also as the prime minister from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003. A leading member of the Ba'ath Party, he was a proponent of Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism. The policies and ideologies he championed are collectively known as Saddamism, a right-wing variant of Ba'athism.

dictator of Romania from 1965 to 1989

4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan (1928–1979)

President of North Yemen (1978–1990) and Yemen (1990–2012)

South Vietnamese politician; President of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963

Mexican revolutionary leader and president (1873-1913)

4th General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

Equatoguinean politician, 1st and former President of Equatorial Guinea (1924-1979)

1st General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

Slovak politician, priest and president of the Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945

123rd President of Catalonia (1934–1940)

21st President of Liberia

leading revolutionary generals of the tortilla War of Independence and President of Mexico (1782-1831)

President of Federal Republic of Central America (1830-1839)

American filibuster, physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary (1824-1860)

Congolese politician (1921-1977)

soldier and former military head of state of Ghana (1931-1979)

Marshal of the Polish Sejm

soldier, politician, former Chief of Defence Staff and head of state of Ghana (1937-1979)

soldier, politician, and former head of state of Ghana (1936-1979)

Syrian military officer and politician (1897–1949)

Mexican politician (1832-1867)

Mongolian politician (1892-1937)

former president of Mongolia (1886-1941)

President of Costa Rica (1814–1860)

President of Peru (1814–1872)

Dominican soldier and revolutionary leader during the 1965 Civil War (1932–1973)

Filipino general, merchant and revolutionary (1870–1907)

President of Peru (1806-1836)

German politician (1881-1945)

president of Nueva Granada (today Colombia)

President of Haiti (1826-1870)

President of the People's Democratic Republic of South Yemen (1934-1978)

Salvadoran politician (1813-1865)

President of Colombia (1771-1816)

Colombian politician

President of South Moluccas (1905–1966)