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Tshombé Moïse
Congolese politician and secessionist leader (1919–1969)
William Richard Tolbert
President of Liberia 1971–1980 (1913–1980)
Gaafar Nimeiry
Sudanese President (1931-2009)
Yakubu Gowon
Nigerian politician and Military general
Diori Hamani
President of Niger from 1960 to 1974 (1916-1989)
Luís Cabral
Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (1931-2009)
Juan Velasco Alvarado
President of Peru (1910-1977)
William Bligh
officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator (1754-1817)
Juan María Bordaberry
Uruguayan politician and rancher (1928-2011)
Shehu Shagari
President of Nigeria (1925-2018)
Roberto Eduardo Viola
military officer, dictator and de facto president of Argentina
Juan Negrín
Prime Minister of Spain (1892-1956)
Maurice Yaméogo
Burkina Faso President (1921-1993)
Hugo Banzer
President of Bolivia from 1971 to 1978 and 1997 to 2001
Ange-Félix Patassé
former President of the Central African Republic (1937-2011)
Víctor Paz Estenssoro
45th President of Bolivia
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
Nigerian politician (1912-1966)
Arturo Alessandri
Chilean politician and President (1868–1950)
Moktar Ould Daddah
President of Mauritania from 1960 to 1978
Kumba Ialá
Bissau-Guinean politician (1953-2014)
Rahmon Nabiyev
Tajikistani politician (1930-1993)
Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba
Burkinabé military officer and president (January–September 2022)
Sourou-Migan Apithy
Beninese politician (1913-1989)
Stanisław Wojciechowski
Polish scientist and politician (1869-1953)
Michel Micombero
President of Burundi (1940-1983)
Thanom Kittikachorn
Prime Minister of Thailand from 1958 and 1963 to 1973
Prince Paul of Yugoslavia
Regent of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1893-1976)
Juan José Flores
president of Ecuador
Hilla Limann
eighth President of the Republic of Ghana (1934–1998)
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza
President of Burundi (1946-2016)
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
President of Mauritania from 1984 to 2005
Bernardino Machado
Portuguese president (1851-1944)
Gwanghaegun of Joseon
15th King of Joseon Dynasty in Korean history (1575-1641)
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset
Nobleman
Mahamane Ousmane
President of Niger from 1993 to 1996
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani
former Emir of Qatar (1932–2016)
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi
Nigerian military leader (1924-1966)
Fulbert Youlou
President of the Republic of the Congo (1917-1972)
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi
Mauritanian politician (1938–2020)
Marcos Pérez Jiménez
president of Venezuela (1952-1958)
Yeonsangun of Joseon
Yeonsangun or Prince Yeonsan, personal name Yi Yung, was the 10th monarch of the Joseon dynasty of Korea. Often considered the worst tyrant in Joseon's history and perhaps all Korean history, he is notorious for launching two bloody purges, seizing hundreds of women from all over the peninsula to serve as palace entertainers, and appropriating Sungkyunkwan as a personal pleasure ground. Yeonsangun's despotic rule provided a stark contrast to the liberal era of his father, and as a much-despised overthrown monarch, he did not receive a temple name.
José María Velasco Ibarra
President of Ecuador (1934 - 1935) / (1944 - 1947) / (1952 - 1956) / (1960 - 1961) / (1968 - 1972)
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin
Beninise politician (1917-2002)
Christophe Soglo
Beninese politician (1909-1983)
Juan Bosch
First democratically elected President of the Dominican Republic (1909-2001)
Américo Tomás
(1894-1987) President of Portugal
Leslie Manigat
President of Haiti (1930–2014)
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
president of El Salvador (1882–1966)
Juan Carlos Onganía
President of Argentina from 1966 to 1970
Ahmed Abdallah
President of the Comoros from 1978 to 1989
Carlos Luz
19th President of Brazil (1894–1961)
Maurice Bishop
Revolutionary and Grenada 's second Prime Minister (1979-1983)
Shukri al-Quwatli
1st President of Syrian Republic (1891–1967)
James Mancham
President of Seychelles (1939-2017)
Hesham Qandil
Prime Minister of Egypt from 2012 to 2013
Laureano Gómez
President of Colombia (1889-1965)
Manuel Prado Ugarteche
President of Peru (1889-1967)
Gerardo Machado
President of Cuba from 1925 to 1933
Baldomero Espartero, Prince of Vergara
Spanish general and noble (1793-1879)
Grégoire Kayibanda
Rwandan politician, 1st and former President of Rwanda (1924-1976)