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Puyi
Puyi (; 7 February 190617 October 1967) was the last emperor of China, reigning as the eleventh monarch of the Qing dynasty from 1908 to 1912, and a brief return in 1917, when he was forced to abdicate. Later, he sided with Imperial Japan and was made ruler of Manchukuo—Japanese-occupied Manchuria—in hopes of regaining power as China's emperor. After over 10 years of imprisonment for war crimes following the end of World War II, Puyi worked for four years as a gardener in Beijing, China.
Romulus Augustus
last emperor of the Western Roman Empire (475–476)
Napoleon II
The second Emperor of the French (1815)
Edward V of England
king of England in 1483 (1470-1483)
Michael I of Romania
last king of Romania (r. 1927–1930, 1940–1947)
Ivan VI of Russia
The fifth Emperor of Russia (1740–1741)
Simeon II of Bulgaria
Bulgarian politician and royal (born 1937)
Gyanendra of Nepal
former King of Nepal
Heraklonas
Heraclius (; 626 – 642), known by the diminutive Heraclonas or Heracleonas (), and sometimes called Heraclius II, was briefly Byzantine emperor in 641.
John IV Laskaris
13th-century emperor of Nicaea
Jeconiah
Jeconiah ( meaning "Yahweh has established"; ; ), also known as Coniah and as Jehoiachin ( Yəhōyāḵin ; ), was the nineteenth and penultimate king of Judah who was dethroned by the King of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar II in the 6th century BCE and was taken into captivity. He was the son and successor of King Jehoiakim, and the grandson of King Josiah. Most of what is known about Jeconiah is found in the Hebrew Bible. Records of Jeconiah's existence have been found in Iraq, such as the Jehoiachin's Rations Tablets. These tablets were excavated near the Ishtar Gate in Babylon and dated to c. 592 BCE.
Prince Henri, Count of Chambord
French Royal (1820–1883)
Fuad II of Egypt
last king of Egypt , who ruled as an infant (1952–1953)
Charles Frederick, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp
German Monarch
Antiochus VI Dionysus
Seleucid ruler
Yōzei
Emperor of Japan
Abbas III
The first nominal Safavid king (1732–1736)
Amyntas IV of Macedon
King of Macedonia (c.365 BC-335 BC)
Valdemar III of Denmark
King of Denmark and Duke of Schleswig
Eric XI of Sweden
King of Sweden (1216-1250)
Duy Tân
Vietnamese emperor (1899-1945)
Robert I, Duke of Parma
Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1854 to 1859
Rudolf II, Duke of Austria
13th-century member of the House of Habsburg
Al-Mansur Ali
Mamluk Sultan of Egypt 1257-1259
Manuel II of Trebizond
Emperor of Trebizond
William III of Sicily
King of Sicily
Solamish
Badr al-Din Solamish (1272–1291; , , royal name: al-Malik al-Adil Badr al-Din Solamish ()) was a Turkic Sultan of Egypt in 1279. Born in Cairo, he was the son of Baybars, a military leader and sultan of Egypt.
George V of Georgia
King of Georgia (1286-1346)
Danjong of Joseon
King of Joseon from 1452 to 1455
Al-Nasir Muhammad
Sultan of Egypt from 1293 to 1294
Emperor Ai of Tang
final emperor of Tang-dynasty China from 904 to 907
Prince of Hongnong
Emperor of the Han dynasty in 189
Emperor Gong of Song
Emperor of the Song Dynasty
Ruzi Ying
Last Western Han dynasty ruler from 6 to 9 CE
Liutpert
thumb| Liutpert (or Liutbert) (died 702) was the Lombard king of Italy between 700 and 702, with interruption. Upon succeeding his father, King Cunincpert, at a young age, he ruled together with his tutor, Ansprand, the duke of Asti. After eight months, he was deposed by Raginpert, the duke of Turin and son of Godepert, Liutpert's great-uncle, but succeeded in returning to the throne several months later upon Raginpert's death, only to be deposed again, taken captive from Pavia, and drowned by Aripert II, Raginpert's son. He was buried in the Basilica of Santissimo Salvatore in Pavia.
Garibald
Garibald was the young son of Grimoald I of Benevento, king of the Lombards, and Theodota, daughter of Aripert I. After his father's death in 671, he reigned briefly for three months until the numerous adherents of Perctarit, his uncle, who had been exiled by Grimoald nine years earlier, besought their candidate to return and elected him, deposing the young king. He was the last Arian king in Europe.
Kaliman I of Bulgaria
Bulgarian ruler
Chang of Goryeo
ruler of Goryeo
Emperor Gong of Sui
emperor of the Sui Dynasty
Kujuk
Mamluk Sultan of Egypt 1341-1342
Theophylact
Byzantine co-emperor
Nikephoros II Orsini
Despot of Epirus in 1335–1340 and 1356–1359
al-Mansur Muhammad
Mamluk Sultan of Egypt 1361-1363
Kayumars of Delhi
11th Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate
Douce II, Countess of Provence
French noble (1163-1172)
Ivan II of Bulgaria
Emperor of Bulgaria
Hermann II
landgrave of Thuringia
Giorgio de' Buondelmonti
Ruler of Ioannina
Thong Lan
monarch of Ayutthaya
Michael
Bulgarian emperor
David
Byzantine co-emperor (r. 641)
Teodosie of Wallachia
voivode of Wallachia
Athittayawong
Athittayawong (, ) was the shortest-reigning monarch of Ayutthaya, ruling for about 36 days in 1629 and often regarded as the last king of the Sukhothai dynasty.
Yaqob
Emperor of Ethiopia
Ratsadathirat
Ratsadathirat (, ) was the twelfth king of Ayutthaya, an ancient kingdom in Thailand. He was a son of Borommarachathirat IV and succeeded his father to the throne of Ayutthaya at the age of five in 895 LE (2076 BE, 1533/34 CE). The following year, after having been on the throne for five months, he was put to death by his relative, Chairachathirat, who then assumed the kingship.
Subhan Quli Qutb Shah
3rd Sultan of Golconda
Martinus
Byzantine emperor