Born in Keighley, Yorkshire in 1917, Denis Winston Healey was educated at Bradford Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford. He served in the army during…
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Born in 1931, Desmond Tutu taught until 1957 when he trained for the Anglican ministry. He took an MA in theology in the UK in…
Dwight David Eisenhower was born on 14 October 1890, at Denison, Texas, the third of seven sons of David Jacob and Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower.…
1 9 1 6 – 2 0 0 5 Edward Richard George Heath was born at Broadstairs, Kent, in 1916 and was educated at Chatham…
1 9 3 2 – 2 0 0 9 US Democratic politician Edward Moore Kennedy aided his brothers John and Robert Kennedy in their presidential…
John Enoch Powell was born on 6 June 1912 in Birmingham, the only son of teachers. After a grammar school education, he won a scholarship…
Fidel Castro was born in the village of Brian in Cuba on 13 August 1926 into a rich family, the son of Angel Castro, who…
1 9 1 6 – 1 9 9 6 François Mitterrand studied law and politics in Paris, and during World War II he came to…
In Chinese history, the ‘Gang of Four’ – Madame Mao (Jiang Qing), Wang Hongwen, Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyua – were the chief members of…
1 9 2 4 – 2 0 1 8 George Herbert Walker Bush graduated from Yale University in 1948, after wartime naval service. He made…
1 9 1 1 – 1 9 7 4 Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou trained as a teacher at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (he was himself…
1 9 1 3 – 2 0 0 6 Gerald Rudolph Ford was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr in Omaha, Nebraska in 1913 (the name…
1 9 8 9 – 1 9 7 8 Golda Meir worked her way up the political ladder to occupy various key posts before becoming…
Born in 1916, Edward Gough Whitlam was elected to the Australian parliament in 1952 and became the leader of the Labor party in 1967. Whitlam…
The environmental protest group Greenpeace was founded in Canada in 1971 (it had previously functioned as a group called the Don’t Make A Wave Committee).…
Harold Edward Holt was born in Sydney in 1908 and educated at Melbourne University. He worked as a solicitor and entered the federal parliament in…
Maurice Harold Macmillan was half-American by parentage, the son of a publisher who had raised the family from a humble background. Chelsea-born, he was educated…
1 9 1 6 – 1 9 9 5 James Harold Wilson was born near Huddersfield in 1916. His father was a chemist, his mother…
1 8 8 4 – 1 9 7 2 Born in Lamar, Missouri, Harry Truman farmed his parents’ land near Independence, Missouri, for 12 years.…
Born at Furth in Bavaria in 1923, Henry Alfred Kissinger emigrated to the USA in 1938. After working in Germany for army counter-intelligence, he won…