Park Chung Hee

Park Chung Hee

male, deceased (1979)
death by firearm, Buddhist, Past leaders by coup, Time Magazine, from Gumi, republic of korea…dictatorship
Park Chung-hee was former ROK Army general and the president of Republic of Korea from 1961 to 1979. He has been credited with the modernization of...
Emiliano Zapata

Emiliano Zapata

male, deceased (1919)
death by firearm in Mexico, Spanish Mexican, dictatorship, Mexican, death by firearm, General
Emiliano Zapata Salazar was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, which broke out in 1910, and which was initially directed against the...
Wei Jingsheng

Wei Jingsheng

male, 59 years old
Bejing, Communist Party of China, Cultural Revolution, Red Guard, Olof Palme Prize laureate, Democracy Wall…dictatorship
Wei Jingsheng (born May 20, 1950) is an activist in the Chinese democracy movement, most prominent for authoring the document, "Fifth...
Samuel Doe

Samuel Doe

male, deceased (1990)
came to power in a coup, Canadian, liberia, Americo-Liberian, Tax haven, Krahn…dictatorship
Master Sergeant Samuel Kanyon Doe (May 6, 1951 - September 9, 1990) was the President of Liberia from 1980 to 1990. His regime was characterized by...
Emilio Aguinaldo

Emilio Aguinaldo

male, deceased (1964)
Catholic, Filipino of Chinese descent, Aguinaldo family, General, vexillographer, Philippine Revolution…dictatorship
Emilio Aguinaldo c. 1898 In 1895, Aguinaldo joined the Katipunan rebellion, a secret organization then led by Andrés Bonifacio , dedicated to t...
Mark Palmer

Mark Palmer

male, 68 years old
student nonviolent coordinating committee, civil rights movement, carter, Freedom House, state department, Council for a Community of Democracies…dictatorship
Mark Palmer (born 1941) is the Vice Chairman of Freedom House and the Council for a Community of Democracies. He was the United States ambassador...

Adolfo Suárez

male, 77 years old
Salamanca University, Knight of the Golden Fleece, salamanca, Universidad de Salamanca, President of the Government of Spain, Franco regime…dictatorship
Don Adolfo Suárez González, Duke of Suárez (born September 25, 1932) was Spain's first democratically elected prime minister after the dic...

Anibal Gordon

male
argentine, Rodolfo Ortega Peña, Argentine Anticommunist Alliance, Córdoba Province, National Reorganization Process, Dirty War…dictatorship
Anibal Gordon was an Argentine suspected of having leadership responsibilities in the Triple A death squad, active during the "Dirty War" in the...
Augusto Roa Bastos

Augusto Roa Bastos

male, deceased (2005)
bolivia, dictator, Iturbe, Premio Cervantes winner, guarani, british council…dictatorship
Augusto Roa Bastos is undoubtedly one of the greatest Paraguayan novelists of all time, and indeed among the most important Latin American writers....
William Appleman Williams

William Appleman Williams

male, deceased (1990)
Oregon State University faculty, historian, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cold War, Historian of the United States, open door…dictatorship
William Appleman Williams (1921-1990) was one of the 20th century's most prominent historians of American diplomacy. His major body of writings...