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• Ho Chi Minh founded and led Vietnam.
• He serving as Prime Minister (1945–1955) and President (1945–1969).
• He led the Vietnamese Communist Party.
• The city Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in his honor after 1975.

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• Born: 1890
• Died: 1969

Last verified on 16-01-2026

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Slobodan Milosevic, former President of Serbia and Yugoslavia

He was tried by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) 

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Christopher Columbus was Italian, born in Genoa in 1451

He discovered America In 1492.

He completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean

He was 1st Governor of the Indies from 1492–1499

Died: 20 May 1506 (aged 54) Valladolid, Castile

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Colonel George Everest, a British surveyor and geographer,

She served as the Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843

Mount Everest was named after George Everest in 1856

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Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel in the 1860s.

Additional Information REKATED ALFRED NOBEL

He was a chemist from Sweden.

Full name: Alfred Bernhard Nobel

Born: October 21, 1833, Stockholm, Sweden

The founder of the Nobel Prize

Invented Nitro-glycerine in 1875.

Died: on December 10, 1896, in Sanremo, Italy

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Pythagoras, the famous geometer and philosopher, was from ancient  Greece

He was born on the island of Samos, a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea

He lived around 570 BC.

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George Mitchell: Special Envoy for Middle East Peace (2009–2011).

He is an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer. 

He was born: August 20, 1933 

A leading member of the Democratic Party, he served as a

• United States senator from Maine from 1980 to 1995,
• Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995.

8th Chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast  from May 5, 1999, to March 29, 2009

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In 2009, Muammar el-Qaddafi was elected the Head (Chairperson) of the African Union.

Succeeding Jakaya Kikwete. 

He served from February 2009 to January 2010. 

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Hemant Karkare was the chief of the Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS).

He was killed in action during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in November 2008 while fighting terrorists.

Born: 12 December 1954, Maharashtra

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Klaus Schwab is the founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

He served as the WEF's chairman from 1971 until his resignation in 2025.

He founded the World Economic Forum in 1971.

Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

WEF is famous for its annual Davos meetings, attended by global leaders.