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2009 At the 21st NATO Summit, new Secretary General, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is appointed
2009 Morgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe after agreeing to share power with President Robert Mugabe 2009 Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, endorses Russia's decision to turn off gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine 2008 Taro Aso becomes the new Prime Minister of Japan 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issues a formal apology to the Aboriginal people of Australia 2006 Japan elects Shinzo Abe as new Prime Minister of Japan 2006 Han Myung-sook elected Prime Minister of South Korea 2006 Stephen Harper, wins the election in Canada and is the first conservative Prime Minister in 12 years 2006 Ehud Olmert becomes Prime Minister of Israel after Ariel Sharon suffers a stroke 2004 Ukraine re-elects Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich. but the election results were thrown out after large protests about the way the election was conducted 2003 Abel Ehrlich, composer, won the Israel Prize for Music and the Prime Minister's Prize for Israeli Composers 2000 Pierre Elliott Trudeau, former Canadian Prime Minister, dies at 80 1998 Nazim al-Kudsi, Syrian Prime Minister 1949, 1950 - 1951, President 1961 - 1963, dies 1998 Mohammad Yusuf Khan, prime minister of Afganistan in (1963-65), dies 1998 Zevulun Hammer, Vice Prime Minister of Israel, dies 1998 Gulzarilal Nanda, temporary Prime Minister of India (1964, 66), dies 1997 George Chambers, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago 1981 - 1986, dies 1997 Adil Carcani, prime minister of Albania (1982-91), dies 1997 Jan Peder Syse, Prime Minister of Norway 1989 - 1990, dies 1997 Eric Gairy, Prime Minister of Grenada 1974 - 1979, dies 1997 Seni Pramoj, Prime Minister of Thailand 1945 - 1946, 1975, 1976, dies 1997 Nikolai Tikhonov, politician, Soviet prime minister 1980-85, dies at 92 1997 Muhammad Fadhel, Prime Minister of Iraq 1953 - 1954, dies 1997 Vijayananda Dahanayake, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka 1959 - 1960, dies 1997 Toni Blair elected Prime Minister of U.K. 1997 5 sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life 1997 Jagan Guyanes, Prime Minister of Guyana 1953, 1957 - 1964, dies 1997 Michael Manley, Jamaican Prime Minister, PNP, 1972 - 1980, 1989 - 1992, dies 1997 Milton Cato, Prime Minister of San Vincent and Grenadines 1979 - 1984, dies 1997 Edward Osobka-Morawski, prime minister of Poland (1945-47), dies 1996 Stanko Todorov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1971 - 1981, dies 1996 Babrak Karmal, Prime Minister of Afghanistan 1980 - 1981, dies 1996 Junius Richard Jayawardene, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka 1977 - 1978, dies at 90 1996 Maati Bouabid, Prime Minister of Morroco 1979 - 1983, dies 1996 Andrey Lukanov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1990, assassinated at 58 1996 Robert Bourassa, Prime Minister of province of Quebec 1970 - 1976, 1985 - 1993, dies at 63 1996 Mohammed Ben Amhed Abdelghani, Prime Minister of Algeria 1979 - 1984, dies 1996 Michel Debre, Prime Minister of France in 1959 - 1962, dies 1996 Andreas George Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece 1981 - 1989, 1993 - 1996, dies at 76 1996 Janaki Ramachandran, Prime Minister of Indian state of Tamil Nadu (1988), dies 1996 Hiteshwar Saikia, Prime Minister of Indian state of Assam (1991-96), dies 1996 Alfredo Nobre Coast, Prime Minister of Portugal (1978), dies 1996 Gyula Kallai, Prime Minister of Hungry 1965 - 1967, dies at 85 1996 Kebby Musokotwane, prime minister of Zambia in (1985-89), dies 1996 N T Rama Rao, Prime Minister of Andhra Pradesh India 1983 - 1984, 1984 - 1989, 1994 - 1995, dies 1995 Manuel Gutierrez Mellado, Prime Minister of Defense of Spain 1977 - 1981, dies at 83 1995 Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres address both house of U.S. congress 1995 Itzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel 1968 - 1973, assassinated 1995 Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, assassinated at 73 1995 Wallace Edward Rowling, Prime Minister of New Zealand 1974 - 1975, dies at 68 1995 Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of Britain 1963 - 1964, dies 1995 Kukrit Pramoj, Prime Minister of Thailand 1975 - 1976, dies at 84 1995 Beant Singh, Prime Minister of Punjab province of India, assassinated at 73 1995 Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister (1964-70, 74-76), dies of cancer at 79 1995 Morarji Desai, Prime Minister of India (1977-79), dies 1995 Vieno J Sukselainen, Prime Minister of Finland 1959 - 1961, dies 1995 U Nu, Prime Minister of Burma 1948 - 1956, 1957 - 1958, 1960 - 1962, dies 1994 Antoine Pinay, Prime Minister of France 1952 - 1953, dies 1994 Antoine Pinay, French Prime Minister 1952, foreign minister, dies at 102 1994 Yao Yilin, Vice Prime Minister of China 1979, dies 1994 Giovanni Goria, Prime Minister of Italy 1987 - 1988, dies 1994 Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi 1994 Bahjat Talhouni, Prime Minister of Jordan 1960 - 1962, 1964 - 1965, 1967 - 1969, 1969 - 1970, dies 1994 Chung Il Kwon, Prime Minister of South Korea 1964 - 1970, dies 1993 Kakuei Tanaka, Prime Minister of Japan 1972 - 1974, dies 1993 Kasdi Merbah, Prime Minister of Algeria 1988 - 1989, assassinated 1993 Pierre Beregovoy, Prime Minister of France 1992 - 1993, commits suicide at 67 1993 Hedi Amira Nouira, Prime Minister of Tunisia 1970 - 1980, dies 1993 Jean G H "Sjeng" Tans, Dutch Prime Minister, social democrat, 1965 - 1969, dies 1993 Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, Prime Minister of France 1957, dies 1993 Rene Pleven, Prime Minister of France 1950 - 1951, 1951 - 1952, dies 1992 Kaysone Phomvihane, Prime Minister of Laos 1975 - 1991, dies 1992 Adelino Da Palma Carlos, Prime Minister of Portugal 1974, dies 1992 John Majors, (C) elected Prime Minister of England 1992 P J Patterson, resigns as 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica 1992 Heinz Kuhn, Prime Minister (Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany), dies at 80 1992 Menachem Begin, Prime Minister Israel 1977 - 1980, 1981 - 1983, Nobel 1979, dies at 85 1992 Ali Amini, Prime Minister of Iran 1961 - 1962, dies 1992 George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap 1992 Abderrahim Bouabid, Morroco prime secretary (1972), dies 1991 Mario Scelba, Prime Minister of Italy 1954 - 1955, dies 1991 Shapur Bahktiar, Prime Minister of Iran 1979, assassinated 1991 Jean Van Joutte, Prime Minister of Belgium 1952 - 1954, dies 1991 Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated at 46 1991 Yumzhagin Tsendenbal, Prime Minister of Mongolia 1952 - 1974, dies 1991 Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India, killed by bomb at 46 1990 Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia 1957 - 1970, dies 1990 Nguyen Van Tam, Prime Minister of Vietnam 1952 - 1953, dies 1990 Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister 1990 Last of Margaret Thatcher's original government resigns, Deputy Prime Minister Howe 1990 Terence O'Neil, lord/Prime Minister of Ulster 1963 - 1969, dies 1990 Mariano Rumor, Italy's Prime Minister 1968 - 1970, 1973 - 1974, dies 1990 Naruhito Higashi-Kuni, Japanese Prime Minister 1945, dies 1989 Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki 1988 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Moslem country, Pakistan 1988 Willem Drees, Prime Minister of Netherland 1948 - 1958, dies at 101 1988 Georgy M. Malenkov, Prime Minister of U.S.S.R. 1953 - 1955, dies at 86 1988 Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British Prime Minister this century 1988 Gaston Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium 1949, 1958 - 1961, 1968 - 1972, dies at 82 1987 Margaret Thatcher is 1st British Prime Minister in 160 years to win 3rd term 1987 Errol W. Barrow, Prime Minister of Barbados 1961 - 1976, dies at 67 1986 [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, Prime Minister of Great Britain 1957 - 1963, dies at 92 1986 Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns 1986 Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi 1986 Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British Prime Minister to visit Israel 1986 Funeral services held for Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme 1986 Sven Olof Palme, Swedish Prime Minister 1969 - 1976, 1982 - 1986, assassinated at 59 1984 Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th Prime Minister succeeds his mother, Indira Gandhi 1984 Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections 1984 Body of assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi cremated 1984 Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated by 2 of her bodyguards at age 66 1984 Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th Prime Minister succeeding John Turner 1984 Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down 1983 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin announces resignation 1983 Poland's Prime Minister Januzelski lifts martial law 1983 Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (Cons) 1983 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands 1982 Yasuhiro Nakasone elected Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki 1982 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 1st visit to U.S. in almost 11 years 1982 Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster 1982 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrives in Washington 1981 Mehmet Shehu, Prime Minister Albania 1954 - 1981, American spy, commits suicide 1981 Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, assassinated by a bomb 1981 Prime Minister Maurois nationalizes banks/plane/steel industry in France 1981 Eric Williams, Prime Minister (Trinidad and Tobago), dies at 79 1981 Dynasty, a prime time soap opera inspired by Dallas, premieres on ABC 1980 Alexei N Kosygin, Soviet Prime Minister 1964 - 1980, suffers heart attack at 76 1980 Francisco Sa Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal 1980, dies in air crash 1980 Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Tichonov succeeds Alexei Kosygin, due to illness 1980 Coup ousts Prime Minister Henck Arron of Suriname 1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain 1979 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits President Sadat in Cairo 1978 India's former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, released from jail 1978 Golda Meir, Israel's Prime Minister 1969 - 1974, dies in Jerusalem at 80 1978 Iranian Prime Minister Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi 1978 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit 1978 Kofi Busia, statesman, leader of the Ghana Congress Party, which became the United Party, Prime Minister, 2nd Republic of Ghana, 1969 - 1972, died 1978 Aldo Moro, 5 times Prime Minister of Italy, assassinated by terrorists 1978 Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes Prime Minister of Kuwait 1977 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President Sadat in Egypt 1977 Menachem Begin becomes Israel's Prime Minister 1977 Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India 1977 Parisians elect former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century 1977 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter 1976 Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin resigns 1976 Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of England 1976 Chou En-lai, China's Prime Minister 1949 - 1976, dies of cancer in Beijing at 78 1975 Australian Prime Minister removed by crown (1st elected Prime Minister removed in 200 yrs) 1975 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency 1974 Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir 1973 Ismet Inonu [Mustapha Ismet Pasha], Turkish Prime Minister 1923 - 1965, dies at 89 1973 Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain 1973, assassinated by ETA 1973 Qaboos bin Said Al Said, becomes Sultan and Prime Minister of Oman 1972 Lester B. Pearson, 14th Canadian Prime Minister, Nobel 1957, dies at 75 1972 Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir and Prime Minister of Qatar 1970 Lieutenant General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following military coup 1969 Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female prime minister 1968 Jay Allen's "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," premieres in New York City 1968 Joseph Pholien, Belgian Prime Minister 1950 - 1952 communist fighter, dies at 83 1966 Hendrik F Verwoerd, South African Prime Minister 1958 - 1966, assassinated at 64 1966 Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain 1966 Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister 1965 Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by Prime Minister Ian D Smith 1965 Karen Sillas, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Prime Suspect 1965 Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Britain, 1940 - 1945, 1951 - 1955, dies at 90 1963 Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (Prime Numbers), dies at 97 1963 Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st Prime Minister of Kenya 1963 Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya 1963 Abdul Karim Kassem, Prime Minister of Iraq 1958 - 1963, assassinated in Baghdad at 48 1962 Francisco Brochado da Rocha, Prime Minister of Brazil 1962, dies at 52 1961 John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister MacMillan meet in Bermuda 1961 Milan Stoyadinovich, fascist Yugoslavia Prime Minister 1935 - 1939, dies at 73 1961 Adnan Menderes, Prime Minister of Turkey 1950 - 1960, dies at 62 1961 Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand 1949 - 1957, dies at 67 1960 James Prime, British rock keyboardist, Deacon Blue-Pay Day 1960 Flintstones premieres, 1st prime time animation show 1960 Hazza el-Majali, Prime Minister of Jordan is assassinated 1960 Friedrich Adler, Austria soc-dem, murdered Prime Minister Sturgkh, dies at 80 1959 Prime Minister Kassem of Iraq, assassinated 1959 Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1956 - 1959, assassinated at 60 1958 Henry Verwoerd appointed Prime Minister of South Africa 1958 Pierre-etienne Flandin, French Prime Minister 1934 - 1935, dies at 69 1957 Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize 1957 John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as Prime Minister of Canada 1957 John Diefenbacker (C) elected Prime Minister of Canada 1957 Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister Britain 1956 Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes Prime Minister of Hungary 1956 Prime Minister Drees refuses resignation of queen Juliana (Greet Hofmans) 1955 Sam Bottoms, born in Santa Barbara, California, actor, Prime Risk, Savages 1955 Dimitra Papandreau, born in Greece, wife of Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreau 1955 Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden succeeds him 1954 Colonel Nasser seizes power and becomes Prime Minister of Egypt 1953 Israel's Prime Minister Ben-Gurion retires 1953 Benazir Bhutto, born in Pakistan, first woman elected prime minister, chair of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) 1953 Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, Labour, 1997- 1952 Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb 1951 Future British Prime Minister Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher 1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister 1951 Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan 1947 - 1951, assassinated by Said Akbar 1951 Bertie Ahern, Dublin Ireland, Prime Minister of Ireland, 1997 - 2008 1951 Prime Minister Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad 1951 Gordon Brown, born in Govan, Scotland, politician, Labor Party, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, former television journalist 1950 John C Smuts, co-found British RAF/South African Prime Minister 1919 - 1948, dies at 80 1950 Dutch Prime Minister Malan recognizes South Africa but not China PR 1949 Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister 1949 Owen Arthur, born in Barbados, statesman, politician, Barbados Labor Party, Prime Minister of Barbados 1994 - 2008 1949 Theodor Heuss elected 1st president, Conrad Adenauer 1st Prime Minister of West Germany 1948 Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt, assassinated 1948 Hideki Tojo, Japan Prime Minister 1941 - 1944 and 6 Japs, hanged for war crimes at 64 1948 William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as Prime Minister of Canada 1948 "Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time 1947 John Bruton, Prime Minister, Republic of Ireland 1945 Diane Sawyer, born in Glasgow, Kentucky, newscaster, 60 Minutes, ABC Prime Time 1945 Fumimaro Konu, Japanese prince/Prime Minister 1937 - 1939, 1940 - 1941, commits harakiri 1945 Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Minister of Defense/Prime Minister 1942 - 1945, executed at 58 1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged 1945 Khaleda Zia, born in Dinajpur District, India, first female Prime Minister of Bangladesh 1991 - 1996, listed in Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women in the World 2006 1945 Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister 1945 Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister 1945 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as Prime Minister of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki 1944 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin 1944 Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, 1984-89 1944 Quentin Davies, born in Oxford, England, Member of Parliament for Grantham and Stamford 1987 - 1997, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defense under Prime Minister, Gordon Brown 1944 Said Musa, born in San Ignacio, Belize, lawyer, politician, People's United Party, Fifth Prime Minister of Belize 1943 Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/Prime Minister of Poland in exile 1939 - 1943, dies at 62 1943 Peter Kenilorea, Prime Minister Solomon Islands 1943 John Major, British Prime Minister, C, 1990-97 1942 Sandy Gilmour, Montclair, New Jersey, newscaster, Prime Time Sunday 1941 Winston Churchill becomes 1st British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing" 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter 1941 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign 1941 Former Dutch Prime Minister Colijn says Netherlands Indies not ready for independence 1941 Pal Teleki-von Szek, Prime Minister Hungary 1920 - 1921, 1939 - 1941, suicide at 61 1940 Manuel Azana y Diez, Spanish Prime Minister 1932 - 1934, President 1936 - 1939, dies at 60 1940 Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group 1940 British Prime Minister Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William M. King agree to joint defense commission 1940 Dutch prime minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks 1940 Dutch Prime Minister Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds" (German victory) 1940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister 1940 Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain 1940 Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege 1939 Poland's president Moscicki and Prime Minister Slawoj-Skladkowski flee to Romania 1939 Brian Mulroney, P-C, 18th Prime Minister of Canada, 1984 - 1993 1938 British Prime Minister Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden 1938 U.K. Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says Prime Minister Chamberlain appeased Germany 1937 Fascist Octavian Goga becomes Prime Minister of Romania/begins spread of Judaism 1937 James Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister (Lab, 1924, 29-35), dies at 71 1937 Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of England 1936 John Dancy, born in Jackson, Texas, newscaster, Prime Time Sunday 1936 Charles J M Ruys de Beerenbrouck, Dutch Prime Minister 1918 - 1923, 1929 - 1933, dies 1934 Ingvar Carlsson, Prime Minister of Sweden, 1986 - 1991, 1994 - 1996 1934 Jules Renkin, Belgian Prime Minister 1931 - 1932, dies 1934 Sam Donaldson, born in El Paso, Texas, ABC White House correspondent, Prime Time 1933 Jack Perkins, born in Cleveland, Ohio, newscaster, Prime Time Sunday, NBC Magazine 1933 Zoe Caldwell, Australia, actress, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1930 Michel Rocard, Courbevoie France, Prime Minister of France 1930 Robert Stout, New Zealand prime minister (1884-87), dies at 85 1930 Malcolm Fraser, Prime Minister of Australia, Liberal, 1975 - 1983 1930 Lynden O. Pindling, Prime Minister of Bahamas, 1967 - 1992 1929 Robert J L Hawke, Lab, Prime Minister Australia, 1983 - 1991 1929 Furst Bernhard von Bulow, Prime Minister Prussia 1900 - 1909, dies at 80 1928 Luigi Ciriaco De Mita, Prime Minister of Italy, 1988 - 1989 1928 Christopher Hornsrud chosen Prime Minister of Norway at age 101 1927 Olof Palme, Stockholm, Prime Minister of Sweden, 1969 - 1976, 1982 - 1986, assassinated 1926 Garret FitzGerald, Prime Minister of Ireland 1925 Margaret Thatcher, born in Grantham, England, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1979 - 1990 1924 Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister of England 1923 Andrew Bonar Law, English Prime Minister (C), dies at 64 1923 Shimon Peres, Israeli Labor Party leader/prime minister 1923 Stanley Baldwin, becomes Prime Minister of UK 1921 Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Germany chancellor/Prime Minister (Prussia), dies at 64 1920 Ratu Kasmisere Mara, Prime Minister of Fiji, 1960 - 1970, 1970-, President, 1994 - 1920 Errol Walton Barrow, Prime Minister of Barbados, DLP, 1966 - 1976, 1986 - 1987 1919 Kiichi Miyazawa, born in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, politician, 78th Japanese Prime Minister 1919 Ian Smith, born in Zimbabwe, founder, first Prime Minister of Rhodesia 1918 Stephen Tisza, Hungarian Prime Minister, assassinated by soldiers 1918 Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian Prime Minister 1896 - 1911, dies 1918 Muriel Spark, Edinburgh Scotland, novelist, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1916 Edward Heath, British Prime Minister, 1970-74 1916 [James] Harold Wilson, L, British Prime Minister, 1964-70, 1974-76 1915 Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa, 1966-77 1915 Abel Ehrlich, born in Cranz, East Prussia, composer, won the Israel Prize for Music and the Prime Minister's Prize for Israeli Composers 1915 Denis Thatcher, husband of British Prime Minister Margaret, 1979 - 1990 1913 Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister, 1977-83, Nobel 1978 1913 Kofi Busia, born in Wenchi, Ghana, statesman, leader of the Ghana Congress Party, which became the United Party, Catholic, Prime Minister, 2nd Republic of Ghana, 1969 - 1972 1912 James Callaghan, L, British Prime Minister, 1976-79 1910 Francisco Brochado Da Rocha, Prime Minister of Brazil, 1962 1909 Adolf Stoecker, German anti-semite/prime minister, dies at 73 1908 Edgar Faure, thriller writer/Prime Minister of France, 1952, 1952 - 1956 1908 Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, 1966-67, ; supported U.S. in Vietnam 1908 William McMahon, Prime Minister of Australia, Liberal, 1971 - 1972 1905 Henry Campbell-Bannermam (Lib) becomes Prime Minister of England 1905 Gaston Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium, 1949, 1958 - 1961, 1968 - 1972 1904 Peter Prime Minister Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian/writer, dies at 76 1903 Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, British Prime Minister, 1963-64 1902 Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890 - 1896 dies at 48 1902 Isaac Fransen van der Putten, Dutch Prime Minister 1866, dies 1901 Achmed Sukarno, born in Java, Prime Minister of Indonesia, 1945 - 1967 1898 Golda Meir, Meyerson, Kiev, Ukraine, 4th Israeli Prime Minister, 1969-74 1897 Antonio Canovas del Castillo, Prime Minister of Spain, murdered at 69 1897 Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon, C, British Prime Minister, 1955-57 1896 Charles Tupper, Prime Minister of Canada (C), dies 1896 Wilfrid Laurier sworn in as 1st French speaking Prime Minister 1895 Levi Eshkol, Sjkolnik, Israeli Prime Minister, MWP, 1963-69 1894 [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, London, C, British Prime Minister, 1957-63 1894 Juan Negrin, Prime Minister of Spanish Republic, 1936 - 1939 1893 Mao Tse-tung, of little red book fame, Prime Minister of China PR, 1949 - 1976 1893 John Abbott, Prime Minister of Canada (C) 1891 - 1892, dies at 72 1893 Sidney Holland, New Zealand, Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1949 - 1957 1886 David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland, 1st Prime Minister of Israel, 1948 - 1953, 1955 1886 Willem Drees, Prime Minister of Netherland, PvdA, 1948 - 1958, Indonesia, AOW 1884 Tojo Hideki, Japanese Prime Minister during WW II 1883 Clement Attlee, British Prime Minister, 1945-51 1878 Joseph Gordon Coates, Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1925 - 1928 1874 Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, 1940 - 1945, 1951 - 1955, Nobel 1953 1874 Viscount Palmerston, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1855-65 1874 Arthur Meighen, Canada, Prime Minister of Canada, 1920 - 1921, 1926 1874 Arthur Meighen, C, 9th Prime Minister of Canada, 1920 - 1921, 1926 1874 Wincenty Witoz, Galicia, Prime Minister of Poland, 1920 - 1921, 1923, 1926 1871 Pietro Badoglio, Italy, general/Libya Governor, 1928 - 1933, Prime Minister of Italy, 1943 - 1944 1869 Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, C, 1937-40 1867 Stanley Baldwin, C, British Prime Minister, 1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37 1866 James Ramsay MacDonald, L, British Prime Minister, 1924, 1929-35 1862 Louis Botha, Greytown South Africa, 1st Prime Minister of South Africa, 1910 - 1919 1858 Andrew Bonar Law, British Prime Minister, C, 1922-23 1853 Cecil Rhodes, born in Hertfordshire, England, British Statesman, Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890 - 1896 1853 Leander Starr Jameson, Prime Minister of South African Cape colony 1849 Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia, 1900 - 1903 1848 William Lamb 2nd viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister (1834..41), dies at 69 1848 Arthur Earl Balfour, C, British Prime Minister, 1902-05, Balfour Declaration 1847 Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery, British Prime Minister, 1894 - 1895 1844 John S D Thompson, C, 4th Prime Minister of Canada, 1892 - 1894 1844 Robert Stout, Shetland Islands Scotland, New Zealand prime minister, 1884-87 1836 Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British Prime Minister, L, 1905-08 1830 Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, C, British Prime Minister, 1885-1902 1822 Alexander MacKenzie, L, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada, 1873 - 1878 1815 John A. MacDonald, C, 1st Prime Minister of Canada, 1867 - 1873 1809 William Ewart Gladstone, Lib, British Prime Minister, 1868-74, '80-86, '92-94 1806 William Pitt, the Younger, Prime Minister Great Britain 1783 - 1806, dies at 46 1804 Benjamin Disraeli, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1868, 1874-80 1804 Mary Bright, British Prime Minister Rockingham, dies 1799 Edward Stanley, Earl Derby, C, British Prime Minister, 1852, 1858-59, 1866-68 1788 Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet, dies at 65 1782 Viscount Goderich, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1827-28 1779 William Lamb, Whig, Viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister, 1834, 1835-41 1778 Robert Peel, British Prime Minister, 1834-46, founder, Tories 1770 Earl of Liverpool, C, British Prime Minister, 1812-27 1770 George Canning, London, British Prime Minister, 1827 1770 George Canning, C, British Prime Minister, 1827 1769 Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, British Prime Minister, C, 1828-30 1768 Edouard Mortier, French general, duke, prime minister, 1834-35 1764 Charles Earl Grey, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1830-34 1762 Spencer Perceval, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1809-12 1759 Baron Grenville, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1806-07 1757 Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth, C, British Prime Minister, 1801-04 1738 Duck of Portland, C, British Prime Minister, 1783, 1807-09 1735 Robert Walpole is 1st British Prime Minister to live at 10 Downing Street 1732 Frederick North, C, British Prime Minister, 1770-82 1730 Robert Walpole becomes England 1st prime minister (was: chief min) 1730 Marquess of Rockingham, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1765-66, 1782 1723 Philip, French duke of Orleans, regent 1715 - 1723, Prime Minister 1723, dies 1723 Johann A. Cramer, prime minister/poet 1712 George Grenville, British Prime Minister, 1763-65 1712 Thomas Osborne, English Prime Minister 1690 - 1694, dies at 80 1702 Robert Spencer 2nd earl of Sunderland, English Prime Minister 1687 - 1688, dies at 61 1676 Robert Walpole, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1721-42 1674 Edward Hyde 1st earl of Clarendon, English Prime Minister 1660 - 1667, dies at 65 1661 Thomas Fuller, English prime minister, dies at 53 1641 Maximilien de Bethune duke of Sully, Prime Minister of France, dies at 81 1621 Charles d'albert duke of Luynes/Prime Minister of France, dies at 43 1612 Piotr Skarga, Polish theology/Prime Minister (Sanctity of Life), dies at 76 1612 Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury/Prime Minister 1598 - 1612, dies at 48 1596 John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66 1566 John Agricola, Schneider, German theologist/prime minister, dies 1563 Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister, 1598-1612 1560 Maximilien de Bethune, duke of Sully/baron of Rosny/Prime Minister of France 1553 Prime Minister John Dudley captured in Cambridge 1494 John Agricola, Schneider, German theologist/prime minister |
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