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Lê Duẩn

1907 - 1986

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Lê Duẩn (Vietnamese: [lē zʷə̂n]; 7 April 1907 – 10 July 1986) was a Vietnamese communist politician. He rose in the party hierarchy in the late 1950s and became General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (VCP) at the 3rd National Congress in 1960. When Ho Chi Minh died in 1969, he consolidated power to become the undisputed leader of North Vietnam. Upon defeating South Vietnam in the Second Indochina War in 1975, he subsequently ruled the newly unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 1976 until his death in 1986. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lê Duẩn is the 4,211th most popular politician (down from 2,869th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Vietnam (down from 14th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Vietnamese Politician.

Lê Duẩn is most famous for being the leader of the North Vietnamese military during the Vietnam War.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lê Duẩn ranks 4,211 out of 19,576. Before him are Jani Beg, Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, João Figueiredo, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud, Seleucus VI Epiphanes, and Alfonso V of León. After him are Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Vikramaditya, Li Yuanhong, Nikolai Patrushev, Pir Muhammad, and Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Lê Duẩn ranks 65. Before him are Ray Milland, Miklós Rózsa, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, Ko Takamoro, Ernesto Geisel, and James Meade. After him are Sigvard Bernadotte, Shiro Teshima, Benjamin Sheares, Junji Nishikawa, Yoshiko Kawashima, and Ramon Magsaysay. Among people deceased in 1986, Lê Duẩn ranks 42. Before him are Roy Cohn, L. Ron Hubbard, Nikolay Semyonov, James Cagney, Ray Milland, and Megumu Tamura. After him are Vincente Minnelli, Juan Rulfo, Raimundo Orsi, Ye Jianying, Serge Lifar, and Dean Reed.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Lê Duẩn ranks 16 out of 136. Before him are Lady Sun (192), Ieng Sary (1925), Kaysone Phomvihane (1920), Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (1923), Nguyễn Phú Trọng (1944), and Jonathan Ke Quan (1971). After him are Dương Văn Minh (1916), Ngô Đình Thục (1897), Hanoi Hannah (1931), Gia Long (1762), Tôn Đức Thắng (1888), and Riccardo Cocciante (1946).

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Among POLITICIANS In Vietnam

Among politicians born in Vietnam, Lê Duẩn ranks 9. Before him are Bảo Đại (1913), Lady Sun (192), Ieng Sary (1925), Kaysone Phomvihane (1920), Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (1923), and Nguyễn Phú Trọng (1944). After him are Dương Văn Minh (1916), Hanoi Hannah (1931), Gia Long (1762), Tôn Đức Thắng (1888), Madame Nhu (1924), and Trần Đức Lương (1936).

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