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1924 – 2019Robert Mugabe (1924-2019)Died 6 September 2019, aged 95Robert Mugabe led Zimbabwe as prime minister and then president from independence in 1980 until he was forced from power in a 2017 military coup. His early land reforms and later authoritarian rule and economic mismanagement left a deeply contested legacy. He died in a Singapore hospital.