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1926 – 2016Fidel Castro (1926-2016)Died 25 November 2016, aged 90Castro led Cuba as Prime Minister and later President for nearly five decades after leading the 1959 revolution that overthrew Fulgencio Batista. He established a one-party communist state that survived a U.S. trade embargo and decades of Cold War hostility. He formally transferred power to his brother Raul in 2008 but remained a symbolic figure until his death.