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1864 – 1936Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936)Died 18 March 1936, aged 71Eleftherios Venizelos served several times as prime minister of Greece. He greatly expanded Greek territory during the Balkan Wars and led Greece into the First World War on the Allied side. He died in exile in Paris after a failed coup attempt in 1935.
1936 – 2021Frederik Willem de Klerk (1936-2021)Died 11 November 2021, aged 85South African president who released Nelson Mandela and dismantled apartheid, sharing the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with him.