Rulers and politicians
By date of birth · 21 objects
Nebuchadnezzar IIKing of the Neo-Babylonian EmpireNeo-Babylonian Empire
NabonidusLast king of BabylonAssyrian Empire
BaburConqueror, poet, and empire-builder
Hamida Banu BegumMughal empress, mother of Akbar
William Amherst, 1st Earl AmherstBritish diplomat and colonial governorUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelBagyidawKonbaung king who lost the warMyanmar
Pavel PestelDecembrist colonel and republican theoristRussian Empire
Sergey Muravyov-ApostolDecembrist officer and republican conspiratorRussian Empire
Victoria63-year reign, empress and queenUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Irel
Franz Joseph I of AustriaEmperor of Austria, King of HungaryAustrian Empire
Philippe PétainMarshal, hero, convicted traitorFranceAristidis StergiadisGreek lawyer and Smyrna commissionerGreece
Chrysostomos of SmyrnaOrthodox saint, bishop, ethnomartyrGreece
Mary von VetseraAustrian noblewoman of the Mayerling affairCisleithania
Fahrettin AltayGeneral, deputy, memoiristTurkey
Pierre LavalVichy premier, tried and shotFrance
Harry S. Truman33rd President of the United StatesUnited States
Eleanor RooseveltLongest-serving U.S. First LadyUnited States
Raphaël AlibertAuthor of the first Statut des JuifsFrance
René CassinNobel jurist of human rightsFrance
Dalip Singh SaundFirst Asian American in CongressUnited States