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Vo Chi Cong: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born 1912 • Annam • Vietnam
Died September 8, 2011 (aged 99) • Ho Chi Minh City • Vietnam
Political Affiliation Vietnamese Communist Party
Role In Vietnam War
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Nguyen Huu Tho
president of Vietnam
Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap in full military uniform with medals and a peaked cap, photographed in 1968.
Vo Nguyen Giap
Vietnamese general
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Ton Duc Thang
president of Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh, president of North Vietnam, with a long white beard and mustache, wearing a dark jacket, seated and looking to the side in a 1957 black-and-white portrait.
Ho Chi Minh
president of North Vietnam
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Huynh Tan Phat
Vietnamese leader
Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho
Le Duc Tho
Vietnamese politician
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Le Duan
Vietnamese politician
Ngo Dinh Diem, President of Vietnam from 1955 to 1963, wearing a dark double-breasted suit and tie, facing the camera with a neutral expression.
Ngo Dinh Diem
Vietnamese political leader
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Truong Chinh
Vietnamese scholar and statesman
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Chu Van Tan
Vietnamese military and political leader
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Phạm Tuân
Vietnamese pilot and cosmonaut
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Do Muoi
Vietnamese political leader
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Phan Chau Trinh
Vietnamese leader
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Phan Boi Chau
Vietnamese patriot
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Huynh Phu So
Vietnamese philosopher
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Cuong De
Vietnamese prince
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Duy Tan
emperor of Vietnam
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De Tham
Vietnamese patriot
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Phan Dinh Phung
Vietnamese rebel leader
Portrait of Norodom Sihanouk, former king of Cambodia, shown from the shoulders up in a suit and tie against a plain blue background.
Norodom Sihanouk
king of Cambodia

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