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Fidel Castro
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Fidel Castro

Cuban politician, author and revolutionary (1926–2016)

PersonDied aged 90humanQ11256

Also known as Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz

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193019401950196019701980199020002010Born 1926Died 2016PositionsPrime Minister of Cuba (1959–2008)Prime Minister of CubaFirst Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (1961–2011)First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cu…President of Cuba (1976–2008)President of CubaSecretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement (1979–1983)Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement (2006–2008)EducationUniversity of Havana (1945–1950)Belen Jesuit Preparatory School (1945–1945)SpousesMirta Díaz-Balart (1948–1955)Dalia Soto del Valle (1980–2016)Dalia Soto del ValleAwardsConfucius Peace Prize (2014)Order of Timor-Leste (2010)Order of Merit, 1st class (2010)Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo (2009)Order of the Quetzal (2009)Order of Omar Torrijos Herrera (2009)Order of the Crown of the Realm (2001)Order of the Liberator (2000)Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class (2000)Emblem of the Republic (2000)Order of Belize (1999)Grand Collar of the Order of Good Hope (1998)Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and Mella (1998)Grand Cross of the National Order of Mali (1998)Order of Agostinho Neto (1992)Order of Hồ Chí Minh (1989)Order of Eduardo Mondlane, 1st class (1988)Grand Cross of the Order of the Aztec Eagle (1988)Order of the Yugoslavian Great Star (1986)Order of Karl Marx (1986)Order of Klement Gottwald (1986)Order of Lenin (1986)Order of Jamaica (1977)Order of Merit (1977)Order of the October Revolution (1976)Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1975)Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1973)Collar of the Order of the White Lion (1972)Star of the Socialist Republic of Romania (1972)Order of Georgi Dimitrov (1972)Grand Star of People's Friendship (1972)Order of Lenin (1972)Hero of the Soviet Union (1963)Lenin Peace Prize (1961)Bintang Mahaputera Adipurna (1960)Order of the Nile (1959)Order of Lenin (1963)

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  • Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
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  • El caballo
  • Líder Máximo
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  • February 16, 1959
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