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Fidel Castro
Leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008
3.51K daily views
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi leader of the SS (1900–1945)
3.78K daily views
Mother Teresa
Albanian-Indian Catholic saint (1910–1997)
5.62K daily views
George IV
King of the United Kingdom from 1820 to 1830
3.77K daily views
Richard III of England
King of England from 1483 to 1485
3.82K daily views
Idi Amin
President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979
4.95K daily views
Commodus
Roman emperor from 177 to 192
1.5× usual views
Nikita Khrushchev
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
3.56K daily views
Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare, was an English novelist and politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Louth (Lincolnshire) from 1969 to 1974, but did not seek re-election after almost going bankrupt. Archer revived his fortunes as a novelist. His novel Kane and Abel (1979) remains one of the best-selling books in the world, with an estimated 34 million copies sold globally. Overall, his books have sold more than 320 million copies worldwide.
1.86K daily views
Leon Trotsky
Soviet politician and revolutionary (1879–1940)
3.42K daily views
Hirohito
Emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989
3.44K daily views
Wilhelm II
German Emperor from 1888 to 1918
3.27K daily views
James A. Garfield
President of the United States in 1881
4.46K daily views
Salman of Saudi Arabia
King of Saudi Arabia since 2015
2.49K daily views
Ibrahim Traoré
military leader of Burkina Faso since 2022
2.79K daily views
Nero
Roman emperor from AD 54 to 68
3.81K daily views
Napoleon III
Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870
2.95K daily views
Henry V of England
King of England from 1413 to 1422
3.58K daily views
Puyi
Emperor of China (1908–1912) and of Manchukuo (1934–1945)
2.84K daily views
Bashar al-Assad
Syrian convicted fugitive and former President of Syria from 2000 to 2024
2.95K daily views
Alice Weidel
German politician (born 1979), AfD
2.1K daily views
Chiang Kai-shek
Leader of the Republic of China from 1928 to 1975
3.95K daily views
Giorgia Meloni
Prime Minister of Italy since 2022
3.28K daily views
Mojtaba Khamenei
3rd Supreme Leader of Iran since 2026
4.67K daily views