Notable Political Figures that Died in the 2020s

President of Egypt after the assassination of Anwar Sadat who resigned after the Egyptian Revolution of 2011

February 25th 2020 (91)

President credited with bringing democracy to Taiwan

July 30th 2020 (97)

42nd vice president who lost the 1980 United States presidential election to Ronald Reagan

April 19th 2021 (93)

First democratically elected president of South Korea after the June Democratic Struggle in 1987

October 26th 2021 (88)

Last South African president before the end of Apartheid

November 11th 2021 (85)

South Korean president who oversaw the Gwangju Massacre

November 23rd 2021 (90)

Republican politician who lost the 1996 United States presidential election to Bill Clinton

December 5th 2021 (98)

Longest serving prime minister of Japan

July 8th 2022 (67)

Last living former leader of the Soviet Union

August 30th 2022 (91)

Longest living queen of the United Kingdom

September 8th 2022 (96)

Paramount leader of China after Deng Xiaoping

November 30th 2022 (96)

The man who preceded pope Francis

December 31st 2022 (95)

Last king of Greece before the abolishment of the monarchy in 1973

January 10th 2023 (82)

10th president of Pakistan who was found guilty of violating his country's constitution

February 5th 2023 (79)

Longest serving post-war prime minister of Italy

June 12th 2023 (86)

Chinese premier who served under Xi Jinping before resigning in 2023

October 27th 2023 (68)

Controversial 56th United States Secretary of State during the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford

November 29th 2023 (100)

Peruvian president convicted of multiple human rights abuses

September 11th 2024 (86)

4th longest serving prime minister of India

December 26th 2024 (92)

Longest living former president of the United States

December 29th 2024 (100)