100 most important politicians of the 20th century

Guess the 100 most important politicians of the 20th century, according to a book that was published in 1994.
Includes quite a lot of dictators
Second name (or nickname) will suffice
Clue gives the country they ruled/affected in any way, not necessarily the country of origin!
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FRG
Konrad Adenauer
Chile
Salvador Allende Gossens
Uganda
Idi Amin Dada
Palestine/Israel
Mohammed Yasser Arafat al-Qudwa
Costa Rica
Óscar Arias Sánchez
Syria
Hafez al-Assad
Sri Lanka
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Israel
Menachem Begin
Algeria
Ahmed Ben Bella
Israel
David Ben-Gurion
Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto
Central African Republic
Jean-Bédel Bokassa
FRG
Willy Brandt
USSR
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
Cuba
Fidel Castro Ruz
Romania
Nicolae Ceaușescu
United Kingdom
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
China/Taiwan
Chiang Kai-Shek
United Kingdom
Winston Churchill
France
Georges Clemenceau
Tibet
XIV. Dalai Lama
Italy
Alcide De Gasperi
China
Deng Xiaoping
Czechoslovakia
Alexander Dubček
Germany
Friedrich Ebert
USA
Dwight Eisenhower
FRG
Ludwig Erhard
Sweden
Tage Fritiof Erlander
Spain
Francisco Franco Bahamonde
Libya
Muammar al-Gaddafi
India
Indira Gandhi
India
Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
France
Charles de Gaulle
USSR
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Cuba
Ernesto Guevara Serna (Che)
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie I.
United Nations
Dag Hammarskjöld
Czechoslovakia
Václav Havel
Germany
Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg
Japan
Hirohito
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
GDR
Erich Honecker
Hungary
Miklós Horthy
Albania
Enver Hoxha
Iraq
Saddam Hussein
Saudi Arabia
Abdulaziz Ibn Saud
Hungary
János Kádár
Turkey
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
USA
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Kenya
Jomo Kenyatta
Iran
Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini
USSR
Nikita Khrushchev
North Korea
Kim Il-Sung
USA
Martin Luther King
FRG/Germany
Helmut Kohl
Austria
Bruno Kreisky
Russia/USSR
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Germany
Rosa Luxemburg
Cyprus
Makarios III.
South Africa
Nelson Mandela
China
Mao Zedong
Philippines
Ferdinand Edralin Marcos
Czechoslovakia
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
France
François Mitterrand
Congo/Zaire
Mobutu Sese Seko
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Hungary
Imre Nagy
Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Tanzania
Julius Nyerere
Iran
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
Sweden
Olof Palme
Argentina
Juan Perón
Poland
Józef Piłsudski
Cambodia
Pol Pot
Israel
Yitzhak Rabin
USA
Ronald Reagan
USA
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Egypt
Muhammad Anwar El Sadat
Portugal
António de Oliveira Salazar
France
Robert Schuman
Senegal
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Cambodia
Norodom Sihanouk
Portugal
Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares
Nicaragua
Anastasio Somoza DeBayle
USSR
Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin
Germany
Gustav Stresemann
Indonesia
Sukarno
China
Sun Yat-Sen
United Kingdom
Margaret Thatcher
Yugoslavia
Josip Broz Tito
USA
Harry Spencer Truman
GDR
Walter Ulbricht
Ireland
Éamon de Valera
Brazil
Getúlio Dornelles Vargas
Greece
Eleftherios Venizelos
Poland
Lech Wałęsa
USA
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Russia
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
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Level 52
Sep 24, 2014
MobutU Sese Seko instead of MobutO :)
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Level 75
Sep 25, 2014
Right, I am sorry. This has been fixed
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Level 69
Sep 25, 2014
And Che Guevara was from Argentina, not Cuba
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Level 75
Sep 25, 2014
I know, that's why I added "Clue gives the country they ruled/affected in any way, not necessarily the country of origin!". I assumed that most people would rather know about his career in Cuba than about his birthplace.
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Level 52
Sep 25, 2014
Pope John Paul II should defenetly be there. Also Augusto Pinochet, Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim, Slobodan Milosevic, Margaret Thatcher, Hosni Mubarak, Hugo Chavez and Nicholas II of Russia or perhaps Grigori Rasputin... Nice quiz still.
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Level 52
Sep 25, 2014
Sorry. Thatcher was there. I must have misspelled it.
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Level 77
Sep 26, 2014
I was expecting Hugo Chavez as well.
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Level 75
Sep 26, 2014
Thanks :) I agree with you on most of these, although I think that they did not include Mubarak because there are already two Egyptian politicians on the list. Chavez came to power in 1999, so he's not really a politician of the 20th century.
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Level 77
Sep 26, 2014
I got 34. I knew of about 25 others and the rest is more or less never heard or at least not ringing any loud bells. Great quiz!
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Level 75
Sep 26, 2014
Thank you :) Yes, it is quite tricky, I hadn't heard of all of them before I had read the book. Names like Bandaranaike or Erlander were completely new to me.
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Level 71
Oct 19, 2015
David Lloyd George?
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Level 50
Mar 8, 2020
Wow I don’t like that King and fuevara are in there. Should at least be specified they never ruled their country (at least King didn’t). Missed thatcher for some reason lol but still a solid 62
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Level 57
Jul 21, 2020
No Pinochet?
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Level 70
Oct 9, 2021
Could you make the type-ins more forgiving? E.g. "Abdulaziz" for ibn-Saud, and easier spellings for Ceaucescu and Clemenceau, Hammarskjold, Mitterrand, Khrushchev and such.