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popular name: Dwight D. Eisenhower

date_of_death: March 28, 1969

age: 78

cause_of_death: Congestive heart failure

claim_to_fame: World Leaders

best_know_for: Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, serving two terms from 1953 to 1961. Born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, and raised in Abilene, Kansas, Eisenhower graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1915. He rose to international prominence during World War II as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe, where he led the successful D-Day invasion of Normandy in 1944. A five-star general, Eisenhower was widely respected for his leadership and strategic acumen. After the war, he served as president of Columbia University and later as the first Supreme Commander of NATO before entering politics. As president, Eisenhower oversaw a period of relative peace and economic prosperity, strengthened the U.S. interstate highway system, and took a moderate approach to Cold War tensions. He also sent federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas, demonstrating a cautious but firm stance on civil rights. Eisenhower retired from public life in 1961 and died on March 28, 1969. The grave of President Dwight D. Eisenhower can be found at the Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas

popular name: James A. Garfield

date_of_death: September 19, 1881

age: 49

cause_of_death: Heart attack, ruptured splenic artery with massive hemorrhage, septic blood poisoning

claim_to_fame: World Leaders

best_know_for: James A. Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March to September 1881. Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau (a disappointed and delusional office seeker) at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington D.C. four months into his presidency. Interesting to note that Garfield did not actually died from the gunshot, but rather from infections introduced by his doctors. He died two months later on September 19, 1881 and Guiteau was executed for Garfield's murder in June 1882.

popular name: Napoleon Bonaparte

date_of_death: May 5, 1821

age: 51

cause_of_death: Stomach Cancer

claim_to_fame: World Leaders

best_know_for: Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military general, the first emperor of France and one of the world's greatest military leaders. Napoleon revolutionized military organization and training, sponsored the Napoleonic Code, reorganized education and established the long-lived Concordat with the papacy. In case your Napoleonic history is rusty, in addition to military achievements, his civilian achievements include a civil code, the Legion of Honor, large-scale works, a commercial code, court of audit, University of France, Council of State, pacification of the nation, administrative centralization, and Concordat (a treaty between the Vatican and secular government). It has often been said by historians and scholars - Napoleon was "the most competent human who ever lived."