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Famous politicians by birth year

This list ranks 75 entries by birth year. First on the list is Richard III of England (born 1452); last is David Cameron (born 1966). Right in the middle sits Lyndon B. Johnson (born 1908).

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Birth years come from the Pantheon dataset (MIT Media Lab) and link to each person's Wikipedia page.

#	Name	Birth year
1	Richard III of England Politician	born 1452
2	Suleiman the Magnificent Politician	born 1494
3	Roxelana Politician	born 1506
4	Mary I of England Politician	born 1516
5	Elizabeth I of England Politician	born 1533
6	Toyotomi Hideyoshi Politician	born 1537
7	Oliver Cromwell Politician	born 1599
8	Charles I of England Politician	born 1600
9	Louis XIV of France Politician	born 1638
10	Peter I of Russia Politician	born 1672
11	Benjamin Franklin Politician	born 1706
12	George Washington Politician	born 1732
13	John Adams Politician	born 1735
14	Thomas Jefferson Politician	born 1743
15	Louis XVI of France Politician	born 1754
16	Andrew Jackson Politician	born 1767
17	Napoleon Bonaparte Politician	born 1769
18	Simón Bolívar Politician	born 1783
19	Benito Juárez Politician	born 1806
20	Abraham Lincoln Politician	born 1809
21	Otto von Bismarck Politician	born 1815
22	Queen Victoria Politician	born 1819
23	Ulysses S. Grant Politician	born 1822
24	Woodrow Wilson Politician	born 1856
25	Theodore Roosevelt Politician	born 1858
26	Nicholas II of Russia Politician	born 1868
27	Winston Churchill Politician	born 1874
28	Herbert Hoover Politician	born 1874
29	Leon Trotsky Politician	born 1879
30	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Politician	born 1881
31	Franklin D. Roosevelt Politician	born 1882
32	Harry S. Truman Politician	born 1884
33	Dwight D. Eisenhower Politician	born 1890
34	Ho Chi Minh Politician	born 1890
35	Nikita Khrushchev Politician	born 1894
36	George VI of the United Kingdom Politician	born 1895
37	Hirohito Politician	born 1901
38	Lyndon B. Johnson Politician	born 1908
39	Ronald Reagan Politician	born 1911
40	Richard Nixon Politician	born 1913
41	Gerald Ford Politician	born 1913
42	John F. Kennedy Politician	born 1917
43	Indira Gandhi Politician	born 1917
44	Eva Perón Politician	born 1919
45	Henry Kissinger Politician	born 1923
46	George H. W. Bush Politician	born 1924
47	Jimmy Carter Politician	born 1924
48	Margaret Thatcher Politician	born 1925
49	Robert F. Kennedy Politician	born 1925
50	Fidel Castro Politician	born 1926
51	Hosni Mubarak Politician	born 1928
52	Yasser Arafat Politician	born 1929
53	Mikhail Gorbachev Politician	born 1931
54	Ted Kennedy Politician	born 1932
55	Ron Paul Politician	born 1935
56	John McCain Politician	born 1936
57	Silvio Berlusconi Politician	born 1936
58	Joe Biden Politician	born 1942
59	Hu Jintao Politician	born 1942
60	George Bush Politician	born 1946
61	Bill Clinton Politician	born 1946
62	Mitt Romney Politician	born 1947
63	Hillary Rodham Clinton Politician	born 1947
64	Al Gore Politician	born 1948
65	Vladimir Putin Politician	born 1952
66	Anthony Blair Politician	born 1953
67	Hugo Chávez Politician	born 1954
68	Angela Merkel Politician	born 1954
69	Condoleezza Rice Politician	born 1954
70	Nicolas Sarkozy Politician	born 1955
71	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Politician	born 1956
72	Barack Obama Politician	born 1961
73	Sarah Palin Politician	born 1964
74	Bashar al-Assad Politician	born 1965
75	David Cameron Politician	born 1966

Questions

What is the born earliest on this list?

Richard III of England, with born 1452.

What is the born most recently on this list?

David Cameron, with born 1966.

Where do these numbers come from?