POLITICAL LEADERS, ACTIVISTS ROYALTY,CONGRESSMAN,
REPRESENTATIVES 

Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman
 Professor of shari'a law (at the University of Jordan) before joining the jihad. A Jury convicted Sheikh Rahman and nine other co-defendants of conspiring to wage a terrorist war against the United States. They were found guilty of conspiring to bomb the World Trade Center and other New York landmarks such as the United Nations Federal Plaza and the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, as well as plotting to assassinate public figures. The man convicted in New York of being the ultimate mastermind of these bomb plots was Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, an Egyptian Islamic religious leader who had been closely associated with the Islamic fundamentalist unrest in Egypt.Sheikh Omar confounded  prison officials by refusing to take his medications for diabetes, high blood pressure, and a heart condition. He had been accused of inciting the assassination of President Anwar Sadat and repeatedly arrested and imprisoned by the authorities for several years for allegedly inciting civil unrest. He was eventually deported by Egypt to Sudan.

Don Aldredge
9-21-1999
Arizona is mourning the death of Don Aldredge, the former Speaker of the state
 House of Representatives. The former Lake Havasu City Representative had
 stepped down from the post after having his leg amputated due to diabetes. Details
 surrounding Aldredge's death are not yet available. 
 

Clinton  Presba Anderson
(1895-1975) U.S. Senator 49-73,Democrat  New Mexico Born on October 23, 1895, in
               Centerville, Turner County South Dakota. He received his education  at Dakota Wesleyan University and the University of Michigan, and later moved to New Mexico. He was an insurance executive,  newspaperman and editor, and operated two farms. He was a  president of Rotary International. He served as a member of the House of Representatives from January 3, 1941, to June 30, 1945. Anderson was Secretary of Agriculture from June 30, 1945, to May 10, 1948. On January 3, 1949 he was sworn in as a U.S. Senator from New Mexico.

Yuri Andropov
1914-1984 Soviet Premier.Born Jun 15,1914 at Nagutskaya, Stavropol region, son of
     railway man. Dies: Feb 9,1984  Medals: Hero of Socialist Labor,Order of Lenin (4),Order of the October Revolution,Order of Red Banner,Order of the Workers Red Banner (3)
 

President Hafiz al-Assad
President of Syria born 1930. On 2/22/1971): nominated by the People's Assembly, confirmed by majority plebiscite vote; 7 year term

Menachem Begin
prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983. He was born in Brest-Litovsk, Poland on 16 August 1913, son of Zeev-Dov and Hassia Begin. He was educated at the Mizrachi Hebrew School and the Polish Gymnasium (High School). In 1931, he entered Warsaw University and took his law degree in 1935.  On June 20, 1977, Mr. Menachem Begin, head of the Likud party - after having won the Knesset elections (17 May 1977) - presented the new Government to the Knesset and became Prime Minister of Israel.  His publications include "White Nights" (describing his wartime experience in Europe), "The Revolt", which has been translated into several languages, and numerous articles.  He is married to Aliza (nee Arnold), and has a son and two daughters. Menachem Begin died in 1992.

Samuel Block
NEWS:April 22,2000 Samuel Block, a civil rights leader who helped register  Southern blacks to vote in the 1960s, died April 13. He was 60.   Block, who was diabetic, died in his apartment. The cause of  death was not immediately known and the family has requested
 an autopsy, said Block's sister, Margaret.  As a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating  Committee, Block faced stiff opposition in his native Mississippi
 when he tried to help blacks register to vote.  He was repeatedly beaten and jailed for his civil rights work, yet refused to abandon  the registration effort.  He maintained his support for civil rights causes throughout his life and planned to  attend a coordinating committee reunion at the time of his death. 

Lucille B. Chapman
a five-time Menominee Indian tribal chairwoman, died Sunday Oct 24, 1999 of diabetes. She was 70. Chapman was a member of the old tribal council from before 1961, when the tribe's federal trust status ended and the reservation became Menominee County. Chapman was then elected to the Menominee County Board. After the tribe regained its federal trust status in 1973, Chapman was elected to five one-year terms as chair between 1980 and 1990. She was later a legislative secretary.

Chiang Chifu
Burma Opium Lord/Burmese (MYANMAR) leader

Bettino Craxi
NEWS:October 26,1999
 TUNIS (Reuters) - Fugitive former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi is in intensive care in a Tunis hospital with heart problems and could face jail if he sought treatment in Italy. ``He is still in intensive care in a Tunis hospital. We will see how he is doing after a review today between a doctor from Italy and his Tunisian doctors,'' Craxi's son Vittorio told Reuters in Tunis. Craxi is wanted in Italy on corruption charges. His son said the 65-year-old had a heart attack after severe pneumonia. In Rome, the office of Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema said the premier was not opposed to Craxi's return for medical treatment. The office statement said, however, that it would be up to the magistrature and not the  government to rule on the judicial position of Craxi. Italian doctors who visited him were quoted by Italian news agencies as saying his condition was critical. After several appeals, Italy's highest court in 1996 definitively convicted Craxi in one trial involving illegal financing of political parties, the crime at the heart of corruption scandals of the early 1990s. In that case, he was sentenced to five years and six months in jail. A conviction on corruption  charges in another trial was overturned by the high court. Craxi, once one of Italy's most powerful politicians and now in self-imposed exile in the Tunisian resort of Hammamet, was rushed to hospital late Sunday. The Socialist headed two successive governments from 1983 to 1987 before Italy's political old guard collapsed in a flood of corruption scandals in the early 1990s. He carved up power with former prime ministers Giulio Andreotti and Arnaldo Forlani of the Christian Democrats in a string of center-left governments. In the 1980s, no government could be formed without the blessing of the authoritarian Craxi, who ruled his party with an iron fist at its height in the late 1980s. He has been living in Hammamet since 1994. Citing health problems, including diabetes and gangrene, he has refused to return to Italy.  UPDATE::::January 12 ,2000  died today in  Tunisia. Craxi, 65, once a major political kingpin and one of Italy's longest-serving  premiers in the 1980s, had been in poor health for years, suffering from  complications of diabetes. 

Cyprian minister President`s wife
(an indian lady) .She is a Type-2. 

Paddy Devlin
NEWS:August 15 ,1999
Socialist Paddy Devlin Dies
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - Paddy Devlin, a committed socialist who helped found
Northern Ireland's largest Roman Catholic party, died Sunday. He was 74. Devlin died after a lengthy hospitalization in Belfast, his family announced. He had been nearly blind since the early 1990s and suffered a range of ailments because of severe diabetes. A tireless campaigner against sectarianism and violence, Devlin participated in Northern Ireland's first and only experiment in a joint Protestant-Catholic government. As minister for health and human services, Devlin was the second-highest-ranking Catholic in that 1974 administration. But the power-sharing government soon collapsed under the combined weight of a Protestant general strike and Irish Republican Army violence. The British government resumed ``direct rule'' from London, an arrangement that continues today.Last year's Good Friday peace accords call for a new cross-community government but feuding between Northern Ireland's parties has prevented its creation. Born on March 8, 1925, Devlin began political life as an idealistic member of the IRA and served a three-year prison sentence starting in 1942 for membership of the outlawed group. But Devlin renounced violence in prison, and later became a fierce critic of the modern IRA campaign to destabilize Northern Ireland. In 1970, Devlin co-founded the moderate Social Democratic and Labor Party, which since has always won most votes from the province's Catholic minority. But Devlin, a devout socialist, resigned from the party in 1977 in protest that it was appealing too narrowly to Catholic interests at the expense of attracting support from working-class Protestants. ``No one's talking to (Protestants) about the price of a loaf of bread or how much it takes to pay the rent,'' he said in a 1995 interview. ``No one has had any regard for the majority of people here, the Protestants. ... We've scarcely recognized them.'' In 1981, Devlin was forced to abandon his home in his native Catholic west Belfast after facing intimidation from IRA supporters, who were angered by his criticism of the IRA prison hunger strike at the time. He retired from Ireland's major labor union in 1985 and devoted himself to writing, culminating in his 1993 autobiography ``Straight Left,'' a reference to his favored punch in boxing. ``Indeed, I would like to be remembered as a straight left,'' he wrote, ``straight in my dealings with everyone and left in my politics.'' Devlin is survived by his wife, Theresa, two sons and three daughters. Funeral arrangements were not announced. 

Francois Duvalier
Leader of Haiti "Papa Doc"

King Fahd
King, Saudi Arabia

James Farmer
Civil Rights Pioneer Farmer Dies
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) - James Farmer, who as head of the Congress of Racial Equality led the Freedom Riders and helped end  segregation in interstate buses in the 1960s, has died. He was 79. Farmer, who had been in ill health in recent years, died Friday (July 9,1999) while  hospitalized, said Ron Singleton, a spokesman for Mary Washington College where Farmer was a professor. No further details were available. The last of the Big Four civil rights leaders of the 1960s, Farmer was blind and had both legs amputated because of complications of diabetes. ``James Farmer helped to make America a better nation, and I was saddened to learn of his death today,'' President Clinton said in a statement Friday night. Farmer founded the Congress of Racial Equality in 1942 and in the following decades shared the spotlight with Whitney Young, head of the National Urban League, and NAACP leader Roy Wilkins. All were overshadowed by the Rev. Martin Luther King. `He is simply irreplaceable,'' said Kweisi Mfume, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. ``James Farmer leaves this century as one of a few select men and women to be responsible for great change.'' Farmer's most celebrated accomplishment as head of CORE was to lead the Freedom Rides in 1961. It was a nonviolent effort to desegregate interstate buses and terminals, but participants encountered violence. He helped recruit CORE members James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, all of whom were murdered in Mississippi during the Freedom Rides. Their slayings were the subject to the 1988 movie ``Mississippi Burning.'' In the early 1960s, Farmer often faced threats of violence himself. ``Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination,'' he said in a 1991 interview. Division within CORE over leadership and direction led Farmer to resign in 1966. More recently, he has taught, served briefly in the Nixon administration and made an unsuccessful bid for Congress. In January 1998, President Clinton presented Farmer with a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. ``It's a vindication,'' Farmer said when the award was announced. ``I certainly was ignored and forgotten.'' Farmer was born in Texas and grew up in Mississippi. He entered Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, in 1934 as a 14-year-old freshman. He graduated from theological school at Howard University in 1941, and was a conscientious objector during World War II. After college, he worked for the Fellowship of Reconciliation and started contemplating how to change racist practices in America. He became a proponent of Mohandas Gandhi's nonviolent methods, something King later espoused, and founded CORE while living in Chicago. In the spring of 1942, Farmer tested Gandhi's vision at the Jack Spratt Coffee Shop near the University of Chicago. The manager there refused to serve Farmer but agreed to serve Farmer's friend, a white man - until Farmer reminded the manager of the state's civil rights law. ``He asked me what I wanted. I ordered doughnuts, my friend ordered coffee,'' Farmer said. ``He told us the doughnuts would be a dollar apiece. When we left, he charged the usual 5 cents per doughnut. We decided to pursue it because, obviously, this gentleman had a problem regarding race.''Farmer and CORE activists followed up with the nation's first sit-in: 26 people hogging the counter and all the available booths. Jack Spratt's managers offered to serve them in the basement.``I told them we were comfortable where we were. They served us,'' Farmer said. Farmer moved to the Fredericksburg area in 1980 to write his autobiography, ``Lay Bare the Heart.'' Despite his illnesses, Farmer taught a course at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg on the history of the civil rights movement.In a 1998 interview, Farmer admitted there had been times over the years when he felt chafedby the lack of universal recognition for his work. ``There've been moments of bitterness. And I simply shrug them aside,'' Farmer said. ``Historians have a way of looking under the headlines, below the headlines, and seeking truth. If they do that, I think I will be given credit for seminal work in civil rights.'' Farmer is survived by two daughters, Tami Gonzalez of Partlow and Abbey Levin of Darnestown, Md., and a granddaughter. 

Joe Mack Ford
State Representative (District 28) of Gadsden Alabama is isted in ``fair'' condition at University Hospital in Birmingham As of 6-24-1999. Ford's health took a serious downturn in recent days... including infections in both legs, kidney failure, and the discovery of lung disease. Ford suffers from advanced diabetes.He has been a member of the legislature since 1974. He is married to Brenda Jane Ford and they have three children. DOB: October 3, 1937 in Gadsden, Alabama. Education: B.S. from Jacksonville State University, M.A. and EDS from the University of Alabama. Work Experience:  Director of Development, Gadsden State Community College  Retired Colonel, Alabama National Guards

Li Fuxiang
NEWS:May 12,2000
 China Forex Chief Dead, BEIJING (Reuters) - Li Fuxiang, the head of China's foreign exchange regulatory  body, died this week under mysterious circumstances, financial sources said on  Friday.  `He's dead,'' said one reliable source of the director of the State Administration of  Foreign Exchange (SAFE).  ``It's possibly related to something that happened before he took over at SAFE'' in  October 1998, said the source, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity.  Officials at Beijing No 304 Hospital, an elite military medical  facility, said Li had checked in for treatment for diabetes on  Monday.  There was no official word on the cause of death but the   hospital's morgue confirmed it had handled a SAFE official who  leapt to his death on Wednesday. A morgue official declined to identify the man.  A consultant affiliated with SAFE said the agency had summoned staff to a meeting  on Thursday to explain Li's death, but SAFE's spokesman declined to comment on the  case.  There was no immediate confirmation of reports in the Hong Kong media and rumors  in the Shanghai foreign exchange market and on Internet chat sites that it was Li, 47,  who had committed suicide by leaping from an upper story of the hospital.  The reports had no effect on the tightly-managed Chinese yuan.   Asked about the reports Li had committed suicide, China's State Council Information  Office, which speaks for the cabinet, said it was still seeking confirmation.  Hong Kong's Ming Pao and the Hong Kong Economic Times newspapers said Li had   leapt from the seventh floor of a hospital in Beijing on Wednesday night. The Ming  Pao quoted unidentified sources and the Economic Times gave no sources for its  report.  The independent Ming Pao said rumors were circulating in Chinese financial markets  that Li's suicide might be related to ''inappropriate activities'' at his office or stress at  work.  It said there was speculation Li was being investigated for ''economic activities,'' but  gave no further details.  Hong Kong's Sing Tao Daily said Li had been posted to SAFE in 1996 and had won the favor of Premier Zhu Rongji for his grasp of forex issues.  Li took over as SAFE director from Wu Xiaoling shortly after she had launched a  nationwide crackdown on foreign exchange fraud designed to stem capital flight and  ease downward pressure on the Chinese yuan during the Asian economic crisis. A fluent English speaker, Li had worked for the Bank of China, the country's main foreign exchange bank, in Singapore early in his career and later headed the bank's  New York branch. 

Virginia Ginter
Mother of Newt Gingrich (U.S. Speaker of the House)

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Soviet Premier

Ismet Inonu
2nd President of Turkish Republic Insulin-dependent

Janet Jagan
Guyana's President
NEWS:Saturday July 24 7:31 PM ET
            GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - Guyana's president has been discharged from an Ohio hospital after tests for a heart condition, a spokesman said Saturday. President Janet Jagan, 78, left Akron City Hospital on Friday and is resting at the home of a Guyanese-born physician near Akron before returning to Guyana, said Information Minister Moses Nagamootoo. Nagamootoo released few details of Jagan's condition but downplayed speculation in Guyana that she won't be able to serve out her term, which ends in 2001. `I have no reason to believe otherwise, and the medical reports I have received from credible medical people would indicate that she doesn't immediately need any surgical intervention,'' he said. Before heading to Ohio on Wednesday, Jagan was hospitalized at Guyana's St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital for treatment of angina, exhaustion and diabetes. Jagan was elected president in 1997, succeeding her late husband, Cheddi Jagan, who died earlier that year. She is a Chicago native but has been a Guyana resident since 1943.

Shin Kanemaru
Japanese Liberal Democratic Party Kingmaker

Joseph Kolter
Pennsylvania U.S. Representative

Nikita Krushchev
Soviet Premier

Fiorello LaGuardia
Mayor, New York City

James Lloyd
California Congressman

Ludwig XIV-
1638-1715)  Ludwig XIV called "King of sun" compared himself
with the characteristics of the sun.

Gregory Luna
NEWS: November 8,1999
Veteran Lawmaker Mourned - (SAN ANTONIO) -- Tributes are pouring in for retired State
 Senator Gregory Luna, who died over the weekend of complications from diabetes. Luna
 resigned from the legislature in August after both his legs were amputated. He was a former
 police officer who helped found the influential Mexican American Legal Defense and
 Educational Fund. While in the legislature, he wrote much of the state's current education law.
 Molly Malcolm, head of the state Democratic Party, called Luna "one of the truly great leaders
 of Texas." She says Texas schoolchildren have lost a great friend. A memorial service is set
 for tomorrow in San Antonio.
NEWS:Sept.24,1999
State Senator , who led the fight to reform school finance in Texas, resigned today (9-24-1999)due to health problems. The San Antonio Democrat has been suffering from diabetes. He recently had both legs amputated. Luna was first elected to the State House in 1984, and he moved to the Senate in 1992. He is a true giant in Mexican-American politics. Back in the 70's, Luna helped found the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry called Luna ``a powerful advocate for causes like better schools and greater hope and opportunity for all Texans.'' Governor Bush will call a special election to decide a successor. 

Gail McGee
(1915-1992). U.S. Senator from Wyoming, 1959-77.

Winnie Mandela
South African Anti-Apartheid Leader

Freddie Meeks
                  NEWS:LOS ANGELES (AP) - For a half-century, Freddie Meeks told no one  he was a mutineer. Not his children. Not his employers.  But on Thursday, it seemed as if the whole world dropped by his tidy
                     stucco home to congratulate the frail 80-year-old man and ask how  it felt to receive a presidential pardon of his conviction in the nation's  largest mutiny trial.  It felt just fine.  `I know God was keeping me around here for something to see,'' Meeks said. His pardon was one of 37 granted by President Clinton as a Christmastime gesture. The  others involved those convicted of drug offenses, tax evasion, stealing mail and fraud.  Meeks, who had formally sought the pardon this year, said he ``knew we had a good president
 and I figured he would do the right thing.''  He was among 50 black sailors court-martialed, found guilty of mutiny and sentenced to prison  and hard labor for refusing to load live ammunition after a 1944 explosion at the Port Chicago  naval facility near San Francisco killed 320 people.  The subsequent standoff between black sailors and white officers inspired the TV movie  ``Mutiny.'' Lawmakers, veterans and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored  People argued the sailors were victims of racial prejudice.  The Navy agreed with them in a 1994 review of the case, though it did not overturn their  convictions. The pardon had no official effect on the records of the other convicted seamen.  The only other known living survivor of the case, Jules Crittenden of Montgomery, Ala., has   not sought a pardon. He told The Associated Press in August he was more interested in seeing each family of the victims get full benefits from the military.  Meeks was among hundreds of untrained black sailors who loaded ammunition aboard  transport ships at the naval base during World War II.  The work was frightening, he recalled, with bombs banging together as they slid into the hatch  on a homemade runway. He asked a lieutenant if the bombs were live.  ``He said, `Oh no, they're not live, boy. Don't worry about it. They're not gonna explode,''Meeks said. ``But the next day, the ship was blown to hell and back.''  Two-thirds of those killed on July 17, 1944, were black sailors. The blast also wounded 390  people and destroyed two transport ships. It was the worst domestic loss of life during the war.  Clinton noted Meeks had participated in the ``extraordinarily difficult job of picking up human  remains'' following the blast.   ``It wasn't bodies,'' Meeks said. ``It was pieces. You couldn't tell white from black. They just  shoveled 'em up.''  White officers were given 30-day leaves after the blast. The black sailors were ordered back   to work. Meeks and others refused.  ``They told us, `You know you could be shot''' he said. ``But we made up our mind - you go   back, you might be blown to pieces. So we didn't go back.''  The arrested sailors were held on a barge until they were tried and convicted for mutiny.  ``They felt because we was black that we supposed to did the dirty work and say nothing,'' he  added. ``But thank God that we spoke up and we stood up for our rights.''  Meeks served less than two years of a 15-year sentence. He later was assigned to a ship and   finished his term with an honorable discharge in 1946 that allowed him to retain military benefits.  ``I'm not bitter because it's something happened so long ago, you just outlive it, that's all,'' he said of his conviction.  He later worked at a warehouse and as a security guard for Los Angeles County and CBS. He  never told his bosses about the jail term.  ``I kept my mouth shut, because I had to have a job,'' he said. ``They'd have said, `We can't   use you because you have went against the country ... you rebelled.'''  Meeks and his wife also never told their children, Cheryl, Brian and Daryl, who now is a Los  Angeles County sheriff's sergeant. They only found out as adults.  Meeks said he didn't want schoolmates to taunt them for having a ``jailbird'' for a father.  ``It hurt me on the inside to have to keep that away from my kids,'' he said. Meeks is in failing health. He has a pacemaker, an eye patch, diabetes and suffered two  recent strokes. Of the pardon, he said ``it won't do very much for me, but it (will) do things for  other young blacks just going into the service.

William R. Melton
a World War II pilot and member of the famed  Tuskegee Airmen, died Sept. 2 of complication from heart disease and diabetes. He was 78.  During World War II, he enlisted as a pilot in what was then the Army Air Corps and was  assigned to the all-black unit.  As a fighter pilot, Melton flew more than 108 missions over North Africa and Europe.  When he completed his duty, Melton remained active with the Tuskegee Airmen throughout his  life. He returned to Tuskegee to serve as a flying instructor, served as public relations officer,  historian and assistant to several of its national presidents. 

Oscar Mpetha
1909 - 1994 South African Labor Leader

Gamal Abdel-Nasser
(1918-1970)- World Leader of Egypt

George Nethercutt
(R-WA).  US Representative ....His daughter has type  one diabetes and he has been the most outspoken advocate for diabetes on capitol  hill. Sent in By Corey Ladick

James Leander Nichols
Human Rights Activist.
NEWS:7/15/96
     RANGOON, Burma (Reuter) - A commentary in an official Burmese newspaper said Monday an honorary consul for several European nations who died in jail  last month was an unimportant crook who met his due fate.    Nichols, 65, suffered from diabetes, hypertension and heart problems, yet he was imprisoned, reportedly without medical treatment, for two months
prior to his death.James Leander (Leo) Nichols, an unaccredited representative for Norway, Denmark, Finland and Switzerland, died on June 22,1996 . Differing accounts say he died of a heart attack or stroke Nichols, godfather and close friend of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, was arrested in April and in May was sentenced to three years in jail for  operating home telephones and fax machines without permission....  although human rights groups believe his arrest was prompted by his close links with the NLD.
 

Gen. Augusto Pinochet
NEWS:Thursday July 29 7:06 PM ET
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who is fighting a Spanish extradition effort, suffers from stress and other serious medical problems that leave him incapable of enduring prolonged captivity or a long trial, local media reported Thursday. Citing a report by the Chilean foreign ministry, daily La Tercera said the 83-year-old Pinochet is suffering from emotional strain which is also hampering his recovery from back surgery and worsening his diabetes. Pinochet is under house arrest near London. Chilean officials have repeatedly sought Pinochet's release through a series of judicial and political channels, claiming foreign judges have no authority over the ailing general. Pinochet was arrested last October on a Spanish warrant alleging he ordered his securityservices to commit gross human rights abuses during his 17-year regime. His extradition trial is expected to begin Sept. 27.

Jean Pouliot
9-22-1999
Police Chief of Fairfield Maine
The town of Fairfield Maine is reportedly trying to work  out a severance agreement with embattled Police Chief Jean Pouliot. "The Bangor Daily News"  reports that the Town Council may be voting on some sort of severance package when it meets  in closed session this evening in exchange for Pouliot's resignation from the force after ten  years. Pouliot was suspended in August for purchasing 250-dollars worth of personal items with  the town's credit card, and has remained on medical leave for diabetes. A special audit was  ordered in an attempt to locate the 33-thousand-dollars Pouliot's department spent over its  budget. 
 

Kukrit Pramoj
ACTOR:PRIME MINISTER OF THAILAN Date of birth (location) 20 April 1911  Date of death (details)  9 October 1995, Bangkok, Thailand. (heart disease and diabetes complications ) Kukrit Pramoj was the son of a Thai prince. He attended Oxford University in England and became active in Thai politics after World War II. Pramoj worked as a bournalist and banker while military juntas ruled Thailand over the next several decades. He starred in the 1963 film "The Ugly American" as the prime minister of a fictional Asian country. A decade later he became prime minister of Thailand, serving in that office from March of 1975 until April of 1976. Pramoj's brother, Seni, also held the position of prime  minister several times in the 1970s. Kukrit remained a leading figure in Thai politics until his death in October of 1995.

Charles Elson Buddy Roemer
Governor, Louisiana

Anwar Sadat
Egyptian Leader

Richard Schweiker
Statesman

Joe Serna Jr.
NEWS:November 7,1999
Sacramento Mayor Joe Serna Jr., a former college professor who spent nearly  two decades as an elected city official, died Sunday of kidney cancer and complications  arising from diabetes. He was 60.  Serna had briefly slipped into a diabetic coma Wednesday and returned home from the hospital Friday. He passed away at 3:47 a.m. surrounded by his family, said Chuck Dalldorf, a spokesman for the mayor.  President Clinton issued a statement saying he and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton were  ``deeply saddened'' to learn of Serna's death and that their thoughts and prayers were with  Serna's family.  ``Joe was an extraordinary public servant, educator, father, husband and friend,'' Clinton said.  ``He was a great leader of Sacramento and a source of inspiration to the Hispanic community  and all Americans.''  Serna, who was born in Stockton and raised in Lodi, was elected in 1981 to the Sacramento  City Council, where he served 11 years. He was elected mayor in 1992, and re-elected in  1996.  ``Joe was a true giant in the Latino community, and a visionary leader for all of Sacramento,''   said Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante in a statement.  A follower of the late farm labor leader Cesar Chavez, Serna served on the Sacramento-area  support committee for the United Farm Workers and on an array of municipal bodies.  Since he died with more than a year left in his term, a special election will be held next year to  determine a successor. 

Norodam Sihanouk
NEWS: October 28,1999
Born Oct. 31, 1922, Sihanouk ascended the Cambodian throne in 1941 and is credited with
 leading the Southeast Asian country to independence from France in 1953.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - King Norodom Sihanouk has complained of poor health
 ahead of his 77th birthday, darkening Cambodia's preparations for the national holiday. The revered monarch told his subjects in a Wednesday night television broadcast that chronic weakness has forced him to drastically scale back public appearances. ``My subjects, you must understand that I am considerably weak. That is why I can rarely see you,'' Sihanouk said. ``Now my life enters a period that is similar to the setting of the sun.'' The king's cabinet said today that Sihanouk will not be making any public appearances on his birthday Sunday and will spend the day at a Buddhist ceremony within the palace. He will not issue traditional birthday messages - which often include sharp commentary on domestic and international politics - cabinet member Kek Sysoda said. Sihanouk has suffered from a variety of ailments over the years, including cataracts, diabetes and hypertension, and often makes extended stays in Beijing for treatment. He was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1993, but it has since gone into remission. The king is head of state but wields little real power. He is nonetheless greatly revered by his people and has repeatedly been a stabilizing force in Cambodia's often-violent political arena.

Cevat Soysal
NEWS:Tuesday July 27 4:43 PM ET
 Soysal is a high-ranking official of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Turkish interrogators tortured a Kurdish rebel captured earlier this month, injecting him with drugs and spraying him with freezing water, the rebel's lawyer said Tuesday. Cevat Soysal, identified by Turkey as a high-ranking official of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, was first seen in public Friday when he was brought to court. He appeared pale and weak and was supported by two security officers as he walked. Lawyer Ahmet Avsar, who met Soysal on Monday in an Ankara prison, said his client had been repeatedly tortured. `He told me that the first two days of his detention they didn't even ask him any questions. They just tortured him,'' Avsar told The Associated Press. Soysal said he had been stripped and sprayed with freezing water, hanged from under his armpits, and injected with drugs, as well as blindfolded for days, Avsar said. Officials at the Interior Ministry and at Ankara's police headquarters refused to comment on the allegations. Authorities have said that Soysal suffers from hepatitis and diabetes and that his weak condition was due to those illnesses. Avsar said Soysal had undergone treatment in Europe and was in good health before his capture July 16 in Moldova. The lawyer said he planned to file suit against authorities after the results of a medical report are released, possibly next week. Human rights groups have frequently accused Turkey of using torture to extract information from Kurdish rebels in custody. Soysal was charged Friday with forming an armed gang against the state. He faces a minimum of 221/2 years in prison if convicted.

Robert Strauss
New Dealer on President Jimmy Carter's WhiteHouse Staff

Nguyen Ngoc Tan
NEWS:May 11,2000 Vietnamese Journalist Nguyen Ngoc Tan Is Freed
 HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A Vietnamese journalist who spent five years in jail for  advocating human rights was released as part of a presidential amnesty for more than 12,000 inmates, a Paris-based media advocacy group said Thursday.  Nguyen Ngoc Tan, 80, who went by his pen name Pham Thai, had been an activist in  the Movement for the Unity of the People and Construction of Democracy, Reporters  Without Borders said in a statement.  He had pushed for press freedoms as a member of the underground group that  advocated human rights and democracy in Vietnam.  Tan was arrested in 1995 and sentenced to 11 years in prison  for ``conspiring against the socialist power.'' He was released  April 30 from Ham Tan labor camp, on the outskirts of Ho Chi  Minh City.  Reporters Without Borders welcomed Tan's release, saying it  ``regrets it did not come sooner.''  Tan, who is suffering from diabetes, rheumatism and lung infections, has returned to  Ho Chi Minh City. His colleague, Nguyen Dinh Huy, remains as the last journalist jailed  in the country, the group said.  Last month, Vietnam pardoned 12,264 inmates in its largest amnesty ever to mark the 25th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.
Vietnam repeatedly has said its prisoners include only lawbreakers, and that no one is in jail for dissident views. Human rights groups have estimated, though, that Vietnam
 holds at least 40 prisoners of conscience. 

Kakuei Tanaka
Japanese Political Leader

Strom Thurmond daughter Julie
has juvenile diabetes;Strom Thurmond is a U.S. Senator, Republican from South Carolina

Johnnie Tilmon-Black
Welfare Rights Advocate

Josip Broz  TITO
World  Leader,Yugoslavia statesman

Leonard Frederick Wade
Bermuda Opposition Leader,he was death due to  diabetes, kidney and heart problems DIED:Aug. 14(1996)

Arnold W. Webster
NEWS:August 12,1999
Former N.J. Mayor NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A former mayor was sentenced to six months of house arrest for illegally receiving $20,833 in salary from a previous job after he took office. Arnold W. Webster, 68, could have faced up to 16 months in prison. A federal judge granted a request for no incarceration from Webster's lawyer, who noted that the former mayor is blind and suffers from a heart condition and diabetes. Instead, Webster was sentenced to house arrest and three years of probation. U.S. District Judge Alfred Wolin also ordered him to repay all the money and assessed a $1,000 fine. Webster was sworn in as mayor earlier than scheduled and a school computer kept sending him checks for his work as superintendent because it didn't have the new date in its system, Webster's lawyer said. 

Curt Weldon
PA State representative ( In Washington, D.C. ) is diabetic. He was diagnosed two years ago. He is featured on the cover of the latest issue of DIABETES ADVOCATE.

Gordon Justin Wright
a former diplomat and an authority on European history, died  of complications from diabetes Tuesday Jan. 11,2000. He was 87.  A specialist on French history, World War II and its impact on European institutions and culture, Wright wrote  15 books, including, ``Raymond Poincare and the French Presidency,'' ``The Reshaping of French  Democracy'' and ``Rural Revolution in France: The Peasantry in the Twentieth Century.''  During and after World War II, he served as a State Department specialist on France and as a foreign  service officer.  Wright became a Stanford professor in 1957, going on to lead the history department and serve as associate  dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences. 

Maria Esther Zuno
Maria Esther Zuno, wife of former President Luis Echeverria and a  woman known for championing women's rights and domestic social and cultural programs, has died, Mexican newspapers reported. She was 74.  Zuno died Saturday of complications from diabetes, the reports said Sunday. She would have  celebrated her 75th birthday on Wednesday, the daily Universal said.  President Ernesto Zedillo and former President Jose Lopez Portillo
were among dignitaries  paying their respects Saturday at the Echeverrias' home, where the former first lady's body lay  in state.  Zuno was married for 54 years to Echeverria, who governed Mexico from 1970 to 1976. The  two met at the home of famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera and were married in January  1945. They had eight children.  In addition to her friendship with Rivera, Zuno had close ties to well-known Mexican artists  David Alfaro Siqueiros, Jose Clemente Orozco and Isidro Fabela. She also was friends with  the late Chilean President Salvador Allende, according to Universal.  Among Zuno's priorities as first lady were support of domestic social programs and equal  rights for women. She also promoted Mexican cultural traditions, conducting goodwill tours in  other countries to share traditional dance, dress, music and art.  In addition to her husband, Zuno is survived by seven of her eight children, and 19 grandchildren.