Muammar al-Qaddafi seized control of the Libyan government in 1969, and ruled as an authoritarian dictator for more than 40 years before he was overthrown in 2011.
1942-2011
1892-1975
1901-1973
Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a military leader who worked with Toussaint l'Ouverture and gave the country of Haiti its name.
1758-1806
1907-1971
1830-1915
Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He initiated World War II and oversaw fascist policies that resulted in millions of deaths.
1889-1945
Victoriano Huerta was dictatorial president of Mexico, whose regime united disparate revolutionary forces in common opposition to him.
1850-1916
1893-1979
Roman general and statesman Julius Caesar turned the Roman Republic into the powerful Roman Empire. A coup ended his reign, and his life, on the Ides of March.
100-44
Kim Jong Il's dominating personality and complete concentration of power has come to define the country North Korea.
1941-2011
Known for running a corrupt, undemocratic regime, Ferdinand Marcos was the president of the Philippines from 1966 to 1986.
1917-1989
Benito Mussolini created the Fascist Party in Italy in 1919, eventually making himself dictator prior to World War II. He was killed in 1945.
1883-1945
1534-1582
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney was an American Revolutionary War veteran, South Carolina legislator and two-time presidential candidate.
1746-1825
Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Allende government in 1973 and stayed in power until 1998. He was never tried for alleged human rights abuses.
1915-2006
Pol Pot was the political leader of Cambodia who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people under his reign.
1925-1998
Jerry John Rawlings ruled Ghana twice, first in 1979 after a military coup, and then again from 1981 until 2001, as the result of free elections.
1947-
Sargon is an ancient Mesopotamian ruler who established what is thought to be the world’s first empire, reigning during the 23rd century B.C.
2334-2215
Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union for more than two decades, instituting a reign of terror while modernizing Russia and helping to defeat Nazism.
1878-1953
Rafael Trujillo was a dictator of the Dominican Republic for decades. He was assassinated in 1961.
1891-1961