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Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
November 8, 1901March 19, 1965 (aged 63)
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (8 November 1901 – 19 March 1965) was a Romanian communist politician and electrician. He was the first Communist leader of Romania from 1947 to 1965, serving as first secretary of the Romanian Communist Party (ultimately "Romanian Workers' Party", PMR) from 1944 to 1954 and from 1955 to 1965, and as the first Communist Prime Minister of Romania from 1952 to 1955. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
