Biographies of notable people — their path, achievements and key facts.
Sun Yat-sen
Born: November 12, 1866 Choyhung, Kwangtung, China Died: March 12, 1925 Peking, China Chinese president and politician ...
William Butler Yeats
Born: June 13, 1865 Dublin, Ireland Died: January 28, 1939 Roquebrune, France Irish poet and dramatist William Butler...
Boris Yeltsin
Born: February 1, 1931 Butko, Siberia, Russia Russian president, politician, and government official Boris Yeltsin, who became president of Russia in 1...
Wu Yi
Vice-Premier of the State Council and Minister of Public Health for China Born in November of 1938, in Wuhan, in the Hubei Province, China. Education: ...
Zhang Yimou
Perhaps the most critically acclaimed filmmaker to emerge from mainland China in modern times, Zhang Yimou (born 1950) came to critical attention in the 1990s for his tense films t...
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (born 1949) won election as president of the Republic of Indonesia in October of 2004, thus becoming his country's first directly elected president. ...
Viktor Yushchenko
President of Ukraine Born Viktor Andriyovich Yushchenko, February 23, 1954, in Khoruzhivka, Sums'ka Oblast, Ukraine; son of Andriy Andriyovych (a teacher) and Varvara Tymofi...
Viktor Yushchenko
February 23, 1954 • Khoruzhivka, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko was Prime Minister of Ukraine from December 1999 to April 2001. After being...