Who was... (for the foreign posters)

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Who was your President/Prime Minister/Monarch when you were born?

For me (1988)

Chairman of the Council of State: Wojciech Jaruzelski
Prime Minister: Zbigniew Messner

I can also mention Polish Government in Exile, lol

President: Kazimierz Sabbat
Prime Minister: Edward Szczepanik
 

[afleitch]

Head of State - HRH Queen Elizabeth II (QE1 of Scotland )
PM - Margaret Thatcher
Secretary of State for Scotland - George Younger

EDIT:

May as well go around the world

US President - Ronald Reagan
Canadian PM - Pierre Trudeau
Australian PM - Bob Hawke
French President - Francois Mitterand
French PM - Pierre Mauroy
Soviet General Secretary - Konstantin Chernenko 
German Chancellor - Helmut Kohl

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Head of State - HM King Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime Minister - Ingvar Carlsson (S) A few months later and it would have been Carl Bildt (M)


British PM: - John Major
Canadian PM: - Brian Mulroney
Australian PM: - Bob Hawke
French President: - François Mitterrand
US President: - George HW Bush
German Chancellor: - Helmut Kohl
Soviet General Secretary:- Mikhail Gorbachev

[phk]

I have dual citizenship so I guess I can post here...

Soviet President - Mikhail Gorbachev
US President - Ronald Reagan
Canadian PM - Brian Mulroney
Japanese PM - Yaushiro Nakasone
French President: - François Mitterrand
German Chancellor: - Helmut Kohl
Australian PM - Bob Hawke
British PM - Margaret Thatcher

Jordanian King - King Hussein
Pakistani President - Zia ul-Haq
Indian PM - Rajiv Gandhi
Israeli Prime Minister: Shimon Peres
Iraqi President: Saddam Hussein
Libya: Gaddafi
Syrian President: Hafez al-Assad
Saudi King: Fahd
Iranian Supreme Leader - Ayatollah Khomeini

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Thanks for expandind this, guys.

So, for me.

U.S. President: Ronald Reagan
USSR Leader: Mikhail Gorbachev
French President: Francois Mitterrand
UK Prime Minister: Margaret Thatcher (eww...)
West German Chancellor: Helmut Kohl
Australian Prime Minister: Bob Hawke
Iranian Supreme Leader: Ruhollah Khomeini
Saudi King: Fahd
Iraqi President: Saddam Hussein
Israeli Prime Minister: Yitzhak Shamir
Brazilian President: Jose Sarney (ugh...)

I'm too lazy to write more

[Hatman 🍁]

Head of State: Elizabeth II
Head of Government: Brian Mulroney

[k-onmmunist]

Head of State: "Queen" Elizabeth II
Head of Government: John Major

[Antonio the Sixth]

President : François Mitterrand

Prime Minister : Pierre Bérégovoy (if I were born 3 days later, it'd have been Balladur )

[big bad fab]

I guess I'm part of "history" now

French president: Georges Pompidou
(and de Gaulle survived almost 4 months after he was informed of my birth)
French PM: Jacques Chaban-Delmas
French Minister for Economy and Finances: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Secretary of State for Economy: Jacques Chirac (and new president of Corrèze general council !)
(funny pair, eh ? )

US President: Richard Nixon (before the Watergate !)
US VP: Spiro Agnew (yeah !)
Canada PM: Pierre Elliott Trudeau (not too bad)
Quebec premier: Robert Bourassa

USSR - CPSU GenSek: Leonid Brezhnev
USSR - Supreme Soviet president: Nikolaï Podgorny
USSR - Prime Minister: Alekseï Kosygin

UK PM: Edward Heath (if I was born one month earlier, it would even have been Wilson !)
West German Chancellor: Willy Brandt
Italian PM: Mariano Rumor
Spain Caudillo: Franco !
Portugal PM: Marcelo Caetano (but Salazar was still alive !)
Greece PM: Papadopoulos
Austria Chancellor: Bruno Kreisky
Sweden PM: Olof Palme
Netherlands PM: Piet de Jong
Belgium PM: Gaston Eyskens

Poland - PUWP 1st secretary: Wladyslaw Gomulka ! (5 months before his political end, but still...)
Poland - chairman of the State council: Marian Spychalski
Poland - PM: Josef Cyrankiewicz (OMG !)
Yugoslavia president: Tito !
East Germany - SED general secretary: Walter Ulbricht (yeah !)
And, of course, Hoxha, Ceausescu, Kadar, Husak.

Mexico president: Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
Argentine president: Roberto Levingston (ugh)
Brazil president: Emilio Medici (kewl...)
Colombia president: Carlos Restrepo
Venezuela president: Rafael Caldera (but his first term!)
And, of course, Stroessner, Anastasio Somoza Jr.

China - CPC Chairman: Mao Zedong
China - PM: Zhou Enlai
Japanese PM: Eisaku Sato
India PM: Indira Gandhi
Burma president and PM: Ne Win
Australian PM: John Gorton
And, of course, Kim Il-Sung, Suharto and no Bangladeshi leader...

Egypt president: Nasser ! (just 2 months and a half before his death)
Turkey PM: Suleyman Demirel
Iran Shah: Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Israeli PM: Golda Meir
Ethiopia Emperor: Haile Selassie (terrific !)
Nigeria president: Yakubu Gowon
Libya: Gaddafi (on this, I'm not very original...)
And, of course, Kenyatta, Nyerere, Boumediene, Sedar Senghor, Houphouët-Boigny.


Well, Franco, Tito, Nixon, Brezhnev, Mao, Gomulka, Nasser, Haile Selassie, Golda Meir,...
please give way, young geeks !

And Brandt, Palme, Kreisky : please give way, my social-democrats friends !

(of course, I feel very, very old, now... )

[Filuwaúrdjan]

British PM: Thatcher
Queenie: Lizzie Two

American President: Ray Gun
General Secretary of the CPSU: Gorbachev
French President: Mitterand
German Chancellor: Kohl
Canadian PM: Brian Mulroney
Australian PM: Hawke
New Zealand PM: David Lange

[Antonio the Sixth]

Following Fab's example :

French President : François Mitterrand
French PM : Pierre Bérégovoy

US President : Bill Clinton
US Veep : Al Gore

Canadian PM : Brian Mulroney

Russian President : Boris Yeltsin

British PM : John Major
German Chancellor : Helmut Kohl
Italian PoC : Giuliano Amato
Spanish PM : Felipe Gonzales

Israel PM : Yitzak Rabin
Japan PM : Kiichi Miyazawa
Indian PM : P. V. Narasimha Rao
Australian PM : Paul Keating
Brazilian President : Itamar Franco

[Hash]

French President: François Mitterrand
French PM: Pierre Bérégovoy
French Minister of the Environment: Ségolène Royal
French Minister of Labour and Employment (well, yeah, there's a difference between employment and work in France): Martine Aubry

US President: George H.W. Bush
US VP: Dan Quayle (hell yeah)
Canada PM: Brian Mulroney
Canadian Minister of the Environment: Jean Charest
Quebec premier: Robert Bourassa (like Fabien , just the Bourassa I was born under was more competent than the young fool we had during the FLQ Crisis)
Ontario premier: Bob Rae (lol)

Russian President: Boris Yelstin
Russian PM: Viktor Chernomyrdin

UK PM: John Major
UK leader of the opposition: Neil Kinnock
German Chancellor: Helmut Kohl
Italian PM: Giuliano Amato
Spanish PM: Felipe González
Basque Lehendakari: José Antonio Ardanza Garro
Catalan President of the Generalitat: Jordi Pujol
Portugal PM: Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Greek PM: Konstantinos Mitsotakis
Austria Chancellor: Franz Vranitzky
Sweden PM: Carl Bildt
Netherlands PM: Ruud Lubbers
Belgium PM: Jean-Luc Dehaene

Polish President: Lech Wałęsa
Polish PM: Hanna Suchocka (a bit earlier and I could have been a Pawlak boy!)
FR Yugoslavian President: Dobrica Ćosić

Mexican President: Carlos Salinas
Argentine President: Carlos Menem (ugh)
Brazilian President: Fernando Collor de Mello (HELL YEAH)
Colombian President: César Gaviria
Venezuelan President: Carlos Andrés Pérez

China - President: Yang Shangkun
China - CPC Chairman: Jiang Zemin
China - PM: Li Peng
Japanese PM: Kiichi Miyazawa
India PM: P. V. Narasimha Rao
Myanmar - SLORC Chairman: Than Shwe
Australian PM: Paul Keating

Egyptian President: Hosni Mubarak
Turkey PM: Süleyman Demirel
Iranian Supreme Leader: Ali Khamenei
Israeli PM: Yitzhak Rabin
South African President: FW de Klerk

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Polish PM: Hanna Suchocka (a bit earlier and I could have been a Pawlak boy!)

Or some months later.

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You have been blessed!

[Middle-aged Europe]

General Secretary of the SED Central Committee / Chairman of the State Council: Erich Honecker
Chairman of the Council of Ministers: Willi Stoph

Federal President: Karl Carstens
Federal Chancellor: Helmut Schmidt

[Phony Moderate]

Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II
PM - John Major (Conservative)
Leader of the Opposition - John Smith (Labour)
Leader of the Liberal Democrats - Paddy Ashdown
Member of Parliament - Jim Pawsey (Conservative)

Around the world:

US President - Bill Clinton (Democratic)
Canadian PM - Jean Chrétien (Liberal)
Australian PM - Paul Keating (Labor)

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Président: François Mitterand
Premier Ministre: Pierre Mauroy

French Minister of Labour and Employment (well, yeah, there's a difference between employment and work in France): Martine Aubry

Lol, yeah, which would show we always had a special relationship with work.

[big bad fab]

Gaddafi is the only sure common point of all of us and THAT is something

Poor Hash with Royal and Aubry.
But your Kinnock, Bildt, Lubbers, Menem, Collor, Salinas, Rao, Keating are "impressive".

Eventually, it's Haile Selassie whom I'm proud the most of: it seems so old !

[Antonio the Sixth]

Gaddafi is the only sure common point of all of us and THAT is something

What about Fidel Castro ?

[big bad fab]

Gaddafi is the only sure common point of all of us and THAT is something

What about Fidel Castro ?

Damn. You're right.
And Omar Bongo.
I guess we have many common points in this forum, after all

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Lizzy II as monarch of Britain should be a combining facor for most as well.

[Хahar 🤔]

Most everyone here was born during Mitterrand's presidency.

[GMantis]

Chairman of the State Council - Todor Zhivkov
Prime Minister - Georgi Atanasov

[You kip if you want to...]

Prime Minister - John Major
Leader of the Opposition - John Smith
Leader of the Liberal Democrats - Paddy Ashdown
Speaker - Betty Boothroyd
Monarch - Queen Elizabeth II
Local MP - Frank Field

French President - François Mitterrand
Australian PM - Paul Keating
Canadian PM - Jean Chrétien
POTUS - Bill Clinton
German Chancellor - Helmut Kohl

[minionofmidas]

Walter Scheel was President, and Helmut Schmidt was Chancellor. Incredibly they're both still alive and tottering at 91 (well, Scheel will be 91 tomorrow).

Holger Börner was Prime Minister of Hesse. He's dead now, though he was 12 years younger.

[Hans-im-Glück]

German Chancellor: Kurt Georg Kiesinger
German President: Heinrich Lübke


US President : Lyndon B. Johnson

Canadian PM : Lester Pearson

USSR KP-Leader: Leonid Iljitsch Breschnew
French President : Charles de Gaulle
French PM : Georges Pompidou
British PM : Harold Wilson
Italian PoC : Aldo Moro
Spanish PM : Francisco Franco