Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese revolutionary and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989. After Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong's death in 1976, Deng rose to power and led China through its process of Reform and Opening Up and the development of the country's socialist market economy. Deng developed a reputation as the "Architect of Modern China" and his ideological contributions to socialism with Chinese characteristics are described as Deng Xiaoping Theory.

22 August 1904

Born on the same birth day (22 August): Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje • Agatha Marie of Hanau • Bill Woodfull • Denton Cooley • Ernest H. Volwiler • Gerald Carr (astronaut) • Henri Cartier-Bresson • Henry Bachtold • Henry Maudslay • Jessica-Jane Applegate • Jimmy Uso • Maximilian Bircher-Benner • Paul Gottlieb Nipkow • Ray Burris • Robbie Rochow • Roger Cashmore • Samuel David Luzzatto • Terry Catledge • Theoni V. Aldredge • Tinga Seisay • Tokushōryū Makoto • Willis R. Whitney

Born in the same month (August 1904): Achille Varzi • Alar Kotli • Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia • Clifford D. Simak • Count Basie • Dolores del Río • George Klein (inventor) • Helen Kane • Henry Iba • Joe Hulme • Joe Tate (footballer) • John Hay Whitney • Leho Laurine • Margaret Tafoya • Mary Cain (editor) • Secondo Campini • William Primrose • Witold Gombrowicz