Hu Jintao

Hu Jintao is a Chinese retired politician who served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, the president of China from 2003 to 2013, and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) from 2004 to 2012. He was a member of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee, China's de facto top decision-making body, from 1992 to 2012. Hu was the fifth paramount leader of China from 2002 to 2012.

21 December 1942

Born on the same birth date (21 December 1942): Carla Thomas

Born on the same birth day (21 December): Albert Payson Terhune • Barry Gordon • Betty Wright • Charles Dera • Doug Walters • Govinda (actor) • Joaquín Andújar • John W. McCormack • Kaitlyn Dever • Kunihiko Ikuhara • Leopold von Ranke • Lorenzo Bandini • Matías Almeyda • Thomas C. McRae • Thomas Graham (chemist) • U. R. Ananthamurthy • Wafic Saïd • Walter Spanghero

Born in the same month (December 1942): Anna Carteret • Bob Mosley • Bobby Keyes (rugby league) • Carla Thomas • Dick Parry • Dick Wagner • Donald Carcieri • Fred Jones (rugby league) • Gray Davis • Harry Chapin • Jean-Claude Trichet • Michael Nesmith • Pedro Rocha (Uruguayan footballer) • Rajesh Khanna • Reginald Lewis • Robert Quine • Toomas Savi • Vladimir Bukovsky