1901–1963
Ngô Đình Diệm
South Vietnamese politician; President of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963
62years old at death
22,948days lived
35%of the people on this site died younger
Ngô Đình Diệm was born on 3 January 1901 and died on 2 November 1963, aged 62 years and 303 days. That is 22,948 days in all.
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