deaths
August 1, 2009
Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (born 1933)
Corazon Aquino
María Corazón "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino was a Filipino politician who served as the 11th president of the Philippines and the first woman president in the country, from 1986 to 1992. She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People Power Revolution, which ended the two-decade rule of President Ferdinand Marcos and led to the establishment of the current democratic Fifth Philippine Republic.
President of the Philippines
President of the Philippines is the title of the head of state, head of government and chief executive of the Philippines. The president leads the executive branch of the Philippine government and is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.