deaths
October 19, 1986
Samora Machel, Mozambican commander and politician, 1st President of Mozambique (born 1933)
Samora Machel
Samora Moisés Machel was a Mozambican politician and revolutionary. A socialist in the tradition of Marxism–Leninism, he served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in 1975 until his death in a plane crash in 1986.
List of presidents of Mozambique
This article lists the presidents of Mozambique, since the establishment of the office of president in 1975.