Born on December 25, 2010

Carlos Andrés Pérez nationalized Venezuela's oil in 1976, then watched his country's wealth evaporate. By his second term in 1989, he imposed the exact free-market reforms he'd once opposed — sparking riots that killed hundreds, maybe thousands. His own guards turned on him during two coup attempts in 1992. One was led by Hugo Chávez, who'd later finish what those riots started. Pérez ended up impeached, exiled, then forgotten in Miami. He spent his final years watching Venezuela choose the strongman who'd tried to overthrow him, the oil money gone, his reforms reversed. He died the same week as that country's power shortages began. Irony doesn't cover it.