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People: Y

7 people of 861, A to Z.

Y

  • Yang JishengChinese journalist; author of Tombstone, an account of the Great Chinese Famine.
  • Yasser ArafatChairman of the PLO; present at the 1993 signing ceremony at the White House.
  • Yegor Gaidar 19 Mar 1956 – 16 Dec 2009Russian economist; acting prime minister of Russia in 1992.
  • Yigal AmirIsraeli named by the State Department's history as Rabin's assassin.
  • Yitzhak Rabin 1922–1995Prime Minister of Israel; shot dead in Tel Aviv on 4 November 1995.
  • Yoav GallantIsraeli Minister of Defence during the Gaza war; subject of an ICC arrest warrant issued on 21 November 2024.
  • Yuan MuSpokesperson of the Chinese State Council in 1989.