Chairman Mao

Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China, is one of the most influential political figures of the 20th century, responsible for making China a world power, but also the deaths of up to 70 million people. When he died in 1976, his body was visited by 1 million mourners before it was preserved in formaldehyde and is still on display in the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong in Beijing.