Mao Tse - Tung 

He was born on Dec. 26, 1893

Mao Tse-tung founded the People's Republic of China in 1949

He had also been one of the founders of the Chinese Communist party in 1921, and he is regarded, along with Karl Marx and V. I. Lenin, as one of the three great theorists of Marxian communism.

When the Japanese invasion of 1937 forced the CCP and the Kuomintang once again to form a united front, the Communists gained legitimacy as defenders of the Chinese homeland, and Mao rose in stature as a national leader.

Toward the end of his life, Mao put forward a new analysis of the international situation in which the world's states are divided into three groups: the underdeveloped nations, the developed nations, and the two superpower.

He stressed the importance of land redistribution for the benefit of the rural peasantry, and his theories have strongly influenced the no industrialized Third World.