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Võ Nguyên Giáp

Vietnamese general and communist politician (1911–2013).

Born August 25th, 1911 in Lộc Thủy. [ref]

Died October 4th, 2013 at 102 years old in Hanoi. [ref]

Occupations
four-star rank, journalist, politician, soldier, writer

Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent, it clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs