** In the former doge-state Venice, and while it was a republic resisting annexation by either the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia or the Austrian empire, a former Chief Executive ( president, 23 March 18485 July 1848 ), Daniele Manin ( b. 1804-d. 1857 ), was styled Dictator 11 – 13 August 1848 before joining the 13 August 1848-7 March 1849 Triumvirate.

** Section Chief

** 1976 – 1983 Chief

** Chief Justice of Vietnam

** Chief Ministers of Indian States

** Chief Justices of the Swiss Supreme Court

** Chief Justice of Fiji

** Chief Justice of Samoa

** Chief of Staff

** Office of the Chief Economist

** Shlomo Goren, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel ( d. 1994 )

** Donald Regan, American Treasury Secretary and White House Chief of Staff ( d. 2003 )

** Kim Sung-Il, Chief of Staff of the Republic of Korea Air Force

** Cedric Phatudi, Chief Minister of Lebowa bantustan ( d. 1987 )

** Wilma Mankiller, Chief of the Cherokee Nation ( d. 2010 )

** Post of Chief of the Air Force Staff created.

** Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States ( b. 1872 )

** Alfred Jodl, German Nazi Chief of the OKW ( b. 1890 )

** Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho ( b. 1938 )

** James Alexander George Smith " Jags " McCartney the Turks and Caicos Islands ’ first Chief Minister, is killed in a plane crash over New Jersey.

** Chief Tahachee ( actor ), American-born stage and film actor ( d. 1978 )

** Vietnam War: A Viet Cong officer named Nguyễn Văn Lém is executed by Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, a South Vietnamese National Police Chief.

** Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer.

** Uma Bharati, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh

** Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland and of Israel ( b. 1888 )

** Ministers of Defence of Estonia

** Ministry of Defence ()

** Ten-Day War ( 1991 ) – a brief military conflict between Slovenian TO ( Slovenian Territorial Defence ) and the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) following Slovenia's declaration of independence.

** In Ciskei, members of the Ciskei Defence Force loyal to dictator Oupa Gqozo open into a crowd of anti-Gqozo protestors organized by the African National Congress, killing at least 28 people and wounding nearly 200.

** Milltown Cemetery Attack: During the funeral of three Provisional IRA members in Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) member Michael Stone attacked the crowd with grenades and pistols, killing three and wounding over sixty.

** Recruitment begins in Britain for a home defence force: the Local Defence Volunteers, later known as the Home Guard.

** The Naval Defence Act dictates that the fleet strength of the British Royal Navy must be equal to that of at least any two other countries.

** In Northern Ireland, Protestant Ulster Defence Association Belfast leader John Gregg is killed by a loyalist faction.

** The body of David Kelly, a scientist at the Ministry of Defence, is found a few miles from his home, leading to the Hutton inquiry.

** Defence Signals Directorate ( DSD )

** Defence Intelligence Organisation ( DIO )

** Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation ( DIGO )

** Sabre Defence

** Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov, Minister of Defence of Soviet Union ( b. 1911 )

** Pavel Grachev, Defence Minister of the Russian Federation ( b. 1948 )

** Stonewall Variation in the Dutch Defence

** Canal Defence Light

** Die Sturmgesellen: Ein Wort zur Abwehr (" Stormfellows: a Defence ", essay, 1903 )

** The Second World War: Defence of Arras, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Somme 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Saar, Breville, Odon, Fontenay le Pesnil, Defence of Rauray, Caen, Falaise, Falaise Road, La Vie Crossing, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1940 ' 44-45, Barkasan, British Somaliland 1940, Tobruk 1941, Tobruk Sortie, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Medenine, Zemlet el Lebene, Mareth, Akarit, Wadi Akarit East, Djebel Roumana, Medjez Plain, Si Mediene, Tunis, North Africa 1941-43, Landing in Sicily, Vizzini, Sferro, Gerbini, Adrano, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Advance to Florence, Monte Scalari, Casa Fortis, Rimini Line, Casa Fabbri Ridge, Savio Bridgehead, Italy 1944-45, Athens, Greece 1944-45, Crete, Heraklion, Middle East 1941, Chindits 1944, Burma 1944

** William Bullein-Bullein's Bulwarke of Defence againste all Sicknes, Sornes, and Woundes

** 13 January 1957-14 October 1959 Minister of Defence

** Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management ( Te Rākau Whakamarumaru )

** Weather and Environmental Prediction and Services ( Defence Weather Services, Marine and Ice Services Ice Service ), National Weather Predictions, Weatheradio Canada, a national system of emergency weather broadcast transmitters )

** Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff