* February 9 – Truong Chinh, President of Vietnam ( d. 1988 )

* September 30 – Truong Chinh, former President of Vietnam ( b. 1907 )

Other Communist countries with leaders in their 70s or 80s have included Albania ( First Secretary Enver Hoxha was 76 at death ), Czechoslovakia ( President Gustáv Husák was 76 at his resignation ), East Germany ( General Secretary and head of state Erich Honecker was 77 when forced out ), Hungary ( General Secretary János Kádár was 75 when forced out ), Laos ( President Nouhak Phoumsavanh was 83 at retirement ), North Korea ( President Kim Il-sung was 82 at death ), Romania ( General Secretary and President Nicolae Ceauşescu was 70 when he was killed ), Vietnam ( President Truong Chinh was 80 at retirement ), Yugoslavia ( President Josip Broz Tito was 87 at death ).

Following the elimination of the old leadership by the authorities, a new party leadership emerged, which included Truong Chinh, Pham Van Dong, and Vo Nguyen Giap — individuals who together with Ho Chi Minh would provide a unified leadership over the ensuing four decades.

Truong Chinh ( pseudonym meaning “ Long March ”, born Dang Xuan Khu ( 9 February 1907, Xuan Truong District, Nam Dinh Province – 30 September 1988, Hanoi ) was a Vietnamese communist political leader and theoretician.

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