General Vo Nguyen Giap

Võ Nguyên Giáp (25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) was a General in the Vietnam People's Army and a politician. Giáp was a principal commander in two wars: the First Indochina War (1946–1954) and the Vietnam War (1960–1975). He participated in the following historically significant battles: Lạng Sơn (1950), Hòa Bình (1951–1952), Điện Biên Phủ (1954), the Tết Offensive (1968), the Easter Offensive (1972), and the final Hồ Chí Minh Campaign (1975).

On 4 October 2013, a government official announced that Giáp had died at 18:09 hours, local time, at Central Military Hospital 108 in Hanoi, where he had been since 2009. He was 102.[54] He will be given a state funeral on 12 and 13 October 2013 and his body will lie in state at the national Morgue in Hanoi until his burial at the Vũng Chùa - Đảo Yến in his home province of Quang Binh.