11Gordon Brown
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was forced to apologize to the mother of a dead serviceman in 2009 after he sent her a handwritten letter of condolence that misspelled her name. The Sun tabloid then attacked Brown for making the mistake, and in doing so managed to make the same mistake.
12John A. Macdonald
The first Canadian Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, appeared so drunk during a debate that he threw up and then said: “I get sick sometimes not because of drink or any other cause, except that I am forced to listen to the ranting of my honorable opponent.”
13Kantarō Suzuki
Japanese Prime Minister Kantarō Suzuki narrowly escaped assassination in 1936. The bullet remained inside his body for the rest of his life and was only revealed upon his cremation. Suzuki was opposed to Japan’s war with the United States, before and throughout World War 2.
14David Cameron
British Prime Minister David Cameron was once part of a youth gang that smashed windows of businesses in Oxford.
15Robert Muldoon
In 1984, New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon got drunk and decided to spontaneously call a general election, which he lost.
16P.V. Narasimha Rao
India's former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao spoke 17 languages - 8 foreign languages (English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German, Greek, Latin, and Persian) and 9 Indian languages (Telugu, Hindi, Oriya, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Sanskrit, Tamil, and Urdu).
17Hideki Tojo
Hideki Tojo, the Prime Minister of wartime Japan, was fitted with a new set of dentures by US medical staff after his failed suicide attempt in 1945. Without his knowledge, the medical staff managed to secretly drill into them the phrase “Remember Pearl Harbor” in Morse code.
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18Vidkun Quisling
Vidkun Quisling, who was the Norwegian prime minister during the Nazi occupation, was sentenced to death 2 years after he introduced the death sentence to the country.
19Donald Tusk
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk once gave the visiting president of the USA, Barack Obama, a copy of video game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.
20Indira Gandhi
In 1975, Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India declared martial law for two years, jailed rival politicians without trial, censored the press, and instituted a compulsory mass-sterilization campaign. She was re-elected and is well-honored by the country even today.
