Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and British leader during WWII, died in 1965 at the age of 90.
Winston Churchill, a British leader who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during World War II, and again from 1951 to 1955, died on January 24, 1965. Churchill was a Sandhurst-educated soldier, a Nobel Prize-winning writer and historian, a prolific painter, and one of the longest-serving politicians in British history. He was best known for his wartime leadership as Prime Minister, but he was also a Sandhurst-educated soldier, a Nobel Prize-winning writer and historian, a prolific painter, and one of the longest-serving politicians in British history. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964, save for two years between 1922 and 1924, when he represented five seats.
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