Filmmaker · Burma (Myanmar)
U Nu
Died in 1995
U Nu was born on 25 May 1907 in Wakema, in the Irrawaddy delta, and took his degree in Rangoon in 1929. President of the students' union, he was expelled from the university along with Aung San, which triggered the strike of 1936; he joined the Thakin movement and was imprisoned in 1940 for sedition. Prime minister of independent Burma from 1948 to 1958, then from 1960 to 1962, he was overthrown and imprisoned by Ne Win's coup, went into exile in 1969 and returned in 1980. He died in Rangoon on 14 February 1995.