This year, it centered on the statesmanship of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan, founding leader of the UAE.
He brought gaiety to the life of the nation as the rock-musician founding leader of the Monster Raving Loony Party (typical campaign slogan: "Vote for insanity, you know it makes sense") but in private he suffered lifelong depression.
1948 - Muhammed Ali Jinnah, founding leader of Pakistan, dies.
Founding leader Mohammed Yusuf (pictured above) killed in same year in police custody.
"We need our own technology to be an advanced country, to be a powerful space nation".. Pyongyang has previously said the launch, for "peaceful purposes", is to mark the centennial of the birth of founding leader Kim Il-sung.
The most high-profile case came in 1997 when Hwang Jang Yop, a close associate of founding leader Kim Il Sung, defected to the South.
In 2010, Paul Kurtz resigned as founding leader of the Council for Secular Humanism and the Center for Inquiry in what he described as a "palace coup".
CORRECTION: In a previous version, this post said that Paul Kurtz was ousted as founding leader of the Council for Secular Humanism and the Center for Inquiry.
For all of these reasons, Chellaney notes, "this means that India--a founding leader of the nonaligned movement--is likely to become multi-aligned".
Its founding leader, Mohan Singh, was arrested by the Japanese.
Bangladesh's founding leader, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, set up special tribunals to try the collaborators.
