1997
Bảo Đại, Vietnamese emperor (born 1913)
Bảo Đại, Vietnamese emperor (born 1913)
Bảo Đại, Vietnamese emperor (born 1913)
Bảo Đại
Last emperor of Vietnam from 1926 to 1945 (1913–1997)
- Died
- 1997
Bảo Đại, born Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy, was the 13th and final emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of Vietnam. From 1926 to 1945, he was de jure emperor of Đại Nam, which consisted of the French protectorates of Annam and Tonkin within French Indochina, covering the present-day central and northern Vietnam. Bảo Đại ascended the throne in 1932.