Years in Ghana - Notable Ghanaian Deaths

Notable Ghanaian Deaths

  • 1972, April 27 - Kwame Nkrumah, 72, first President of Ghana, natural causes in Romania, (born 1909)
  • 2012, July 24 - John Atta Mills, then sitting president, died, and was in less than 12 hours time, succeeded by John Dramani Mahama, then Vice-president.

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