Diosdado Macapagal

Diosdado Pangan Macapagal was born on September 28, 1910 in Lubao, Pampanga. He was the ninth President of the Philippines, serving from 1961 to 1965, and the sixth Vice-President, serving from 1957 to 1961. He also served as a member of the House of Representatives, and headed the Constitutional Convention of 1970. He is the father of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who was the fourteenth President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010.

Macapagal worked to suppress graft and corruption and to stimulate the Philippine economy. He introduced the country's first land reform law, placed the peso on the free currency exchange market, and liberalized foreign exchange and import controls.

He died of heart failure, pneumonia and renal complications at the age of 86 on April 21, 1997 in Makati, Metro Manila (now Makati City).