Hammer DeRoburt

Hammer DeRoburt (25 September 1922 – 15 July 1992) was the first President of the Republic of Nauru. He was in power of the country for most of its first twenty years of independence.
He was given an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II in 1982.
DeRoburt died on 15 July 1992 in Melbourne, Australia from diabetes, aged 69.