Agostinho Neto

António Agostinho Neto (17 September 1922 – 10 September 1979) was an Angolan politician and poet. He was the first President of Angola, serving from 1975–1979 after he leading the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the war for independence that lasted from 1961–1974.
He died of inoperable cancer on 10 September 1979 in a hospital in Moscow, Russia, aged 56.