Fidel Castro

February 2003: Castro addresses a crowd in Havana Photograph: STR/Reuters

An undated photo of Castro as a student in Cuba Photograph: Jose Goitia/Corbis

1957: Screen grab of Castro as a Cuban guerilla leader with comrades on a CBS News special Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/Getty

April 2 1959: President Castro eats an ice cream cone as he rides in the Bronx Zoo train in New York Photograph: Meyer Liebowitz/Getty

April 1959: An amused Castro laughs at a headline detailing an assassination plot Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

April 1961: Castro jumps from a tank as he arrives at Giron, Cuba, near the Bay Of Pigs Photograph: Bohemia Magazine/AP

Picture taken in the early 60s of the Cuban Revolution leaders, Fidel Castro and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara Photograph: OFF/AFP/Getty

May 7 1964: Castro meets the Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, in Red Square, Moscow Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty

May 1972: Castro looks unsteady riding a camel during a visit to Algeria and is helped by the Algerian president, Houari Boumedienne Photograph: Christian Simonpietri/Sygma/Corbis

October 12 1979: Castro gestures as he addresses the 34th General Assembly of the United Nations Photograph: Bernard Gotfryd/Getty

November 16 1999: President Castro tries on a pair of sunglasses as he talks to the media in Havana, during an international summit Photograph: Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty

May 14 2002: Castro watches the former US president Jimmy Carter throw a baseball before a match between two Cuban teams in Havana. Carter was the first US president to visit Cuba since the 1959 revolution Photograph: Sven Creutzmann/Mambo Photography/Getty

June 21 2004: Castro waves a Cuban flag during a demonstration in Havana Photograph: Jorge Rey/Getty

October 21 2004: Castro trips after a speech in Santa Clara Photograph: APTN/Getty

September 22 2007: The most recent picture of Castro, meeting the Angolan president, Jose Eduardo dos Santos Photograph: HO/AFP/Getty