Le Duc Tho

Known for

Acting

Gender

Male

Born

October 14, 1911

Age at death

87

Died

October 13, 1999

Le Duc Tho (born October 14, 1911, Nam Ha province, Vietnam— October 13, 1990, Hanoi) was a Vietnamese politician who, acting as an adviser to North Vietnam, negotiated a cease-fire agreement with U.S. official Henry Kissinger during the Vietnam War. The two men were jointly awarded the 1973 Nobel Prize for Peace, but Tho declined it.