The former secretary of state and Nobel peace prize winner remained influential in US politics and foreign policy until the end of his life
Main image: Henry Kissinger at Heathrow airport in London on 15 September 1972. Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images
Thu 30 Nov 2023 03.52 GMT Last modified on Thu 30 Nov 2023 13.55 GMT
According to his aunt and uncle in an interview at their home, Henry Kissinger showed no signs of greatness when he was a child in pre-war Germany. He was just a nice Jewish boy. Henry, 11, is shown with his arm around his brother Walter, 10
Henry Kissinger points at a map of the Sinai Peninsula during a meeting with Gerald Ford, the president, and bipartisan congressional leaders in the Cabinet Room on 4 September 1975
Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho shake hands for the press upon leaving the International Conferences Center after a 3hr 45min meeting on Vietnam peace agreement
Henry Kissinger with King Faisal of Saudi Arabia and Joseph Sisco, the undersecretary of state for Middle Eastern affairs, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 15 December 1973
Gerald Ford with French president Valery Giscard d’Estaing, Henry Kissinger and French foreign minister Jean Sauvagnargues during their first summit conference, held in Martinique in the French West Indies on 15 December 1975
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger sits in the cabin of his aircraft on his last mideast shuttle between Egypt and Israel during the Sinai II negotiations in 1975
Henry Kissinger and Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat share a pleasant moment. At a country home outside Cairo as their talks began, Sadat greeted Kissinger warmly and asked: ‘I hope you’re in good shape?’
Richard Lugar, Henry Kissinger and Joe Biden at the Senate foreign relations committee hearing on securing America’s interests in Iraq on Wednesday, 31 January 2007
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Atlantic Council 2012 Global Citizen award recipients Quincy Jones, Aung San Suu Kyi, Henry Kissinger and Sadako Ogata stand for a picture on 21 September 2012
