query: How old was János Kádár when he died?
passage: János Kádár
He died of cancer on 6 July 1989 at age 77, three months before the formal end of the regime he had largely created.
passage: Béla Kovács (politician, 1908)
On 25 October, whilst personnel of Soviet tanks and Hungarian demonstrators were fraternizing in front of the Parliament in Kossuth tér, a detachment of Hungarian secret policemen in position on the top of the buildings opposite to the Parliament opened fire on the crowd in Kossuth Square. One journalist at the scene saw 12 dead bodies and estimated that 170 had been wounded. Shocked by these events the Central Committee of the Communist Party forced Ernő Gerő to resign from office and replaced him with János Kádár.