Wang Hongwen
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Wang Hongwen (Chinese: 王洪文, pinyin Wáng Hóngwén, Wade-Giles: Wang Hung-wen) (1933/1935–August 3, 1992) was the youngest member of the Gang of Four.
He took part in the Korean War in the early 1950s. After the war he was sent to Shanghai to work in a factory, were he met Zhang Chunqiao and became involved in a Red Guards group. He organized the Shanghai Commune in January 1967, and in 1969 he was elected to the Central Committee. He joined the Permanent Committee and became deputy-president of the Party in 1973
He was arrested in October 1976 and received the death sentence, but had it commuted to life imprisonment. He died of liver cancer in a Beijing hospital in 1992.de:Wang Hongwen zh:王洪文