Five facts on Corazon Aquino

Corazon Sumulong Cojuangco was born on January 25, 1933, in a farming town in Tarlac province, north of the capital Manila, the sixth of eight children in a wealthy Chinese-Filipino family that owned a sugar plantation and bank.

Popularly known as Cory, she attended a convent school in New York and completed a degree in French, with a minor in mathematics, at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, also in New York, in 1953. When she returned to Manila, she enrolled at a law school at the Far Eastern University, but quit a year later when she got married.

She married Benigno Servillano Aquino Jr, a politician, and had five children, including Benigno Simeon Aquino, who was elected senator in 2007 after serving nine years in the House of Representatives.