Gen. Chiang Kai-shek and his wife, Soong Mei-ling, are photographed in the garden of their home at Nanchang, China, on Oct. 1, 1927. Madame Chiang Kai-shek, the widow of the Nationalist Chinese president who used her charm and fluent English to lobby Washington and become a driving force in Taiwan's Nationalist government, died Thursday Oct. 23, 2003 in New York. She was 105. The cause of death was not immediately available, Taiwan's Foreign Ministry spokesman Richard Shih said Friday. Madame Chiang and Chiang Kai-shek were one of the world's most famous couples. They married in 1926, a year after Mr. Chiang, also known as the Generalismo, took over China's ruling Nationalist Party. (AP Photo)