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Abd al-Karim Qasim

1914 - 1963

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Abdul-Karim Qasim Muhammad Bakr al-Fadhli al-Zubaidi (Arabic: عبد الكريم قاسم ʿAbd al-Karīm Qāsim [ʕabdulkariːm qɑːsɪm]; 21 November 1914 – 9 February 1963) was an Iraqi military officer and nationalist leader who came to power in 1958 when the Iraqi monarchy was overthrown during the 14 July Revolution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abd al-Karim Qasim has received more than 941,342 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Abd al-Karim Qasim is the 1,855th most popular politician (up from 2,213th in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from Iraq (up from 61st in 2019) and the 29th most popular Iraqi Politician.

Abd al-Karim Qasim is most famous for being the first prime minister of Iraq.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Abd al-Karim Qasim ranks 1,855 out of 19,576. Before him are Walter Schellenberg, Paul Doumer, Canute IV of Denmark, Wang Jingwei, Olof Skötkonung, and Pausanias of Orestis. After him are Ernest, Duke of Austria, Theuderic IV, Jeroboam II, Seqenenre Tao, Josef Kramer, and Nadezhda Alliluyeva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Abd al-Karim Qasim ranks 17. Before him are Julio Cortázar, Alec Guinness, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Richard Widmark, Mohammed Zahir Shah, and Bohumil Hrabal. After him are Romain Gary, William S. Burroughs, Willi Stoph, Lída Baarová, Joe Louis, and Aribert Heim. Among people deceased in 1963, Abd al-Karim Qasim ranks 24. Before him are Sylvia Plath, Paul Hindemith, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Herbert Spencer Gasser, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, and Thích Quảng Đức. After him are Carmen Amaya, Rajendra Prasad, Theodore von Kármán, Oleg Penkovsky, Jacques Hadamard, and Richard Baer.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Abd al-Karim Qasim ranks 54 out of 384. Before him are Ziryab (789), Nahum (-600), Mustafa Barzani (1903), Ashurnasirpal II (-1000), Al-Mutawakkil (822), and Junayd of Baghdad (830). After him are Ibn Hisham (701), Ali Hassan al-Majid (1941), Ya'qubi (801), Fuad Masum (1938), Tariq Aziz (1936), and Al-Amin (787).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iraq

Among politicians born in Iraq, Abd al-Karim Qasim ranks 29. Before him are Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1914), Tiglath-Pileser I (-1200), Shalmaneser III (-900), Nahum (-600), Ashurnasirpal II (-1000), and Al-Mutawakkil (822). After him are Fuad Masum (1938), Tariq Aziz (1936), Al-Amin (787), Šuppiluliuma I (-1344), Nabopolassar (-658), and Abdul Latif Rashid (1944).

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