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Abdul Salam Arif

1921 - 1966

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Abdul Salam Mohammed ʿArif al-Jumayli (Arabic: عبد السلام محمد عارف الجميليʿAbd al-Salām Muḥammad ʿĀrif al-Jumaylī; 21 March 1921 – 13 April 1966) was the second president of Iraq from 1963 until his death in a plane crash in 1966. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdul Salam Arif has received more than 448,384 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Abdul Salam Arif is the 2,905th most popular politician (up from 3,051st in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from Iraq and the 42nd most popular Iraqi Politician.

Abdul Salam Arif was the third president of Iraq from 1968 to 1979. He is most famous for being the first Iraqi president to be born after the formation of the modern Iraqi state.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Abdul Salam Arif ranks 2,905 out of 19,576Before him are Kanishka, Yigal Allon, Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, Robert I, Duke of Burgundy, Guillaume de Nogaret, and Adad-nirari III. After him are Kuniaki Koiso, Odilo Globočnik, Reynaldo Bignone, Marie Louise Gonzaga, Midhat Pasha, and Fritigern.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Abdul Salam Arif ranks 46Before him are Edgar Morin, Alida Valli, Aaron T. Beck, Kurt Knispel, Dobrica Ćosić, and Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. After him are Kenneth Arrow, Nexhmije Hoxha, Herschel Grynszpan, Georges Brassens, Mary Jackson, and Telmo Zarra. Among people deceased in 1966, Abdul Salam Arif ranks 28Before him are Guillermo Stábile, Montgomery Clift, Célestin Freinet, Paul Reynaud, Albert Göring, and Carlo Carrà. After him are Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Chang Myon, Herbert Gille, D. T. Suzuki, and Cléo de Mérode.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Abdul Salam Arif ranks 77 out of 384Before him are Hillel the Elder (-110), Berossus (-400), Urukagina (-2500), Abdul Rahman Arif (1916), Al-Baladhuri (806), and Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah (1935). After him are Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad (648), Al-Muqtadir (895), Nahor, son of Serug (-1912), Muhammad al-Shaybani (750), Sargon I (-1900), and Al-Muntasir (837).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iraq

Among politicians born in Iraq, Abdul Salam Arif ranks 42Before him are Tiglath-Pileser III (-755), Sajida Talfah (1937), Shalmaneser I (-1400), Naram-Sin of Akkad (-2254), Urukagina (-2500), and Abdul Rahman Arif (1916). After him are Al-Muqtadir (895), Sargon I (-1900), Al-Muntasir (837), Shamshi-Adad I (-1860), Hormizd IV (540), and Adad-nirari I (-1400).