POLITICIAN

Aden Adde

1908 - 2007

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Aden Abdulle Osman Da’ar (Somali: Aadan Cabdulle Cismaan Dacar, Arabic: آدم عبد الله عثمان دعر) (9 December 1908 – 8 June 2007), popularly known as Aden Adde, was a Somali politician who served as the first president of the Somali Republic from 1 July 1960 to 6 July 1967. He had previously served in the Somali Youth League in 1944. In 1946, he was named Secretary of the party's section in Beledweyne, Somalia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aden Adde has received more than 140,451 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Aden Adde is the 8,688th most popular politician (down from 7,825th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Somalia and the 7th most popular Somali Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Aden Adde ranks 8,688 out of 19,576Before him are Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Bonne of Artois, Shattiwaza, Horst Sindermann, Muse Bihi Abdi, and Mithridates IV of Pontus. After him are Louis of Cyprus, Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Isabella of Valois, Duchess of Bourbon, Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland, Franz von Sickingen, and Louis, Duke of Montpensier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Aden Adde ranks 123Before him are Christa Schroeder, Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine, Fritz Witt, Johanna Budwig, Janina Lewandowska, and Michael, Prince of Montenegro. After him are Françoise Dolto, Albert Scherrer, Carlos Peucelle, Leo Sternbach, Peg Entwistle, and Robert Rossen. Among people deceased in 2007, Aden Adde ranks 120Before him are Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Raul Hilberg, Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Ian Stevenson, Tikhon Khrennikov, and François-Xavier Ortoli. After him are Delbert Mann, Sa'dun Hammadi, Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Bo Yibo, and Chandra Shekhar.

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In Somalia

Among people born in Somalia, Aden Adde ranks 9 out of 58Before him are Siad Barre (1919), Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (1955), Hassan Gouled Aptidon (1916), Iman (1955), Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (1934), and Muse Bihi Abdi (1948). After him are Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (1856), Nur Hassan Hussein (1937), Abdirashid Shermarke (1919), Ali Mahdi Muhammad (1939), Nuruddin Farah (1945), and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969).

Among POLITICIANS In Somalia

Among politicians born in Somalia, Aden Adde ranks 7Before him are Mohamed Farrah Aidid (1934), Siad Barre (1919), Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (1955), Hassan Gouled Aptidon (1916), Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (1934), and Muse Bihi Abdi (1948). After him are Nur Hassan Hussein (1937), Abdirashid Shermarke (1919), Ali Mahdi Muhammad (1939), Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud (1936), Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (1962), and Hassan Ali Khayre (1968).