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Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr

1914 - 1982

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Field Marshal Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1 July 1914 – 4 October 1982) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fourth president of Iraq, from 17 July 1968 to 15 July 1979. He was a leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and later the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organisation Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region (the Ba'ath Party's Iraqi branch), which espoused Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism. Al-Bakr first rose to prominence after the 14 July Revolution, which overthrew the monarchy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr has received more than 1,317,253 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr is the 1,460th most popular politician (up from 1,925th in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Iraq (up from 53rd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Iraqi Politician.

Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr was the president of Iraq from 1968-1979. He was also the Secretary General of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr ranks 1,460 out of 19,576. Before him are Ziying, Alexios I of Trebizond, Carlos I of Portugal, Leo II, Cyrus I, and Mohammad Khatami. After him are Christopher of Bavaria, Margaret Theresa of Spain, Yeonsangun of Joseon, Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, Jiajing Emperor, and Porfirio Díaz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr ranks 13. Before him are Marguerite Duras, Jiang Qing, Michael Wittmann, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, and Alec Guinness. After him are Richard Widmark, Mohammed Zahir Shah, Bohumil Hrabal, Abd al-Karim Qasim, Romain Gary, and William S. Burroughs. Among people deceased in 1982, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr ranks 19. Before him are Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Anna Freud, Vasily Chuikov, Erving Goffman, Khalid of Saudi Arabia, and Louis Aragon. After him are Gala Dalí, Jacques Tati, Barack Obama Sr., Karl von Frisch, Glenn Gould, and Georges Perec.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr ranks 44 out of 384. Before him are Antiochus I Soter (-324), Ur-Nammu (-2200), Al-Musta'sim (1213), Suleyman Shah (1178), Faisal II of Iraq (1935), and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (1971). After him are Al-Jahiz (775), Tiglath-Pileser I (-1200), Shalmaneser III (-900), Ziryab (789), Nahum (-600), and Mustafa Barzani (1903).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iraq

Among politicians born in Iraq, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr ranks 23. Before him are Al-Mu'tasim (796), Antiochus I Soter (-324), Ur-Nammu (-2200), Al-Musta'sim (1213), Suleyman Shah (1178), and Faisal II of Iraq (1935). After him are Tiglath-Pileser I (-1200), Shalmaneser III (-900), Nahum (-600), Ashurnasirpal II (-1000), Al-Mutawakkil (822), and Abd al-Karim Qasim (1914).

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