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Anwar Sadat

1918 - 1981

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Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk I in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom he served as vice president twice and whom he succeeded as president in 1970. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anwar Sadat has received more than 5,585,040 page views. His biography is available in 103 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 97 in 2019). Anwar Sadat is the 190th most popular politician (up from 224th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 20th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Egyptian Politician.

Anwar Sadat was the president of Egypt from 1970 to 1981. He was most famous for signing a peace treaty with Israel in 1979.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Anwar Sadat ranks 190 out of 19,576. Before him are Charles X of France, Babur, Ho Chi Minh, Demosthenes, Maximilien Robespierre, and Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. After him are Emperor Meiji, Mark Antony, Salman of Saudi Arabia, Ali Khamenei, Batu Khan, and William I, German Emperor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Anwar Sadat ranks 5. Before him are Nelson Mandela, Ingmar Bergman, Nicolae Ceaușescu, and Gamal Abdel Nasser. After him are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Richard Feynman, Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Waldheim, Louis Althusser, Robert Wadlow, and Rita Hayworth. Among people deceased in 1981, Anwar Sadat ranks 2. Before him is Bob Marley. After him are Moshe Dayan, Jacques Lacan, Albert Speer, Soong Ching-ling, Max Euwe, Natalie Wood, Frederica of Hanover, Hideki Yukawa, William Holden, and William Wyler.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Anwar Sadat ranks 17 out of 642. Before him are Origen (185), Joshua (-1355), Catherine of Alexandria (287), Hatshepsut (-1507), Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918), and Plotinus (203). After him are Hosni Mubarak (1928), Amenhotep III (-1403), Imhotep (-2800), Hagar (-1800), Rudolf Hess (1894), and Hero of Alexandria (10).

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Among POLITICIANS In Egypt

Among politicians born in Egypt, Anwar Sadat ranks 6. Before him are Cleopatra (-69), Yasser Arafat (1929), Akhenaten (-1400), Hatshepsut (-1507), and Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918). After him are Hosni Mubarak (1928), Amenhotep III (-1403), Rudolf Hess (1894), Khafra (-2550), Ay (-1380), and Horemheb (-1319).

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