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Bassel al-Assad

1962 - 1994

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Bassel al-Assad (Arabic: بَاسِلُ ٱلْأَسَدِ, romanized: Bāsil al-ʾAsad; 23 March 1962 – 21 January 1994) was a Syrian military officer, engineer and politician. He was the eldest son of the 18th Syrian president Hafez al-Assad. He was expected to succeed his father as president until his death in a car crash in January 1994. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bassel al-Assad has received more than 1,091,852 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Bassel al-Assad is the 203rd most popular engineer (down from 192nd in 2019), the 132nd most popular biography from Syria (down from 116th in 2019) and the most popular Syrian Engineer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Bassel al-Assad ranks 203 out of 389. Before him are Émile Levassor, Alphonse Pénaud, Walter Hohmann, Béla Barényi, Evgeny Paton, and Vladimir Petlyakov. After him are Mikhail Koshkin, Alexey Sudayev, Arthur Morin, Nikolay Makarov, Semyon Lavochkin, and Benoît Fourneyron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Bassel al-Assad ranks 143. Before him are Renato Portaluppi, Ollanta Humala, Baz Luhrmann, Dorian Yates, Tigran Sargsyan, and Natalya Lisovskaya. After him are Oscar Ruggeri, Victor Pelevin, Sergio Batista, Jutta Kleinschmidt, Susanne Klatten, and Paavo Järvi. Among people deceased in 1994, Bassel al-Assad ranks 165. Before him are Gary Kildall, Anatoly Alexandrov, Igor Chislenko, Oldřich Černík, Nick Cravat, and Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. After him are Mildred Natwick, Rossano Brazzi, John Osborne, Madeleine Renaud, Abdullah al-Sallal, and Patrick O'Neal.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Bassel al-Assad ranks 132 out of 210. Before him are Muhammad Naji al-Otari (1944), Jean Carzou (1907), Malchus (450), Maryana Marrash (1848), Najah al-Attar (1933), and Lu'ay al-Atassi (1926). After him are Cosmas of Maiuma (675), Alopen (600), Muhammed Faris (1951), Ghada al-Samman (1942), Émile Eddé (1883), and Khalid Bakdash (1912).

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Among ENGINEERS In Syria

Among engineers born in Syria, Bassel al-Assad ranks 1. 

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