POLITICIAN

Hamida Djandoubi

1949 - 1977

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Hamida Djandoubi (Arabic: حميدة جندوبي, romanized: Ḥamīda Jandūbī; 22 September 1949 – 10 September 1977) was a Tunisian convicted murderer sentenced to death in France. He moved to Marseille in 1968, and six years later he was convicted of the kidnapping, torture and murder of 21-year-old Élisabeth Bousquet. He was sentenced to death in February 1977 and executed by guillotine in September that year, and also the last person to be lawfully executed by beheading anywhere in the Western world, although he was not the last person sentenced to death in France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hamida Djandoubi has received more than 2,425,367 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Hamida Djandoubi is the 5,770th most popular politician (down from 5,629th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Tunisia (down from 38th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Tunisian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hamida Djandoubi ranks 5,770 out of 19,576Before him are Garibald I of Bavaria, Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Christopher Báthory, Şehzade Korkut, Princess Josephine of Baden, and Rashad al-Alimi. After him are Luis Corvalán, Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Drastamat Kanayan, Ahmose, and Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Hamida Djandoubi ranks 105Before him are Lasse Virén, Elizabeth George, Valentina Matviyenko, Gregg Popovich, Patrick Tambay, and Carlos Bianchi. After him are Leopoldo Luque, Andy Kaufman, Ranil Wickremesinghe, Fernando Collor de Mello, Victor Garber, and Brad Davis. Among people deceased in 1977, Hamida Djandoubi ranks 55Before him are Jan Patočka, Leopold Stokowski, Princess Margaretha of Sweden, Bruno Streckenbach, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, and Paul Desmond. After him are Marc Bolan, John Dickson Carr, Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani, Carlos Pace, Takeo Kurita, and Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma.

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In Tunisia

Among people born in Tunisia, Hamida Djandoubi ranks 41 out of 210Before him are Salvius Julianus (115), Hanno the Great (-300), Kais Saied (1958), Hasdrubal the Fair (-270), Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica (-100), and Avienus (305). After him are Mohamed Ennaceur (1934), Muhammad VIII al-Amin (1881), Maharbal (-245), Rached Ghannouchi (1941), Constantine the African (1020), and Azzedine Alaïa (1935).

Among POLITICIANS In Tunisia

Among politicians born in Tunisia, Hamida Djandoubi ranks 22Before him are Fouad Mebazaa (1933), Salvius Julianus (115), Hanno the Great (-300), Kais Saied (1958), Hasdrubal the Fair (-270), and Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica (-100). After him are Mohamed Ennaceur (1934), Muhammad VIII al-Amin (1881), Maharbal (-245), Rached Ghannouchi (1941), Azzedine Alaïa (1935), and Gaius Claudius Nero (-300).