POLITICIAN

Hassan Gouled Aptidon

1916 - 2006

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Hassan Gouled Aptidon (Somali: Xasan Guuleed Abtidoon; Arabic: حسن جوليد أبتيدون; October 15, 1916 – November 21, 2006) was the first President of Djibouti from 1977 to 1999. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hassan Gouled Aptidon has received more than 210,388 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Hassan Gouled Aptidon is the 5,570th most popular politician (down from 5,356th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Somalia and the 4th most popular Somali Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hassan Gouled Aptidon ranks 5,570 out of 19,576Before him are Gustave Garrigou, Tukulti-Ninurta II, Lugalbanda, Frederick the Simple, Tigranes III, and Clement Greenberg. After him are Theudigisel, Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, Stratonice of Syria, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Valentina Matviyenko, and Bolesław IV the Curly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Hassan Gouled Aptidon ranks 65Before him are Saburō Sakai, Kristján Eldjárn, Richard Fleischer, Carl Johan Bernadotte, Georg Henrik von Wright, and Michael Gough. After him are Sterling Hayden, Ernst Wilimowski, Léo Ferré, Luis Corvalán, Bernard Blier, and Betty Grable. Among people deceased in 2006, Hassan Gouled Aptidon ranks 70Before him are Angelica Rozeanu, Joachim Fest, Telê Santana, Aaron Spelling, Richard Fleischer, and Ferenc Bene. After him are Reinhart Koselleck, Floyd Patterson, Allen Carr, Sven Nykvist, Shin Sang-ok, and Dürrüşehvar Sultan.

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In Somalia

Among people born in Somalia, Hassan Gouled Aptidon ranks 5 out of 58Before him are Waris Dirie (1965), Mohamed Farrah Aidid (1934), Siad Barre (1919), and Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (1955). After him are Iman (1955), Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (1934), Muse Bihi Abdi (1948), Aden Adde (1908), Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (1856), Nur Hassan Hussein (1937), and Abdirashid Shermarke (1919).

Among POLITICIANS In Somalia

Among politicians born in Somalia, Hassan Gouled Aptidon ranks 4Before him are Mohamed Farrah Aidid (1934), Siad Barre (1919), and Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (1955). After him are Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (1934), Muse Bihi Abdi (1948), Aden Adde (1908), Nur Hassan Hussein (1937), Abdirashid Shermarke (1919), Ali Mahdi Muhammad (1939), Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud (1936), and Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (1962).