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Hussain Muhammad Ershad

1930 - 2019

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Hussain Muhammad Ershad (1 February 1930 – 14 July 2019) was a Bangladeshi military officer and politician who served as the president of Bangladesh from 1982 to 1990. He seized power as head of the army during a bloodless coup against President Abdus Sattar on 24 March 1982 (by imposing martial law and suspending the Constitution). He declared himself President in 1983, and subsequently won the controversial 1986 Bangladeshi presidential election. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hussain Muhammad Ershad has received more than 1,002,521 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Hussain Muhammad Ershad is the 9,246th most popular politician (up from 9,336th in 2019), the 317th most popular biography from India (up from 319th in 2019) and the 107th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hussain Muhammad Ershad ranks 9,246 out of 19,576. Before him are Marcus Livius Salinator, John I Doukas of Thessaly, Neidhart von Reuental, Ferenc Nagy, Margaret, Countess of Blois, and Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Ola Ullsten, Emperor Fei of Jin, Shlomo Ben-Ami, Peter Högl, Nawaz Sharif, and Alix, Duchess of Brittany.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Hussain Muhammad Ershad ranks 194. Before him are Frances Sternhagen, Aleksandar Matanović, Yuan Longping, Yuri Artyukhin, Elza Soares, and Jean Ferrat. After him are Pyotr Bolotnikov, Katherine Jackson, Walter Mischel, John Barth, Clifford Brown, and Tadao Kobayashi. Among people deceased in 2019, Hussain Muhammad Ershad ranks 147. Before him are Anatoly Lukyanov, Mark Hollis, Keith Flint, Vonda N. McIntyre, Lê Đức Anh, and Pim Verbeek. After him are Eduardo Fajardo, Egil Danielsen, Girish Karnad, George Hilton, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, and Ken Kercheval.

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In India

Among people born in India, Hussain Muhammad Ershad ranks 317 out of 1,861. Before him are Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861), Vallabha (1479), Rishabhanatha (null), Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842), Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), and Nargis (1929). After him are T. H. White (1906), Mastani (1699), Rambhadracharya (1950), Sikandar Lodi (1450), Puneeth Rajkumar (1975), and Bhāskara I (600).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Hussain Muhammad Ershad ranks 107. Before him are Nana Sahib (1824), K. Kamaraj (1903), Zail Singh (1916), Chandra Shekhar (1927), Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861), and Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921). After him are Sikandar Lodi (1450), Bahubali (null), Rajnath Singh (1951), Lakshmi Sahgal (1914), Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939), and Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948).

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