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Hussain Muhammad Ershad

1930 - 2019

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Hussain Muhammad Ershad (Bengali: হুসেইন মুহাম্মদ এরশাদ, IPA: [huˈsei̯n muˈɦɐmːod̪ erʃad̪]; 1 February 1930 – 14 July 2019) was a Bangladeshi military officer and politician who served as the president of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990, heading a military dictatorship.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. Despite claims to have legitimately won the 1986 election, many consider his regime as an era of military dictatorship. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hussain Muhammad Ershad has received more than 844,838 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Hussain Muhammad Ershad is the 9,363rd most popular politician (down from 9,062nd in 2019), the 322nd most popular biography from India (down from 282nd in 2019) and the 103rd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hussain Muhammad Ershad ranks 9,363 out of 15,577Before him are Durvasa, Tassilo I of Bavaria, Iset, David Kimhi, Jaime, Duke of Braganza, and Mustafa Akıncı. After him are Tommy Lapid, Leon Panetta, Gaius Antonius, Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, Commius, and Eriba-Adad I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Hussain Muhammad Ershad ranks 200Before him are José Águas, FM-2030, Uladzimir Karatkievich, Gregory Corso, Veljo Tormis, and Lazar Berman. After him are Jacques Tits, Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Frederick Wiseman, Juan Gelman, Ross Perot, and María Elena Walsh. Among people deceased in 2019, Hussain Muhammad Ershad ranks 153Before him are Ric Ocasek, Luigi Colani, Edith González, Carmen Argenziano, Andrés Gimeno, and George Hilton. After him are Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Ken Kercheval, René Auberjonois, Ross Perot, Eva Mozes Kor, and Charles Jencks.

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In India

Among people born in India, Hussain Muhammad Ershad ranks 322 out of 1,493Before him are Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921), Jahanara Begum (1614), Rakesh Sharma (1949), Pran (1920), Rash Behari Bose (1886), and K. Shivaram Karanth (1902). After him are Debendranath Tagore (1817), Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855), Chandra Shekhar (1927), Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (1952), Rana Sanga (1482), and U. R. Ananthamurthy (1932).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Hussain Muhammad Ershad ranks 103Before him are Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), Guru Hargobind (1595), Zail Singh (1916), Govind Ballabh Pant (1887), Lakshmi Sahgal (1914), and Jahanara Begum (1614). After him are Chandra Shekhar (1927), Rana Sanga (1482), Rani Padmini (null), Rajendra Chola I (1000), Alamgir II (1699), and Lahiri Mahasaya (1828).