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Ignatius Kutu Acheampong

1931 - 1979

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Ignatius Kutu Acheampong ( ə-CHAM-PONG; 23 April 1931 – 16 June 1979) was a Ghanaian military officer and politician who was the military head of state of Ghana from 13 January 1972 to 5 July 1978, when he was deposed in a palace coup. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ignatius Kutu Acheampong has received more than 376,062 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 31 in 2019). Ignatius Kutu Acheampong is the 14,883rd most popular politician (down from 13,667th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Ghana (down from 16th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Ghanaian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ignatius Kutu Acheampong ranks 14,883 out of 19,576. Before him are W. T. Cosgrave, Alberto Zorrilla, Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, Petre P. Carp, Pia Cramling, and Sakari Tuomioja. After him are Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Rhys ap Gruffydd, Fuat Oktay, Timoleón Jiménez, Sun Chunlan, and Abdul Qadir Bajamal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Ignatius Kutu Acheampong ranks 408. Before him are Norberto Boggio, Kiki Dimoula, Oleg Goncharenko, Shuhrat Abbosov, István Gulyás, and Yaakov Ziv. After him are Raúl Belén, Riane Eisler, Malcolm Browne, Anahita Ratebzad, Luciano Tesi, and Agustín García-Gasco Vicente. Among people deceased in 1979, Ignatius Kutu Acheampong ranks 204. Before him are Jim Hutton, Albert Préjean, Willibald Schmaus, Jacob L. Devers, Yervand Kochar, and Paolo Barison. After him are Virgilio Piñera, Juan Arremón, Van McCoy, Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi, Erich Rademacher, and Theodora Kroeber.

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In Ghana

Among people born in Ghana, Ignatius Kutu Acheampong ranks 18 out of 162. Before him are Peter Mensah (1959), John Kufuor (1938), William Boyd (1952), Joseph Arthur Ankrah (1915), Samuel Kuffour (1976), and Efua Dorkenoo (1949). After him are Ama Ata Aidoo (1942), Sulley Muntari (1984), John Mahama (1958), Asamoah Gyan (1985), El Anatsui (1944), and Peter Poreku Dery (1918).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ghana

Among politicians born in Ghana, Ignatius Kutu Acheampong ranks 8. Before him are Nana Akufo-Addo (1944), Sylvanus Olympio (1902), Jerry Rawlings (1947), John Atta Mills (1944), John Kufuor (1938), and Joseph Arthur Ankrah (1915). After him are John Mahama (1958), Fred Akuffo (1937), Hilla Limann (1934), Akwasi Afrifa (1936), Edward Akufo-Addo (1906), and Clement Quartey (1938).

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