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Jean-Baptiste Bagaza

1946 - 2016

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Jean-Baptiste Bagaza (29 August 1946 – 4 May 2016) was a Burundian army officer and politician who ruled Burundi as president and de facto military dictator from November 1976 to September 1987. Born into the Tutsi ethnic group in 1946, Bagaza served in the Burundian military and rose through the ranks under the rule of Michel Micombero after his rise to power in 1966. Bagaza deposed Micombero in a bloodless coup d'état in 1976 and took power himself as head of the ruling Union for National Progress (Union pour le Progrès national, UPRONA). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Baptiste Bagaza has received more than 184,560 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is the 8,834th most popular politician (up from 9,118th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Burundi (up from 3rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Burundian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jean-Baptiste Bagaza ranks 8,834 out of 19,576. Before him are Neferkamin, Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Ardys of Lydia, Matteo Renzi, Grégoire Kayibanda, and Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia. After him are Đồng Khánh, Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha, Al-Mansur Billah, Floris II, Count of Holland, Fyodor Rostopchin, and Hannibal Hamlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Jean-Baptiste Bagaza ranks 221. Before him are Eugene Levy, Terence McKenna, Jean-Luc Marion, Andrzej Seweryn, Antony Beevor, and Norio Yoshimizu. After him are Michael Radford, Miguel Reina, Grigory Margulis, Silvio Rodríguez, Alberto Colombo, and Tom Savini. Among people deceased in 2016, Jean-Baptiste Bagaza ranks 148. Before him are Chus Lampreave, Piet de Jong, Anker Jørgensen, Silvana Pampanini, Trifon Ivanov, and Zdravko Tolimir. After him are Peter Vaughan, Rudolf E. Kálmán, Abe Vigoda, Javier Echevarría Rodríguez, Götz George, and Rudi Altig.

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In Burundi

Among people born in Burundi, Jean-Baptiste Bagaza ranks 2 out of 21. Before him are Pierre Nkurunziza (1963). After him are Pierre Buyoya (1949), Cyprien Ntaryamira (1955), Michel Micombero (1940), Évariste Ndayishimiye (1968), Mwambutsa IV of Burundi (1912), Domitien Ndayizeye (1951), Ntare V of Burundi (1947), Louis Rwagasore (1932), Shabani Nonda (1977), and Khadja Nin (1959).

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Among POLITICIANS In Burundi

Among politicians born in Burundi, Jean-Baptiste Bagaza ranks 2. Before him are Pierre Nkurunziza (1963). After him are Pierre Buyoya (1949), Cyprien Ntaryamira (1955), Michel Micombero (1940), Évariste Ndayishimiye (1968), Mwambutsa IV of Burundi (1912), Domitien Ndayizeye (1951), Ntare V of Burundi (1947), Louis Rwagasore (1932), Sylvestre Ntibantunganya (1956), and Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni (1972).

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