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Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad

1918 - 1996

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Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad (Bengali: খন্দকার মুশতাক আহমেদ, romanized: Khandakar Mushtaq Ahmed; 27 February 1919 – 5 March 1996) was a Bangladeshi politician. He was the Minister of Commerce in the third Mujib Rahman ministry under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and assumed the presidency of Bangladesh after the Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, 1975. He praised the assassins as "sons of the sun" and put cabinet ministers loyal to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in jail. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad has received more than 653,044 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad is the 11,902nd most popular politician (down from 11,298th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Bangladesh (down from 20th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Bangladeshi Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.38

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  • 2.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad ranks 11,902 out of 19,576. Before him are David Vunagi, Ricardo Maduro, Pál Losonczi, Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani, Enlil-Nasir II, and Ji Yun. After him are Polemon of Laodicea, Giancarlo Minardi, Abdalá Bucaram, Yahya ibn al-Qasim, Vadim Krasnoselsky, and Prince Mochihito.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad ranks 160. Before him are Iryna Melnykova, Hendrik C. van de Hulst, Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Alfredo Ovando Candía, Ruggiero Ricci, and Patachou. After him are Cornell Capa, Zakaria Mohieddin, Alfréd Wetzler, Hermann Zapf, Pyotr Masherov, and Venetia Burney. Among people deceased in 1996, Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad ranks 153. Before him are Inger Jacobsen, Danilo Alvim, Edmund Muskie, Teodoro Fernández, Tarō Okamoto, and Léo Malet. After him are Ryōtarō Shiba, Chen Jingrun, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Bernhard Klodt, Reinhard Libuda, and Mikael Tariverdiev.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad ranks 26 out of 74. Before him are Matsyendranatha (901), Tajuddin Ahmad (1925), Mahasweta Devi (1926), Shahabuddin Ahmed (1930), Radhabinod Pal (1886), and S. D. Burman (1906). After him are Patrick D'Rozario (1943), Mrinal Sen (1923), A. K. Fazlul Huq (1873), Fakhruddin Ahmed (1940), Ritwik Ghatak (1925), and Taslima Nasrin (1962).

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Among POLITICIANS In Bangladesh

Among politicians born in Bangladesh, Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad ranks 12. Before him are Zillur Rahman (1929), Ziaur Rahman (1936), Khawaja Nazimuddin (1894), Iajuddin Ahmed (1931), Tajuddin Ahmad (1925), and Shahabuddin Ahmed (1930). After him are A. K. Fazlul Huq (1873), Kalpana Datta (1913), Abdur Rahman Biswas (1926), Motiur Rahman Nizami (1943), Syed Nazrul Islam (1925), and Mohammad Ali Bogra (1909).

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