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M. Karunanidhi

1924 - 2018

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Muthuvel Karunanidhi (3 June 1924 – 7 August 2018) was an Indian writer and politician who served as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for almost two decades over five terms between 1969 and 2011. He is popularly referred to as Kalaignar (Artist) and Mutthamizh Arignar (Tamil Scholar) for his contributions to Tamil literature. He had the longest intermittent tenure as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu with 6,863 days in office. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of M. Karunanidhi has received more than 7,509,684 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). M. Karunanidhi is the 2,400th most popular writer (up from 2,454th in 2019), the 302nd most popular biography from India (down from 298th in 2019) and the 47th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 24

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  • 3.89

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, M. Karunanidhi ranks 2,400 out of 7,302. Before him are S. N. Goenka, Izumi Shikibu, Johann Jakob Bodmer, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Per Petterson, and Jeremias Gotthelf. After him are Abu-l-'Atahiya, Giovanni Pascoli, Bion of Smyrna, Mikołaj Rej, Alonso de Ercilla, and Kate Millett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, M. Karunanidhi ranks 149. Before him are Margit Sandemo, Donatas Banionis, William Auld, Grégoire Kayibanda, Shintaro Abe, and S. N. Goenka. After him are Luigi Musso, Motoo Kimura, Daniel Inouye, Zizi Jeanmaire, Franco Cristaldi, and Claude Lefort. Among people deceased in 2018, M. Karunanidhi ranks 133. Before him are Ahron Daum, Oleg Tabakov, Margit Sandemo, Yoshinobu Ishii, Katherine MacGregor, and John Sulston. After him are Robert Morris, Moshé Mizrahi, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Roger Piantoni, Eunice Gayson, and Ola Ullsten.

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In India

Among people born in India, M. Karunanidhi ranks 302 out of 1,861. Before him are Sarada Devi (1853), M. S. Swaminathan (1925), Inayat Khan (1882), Nana Sahib (1824), Michael Radford (1946), and Harilal Gandhi (1888). After him are Savitri (1936), Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (1952), Asha Bhosle (1933), K. Kamaraj (1903), Zail Singh (1916), and Telesphore Toppo (1939).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, M. Karunanidhi ranks 47. Before him are Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642), D. R. Bendre (1896), Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908), Shakuntala Devi (1929), Rahul Sankrityayan (1893), and Jaggi Vasudev (1957). After him are T. H. White (1906), Jim Corbett (1875), Bhavabhuti (null), Zeb-un-Nissa (1638), U. R. Ananthamurthy (1932), and Ram Prasad Bismil (1897).

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