POLITICIAN

Melchior Ndadaye

1953 - 1993

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Melchior Ndadaye (28 March 1953 – 21 October 1993) was a Burundian banker and politician who became the first democratically elected and first Hutu president of Burundi after winning the landmark 1993 election. Though he attempted to smooth the country's bitter ethnic divide, his reforms antagonised soldiers in the Tutsi-dominated army, and he was assassinated amidst a failed military coup in October 1993, after only three months in office. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Melchior Ndadaye has received more than 278,884 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Melchior Ndadaye is the 11,184th most popular politician (up from 11,605th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Rwanda (up from 8th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Rwandan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Melchior Ndadaye ranks 11,184 out of 19,576. Before him are Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Borna, Spyros Markezinis, Rhodogune of Parthia, Jānis Rudzutaks, and Roger Williams. After him are Waiofar, Acamas, Areus II, Amastrine, Alcetas II of Epirus, and Ivonka Survilla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Melchior Ndadaye ranks 175. Before him are Carlos Mesa, Åge Hareide, Toyohito Mochizuki, Zlatko Burić, Jane Badler, and René Houseman. After him are Annemarie Moser-Pröll, Ladislav Jurkemik, René Vandereycken, Robert Parish, Riek Machar, and Klaus Wowereit. Among people deceased in 1993, Melchior Ndadaye ranks 123. Before him are Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Freya Stark, Buddhadasa, Blaže Koneski, Wang Zhen, and David Koresh. After him are Stanley Myers, Cyril Cusack, Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, Moses Gunn, Edward Bernard Raczyński, and Nicanor Zabaleta.

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In Rwanda

Among people born in Rwanda, Melchior Ndadaye ranks 6 out of 28. Before him are Juvénal Habyarimana (1937), Paul Kagame (1957), Félicien Kabuga (1933), Grégoire Kayibanda (1924), and Agathe Uwilingiyimana (1953). After him are Pasteur Bizimungu (1950), Kigeli V of Rwanda (1936), Paul Rusesabagina (1954), Faustin Twagiramungu (1945), Mutara III Rudahigwa (1911), and Dominique Mbonyumutwa (1921).

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Among POLITICIANS In Rwanda

Among politicians born in Rwanda, Melchior Ndadaye ranks 5. Before him are Juvénal Habyarimana (1937), Paul Kagame (1957), Grégoire Kayibanda (1924), and Agathe Uwilingiyimana (1953). After him are Pasteur Bizimungu (1950), Kigeli V of Rwanda (1936), Faustin Twagiramungu (1945), Mutara III Rudahigwa (1911), Dominique Mbonyumutwa (1921), Sylvie Kinigi (1952), and Louise Mushikiwabo (1961).

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