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Milan Babić

1956 - 2006

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Milan Babić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Бабић; 25 February 1956 – 5 March 2006) was a Croatian Serb politician and war criminal who served as the first president of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, a self-proclaimed state largely populated by Serbs of Croatia that wished to break away from Croatia during the Croatian War of Independence. After the war, he was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 2004 and was the first ever indictee to plead guilty and enter a plea bargain with the prosecution, after which he was sentenced to 13 years in prison. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Milan Babić has received more than 267,201 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Milan Babić is the 6,170th most popular politician (up from 7,071st in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from Croatia (up from 85th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Croatian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Milan Babić ranks 6,170 out of 19,576Before him are Petru Rareș, Aratus of Sicyon, Herman VI, Margrave of Baden, Alexander Gorchakov, Matvei Zakharov, and Mesha. After him are Khải Định, Thanom Kittikachorn, Niklot, Parshatatar, Toqto'a, and John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Milan Babić ranks 69Before him are Adnan Oktar, Almazbek Atambayev, Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, Dave Murray, Iveta Radičová, and Amado Carrillo Fuentes. After him are Bob Saget, Boris Akunin, Kōji Yakusho, Patricia Cornwell, Mansour Bahrami, and Baruch Goldstein. Among people deceased in 2006, Milan Babić ranks 79Before him are Allen Carr, Sven Nykvist, Shin Sang-ok, Dürrüşehvar Sultan, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer. After him are Lillian Asplund, Billy Preston, John Money, Tina Aumont, María Capovilla, and Pietro Rava.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Milan Babić ranks 73 out of 700Before him are Jakov Gotovac (1895), Ödön von Horváth (1901), Mira Furlan (1955), Krešimir Ćosić (1948), Luigi Dallapiccola (1904), and Vlaho Bukovac (1855). After him are Francesco Laurana (1430), Momčilo Đujić (1907), Mate Parlov (1948), Oliver Dragojević (1947), Mika Špiljak (1916), and Ante Starčević (1823).

Among POLITICIANS In Croatia

Among politicians born in Croatia, Milan Babić ranks 21Before him are Josip Juraj Strossmayer (1815), Francis, Duke of Teck (1837), Ivo Josipović (1957), Milka Planinc (1924), Slavko Kvaternik (1878), and Archduke Wilhelm of Austria (1895). After him are Mika Špiljak (1916), Ante Starčević (1823), Vladko Maček (1879), Milan Martić (1954), Ivo Sanader (1953), and Andrej Plenković (1970).