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Mohammed Daoud Khan

1909 - 1978

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Mohammad Daoud Khan (Pashto: محمد داود خان; also romanized as Daud Khan or Dawood Khan; 18 July 1909 – 28 April 1978) was an Afghan military officer, specifically the commander of the 1st Central Corps, and politician who served as prime minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and, as leader of the 1973 Afghan coup d'état which overthrew the monarchy, served as the first president of Afghanistan from 1973 until his assassination in the Saur Revolution. Born into the Afghan royal family and addressed by the prefix "Sardar", Khan started as a provincial governor and later a military officer before being appointed as prime minister by his cousin, King Mohammad Zahir Shah, serving for a decade. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mohammed Daoud Khan has received more than 1,282,640 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia. Mohammed Daoud Khan is the 2,370th most popular politician (down from 976th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 9th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Afghan Politician.

Mohammed Daoud Khan was a military general and politician who served as President of Afghanistan from 1973 to 1978. He seized power in a bloodless coup d'état on July 17, 1973, overthrowing the monarchy of King Zahir Shah, and establishing a republic with himself as president.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mohammed Daoud Khan ranks 2,370 out of 19,576. Before him are Omri, John IV Laskaris, Tiberius III, Erich Koch, Donald Rumsfeld, and Antanas Smetona. After him are Berengar II of Italy, Sviatopolk I of Kiev, Albrecht von Roon, Inessa Armand, Kiya, and Berenice IV of Egypt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Mohammed Daoud Khan ranks 22. Before him are Talal of Jordan, Stanislaw Ulam, Elia Kazan, Li Xiannian, Isaiah Berlin, and Ernst Gombrich. After him are Carmen Miranda, Magda Schneider, Souphanouvong, Marinus van der Lubbe, Aleksandar Ranković, and Benny Goodman. Among people deceased in 1978, Mohammed Daoud Khan ranks 24. Before him are Kurt Student, Houari Boumédiène, Margaret Mead, Willy Messerschmitt, Ronnie Peterson, and Vincent du Vigneaud. After him are Hasso von Manteuffel, Jim Jones, Harold Lasswell, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, Nazli Sabri, and József Bozsik.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan ranks 18 out of 177. Before him are Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953), Muhammad of Ghor (1160), Hafizullah Amin (1929), Amanullah Khan (1892), Babrak Karmal (1929), and Burhanuddin Rabbani (1940). After him are Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād (1450), Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917), Moinuddin Chishti (1142), Hibatullah Akhundzada (1961), Nur Jahan (1577), and Ashraf Ghani (1949).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan ranks 12. Before him are Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953), Muhammad of Ghor (1160), Hafizullah Amin (1929), Amanullah Khan (1892), Babrak Karmal (1929), and Burhanuddin Rabbani (1940). After him are Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917), Moinuddin Chishti (1142), Hibatullah Akhundzada (1961), Ashraf Ghani (1949), Ahmad Shah Durrani (1722), and Sultan Husayn Bayqara (1438).

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