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Nicolae Ceaușescu

1918 - 1989

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Nicolae Ceaușescu ( chow-SHESK-oo, Romanian: [nikoˈla.e tʃe̯a.uˈʃesku] ; 26 January [O.S. 13 January] 1918 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian politician who was the second and last communist leader of Romania, serving as the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989. Widely classified as a dictator, he was the country's head of state from 1967 to 1989, serving as President of the State Council from 1967 and as the first President of the Republic from 1974. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolae Ceaușescu has received more than 9,060,404 page views. His biography is available in 95 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 91 in 2019). Nicolae Ceaușescu is the 74th most popular politician (up from 83rd in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Romania and the most popular Romanian Politician.

Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian communist politician who served as the General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989. He was the country's head of state from 1967 to 1989. Ceaușescu was overthrown in 1989 and executed by the military in December 1989.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nicolae Ceaușescu ranks 74 out of 19,576. Before him are Leon Trotsky, Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev, Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, Benjamin Franklin, and Narendra Modi. After him are Nicholas II of Russia, Mehmed the Conqueror, Napoleon II, Ahmed I, Francisco Franco, and Caligula.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Nicolae Ceaușescu ranks 3. Before him are Nelson Mandela, and Ingmar Bergman. After him are Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Richard Feynman, Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Waldheim, Louis Althusser, Robert Wadlow, and Rita Hayworth. Among people deceased in 1989, Nicolae Ceaușescu ranks 2. Before him is Salvador Dalí. After him are Hirohito, Ruhollah Khomeini, Bette Davis, Samuel Beckett, Herbert von Karajan, Andrei Sakharov, Ted Bundy, Konrad Lorenz, Georges Simenon, and Sergio Leone.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Nicolae Ceaușescu ranks 2 out of 844. Before him are Vlad the Impaler (1431). After him are Béla Bartók (1881), Michael I of Romania (1921), Eugène Ionesco (1909), Alaric I (376), Stephen Báthory (1533), John Hunyadi (1407), Emil Cioran (1911), Elena Ceaușescu (1916), Tristan Tzara (1896), and Béla IV of Hungary (1206).

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Among POLITICIANS In Romania

Among politicians born in Romania, Nicolae Ceaușescu ranks 1. After him are Michael I of Romania (1921), Alaric I (376), Stephen Báthory (1533), John Hunyadi (1407), Elena Ceaușescu (1916), Béla IV of Hungary (1206), Ion Antonescu (1882), Theodoric I (393), Leo I the Thracian (401), Carol II of Romania (1893), and Béla Kun (1886).

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