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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 communist politician and statesman. He was the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and the second and last communist leader of Romania. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolae Ceaușescu has received more than 8,302,514 page views. His biography is available in 91 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 93 in 2019). Nicolae Ceaușescu is the 83rd most popular politician (down from 71st 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 83 out of 15,577. Before him are Napoleon III, Joe Biden, Ashoka, Hirohito, Selim I, and Trajan. After him are Kösem Sultan, Francisco Franco, Philip II of Spain, George Washington, Heinrich Himmler, and Leonid Brezhnev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Nicolae Ceaușescu ranks 2. Before him is Nelson Mandela. After him are Ingmar Bergman, Anwar Sadat, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Richard Feynman, Robert Wadlow, Rita Hayworth, Ken Miles, Louis Althusser, and Helmut Schmidt. Among people deceased in 1989, Nicolae Ceaușescu ranks 3. Before him are Salvador Dalí and Hirohito. After him are Ruhollah Khomeini, Samuel Beckett, Ted Bundy, Herbert von Karajan, Konrad Lorenz, Sergio Leone, Georges Simenon, Andrei Sakharov, and Zita of Bourbon-Parma.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Nicolae Ceaușescu ranks 2 out of 665. Before him are Vlad the Impaler (1431). After him are Béla Bartók (1881), Alaric I (376), Eugène Ionesco (1909), John Hunyadi (1407), Stephen Báthory (1533), Emil Cioran (1911), Tristan Tzara (1896), Elena Ceaușescu (1916), Michael I of Romania (1921), and Ion Antonescu (1882).

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Among POLITICIANS In Romania

Among politicians born in Romania, Nicolae Ceaușescu ranks 1. After him are Alaric I (376), John Hunyadi (1407), Stephen Báthory (1533), Elena Ceaușescu (1916), Michael I of Romania (1921), Ion Antonescu (1882), Béla IV of Hungary (1206), Carol II of Romania (1893), Vlad II Dracul (1395), Béla Kun (1886), and Stephen III of Moldavia (1433).

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