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Pranab Mukherjee

1935 - 2020

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Pranab Kumar Mukherjee (11 December 1935 – 31 August 2020) was an Indian politician who served as the 13th president of India from 2012 until 2017. He was the first person from West Bengal to hold the post of President of India. In a political career spanning five decades, Mukherjee was a senior leader in the Indian National Congress and occupied several ministerial portfolios in the Government of India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pranab Mukherjee has received more than 8,158,401 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Pranab Mukherjee is the 4,453rd most popular politician (down from 4,192nd in 2019), the 153rd most popular biography from India (down from 134th in 2019) and the 47th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Pranab Mukherjee ranks 4,453 out of 19,576Before him are Bahadur Shah I, Soghomon Tehlirian, Bahram III, Walter Sans Avoir, Robert III of Scotland, and Marie Anne de Bourbon. After him are Pridi Banomyong, Livilla, King Wu of Qin, Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, Charles G. Dawes, and Frederick of Naples.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Pranab Mukherjee ranks 63Before him are Ernesto Laclau, John G. Avildsen, Forough Farrokhzad, Udo Lattek, Lorenzo Bandini, and Wim Duisenberg. After him are Elsa Martinelli, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, Akira Kitaguchi, Brian Clough, Ken Kesey, and Roger B. Chaffee. Among people deceased in 2020, Pranab Mukherjee ranks 65Before him are Mamadou Tandja, Abdul Halim Khaddam, Radomir Antić, Mario J. Molina, John Saxon, and Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz. After him are Freeman Dyson, Stirling Moss, Jack Steinberger, Ulay, Amadou Toumani Touré, and Clive Cussler.

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In India

Among people born in India, Pranab Mukherjee ranks 153 out of 1,861Before him are Vinoba Bhave (1895), Namdev (1270), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), Chandra Shekhar Azad (1906), Subramania Bharati (1882), and Bahadur Shah I (1643). After him are V. V. Giri (1894), Pratibha Patil (1934), Engelbert Humperdinck (1936), Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820), Ravidas (1450), and Mangal Pandey (1827).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Pranab Mukherjee ranks 47Before him are Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879), Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290), Ghiyas ud din Balban (1200), Henry McMahon (1862), Chandra Shekhar Azad (1906), and Bahadur Shah I (1643). After him are V. V. Giri (1894), Pratibha Patil (1934), Zakir Husain (1897), Vikramaditya (-102), Birsa Munda (1875), and Mamnoon Hussain (1940).