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Saddam Hussein

1937 - 2006

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Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003. He previously served as the vice president of Iraq from 1968 to 1979 and also served as prime minister from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003. He was a leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and later its Iraqi regional branch. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saddam Hussein has received more than 29,078,913 page views. His biography is available in 128 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 124 in 2019). Saddam Hussein is the 40th most popular politician (up from 50th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Iraq and the 3rd most popular Iraqi Politician.

Saddam Hussein was the president of Iraq from 1979 until 2003. He was most famous for his invasion of Kuwait in 1990, which led to the first Gulf War.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Saddam Hussein ranks 40 out of 19,576. Before him are Umar, Maria Theresa, Richard III of England, Abraham Lincoln, Qin Shi Huang, and Hillary Clinton. After him are Yasser Arafat, Andrew Johnson, Martin Van Buren, Ulysses S. Grant, Louis XV of France, and Mikhail Gorbachev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Saddam Hussein ranks 1. After him are Anthony Hopkins, Harald V of Norway, Valentina Tereshkova, Morgan Freeman, Ridley Scott, Ahmed Yassin, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Bobby Charlton, Jane Fonda, and Queen Sonja of Norway. Among people deceased in 2006, Saddam Hussein ranks 1. After him are Augusto Pinochet, Ferenc Puskás, Slobodan Milošević, Gerald Ford, Naguib Mahfouz, Milton Friedman, Stanisław Lem, James Brown, Philippe Noiret, Syd Barrett, and Oriana Fallaci.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Saddam Hussein ranks 4 out of 384. Before him are Abraham (-1813), Saladin (1138), and Hammurabi (-1810). After him are Sargon of Akkad (-2300), Nebuchadnezzar II (-630), Sarah (-1803), Abu Hanifa (698), Sennacherib (-740), Ashurbanipal (-685), Al-Kindi (801), and Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iraq

Among politicians born in Iraq, Saddam Hussein ranks 3. Before him are Saladin (1138), and Hammurabi (-1810). After him are Sargon of Akkad (-2300), Nebuchadnezzar II (-630), Sennacherib (-740), Ashurbanipal (-685), Nur ad-Din (1116), Nebuchadnezzar I (-1200), Alexander IV of Macedon (-323), Sargon II (-750), and Khosrow II (570).

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