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Slobodan Milošević

1941 - 2006

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Slobodan Milošević (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Слободан Милошевић, pronounced [slobǒdan milǒːʃevitɕ] ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the President of Serbia between 1989-97 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 until his оverthrow in 2000. Milošević played a major role in the Yugoslav Wars and became the first sitting head of state charged with war crimes.Born in Požarevac, he studied law at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law and joined the League of Socialist Youth of Yugoslavia. During the 1960s, he was advisor to the mayor of Belgrade, and later appointed chairman of large companies as the protégé of Serbian leader Ivan Stambolić. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Slobodan Milošević has received more than 6,438,698 page views. His biography is available in 84 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). Slobodan Milošević is the 303rd most popular politician (down from 202nd in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 3rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Serbian Politician.

Slobodan Milošević is most famous for leading the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. He was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to 27 years in prison in 2006.

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  • 84

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Slobodan Milošević has had the most page views in the with 950,821 views, followed by Russian (227,599), and German (175,556). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Afrikaans (102.05%), Ido (87.21%), and Sicilian (63.87%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Slobodan Milošević ranks 303 out of 19,576. Before him are Hugh Capet, Konstantin Chernenko, Philip III of Spain, Peter III of Russia, Charles VI of France, and Mahmud II. After him are Chagatai Khan, Solon, Ahmed II, Helmut Kohl, Alfred the Great, and George VI.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Slobodan Milošević ranks 5. Before him are Hayao Miyazaki, Kim Jong-il, Bernie Sanders, and Alex Ferguson. After him are Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Sergio Mattarella, Bernardo Bertolucci, Cesária Évora, Václav Klaus, and Krzysztof Kieślowski. Among people deceased in 2006, Slobodan Milošević ranks 4. Before him are Saddam Hussein, Augusto Pinochet, and Ferenc Puskás. After him are Gerald Ford, Naguib Mahfouz, Milton Friedman, Stanisław Lem, James Brown, Philippe Noiret, Syd Barrett, and Oriana Fallaci.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Slobodan Milošević ranks 4 out of 661. Before him are Constantine the Great (272), Jerome (345), and Odoacer (433). After him are Decius (201), Romulus Augustulus (460), Maximian (240), Licinius (263), Mileva Marić (1875), Galerius (250), Constantius II (317), and Aurelian (214).

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Among POLITICIANS In Serbia

Among politicians born in Serbia, Slobodan Milošević ranks 3. Before him are Constantine the Great (272), and Odoacer (433). After him are Decius (201), Maximian (240), Licinius (263), Galerius (250), Constantius II (317), Aurelian (214), Constantius Chlorus (250), Peter I of Serbia (1844), and Valentinian I (321).

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