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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Slobodan Milošević has received more than 6,517,391 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia. Slobodan Milošević is the 202nd most popular politician (up from 203rd in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Serbia (up from 4th in 2019) and the 2nd 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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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Slobodan Milošević ranks 202 out of 15,577Before him are Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, Al Gore, Louis Philippe I, Henry VII of England, Charles X of France, and Cleisthenes. After him are Heraclius, George VI, Mahidevran, Alexander III of Russia, Rudolf Hess, and Mehmed VI.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Slobodan Milošević ranks 3Before him are Kim Jong-il and Hayao Miyazaki. After him are Alex Ferguson, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Mattarella, Charlie Watts, Richard Dawkins, Cesária Évora, and Krzysztof Kieślowski. Among people deceased in 2006, Slobodan Milošević ranks 4Before him are Saddam Hussein, Augusto Pinochet, and Ferenc Puskás. After him are Milton Friedman, Gerald Ford, Naguib Mahfouz, Stanisław Lem, Saparmurat Niyazov, James Brown, Desmond Doss, and Heinrich Harrer.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Slobodan Milošević ranks 3 out of 564Before him are Constantine the Great (272) and Jerome (345). After him are Romulus Augustulus (460), Odoacer (433), Decius (201), Aurelian (214), Mileva Marić (1875), Maximian (240), Constantius II (317), Licinius (263), and Constantius Chlorus (250).

Among POLITICIANS In Serbia

Among politicians born in Serbia, Slobodan Milošević ranks 2Before him are Constantine the Great (272). After him are Odoacer (433), Decius (201), Aurelian (214), Maximian (240), Constantius II (317), Licinius (263), Constantius Chlorus (250), Peter I of Serbia (1844), Claudius Gothicus (210), and Peter II of Yugoslavia (1923).