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Yahya Khan

1914 - 1980

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Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (4 February 1917 – 10 August 1980) was a Pakistani general who served as the third president of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971. He also served as the fifth commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Army from 1966 to 1971. A Pathan of Punjab, Khan was commissioned into the British Indian Army in 1939 and fought in the Second World War in the Mediterranean theatre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yahya Khan has received more than 2,616,861 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Yahya Khan is the 9,008th most popular politician (down from 8,969th in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 41st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Pakistani Politician.

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  • 54.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yahya Khan ranks 9,008 out of 19,576. Before him are Štefan Tiso, Demetrios I Kantakouzenos, Bo Yibo, Constantine Doukas, Deidamia I of Epirus, and Jean Castex. After him are Ben-Hadad I, Levi P. Morton, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, Zail Singh, C. R. Swart, and Mwai Kibaki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Yahya Khan ranks 119. Before him are Erich Topp, Woody Strode, Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, Domènec Balmanya, George Volkoff, and Noor Inayat Khan. After him are Taisen Deshimaru, Sun Ra, Lyman Spitzer, Koichi Oita, Brunó Ferenc Straub, and Paul Tortelier. Among people deceased in 1980, Yahya Khan ranks 108. Before him are Manlio Brosio, Miguel Capuccini, Rosa Albach-Retty, Shigemaru Takenokoshi, Oskar Kummetz, and Richard Chase. After him are Luigi Longo, Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Ernst Ocwirk, Alf Sjöberg, Hiroshi Inagaki, and Toyen.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Yahya Khan ranks 38 out of 217. Before him are Naropa (1016), Dilip Kumar (1922), Khema (-550), Amrita Pritam (1919), Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (1964), and L. K. Advani (1927). After him are Asif Ali Zardari (1955), Hamida Banu Begum (1527), Bulleh Shah (1680), Nawaz Sharif (1949), Rahman Baba (1632), and Krishna Sobti (1925).

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Among POLITICIANS In Pakistan

Among politicians born in Pakistan, Yahya Khan ranks 17. Before him are Manmohan Singh (1932), Gulzarilal Nanda (1898), Arif Alvi (1949), Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309), Khema (-550), and L. K. Advani (1927). After him are Asif Ali Zardari (1955), Nawaz Sharif (1949), Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915), Raja Dahir (663), Taxiles (-400), and I. K. Gujral (1919).

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