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Zakir Husain

1897 - 1969

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Zakir Husain Khan (8 February 1897 – 3 May 1969) was an Indian educationist and politician who served as the 3rd president of India from 13 May 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969. Born in Hyderabad in an Afridi Pashtun family, Husain completed his schooling in Etawah and went on to study at the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, Aligarh and the University of Berlin from where he obtained a doctoral degree in economics. A close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, Husain was a founding member of the Jamia Millia Islamia which was established as an independent national university in response to the Non-cooperation movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zakir Husain has received more than 368,048 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Zakir Husain is the 4,589th most popular politician (down from 4,365th in 2019), the 162nd most popular biography from India (down from 141st in 2019) and the 50th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Zakir Husain ranks 4,589 out of 19,576. Before him are Ordoño I of Asturias, Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Vittorio Storaro, Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, and Nikolay Krestinsky. After him are Blanche of Namur, Devlet Hatun, Robert III, Count of Flanders, Herihor, Emperor Go-Fukakusa, and Alfonso Jordan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Zakir Husain ranks 58. Before him are Herbert Gille, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, Einar Gerhardsen, Douglas Sirk, and Dmitry Pavlov. After him are Theodor Busse, Lester B. Pearson, Yeghishe Charents, Ana Aslan, Jiroemon Kimura, and Vito Genovese. Among people deceased in 1969, Zakir Husain ranks 45. Before him are Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Robert Taylor, Li Zongren, Boris Karloff, Itzhak Stern, and Erika Mann. After him are Walter Christaller, Vito Genovese, René Barrientos, Raymond A. Spruance, Korney Chukovsky, and Grażyna Bacewicz.

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In India

Among people born in India, Zakir Husain ranks 162 out of 1,861. Before him are Engelbert Humperdinck (1936), Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820), Ravidas (1450), Mangal Pandey (1827), Mahesh Bhatt (1948), and Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936). After him are Jyotirao Phule (1827), Madhvacharya (1199), Vikramaditya (-102), Birsa Munda (1875), Mamnoon Hussain (1940), and Sivananda Saraswati (1887).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Zakir Husain ranks 50. Before him are Henry McMahon (1862), Chandra Shekhar Azad (1906), Bahadur Shah I (1643), Pranab Mukherjee (1935), V. V. Giri (1894), and Pratibha Patil (1934). After him are Vikramaditya (-102), Birsa Munda (1875), Mamnoon Hussain (1940), Lala Lajpat Rai (1865), Abdul Karim (1863), and James Brooke (1803).

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