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Abdul Salam Arif

1921 - 1966

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Abdul Salam Mohammed ʿArif Al-Jumaili (Arabic: عبد السلام محمد عارف الجميليʿAbd al-Salām Muḥammad ʿĀrif al-Jumaylī; 21 March 1921 – 13 April 1966) was an Iraqi military officer and politician who served as the president of Iraq from 1963 until his death in a plane crash in 1966. He played a leading role in the 14 July Revolution, in which the Hashemite monarchy was overthrown on 14 July 1958. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abdul Salam Arif is the 3,191st most popular politician (down from 2,905th in 2019), the 84th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 77th in 2019) and the 48th most popular Iraqi Politician.

Abdul Salam Arif was the third president of Iraq from 1968 to 1979. He is most famous for being the first Iraqi president to be born after the formation of the modern Iraqi state.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Abdul Salam Arif ranks 3,191 out of 19,576. Before him are Duqaq, Boris Tadić, Joseph Babinski, Jehoahaz of Israel, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, and Wilhelm Miklas. After him are Shigeru Yoshida, Jacques Santer, Juvénal Habyarimana, Carin Göring, John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, and Ludwig Quidde.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Abdul Salam Arif ranks 51. Before him are Jean-Marie Balestre, Alida Valli, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Georges Brassens, Kenneth Arrow, and James Jones. After him are Sugar Ray Robinson, Gérard Debreu, Yitzhak Navon, Jack Steinberger, Telmo Zarra, and Zdeněk Miler. Among people deceased in 1966, Abdul Salam Arif ranks 29. Before him are Vincent Auriol, Guillermo Stábile, Chang Myon, Paul Reynaud, Célestin Freinet, and Albert Göring. After him are Wäinö Aaltonen, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Elizabeth Christ Trump, Carlo Carrà, and Alfred Naujocks.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Abdul Salam Arif ranks 84 out of 384. Before him are Sargon I (-1900), Hunayn ibn Ishaq (809), Al-Mu'tadid (854), Abdul Rahman Arif (1916), Naram-Sin of Akkad (-2254), and Ashur-nadin-shumi (-800). After him are Rashid Ali al-Gaylani (1892), Hillel the Elder (-110), Shamshi-Adad I (-1860), Samsu-iluna (-1792), Hormizd IV (540), and Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (1941).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iraq

Among politicians born in Iraq, Abdul Salam Arif ranks 48. Before him are Al-Muqtadir (895), Sargon I (-1900), Al-Mu'tadid (854), Abdul Rahman Arif (1916), Naram-Sin of Akkad (-2254), and Ashur-nadin-shumi (-800). After him are Rashid Ali al-Gaylani (1892), Shamshi-Adad I (-1860), Samsu-iluna (-1792), Hormizd IV (540), Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (1941), and Sajida Talfah (1937).

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