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Gaafar Nimeiry

1930 - 2009

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Gaafar Muhammad an-Nimeiry (otherwise spelled in English as Gaafar Nimeiry, Jaafar Nimeiry, or Ja'far Muhammad Numayri; Arabic: جعفر محمد النميري; 1 January 1930 – 30 May 2009) was a Sudanese military officer and politician who served as the fourth head of state of Sudan from 1969 to 1985, first as Chairman of the National Revolutionary Command Council and then as President. A military officer, he came to power after a military coup in 1969. Establishing a one-party state, with his Sudanese Socialist Union as the sole legal political entity in the country, Nimeiry pursued socialist and Pan-Arabist policies and close collaboration with Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and Muammar Gaddafi of Libya. In 1971 Nimeiry survived a pro-Soviet coup attempt, after which he forged an alliance with Mao Zedong of China, and, eventually, with the United States as well. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gaafar Nimeiry is the 3,739th most popular politician (up from 5,981st in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Sudan (up from 8th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Sudanese Politician.

Gaafar Nimeiry is most famous for being the president of Sudan from 1969 to 1985.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gaafar Nimeiry ranks 3,739 out of 19,576. Before him are Eric II of Denmark, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Hiero I of Syracuse, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria, and Theodore II Palaiologos. After him are Rajaraja I, Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal, François Vatel, Charibert II, Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia, and Ayas Mehmed Pasha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Gaafar Nimeiry ranks 76. Before him are Ivan Silayev, William R. Pogue, Mary Quant, Adunis, Moustapha Akkad, and Stanley Miller. After him are Sonia Rykiel, Jean Rochefort, Luce Irigaray, Zhores Alferov, David Dacko, and Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma. Among people deceased in 2009, Gaafar Nimeiry ranks 38. Before him are Takashi Takabayashi, Maurice Druon, Tomohiko Ikoma, Bobby Robson, Jennifer Jones, and John Updike. After him are Leszek Kołakowski, Norman Borlaug, Natasha Richardson, Ralf Dahrendorf, Tavo Burat, and Ephraim Katzir.

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In Sudan

Among people born in Sudan, Gaafar Nimeiry ranks 7 out of 38. Before him are Omar al-Bashir (1944), Luqman (-1100), Mohamed Naguib (1901), Muhammad Ahmad (1844), Piye (-800), and Josephine Bakhita (1868). After him are Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (1960), John Garang (1945), Osman Hussein (1951), Abdalla Hamdok (1956), Tayeb Salih (1929), and Gabriel Zubeir Wako (1941).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sudan

Among politicians born in Sudan, Gaafar Nimeiry ranks 4. Before him are Omar al-Bashir (1944), Mohamed Naguib (1901), and Piye (-800). After him are Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (1960), John Garang (1945), Osman Hussein (1951), Abdalla Hamdok (1956), Ibrahim Abboud (1900), Hassan Al-Turabi (1932), Abdallahi ibn Muhammad (1846), and Ismail al-Azhari (1901).

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