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Gamal Abdel Nasser

1918 - 1970

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Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian military officer and revolutionary who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952 and introduced far-reaching land reforms the following year. Following a 1954 assassination attempt on his life by a Muslim Brotherhood member, he cracked down on the organization, put President Mohamed Naguib under house arrest and assumed executive office. He was formally elected president in June 1956. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gamal Abdel Nasser is the 245th most popular politician (down from 160th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 15th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Egyptian Politician.

Gamal Abdel Nasser was the second president of Egypt. He was most famous for being the leader of Egypt during the Suez Crisis and the Six-Day War.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gamal Abdel Nasser ranks 245 out of 19,576. Before him are Henry III of France, Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire, Clovis I, William Ewart Gladstone, Louis IX of France, and Yuri Andropov. After him are Dwight D. Eisenhower, Vallabhbhai Patel, Emperor Meiji, Bashar al-Assad, Harun al-Rashid, and Ay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Gamal Abdel Nasser ranks 4. Before him are Nelson Mandela, Nicolae Ceaușescu, and Ingmar Bergman. After him are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Anwar Sadat, Richard Feynman, Kurt Waldheim, Louis Althusser, Leonard Bernstein, Rita Hayworth, and Gertrude B. Elion. Among people deceased in 1970, Gamal Abdel Nasser ranks 4. Before him are Charles de Gaulle, Janis Joplin, and Bertrand Russell. After him are Erich Maria Remarque, António de Oliveira Salazar, Sukarno, Abraham Maslow, Yukio Mishima, Jimi Hendrix, Alexander Kerensky, and Max Born.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser ranks 17 out of 642. Before him are Hatshepsut (-1507), Amenhotep III (-1403), Yasser Arafat (1929), Khafra (-2550), Anthony the Great (251), and Hosni Mubarak (1928). After him are Ay (-1380), Plotinus (203), Moses in Islam (-1392), Catherine of Alexandria (287), Rudolf Hess (1894), and Anwar Sadat (1918).

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Among POLITICIANS In Egypt

Among politicians born in Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser ranks 8. Before him are Akhenaten (-1400), Hatshepsut (-1507), Amenhotep III (-1403), Yasser Arafat (1929), Khafra (-2550), and Hosni Mubarak (1928). After him are Ay (-1380), Rudolf Hess (1894), Anwar Sadat (1918), Caesarion (-47), Ptolemy XIV of Egypt (-60), and Mohamed Morsi (1951).

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