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Michael Sata

1937 - 2014

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Michael Charles Chilufya Sata (6 July 1937 – 28 October 2014) was a Zambian politician who served as the fifth president of Zambia from 2011 until his death in 2014. A social democrat, he led the Patriotic Front (PF), a major political party in Zambia. Under President Frederick Chiluba, Sata was a minister during the 1990s as part of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) government. He went into opposition in 2001, forming the PF. As an opposition leader, Sata – popularly known as "The King Cobra", emerged as the leading opposition presidential contender and rival to President Levy Mwanawasa in the 2006 presidential election, but was defeated. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Sata is the 10,961st most popular politician (up from 11,298th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Zambia (down from 6th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Zambian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Michael Sata ranks 10,961 out of 19,576. Before him are Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine, Yolande of Dreux, Queen of Scotland, Sokolluzade Lala Mehmed Pasha, Mir Jafar, Azem Galica, and Charles J. Guiteau. After him are Obelerio degli Antenori, Aznar Galíndez II, Eloy Alfaro, Harriet Lane, José Miguel Gómez, and Muwatalli I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Michael Sata ranks 214. Before him are Magnar Solberg, Armin Hary, Rupiah Banda, Édith Scob, Mehdi Karroubi, and Judy Tegart-Dalton. After him are Barbara Babcock, Hiroshi Ninomiya, Ron Carter, Nur Hassan Hussein, David Mumford, and Eduard Artemyev. Among people deceased in 2014, Michael Sata ranks 179. Before him are Lorna Wing, Juan Gelman, Pierre Bec, James Rebhorn, Stefanie Zweig, and Horace Silver. After him are Rudolph Rummel, Viscera, Edward Clancy, Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Bernard Agré, and Rafael Addiego Bruno.

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In Zambia

Among people born in Zambia, Michael Sata ranks 9 out of 41. Before him are Stanley Fischer (1943), Robert John "Mutt" Lange (1948), Levy Mwanawasa (1948), Godfrey Chitalu (1947), Frederick Chiluba (1943), and Edgar Lungu (1956). After him are Peter Dickinson (1927), Hakainde Hichilema (1962), Denise Scott Brown (1931), Kalusha Bwalya (1963), Medardo Joseph Mazombwe (1931), and Guy Scott (1944).

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Among POLITICIANS In Zambia

Among politicians born in Zambia, Michael Sata ranks 5. Before him are Kenneth Kaunda (1924), Levy Mwanawasa (1948), Frederick Chiluba (1943), and Edgar Lungu (1956). After him are Hakainde Hichilema (1962), and Guy Scott (1944).

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