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Mohammed Daoud Khan

1909 - 1978

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Mohammad Daoud Khan (Dari/Pashto: محمد داود خان; also romanized as Daud Khan or Dawood Khan; 18 July 1909 – 28 April 1978) was an Afghan military officer and politician who served as prime minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and, as leader of the 1973 Afghan coup d'état which overthrew the monarchy, served as the first president of Afghanistan from 1973 until he himself was deposed in a coup and killed in the Saur Revolution. Born into the Afghan royal family and addressed by the prefix "Sardar", Khan started as a provincial governor and later a military officer before being appointed as prime minister by his cousin, King Mohammad Zahir Shah, serving for a decade. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mohammed Daoud Khan is the 1,112th most popular politician (up from 2,370th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 18th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Afghan Politician.

Mohammed Daoud Khan was a military general and politician who served as President of Afghanistan from 1973 to 1978. He seized power in a bloodless coup d'état on July 17, 1973, overthrowing the monarchy of King Zahir Shah, and establishing a republic with himself as president.

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Among politicians, Mohammed Daoud Khan ranks 1,112 out of 19,576. Before him are Muhammad XII of Granada, Diane de Poitiers, Andrew II of Hungary, Omri, Creon, and Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg. After him are Asparuh of Bulgaria, William I of the Netherlands, U Thant, Philip II, Kim Young-sam, and Alfredo Stroessner.

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Among people born in 1909, Mohammed Daoud Khan ranks 9. Before him are Nicholas Winton, Juliana of the Netherlands, Simone Weil, Osamu Dazai, James Mason, and Edward Tatum. After him are U Thant, Francis Bacon, Andrei Gromyko, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Peter Drucker, and Kwame Nkrumah. Among people deceased in 1978, Mohammed Daoud Khan ranks 10. Before him are Kurt Gödel, Aram Khachaturian, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Manne Siegbahn, Aldo Moro, and Jacques Brel. After him are Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Shaw, Harry Martinson, Ramón Mercader, Adolf Dassler, and Vincent du Vigneaud.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan ranks 13 out of 177. Before him are Abbas the Great (1571), Mohammed Zahir Shah (1914), Hamid Karzai (1957), Amanullah Khan (1892), Hasan Akhund (1945), and Burhanuddin Rabbani (1940). After him are Mohammad Najibullah (1947), Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953), Dost Mohammad Khan (1793), Abu Dawood (817), Muhammad of Ghor (1160), and Mohammed Omar (1962).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan ranks 10. Before him are Abbas the Great (1571), Mohammed Zahir Shah (1914), Hamid Karzai (1957), Amanullah Khan (1892), Hasan Akhund (1945), and Burhanuddin Rabbani (1940). After him are Mohammad Najibullah (1947), Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953), Dost Mohammad Khan (1793), Muhammad of Ghor (1160), Mohammed Omar (1962), and Muhammad Shah (1702).

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