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Muammar Gaddafi

1942 - 2011

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Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (c. 1942 – 20 October 2011) was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his assassination by Libyan rebel forces backed by French secret service in 2011. He came to power through a military coup, first becoming Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then the Brotherly Leader of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011. Initially ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Gaddafi later ruled according to his own Third International Theory. Born near Sirte, Italian Libya, to a poor Bedouin Arab family, Gaddafi became an Arab nationalist while at school in Sabha, later enrolling in the Royal Military Academy, Benghazi. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Muammar Gaddafi is the 120th most popular politician (down from 57th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Libya and the most popular Libyan Politician.

Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya for more than 40 years. He was overthrown and killed in 2011 during the Libyan Civil War.

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Among politicians, Muammar Gaddafi ranks 120 out of 19,576. Before him are Selim II, Frederick the Great, Francisco Franco, Justinian I, Angela Merkel, and Nikita Khrushchev. After him are Harald V of Norway, Leonid Brezhnev, Nebuchadnezzar II, Basil II, Brutus the Younger, and Nicolae Ceaușescu.

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Among people born in 1942, Muammar Gaddafi ranks 4. Before him are Muhammad Ali, Stephen Hawking, and Joe Biden. After him are Martin Scorsese, Aretha Franklin, Amitabh Bachchan, Eusébio, Hu Jintao, Calvin Klein, Ratko Mladić, and Paul McCartney. Among people deceased in 2011, Muammar Gaddafi ranks 3. Before him are Steve Jobs, and Kim Jong-il. After him are Wangari Maathai, Václav Havel, Elizabeth Taylor, Osama bin Laden, Otto von Habsburg, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Cesária Évora, Peter Falk, and Burhanuddin Rabbani.

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In Libya

Among people born in Libya, Muammar Gaddafi ranks 2 out of 76. Before him are Eratosthenes (-276). After him are Mark the Evangelist (10), Septimius Severus (145), Arius (256), Aristippus (-434), Simon of Cyrene (-100), Callimachus (-310), Berenice II of Egypt (-267), Pope Victor I (100), Omar Mukhtar (1858), and Idris of Libya (1889).

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Among politicians born in Libya, Muammar Gaddafi ranks 1. After him are Septimius Severus (145), Simon of Cyrene (-100), Idris of Libya (1889), Mustafa Abdul Jalil (1952), Aguila Saleh Issa (1944), Mahmoud Jibril (1952), Fayez al-Sarraj (1960), Ali Zeidan (1950), Baghdadi Mahmudi (1945), Hodierna of Jerusalem (1110), and Gaius Fulvius Plautianus (150).

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