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Nicolae Ceaușescu

1918 - 1989

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Nicolae Ceaușescu ( chow-SHESK-oo; Romanian: [nikoˈla.e tʃe̯a.uˈʃesku] ; 26 January [O.S. 13 January] 1918 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian politician who was the second and last communist leader of Romania, serving as the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 until his execution in 1989. Widely regarded as a dictator, he was the country's head of state from 1967 to 1989, serving as President of the State Council from 1967 and as the first president from 1974. He was overthrown and executed in the Romanian Revolution on 25 December 1989 along with his wife Elena Ceaușescu, as part of a series of anti-communist uprisings in Eastern Europe that year. Born in 1918 in Scornicești, Ceaușescu was a member of the Romanian Communist youth movement. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolae Ceaușescu is the 126th most popular politician (down from 74th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Romania and the most popular Romanian Politician.

Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian communist politician who served as the General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989. He was the country's head of state from 1967 to 1989. Ceaușescu was overthrown in 1989 and executed by the military in December 1989.

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Among politicians, Nicolae Ceaușescu ranks 126 out of 19,576. Before him are Muammar Gaddafi, Harald V of Norway, Leonid Brezhnev, Nebuchadnezzar II, Basil II, and Brutus the Younger. After him are Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, Hirohito, Mary I of England, Louis XIII of France, Selim I, and Ferdinand Marcos.

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Among people born in 1918, Nicolae Ceaușescu ranks 2. Before him is Nelson Mandela. After him are Ingmar Bergman, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Anwar Sadat, Richard Feynman, Kurt Waldheim, Louis Althusser, Leonard Bernstein, Rita Hayworth, and Gertrude B. Elion. Among people deceased in 1989, Nicolae Ceaușescu ranks 2. Before him is Salvador Dalí. After him are Hirohito, Ferdinand Marcos, Ruhollah Khomeini, Herbert von Karajan, Samuel Beckett, Konrad Lorenz, Ted Bundy, Georges Simenon, Sergio Leone, and Zita of Bourbon-Parma.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Nicolae Ceaușescu ranks 2 out of 844. Before him are Vlad the Impaler (1431). After him are Leo I the Thracian (401), Béla Bartók (1881), Eugène Ionesco (1909), Michael I of Romania (1921), Stephen Báthory (1533), Alaric I (376), Emil Cioran (1911), John Hunyadi (1407), Tristan Tzara (1896), and Ion Antonescu (1882).

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Among POLITICIANS In Romania

Among politicians born in Romania, Nicolae Ceaușescu ranks 1. After him are Leo I the Thracian (401), Michael I of Romania (1921), Stephen Báthory (1533), Alaric I (376), John Hunyadi (1407), Ion Antonescu (1882), Béla IV of Hungary (1206), Elena Ceaușescu (1916), Radu cel Frumos (1438), Vlad II Dracul (1395), and Theodoric I (393).

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