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Puyi

1906 - 1967

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Puyi (7 February 1906 – 17 October 1967) was the last emperor of China, reigning as the eleventh monarch of the Qing dynasty from 1908 to 1912 when he was forced to abdicate. Later, he sided with Imperial Japan and was made ruler of Manchukuo — Japanese-occupied Manchuria — in hopes of regaining power as China's emperor. When the Guangxu Emperor died without an heir, Empress Dowager Cixi picked the late emperor's nephew, Puyi, aged two, to succeed him as the Xuantong Emperor. Puyi's father, Zaifeng, Prince Chun, served as regent before Puyi was forced to abdicate as a result of the Xinhai Revolution, which ended two millennia of imperial rule and established the Republic of China. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Puyi is the 190th most popular politician (up from 442nd in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from China (up from 33rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Chinese Politician.

Puyi, also known as Henry Pu Yi, was the last emperor of China who ascended the throne at the age of two and was deposed by the Chinese Republic in 1912. He is most famous for his association with the Qing dynasty and his later life as a puppet emperor under the Japanese occupation of Manchuria during World War II.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Puyi ranks 190 out of 19,576. Before him are Bayezid I, Harry S. Truman, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Christina, Queen of Sweden, Murad I, and Christian IX of Denmark. After him are Simón Bolívar, Philip IV of France, Pepin the Short, Salman of Saudi Arabia, Napoleon II, and Lee Kuan Yew.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Puyi ranks 2. Before him is Leonid Brezhnev. After him are Adolf Eichmann, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Hannah Arendt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Grace Hopper, Kurt Gödel, Samuel Beckett, Aristotle Onassis, Ernst Chain, and Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Among people deceased in 1967, Puyi ranks 3. Before him are Che Guevara, and J. Robert Oppenheimer. After him are Konrad Adenauer, René Magritte, Vivien Leigh, John Nance Garner, Albert Lutuli, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Ed White, Spencer Tracy, and Mohammad Mosaddegh.

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In China

Among people born in China, Puyi ranks 12 out of 1,610. Before him are Mao Zedong (1893), Chiang Kai-shek (1887), Zheng He (1387), Li Bai (701), Sun Tzu (-544), and Sima Qian (-145). After him are 14th Dalai Lama (1935), Xi Jinping (1953), Sun Yat-sen (1866), Deng Xiaoping (1904), Du Fu (712), and Ip Man (1893).

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    Rank: 12

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Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Puyi ranks 5. Before him are Kublai Khan (1215), Qin Shi Huang (-258), Huang Xianfan (1899), and Mao Zedong (1893). After him are Xi Jinping (1953), Sun Yat-sen (1866), Deng Xiaoping (1904), Wu Zetian (624), Hu Jintao (1942), Empress Dowager Cixi (1835), and Temür Khan (1265).

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