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Saddam Hussein

1937 - 2006

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Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003 during the U.S. invasion of Iraq. He previously served as the vice president from 1968 to 1979 and also as the prime minister from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003. A leading member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, he espoused Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism. The policies and political ideas he championed are collectively known as Saddamism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Saddam Hussein is the 106th most popular politician (down from 40th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Iraq and the 3rd most popular Iraqi Politician.

Saddam Hussein was the president of Iraq from 1979 until 2003. He was most famous for his invasion of Kuwait in 1990, which led to the first Gulf War.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Saddam Hussein ranks 106 out of 19,576. Before him are Leon Trotsky, Caracalla, George Washington, John F. Kennedy, Joe Biden, and Julian. After him are Akhenaten, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Benjamin Franklin, Edward V of England, Fidel Castro, and Trajan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Saddam Hussein ranks 1. After him are Harald V of Norway, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Valentina Tereshkova, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Ridley Scott, Boris Spassky, Ahmed Yassin, and Martti Ahtisaari. Among people deceased in 2006, Saddam Hussein ranks 1. After him are Ferenc Puskás, Saparmurat Niyazov, Slobodan Milošević, Augusto Pinochet, Naguib Mahfouz, Raymond Davis Jr., Gerald Ford, Stanisław Lem, Milton Friedman, Alfredo Stroessner, and Owen Chamberlain.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Saddam Hussein ranks 4 out of 384. Before him are Saladin (1138), Abraham (-1813), and Hammurabi (-1810). After him are Nebuchadnezzar II (-630), Abu Hanifa (698), Ibn al-Haytham (965), Möngke Khan (1209), Al-Kindi (801), Ashurbanipal (-685), Sarah (-1803), and Rabia of Basra (710).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iraq

Among politicians born in Iraq, Saddam Hussein ranks 3. Before him are Saladin (1138), and Hammurabi (-1810). After him are Nebuchadnezzar II (-630), Möngke Khan (1209), Ashurbanipal (-685), Sargon of Akkad (-2300), Nur ad-Din (1116), Nebuchadnezzar I (-1200), Al-Ma'mun (786), Alexander IV of Macedon (-323), and Sennacherib (-740).

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