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Shah Jahan II

1696 - 1719

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Shah Jahan II (Persian pronunciation: [ʃɑːh d͡ʒa.ˈhɑːn]; June 1696 – 17 September 1719), born Mirza Rafi-ud-Daulah, was briefly the twelfth Mughal emperor in 1719. After being chosen by the Sayyid brothers, he succeeded figurehead emperor Rafi-ud-Darajat on 6 June 1719. Shah Jahan II also served as a figurehead to the Sayyid brothers and would serve as emperor until his death of tuberculosis on 17 September 1719. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shah Jahan II is the 2,674th most popular politician (up from 13,847th in 2019). (up from 3,677th in 2019)

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Among politicians, Shah Jahan II ranks 2,674 out of 19,576Before him are Khieu Samphan, Juscelino Kubitschek, Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, Abgar V, Ricimer, and Jehoahaz of Judah. After him are Mithridates I of Parthia, Shigeru Ishiba, Kārlis Ulmanis, Frederick IV, Elector Palatine, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and Emperor Higashiyama.

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Among people born in 1696, Shah Jahan II ranks 7Before him are Mahmud I, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Augustus III of Poland, Alphonsus Liguori, Maurice de Saxe, and Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein. After him are Abram Petrovich Gannibal, James Oglethorpe, Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Johann Melchior Molter. Among people deceased in 1719, Shah Jahan II ranks 4Before him are Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, and John Flamsteed. After him are Michel Rolle, Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Benjamin Hornigold, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Johann Friedrich Böttger, Magdalena Sibylla of Holstein-Gottorp, Joseph Addison, and Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt.

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