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Yahya Khan

1914 - 1980

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Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (4 February 1917 – 10 August 1980) was a Pakistani army officer who served as the third president of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971. He also served as the fifth commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Army from 1966 to 1971. A Pathan of Punjab, Khan was commissioned into the British Indian Army in 1939 and fought in the Second World War in the Mediterranean theatre. Following the Partition of British India, he joined the Pakistan Army and organized the Staff College, Quetta. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yahya Khan is the 9,239th most popular politician (down from 9,007th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 38th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Pakistani Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yahya Khan ranks 9,239 out of 19,576. Before him are Heinz Kessler, Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg, Alu Alkhanov, Brian Mulroney, John Hume, and Konstantin Rodzaevsky. After him are Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei, Hussein al-Houthi, James IV of Majorca, Brutus of Troy, Mutnofret, and Andries Pretorius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Yahya Khan ranks 139. Before him are E. G. Marshall, Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr., Vladimir Chelomey, Richard Basehart, Infante Gonzalo of Spain, and Hans Hellmut Kirst. After him are Sarla Thakral, Felice Borel, Andrzej Panufnik, Anatole Abragam, Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, and Gino Colaussi. Among people deceased in 1980, Yahya Khan ranks 105. Before him are Lil Dagover, Rolf Nevanlinna, Bert Kaempfert, Josias Braun-Blanquet, Gabriel González Videla, and Franco Basaglia. After him are Luigi Longo, Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Alexander Mach, André Leducq, and Toyen.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Yahya Khan ranks 53 out of 217. Before him are Malik Ghulam Muhammad (1895), Amrita Pritam (1919), Khema (-550), Krishna Sobti (1925), Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915), and Shujaat Hussain (1946). After him are Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (1951), Lokaksema (147), Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690), Rahman Baba (1632), Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929), and Dilip Kumar (1922).

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Among POLITICIANS In Pakistan

Among politicians born in Pakistan, Yahya Khan ranks 27. Before him are Raja Dahir (663), Gulzarilal Nanda (1898), Malik Ghulam Muhammad (1895), Khema (-550), Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915), and Shujaat Hussain (1946). After him are Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (1951), Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929), Farooq Leghari (1940), Taxiles (-400), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (1988), and Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904).

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