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Zakir Husain

1897 - 1969

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Zakir Husain Khan (8 February 1897 – 3 May 1969) was an Indian educationist and politician who served as the vice president of India from 1962 to 1967 and president of India from 13 May 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969. Born in Hyderabad in an Afridi Pashtun family, Husain completed his schooling in Etawah and went on to study at the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, Aligarh and the University of Berlin from where he obtained a doctoral degree in economics. A close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, Husain was a founding member of the Jamia Millia Islamia which was established as an independent national university in response to the Non-cooperation movement. He served as the university's vice-chancellor from 1926 to 1948. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Zakir Husain is the 777th most popular politician (up from 4,589th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from India (up from 162nd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Zakir Husain ranks 777 out of 19,576. Before him are Valentinian I, Abū Lahab, Nurhaci, Lech Kaczyński, Sitting Bull, and Manuel I Komnenos. After him are Philip the Good, Geronimo, Dilma Rousseff, Abbas the Great, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and Murad V.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Zakir Husain ranks 7. Before him are Joseph Goebbels, Pope Paul VI, Irène Joliot-Curie, William Faulkner, Patrick Blackett, and Amelia Earhart. After him are Tadeusz Reichstein, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Ivan Konev, Subhas Chandra Bose, Thích Quảng Đức, and Paavo Nurmi. Among people deceased in 1969, Zakir Husain ranks 12. Before him are Theodor W. Adorno, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Otto Stern, Judy Garland, Walter Gropius, and Franz von Papen. After him are Sharon Tate, C. F. Powell, Kliment Voroshilov, Allen Dulles, Saud of Saudi Arabia, and Liu Shaoqi.

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In India

Among people born in India, Zakir Husain ranks 36 out of 1,861. Before him are Vivien Leigh (1913), Ānanda (-600), Brahmagupta (598), Rani of Jhansi (1828), Padmasambhava (717), and A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896). After him are Amir Khusrow (1253), Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910), Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (1952), Chandragupta Maurya (-340), Valmiki (-80), and Buddhaghosa (401).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Zakir Husain ranks 15. Before him are Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775), Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), Razia Sultana (1205), Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), and Rani of Jhansi (1828). After him are Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910), Chandragupta Maurya (-340), Subhas Chandra Bose (1897), Hyder Ali (1720), Sariputta (-568), and H. D. Deve Gowda (1933).

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